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Noteable Books meme
Bold the ones you've read COMPLETELY, italicize the ones you've read part of. Watching the movie or the cartoon doesn't count. Abridged versions don't count either. BTW, according to the BBC if you've read 7 of these, you are above the average.
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen ← first came across it in Chinese, then read in English
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkein ← it bored me.
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte ← first came across it in Chinese, then read in English + school
4 Harry Potter Series - J.K. Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee ← school
6 The Bible ← school
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte ← school. Supposedly I should've FINISHED it, but, I slacked off.
8 Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations-Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott ← first came across it in Chinese, then read in English + school... I think?
12 Tess of the D'Ubervilles-Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier <- ohhh that's the one I missed cause my stream was "curious incident" one
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien ← didn't even bother haha
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell ← mum loves it "OTL
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll ← got curious myself and read it
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame ←back when learning English (?!)
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis ←read in a mixture of Chinese/English. Cause I first came across it in Chinese, it hasn't been fully translated, so I went and read the rest in English.
34 Emma - Jane Austen ← was one of the readings in our school too. just not my stream /eng too crap for it
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis ← first came across it in Chinese, then read in English
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne ← got curious. but got bored too
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown ←haha I never bothered for this
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 ← oooo I've heard of it!
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel ← oooo I've heard of it!
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
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
57 A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night - Mark Haddon ← school. wasn't too bad
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck ← have supposedly heard and read in English (teacher in primary school read it out to us). Problem being, this was back when I didn't understand much English XD
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov ← If one day I can be bothered I'll go read it
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 ← have Knox's performance of it?
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett ←read in Chinese first and then in English. Not sure if I'd finished reading it in English or not tho.
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Inferno - Dante
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray ← SO GLAD I DROPPED EXT. ENGLISH. not like I was ever good at it anyway >.>a
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens ← heard of it, not sure if I've read it or not?
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madam 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
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ←read stories in mixture of Chinese/English. Dunno if I'd finished the whole thing or not, actually
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery ←Came across it on different occasions. Most memorable one's the art book in Chinese
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 ← school as usual. Dude took too long to die is my only after thought.
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo ← I've read it in Chinese... when I was like yr3?4? NO MEMORY of what it was tho.
So many of them I read cause of school.
WOW.
14 Bold + 10 italic....
god I really should read more (esp. in Eng "OTL)
Noteable Books meme
Bold the ones you've read COMPLETELY, italicize the ones you've read part of. Watching the movie or the cartoon doesn't count. Abridged versions don't count either. BTW, according to the BBC if you've read 7 of these, you are above the average.
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen ← first came across it in Chinese, then read in English
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkein ← it bored me.
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte ← first came across it in Chinese, then read in English + school
4 Harry Potter Series - J.K. Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee ← school
6 The Bible ← school
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte ← school. Supposedly I should've FINISHED it, but, I slacked off.
8 Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations-Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott ← first came across it in Chinese, then read in English + school... I think?
12 Tess of the D'Ubervilles-Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier <- ohhh that's the one I missed cause my stream was "curious incident" one
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien ← didn't even bother haha
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell ← mum loves it "OTL
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll ← got curious myself and read it
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame ←back when learning English (?!)
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis ←read in a mixture of Chinese/English. Cause I first came across it in Chinese, it hasn't been fully translated, so I went and read the rest in English.
34 Emma - Jane Austen ← was one of the readings in our school too. just not my stream /eng too crap for it
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis ← first came across it in Chinese, then read in English
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne ← got curious. but got bored too
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown ←haha I never bothered for this
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 ← oooo I've heard of it!
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel ← oooo I've heard of it!
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
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
57 A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night - Mark Haddon ← school. wasn't too bad
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck ← have supposedly heard and read in English (teacher in primary school read it out to us). Problem being, this was back when I didn't understand much English XD
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov ← If one day I can be bothered I'll go read it
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 ← have Knox's performance of it?
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett ←read in Chinese first and then in English. Not sure if I'd finished reading it in English or not tho.
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Inferno - Dante
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray ← SO GLAD I DROPPED EXT. ENGLISH. not like I was ever good at it anyway >.>a
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens ← heard of it, not sure if I've read it or not?
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madam 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
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ←read stories in mixture of Chinese/English. Dunno if I'd finished the whole thing or not, actually
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery ←Came across it on different occasions. Most memorable one's the art book in Chinese
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 ← school as usual. Dude took too long to die is my only after thought.
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo ← I've read it in Chinese... when I was like yr3?4? NO MEMORY of what it was tho.
So many of them I read cause of school.
WOW.
14 Bold + 10 italic....
god I really should read more (esp. in Eng "OTL)