Nothing I love more than a book meme.
The following book meme has been stolen from kayselkiemoon, whose literary taste I appear to share in many regards!
The rules of the game:
The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they've printed.
1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Put ** for ones you own
3) Underline the books you LOVE (erm, I'm gonna write LOVE instead. too much underlining is annoying)
4) Reprint this list in your own LJ so we can try and track down these people who've read 6 and force books upon them ;-)
5)Annotate at will (note those partially read?)
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen. ** LOVE.
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien.
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte. **
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling.
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee. LOVE.
6 The Bible. **
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte. Hated it when I read it for school - always feel as if I should give it another go, but life is too short.
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell.
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman.
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens.
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott.
12 Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy.
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller. **
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare. haven't read all of the plays - have read the sonnets.
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier.
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien.
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks.
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger. Started, couldn't tough it out.
19 The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger. ** LOVE
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot.
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell.
22 The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald.
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens.
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy.
25 The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams. ** LOVE
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh. **
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck.
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll.
30 Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame. **
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy.
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens.
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis. Haven't read all of them. Can't remember which ones I have read.
34 Emma - Jane Austen. **
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen. ** LOVE
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis. LOVE
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini.
38 Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres.
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden. LOVE
40 Winnie the Pooh - A. A. Milne.
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell.
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown. ** Eyeroll.
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins. ** Discrimination!!
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery. ** LOVE.
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy.
48 The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood. ** Amazing.
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding.
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan.
52 Dune - Frank Herbert.
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons.
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen. ** LOVE.
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth.
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon.
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens.
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.
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov.
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt. **
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold.
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas.
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac.
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy.
68 Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding.
69 Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie.
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville.
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens.
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett. **
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson. ** LOVE
75 Ulysses - James Joyce. ** I have serious doubts I will ever make it through this book.
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath.
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome.
78 Germinal - Emile Zola.
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray.
80 Possession - AS Byatt. **
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell.
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker. ** Amazing.
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. ** LOVE.
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom.
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton.
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad. **
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery.
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.** The first half was much more interesting than the second.
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas.
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare. **
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl.
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo.
Total: 40.
The rules of the game:
The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they've printed.
1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Put ** for ones you own
3) Underline the books you LOVE (erm, I'm gonna write LOVE instead. too much underlining is annoying)
4) Reprint this list in your own LJ so we can try and track down these people who've read 6 and force books upon them ;-)
5)Annotate at will (note those partially read?)
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen. ** LOVE.
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien.
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte. **
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling.
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee. LOVE.
6 The Bible. **
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte. Hated it when I read it for school - always feel as if I should give it another go, but life is too short.
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell.
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman.
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens.
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott.
12 Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy.
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller. **
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare. haven't read all of the plays - have read the sonnets.
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier.
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien.
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks.
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger. Started, couldn't tough it out.
19 The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger. ** LOVE
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot.
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell.
22 The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald.
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens.
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy.
25 The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams. ** LOVE
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh. **
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck.
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll.
30 Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame. **
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy.
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens.
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis. Haven't read all of them. Can't remember which ones I have read.
34 Emma - Jane Austen. **
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen. ** LOVE
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis. LOVE
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini.
38 Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres.
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden. LOVE
40 Winnie the Pooh - A. A. Milne.
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell.
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown. ** Eyeroll.
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins. ** Discrimination!!
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery. ** LOVE.
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy.
48 The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood. ** Amazing.
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding.
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan.
52 Dune - Frank Herbert.
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons.
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen. ** LOVE.
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth.
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon.
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens.
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.
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov.
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt. **
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold.
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas.
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac.
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy.
68 Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding.
69 Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie.
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville.
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens.
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett. **
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson. ** LOVE
75 Ulysses - James Joyce. ** I have serious doubts I will ever make it through this book.
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath.
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome.
78 Germinal - Emile Zola.
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray.
80 Possession - AS Byatt. **
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell.
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker. ** Amazing.
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. ** LOVE.
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom.
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton.
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad. **
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery.
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.** The first half was much more interesting than the second.
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas.
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare. **
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl.
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo.
Total: 40.