Book meme time.
The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books listed here. Bold those books you've read in their entirety, underline what you've read more than one, italicize the ones you started but didn't finish or read an excerpt.
01) Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
02) The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
03) Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
04) Harry Potter series - JK Rowling Because I'm about 1/2 done with 6 and haven't touched 7 and probably won't.
05) To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee hated it.
06) The Bible Religious parents + long sermons in church + only thing I can do is read the hymnal or the bible = pretty much all of it. Underlined as I reread several sections numerous times.
07) Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
08) Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
09) His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10) Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11) Little Women - Louisa M Alcott BORING. >.<
12) Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13) Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14) Complete Works of Shakespeare How'm I supposed to read ALL of his stuff? He's not a genius with the language! (I'll get burned at the stake but I only like a few things he wrote, and I only like parts of those things.)
15) Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16) The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17) Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18) Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger Cliffnotes: Teenage angst, The End.
19) The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20) Middlemarch - George Eliot
21) Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22) The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald Haaaate you book. Damned English class.
23) The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne And I will never finish it. >:[
24) War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy I was in 8th grade, bored, and my school didn't teach me enough about Russian History to give me context, so I dropped it.
25) The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams (Not actually as good as the world thinks it is.)
26) Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27) Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky I love this book. It's so Russian. :D
28) Grapes Of Wrath - John Steinbeck Damned English Class.
29) Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30) The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31) Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32) David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33) The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
34) Emma - Jane Austen
35) Persuasion - Jane Austen
36) The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe - CS Lewis The whole series, actually. Really creative fantasy if you can get past the religious themes pervading a lot of it.
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 - A.A. Milne
41) Animal Farm - George Orwell I hated this book, even though I understood which animals stood for what.
42) The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown Bored in school + page-turner = done in two days.
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 This book is literally repulsive to me. *shudder*
50) Atonement - Ian McEwan
51) Life of Pi - Yann Martel It had a tiger, what else can I say?
52) Dune - Frank Herbert Note: reread this someday so you'll remember it.
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 aka I've read the first sentence several times.
58) Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59) The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon ...how is this an influential book? *does not understand*
60) Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61) Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck Next copy of this book I get my hands on, I burn. I hated this book, and it's one of the v. few books I could condone getting rid of completely.
62) Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov I gotta finish this someday.
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
75) Ulysses - James Joyce
76) The Inferno - Dante
77) Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78) Germinal - Emile Zola
79) Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray I tried it, but ye gods it was boring.
80) Possession - AS Byatt
81) A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens >.< I do not like it.
82) Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83) The Color Purple - Alice Walker D: And I wish I'd never even tried it.
84) The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85) Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86) A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87) Charlotte’s Web - E.B. White
88) The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom And it's one of the few awesome books on here! \o/
89) Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle :D
90) The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91) Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92) The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery ...French class corrupted it for me, sadly. :(
93) The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks I'll finish it after I find a different book of his.
94) Watership Down - Richard Adams
95) A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96) A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97) Me Talk Pretty One Day - David Sedaris
98) Frankenstein - Mary Shelly
99) Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100) Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
I do NOT understand why a lot of these books are on this list. Most of the 'classics' are overhyped and the bane of my H.S. English class, and the rest I've never heard of, and I consider myself to be fairly well-read and educated.
01) Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
02) The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
03) Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
04) Harry Potter series - JK Rowling Because I'm about 1/2 done with 6 and haven't touched 7 and probably won't.
05) To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee hated it.
06) The Bible Religious parents + long sermons in church + only thing I can do is read the hymnal or the bible = pretty much all of it. Underlined as I reread several sections numerous times.
07) Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
08) Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
09) His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10) Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11) Little Women - Louisa M Alcott BORING. >.<
12) Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13) Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14) Complete Works of Shakespeare How'm I supposed to read ALL of his stuff? He's not a genius with the language! (I'll get burned at the stake but I only like a few things he wrote, and I only like parts of those things.)
15) Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16) The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17) Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18) Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger Cliffnotes: Teenage angst, The End.
19) The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20) Middlemarch - George Eliot
21) Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22) The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald Haaaate you book. Damned English class.
23) The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne And I will never finish it. >:[
24) War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy I was in 8th grade, bored, and my school didn't teach me enough about Russian History to give me context, so I dropped it.
25) The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams (Not actually as good as the world thinks it is.)
26) Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27) Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky I love this book. It's so Russian. :D
28) Grapes Of Wrath - John Steinbeck Damned English Class.
29) Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30) The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31) Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32) David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33) The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
34) Emma - Jane Austen
35) Persuasion - Jane Austen
36) The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe - CS Lewis The whole series, actually. Really creative fantasy if you can get past the religious themes pervading a lot of it.
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 - A.A. Milne
41) Animal Farm - George Orwell I hated this book, even though I understood which animals stood for what.
42) The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown Bored in school + page-turner = done in two days.
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 This book is literally repulsive to me. *shudder*
50) Atonement - Ian McEwan
51) Life of Pi - Yann Martel It had a tiger, what else can I say?
52) Dune - Frank Herbert Note: reread this someday so you'll remember it.
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 aka I've read the first sentence several times.
58) Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59) The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon ...how is this an influential book? *does not understand*
60) Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61) Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck Next copy of this book I get my hands on, I burn. I hated this book, and it's one of the v. few books I could condone getting rid of completely.
62) Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov I gotta finish this someday.
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
75) Ulysses - James Joyce
76) The Inferno - Dante
77) Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78) Germinal - Emile Zola
79) Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray I tried it, but ye gods it was boring.
80) Possession - AS Byatt
81) A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens >.< I do not like it.
82) Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83) The Color Purple - Alice Walker D: And I wish I'd never even tried it.
84) The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85) Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86) A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87) Charlotte’s Web - E.B. White
88) The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom And it's one of the few awesome books on here! \o/
89) Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle :D
90) The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91) Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92) The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery ...French class corrupted it for me, sadly. :(
93) The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks I'll finish it after I find a different book of his.
94) Watership Down - Richard Adams
95) A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96) A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97) Me Talk Pretty One Day - David Sedaris
98) Frankenstein - Mary Shelly
99) Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100) Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
I do NOT understand why a lot of these books are on this list. Most of the 'classics' are overhyped and the bane of my H.S. English class, and the rest I've never heard of, and I consider myself to be fairly well-read and educated.