Books meme
100 books
1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicise those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Reprint this list in your own LJ
53. I am happy that I have read more than half but also that I have heard of a good many and want to read them.
1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen. I cannot resist Austen.
2. The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien.
3. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte Or the Bronte sisters
4. Harry Potter series - JK Rowling. I embrace my dorkdom.
5. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee Who doesn't love this book?
6. The Bible.
7. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte Absolutely wonderful.
9. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman Just fantastic and not what one would expect from a YA novel series.
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 I have read a lot but not all
15. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier I adore it, it was so good.
16. The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18. Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger.
19. The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20. Middlemarch - George Eliot
21. Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell This is one of my favorite books ever.
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. Too funny for words
26. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh.
27. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky. I'm sorry, just not a fan.
28. Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll When I was a kid
30. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame. This too
31. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy. Oh god I loved it
32. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33. Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis A long time ago
34. Emma - Jane Austen
35. Persuasion - Jane Austen.
36. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis Yes if you read Chronicles of Narnia you read this. Duh.
37. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden Much better than the movie
40. Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne. And also the Tao of Pooh
41. Animal Farm - George Orwell I know the story and it makes me want to read it.
42. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown. Eh it was ok
43. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez I have it but have not got to it yet
44. A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins I read the Moonstone and it makes me want to read this.
46. Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47. Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48. The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood Everyone must read this- it is fabulous.
49. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50. Atonement - Ian McEwan. Brilliant, especially because the movie was so damn sloooooooow
51. Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52. Dune - Frank Herbert Who can deny how intricate it is?
53. Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen.
55. A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56. The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon This was just so crazy good that I have told everyone to read it.
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. Who knew this could be so good?
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’ Diary - Helen Fielding
69. Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie.
70. Moby Dick - Herman Melville. A touchstone. I am not a Melville fan.
71. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72. Dracula - Bram Stoker. Mythology is great but I expected better.
73. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74. Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75. Ulysses - James Joyce. Read it? Yes. Understood it? No
76. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77. Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78. Germinal - Emile Zola
79. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray Book is better than movie but I did enjoy the movie
80. Possession - AS Byatt Fantastic, and I have read it several times.
81. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens.
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.
88. The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom. Ugh no way
89. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
90. The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad. But I hated it every time
92. The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery In both English and French in school
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
98. Hamlet - William Shakespeare.
99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicise those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Reprint this list in your own LJ
53. I am happy that I have read more than half but also that I have heard of a good many and want to read them.
1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen. I cannot resist Austen.
2. The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien.
3. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte Or the Bronte sisters
4. Harry Potter series - JK Rowling. I embrace my dorkdom.
5. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee Who doesn't love this book?
6. The Bible.
7. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte Absolutely wonderful.
9. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman Just fantastic and not what one would expect from a YA novel series.
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 I have read a lot but not all
15. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier I adore it, it was so good.
16. The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18. Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger.
19. The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20. Middlemarch - George Eliot
21. Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell This is one of my favorite books ever.
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. Too funny for words
26. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh.
27. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky. I'm sorry, just not a fan.
28. Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll When I was a kid
30. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame. This too
31. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy. Oh god I loved it
32. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33. Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis A long time ago
34. Emma - Jane Austen
35. Persuasion - Jane Austen.
36. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis Yes if you read Chronicles of Narnia you read this. Duh.
37. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden Much better than the movie
40. Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne. And also the Tao of Pooh
41. Animal Farm - George Orwell I know the story and it makes me want to read it.
42. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown. Eh it was ok
43. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez I have it but have not got to it yet
44. A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins I read the Moonstone and it makes me want to read this.
46. Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47. Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48. The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood Everyone must read this- it is fabulous.
49. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50. Atonement - Ian McEwan. Brilliant, especially because the movie was so damn sloooooooow
51. Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52. Dune - Frank Herbert Who can deny how intricate it is?
53. Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen.
55. A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56. The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon This was just so crazy good that I have told everyone to read it.
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. Who knew this could be so good?
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’ Diary - Helen Fielding
69. Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie.
70. Moby Dick - Herman Melville. A touchstone. I am not a Melville fan.
71. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72. Dracula - Bram Stoker. Mythology is great but I expected better.
73. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74. Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75. Ulysses - James Joyce. Read it? Yes. Understood it? No
76. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77. Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78. Germinal - Emile Zola
79. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray Book is better than movie but I did enjoy the movie
80. Possession - AS Byatt Fantastic, and I have read it several times.
81. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens.
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.
88. The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom. Ugh no way
89. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
90. The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad. But I hated it every time
92. The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery In both English and French in school
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
98. Hamlet - William Shakespeare.
99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo