between the sheets
yoinked this from a random lj user - supposedly this is a BBC top 100 book list (though there are some inconsistencies that make me question that...nevertheless)- a fun exercise.
How many have you read?
official tally:
read: 21
read and watched: 5 (though the entire HP series only counts as 1)
watched instead of read (naughty. naughty): 20
Yay!!! I've read more "classics" than just watched :) just barely! How erudite of me...
1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen CHECK!
2. The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien (never even made it through The Hobbit...) and of course saw the trilogy :P
3. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4. Harry Potter series - JK Rowling CHECK!
5. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee ...saw the movie :P
6. The Bible
7. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte CHECK!
8. Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell CHECK!
9. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens CHECK!
11. Little Women - Louisa M Alcott ...saw the movie :P
12. Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy CHECK!
13. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller CHECK!
14. Complete Works of Shakespeare ...read quite a bit of the plays, but not all the sonnets
15. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16. The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien *whoops! see #2*
17. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18. Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger CHECK!
19. The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger ...am going to see the movie :P
20. Middlemarch - George Eliot
21. Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell ...saw the movie :P
22. The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald CHECK!
23. Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy CHECK!
25. The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams ...saw the movie :P
26. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky CHECK! though my senior English teacher would not agree :P
28. Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck CHECK!
29. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll ...saw and will see the new version of the movie :P
30. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33. Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34. Emma - Jane Austen CHECK!
35. Persuasion - Jane Austen ...saw the movie :P
36. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden ...saw the movie AND discussed it in book club without reading it :P
40. Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41. Animal Farm - George Orwell CHECK! X2 - sweet diorama/book report :D
42. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44. A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46. Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47. Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48. The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
49. Lord of the Flies - William Golding CHECK!
50. Atonement - Ian McEwan ...saw the movie :P
51. Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52. Dune - Frank Herbert
53. Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen ...saw the movie :P
55. A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56. The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57. A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens CHECK!
58. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60. Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck CHECK!
62. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63. The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold ugh, couldn't get through it
65. Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas ...saw the movie :P
66. On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67. Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68. Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding ...saw the movie :P
69. Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
70. Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72. Dracula - Bram Stoker CHECK!
73. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett CHECK!
74. Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75. Ulysses - James Joyce
76. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77. Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78. Germinal - Emile Zola
79. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray ...saw the movie :P
80. Possession - AS Byatt
81. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens ...saw the play over and over >.<
82. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83. The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84. The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86. A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87. Charlotte’s Web - EB White ...saw the movie :P
88. The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle not all of them, but definitely one or two
90. The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad CHECK!
92. The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery CHECK!
93. The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94. Watership Down - Richard Adams
95. A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96. A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97. The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas ...saw the movie :P
98. Hamlet - William Shakespeare (um, yes - we've already been over that).
99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl ...saw both movies :P
100. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo ...saw the musical :P
Where is Oscar Wilde?? An Ideal Husband, The Picture of Dorian Gray
I mean I understand Nathaniel Hawthorne not making the list because it's heavily slated toward English authors (despite the inclusion of wholy American novels like The Grapes of Wrath/ Great Gatsby). So not perfect, but again, worth glancing at :)