What literature have you read?
phoenixdown7 tagged me to do this.
In high school, I was seriously torn between science and literature. Dreamed of becoming a foreign correspondent, like C.L. Sulzberger of the New York Times. When I was in engineering school, I subscribed to and read the New Yorker magazine cover-to-cover to relax from my technical classes.
I believe that everyone needs to know everything. Techies need to study literature, to understand human beings and the human condition. Artists need to learn physics, math, biology, and chemistry. Science and humanities are just different chapters from the same book: LIFE.1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
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.
I read most of these books in high school.
1 Pride and Prejudice- Jane Austen [Hilarious!]
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien [Read at age 13, while sick in bed with chicken pox for 2 weeks.]
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte [saw TV drama]
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling [Actually, I am NOT interested in Harry Potter! Never could get into it. Haven't watched the films either. LOTR seems much better.]
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell [Orwell is one of my all-time favorite writers. Love his essays too.]
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott [Warmhearted. Gives you pink fuzzies.]
12 Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller [Hilarious!]
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
I've read Macbeth, Othello, Romeo & Juliet, King Lear...
Also have seen the plays Titus Andronicus, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Tempest, The Taming of the Shrew...
[King Lear is my favorite Shakespeare play.]
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien [Read as a kid.]
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 [Saw movie.]
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy [Took Russian lit class.]
25 The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky [One of my all-time favorite novels, period.]
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck [Liked Henry Fonda film better than novel.]
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll [Read at age 6. Also read "Through the Looking-Glass." Both funny and mentally challenging.]
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis [Read as a kid.]
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis [Part of the Chronicles of Narnia.]
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
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
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 [Saw movie.]
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen [Saw movie.]
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens [I LOVE this novel!!! Especially the courthouse scenes.]
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 [Saw movie.]
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' 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
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
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker [Saw movie.]
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 [Read as a kid.]
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle [As a kid, I read most of Sherlock Holmes' stories and novels.]
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
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas [Love it! Read the whole thing in one night!]
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl [All Roald Dahl's stuff ROCKS! That was MY Harry Potter.]
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo [Saw musical.]
In high school, I was seriously torn between science and literature. Dreamed of becoming a foreign correspondent, like C.L. Sulzberger of the New York Times. When I was in engineering school, I subscribed to and read the New Yorker magazine cover-to-cover to relax from my technical classes.
I believe that everyone needs to know everything. Techies need to study literature, to understand human beings and the human condition. Artists need to learn physics, math, biology, and chemistry. Science and humanities are just different chapters from the same book: LIFE.1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
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.
I read most of these books in high school.
1 Pride and Prejudice- Jane Austen [Hilarious!]
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien [Read at age 13, while sick in bed with chicken pox for 2 weeks.]
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte [saw TV drama]
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling [Actually, I am NOT interested in Harry Potter! Never could get into it. Haven't watched the films either. LOTR seems much better.]
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell [Orwell is one of my all-time favorite writers. Love his essays too.]
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott [Warmhearted. Gives you pink fuzzies.]
12 Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller [Hilarious!]
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
I've read Macbeth, Othello, Romeo & Juliet, King Lear...
Also have seen the plays Titus Andronicus, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Tempest, The Taming of the Shrew...
[King Lear is my favorite Shakespeare play.]
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien [Read as a kid.]
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 [Saw movie.]
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy [Took Russian lit class.]
25 The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky [One of my all-time favorite novels, period.]
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck [Liked Henry Fonda film better than novel.]
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll [Read at age 6. Also read "Through the Looking-Glass." Both funny and mentally challenging.]
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis [Read as a kid.]
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis [Part of the Chronicles of Narnia.]
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
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
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 [Saw movie.]
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen [Saw movie.]
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens [I LOVE this novel!!! Especially the courthouse scenes.]
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 [Saw movie.]
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' 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
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
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker [Saw movie.]
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 [Read as a kid.]
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle [As a kid, I read most of Sherlock Holmes' stories and novels.]
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
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas [Love it! Read the whole thing in one night!]
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl [All Roald Dahl's stuff ROCKS! That was MY Harry Potter.]
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo [Saw musical.]