Meme nicked from brain-lover
There is a guy I don't know in London who keeps a blog I read religiously and who is my brain-lover and soul-mate, even if he doesn't know it yet because if I told him I would sound like a crazy stalker. From him, I have nicked a meme about books. His 'answers' to this meme are simply another axiom in the proof that we are meant to be together.
Bold = shit I've read
Italics = shit I plan to read
[Bracketed] = shit I love
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]
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible (okay, so I've read some of this one already)
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 [Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell]
9 [His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman]
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens (argh, argh, dreadful)
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott (saw the movie, though!)
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy (I'm told is depressing)
13 [Catch-22 - Joseph Heller]
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare (most of them, anyway)
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks (never heard of this one)
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger (also never heard of this)
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
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 (this sucked mightily)
29 Alice’s Adventures 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 (haven't we done this?)
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini (wasn't this published, like, yesterday? does that count as 'literature'?)
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 (oh God, the shame...)
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez (want to read it in Spanish!)
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
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Fire and Hemlock - Dianna Wynne-Jones (this is only italicised b/c my brain-lover says she is awesome)
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-time - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov (read it b/c I had a crush on this one dude who loved it... I was not impressed)
63 [The Secret History - Donna Tartt] (brain-lover bracketed this too - you see, we are totally soul-mates)
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 (is this for real? htf is this lit?)
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby-Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker (tried once - is horrible)
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett (a long time ago, je pense)
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson (smug d*ckhead)
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath (cray-zee ho; not a chance I will read this adolescent-style angst)
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - A. S. 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 (oh, so crap...)
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom (never never never *vomits*)
89 [Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle]
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad (I was supposed to have read this in school, but like with lousy sex, I faked it)
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
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare (again, haven't we done this?)
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl (nope, just saw the movie - with Gene Wilder, obvi)
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo (most of it, anyway)
So yeah...I don't actually intend to read that many books on this list. I'm more of a 'find something random in the station bookstore and check to make sure it's tiny print before buying' kinda lady.
In that vein, can I please recommend to you The End of Mr Y. It is like crackfic, only better. (I swear, I came up with the plot of 'Soul Man' before reading this. I swear.)
Don't be thinking you're doing me a favour by telling him about our love, either. You can get arrested for this shit in Britain.