Book Meme
Ganked from bastett:
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) Italicise those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Reprint this list in your own LJ (if you are that bored).
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling [Should this really be here?]
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible [I've probably read most of it, though not in order, or from cover to cover - but I'm counting it.]
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell [Not because I had to in high school!]
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 [Started it, never finished.]
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare [I've got it, I've read quite a few plays - but certainly not all, or even enough to count it.]
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger [I forced myself to finish this - boring!]
19 The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger [I have heard good things!]
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 [One day.]
25 The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky [One day.]
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck [I think I started it and never finished.]
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 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis [Which is one book in The Chronicles of Narnia per #33, but OK.]
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 [Not because I had to in high school!]
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown [Why is this on here? This is not great literature.]
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving [Read most of it, never finished. Didn't grab my attention, for the most part. Only the dialogue between the children was really interesting. I sorta feel like Is hould finish it, since I got so close.]
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 [Required high school reading.]
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel [I was told by several people that this book would change my life, and my stance on religion. It did not - though it was a good read.]
52 Dune - Frank Herbert [This seems like SUCH a commitment!]
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen [I tried. I couldn't get past page 10.]
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens [I was supposed to read this in high school. Could not get through it. Relied on Cole's Notes.]
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley [Not because I had to in high school!]
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 [Required high school reading. Not too bad.]
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 [I thoroughly enjoyed The Satanic Verses, then I got partway into this one but never finished. saviolo raves about it.]
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 [Boring.]
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
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
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad [Conrad's Lord Jim - which I had to read in high school - was the most confusing book I have ever attempted to read. I eventually relied completely on Cole's Notes without finishing the book. I want to try this one, which I hear is better anyway.]
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupéry [In both French and English. This is truly one of few books I can say that I "love". It is incredible.]
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 [One of the worst books I ahve ever read was Shute's On The Beach - because I had to in high school! I can only hope that this one is not so awful.]
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare [Would this not be included in The Complete Works of Shakespeare in #14? Yes, yes it would.]
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
So, that's 24 of the 100 that I have read, 4 that I love, and 19 that I intend to (finish) read(ing).
Also, where is Umberto Eco on this list? His are some of the best books I've ever read - not In The Name of the Rose as much, though it was good, but Foucault's Pendulum and Island of the Day Before were absolutely fantastic. I need to pick up his latest.
The Dark is Rising series by Susan Cooper should be on this list well before the likes of Dan Brown. I think David Eggers and Mark Z. Danielewski should also be considered.
Finally, nomination for worst novel ever: "Settlers of the Marsh" by Frederick Philip Grove, which I had to read in high school in Manitoba because it was written about the damn place. Horrible. The most pointless book that I wish I had burned before I finished reading.
B.
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) Italicise those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Reprint this list in your own LJ (if you are that bored).
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling [Should this really be here?]
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible [I've probably read most of it, though not in order, or from cover to cover - but I'm counting it.]
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell [Not because I had to in high school!]
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 [Started it, never finished.]
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare [I've got it, I've read quite a few plays - but certainly not all, or even enough to count it.]
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger [I forced myself to finish this - boring!]
19 The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger [I have heard good things!]
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 [One day.]
25 The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky [One day.]
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck [I think I started it and never finished.]
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 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis [Which is one book in The Chronicles of Narnia per #33, but OK.]
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 [Not because I had to in high school!]
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown [Why is this on here? This is not great literature.]
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving [Read most of it, never finished. Didn't grab my attention, for the most part. Only the dialogue between the children was really interesting. I sorta feel like Is hould finish it, since I got so close.]
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 [Required high school reading.]
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel [I was told by several people that this book would change my life, and my stance on religion. It did not - though it was a good read.]
52 Dune - Frank Herbert [This seems like SUCH a commitment!]
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen [I tried. I couldn't get past page 10.]
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens [I was supposed to read this in high school. Could not get through it. Relied on Cole's Notes.]
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley [Not because I had to in high school!]
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 [Required high school reading. Not too bad.]
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 [I thoroughly enjoyed The Satanic Verses, then I got partway into this one but never finished. saviolo raves about it.]
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 [Boring.]
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
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
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad [Conrad's Lord Jim - which I had to read in high school - was the most confusing book I have ever attempted to read. I eventually relied completely on Cole's Notes without finishing the book. I want to try this one, which I hear is better anyway.]
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupéry [In both French and English. This is truly one of few books I can say that I "love". It is incredible.]
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 [One of the worst books I ahve ever read was Shute's On The Beach - because I had to in high school! I can only hope that this one is not so awful.]
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare [Would this not be included in The Complete Works of Shakespeare in #14? Yes, yes it would.]
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
So, that's 24 of the 100 that I have read, 4 that I love, and 19 that I intend to (finish) read(ing).
Also, where is Umberto Eco on this list? His are some of the best books I've ever read - not In The Name of the Rose as much, though it was good, but Foucault's Pendulum and Island of the Day Before were absolutely fantastic. I need to pick up his latest.
The Dark is Rising series by Susan Cooper should be on this list well before the likes of Dan Brown. I think David Eggers and Mark Z. Danielewski should also be considered.
Finally, nomination for worst novel ever: "Settlers of the Marsh" by Frederick Philip Grove, which I had to read in high school in Manitoba because it was written about the damn place. Horrible. The most pointless book that I wish I had burned before I finished reading.
B.