Instead of moping around about the stymied healthcare reform and the decimating of a public option and a growing disgust with American politics and well, let's just face it, the country itself, I'm retreating into books. I was tagged with this a while back and send it out to you. And instead of tagging more people, why don't you comment if you feel like it, and let us know how many of these you've read? I'm highlighting the ones I've read in orange. The selection of books is a bizarre mixture of "great" literature and abysmal bestsellerdom --but I guess that's all a matter of opinion, as well. Anyway, if you like lists and you like books, have fun!
Book Meme
Yet another book meme.The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books here. How do your reading habits stack up?
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
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 1984 - George Orwell -
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 -
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare - (most of them)
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier -
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien -
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks -
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 -
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald -
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams -
26 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky -
27 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck -
28 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll -
29 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame -
30 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy -
31David Copperfield - Charles Dickens -
32Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis -
33Emma-Jane Austen -
34 Persuasion - Jane Austen -
35The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis -
36The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini -
37Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres -
38Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden -
39Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne-
40Animal Farm - George Orwell -
41The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown -
42One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez -
43A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving -
44The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins -
45Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery -
46Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy -
47The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood -
48Lord of the Flies - William Golding -
49 Atonement -Ian McEwan -
50Life of Pi - Yann Martel -
51Dune - Frank Herbert -
52Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons -
53Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen -
54A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
55The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon -
56A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens -
57Brave New World - Aldous Huxley -
58The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night - Mark Haddon -
59 Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez -
60Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck -
61Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov -
62The Secret History - Donna Tartt -
63The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold -
64Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas -
65On The Road - Jack Kerouac -
66Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy -
67Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding -
68Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie -
69 Moby Dick - Herman Melville -
70Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens -
71Dracula - Bram Stoker -
72The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett -
73Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson -
74Ulysses - James Joyce
75The Inferno – Dante -
76Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome -
77Germinal - Emile Zola
78Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray -
79 Posession - AS Byatt -
80A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens -
81Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
82The Color Purple - Alice Walker -
83The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro -
84Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert -
85A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry -
86Charlotte’s Web - EB White -
87The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom -
88Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle -
89 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton -
90 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad -
91 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint- Exupery -
92 The Wasp Factory - Ian Banks
93 Watership Down - Richard Adams -
94A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole -
95A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
96The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas -
97Hamlet - William Shakespeare -
98Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl -
99 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo -
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ReplyDelete1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
ReplyDelete2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee
5 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
6 1984 - George Orwell
7 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman -
8 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
9 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott -
10 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy -
11 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller -
12 Complete Works of Shakespeare (about 64%)
13 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
14 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien -
15 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
16 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger -
17 Middlemarch - George Eliot -
18 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell -
19 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald -
20 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
21 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
22 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams -
23 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky -
24 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck -
25 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll -
26 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame -
27 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
28 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens -
29 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis -
30 Emma-Jane Austen -
31 Persuasion - Jane Austen -
32 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis -
33 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres -
34 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden -
35 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne-
36 Animal Farm - George Orwell -
37 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez -
38 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery -
39 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy -
40 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood -
41 Lord of the Flies - William Golding -
42 Atonement -Ian McEwan -
43 Life of Pi - Yann Martel -
44 Dune - Frank Herbert -
45 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen -
46 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
47 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon -
48 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens -
49 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley -
50 Love in the Time of Cholera Gabriel Garcia Marquez -
51 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck -
52 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov -
53 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold -
54 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas -
55 On The Road - Jack Kerouac -
56 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy -
57 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
58 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens -
59 Dracula - Bram Stoker -
60 Ulysses - James Joyce
61 The Inferno – Dante -
62 Germinal - Emile Zola
63 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray -
64 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens -
65 The Color Purple - Alice Walker -
66 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro -
67 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert -
68 Charlotte’s Web - EB White -
69 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle -
70 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad -
71 to 85 the works of Antoine de Saint-Exuperi (who by the way was a friend of my father's)
L'Aviateur
Courrier Sud (Southern Mail)
Vol de Nuit(Night Flight)
Terre des Hommes(Wind, Sand and Stars) -
Pilote de Guerre (Flight to Arras)
Le Petit Prince(The Little Prince)
Lettre à un Otage(Letter to a Hostage)
Citadelle (The Wisdom of the Sands)
Lettres de jeunesse
Carnets
Lettres à sa mère
Écrits de guerre
Manon, danseuse
Lettres à l'inconnue
86 Il Gattopardo- Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
87 Watership Down - Richard Adams -
88 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole -
89 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
90 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas -
91 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo -
92 All the works by Federico Garcia Lorca
93 Don Quijote de la Mancha
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
All of the above from your list plus some that come to mind.All of Jorge Luis Borges works,Gabriel Garcia Marquez as well as Octavio Paz, all the poetry and essays of Pablo Neruda and Alfonsina Storni. All the works of Françoise Sagan and Oriana Fallaci, Simone de Beauvoir - who some times drove me crazy. Since I mostly read biographies now it is long list to take anymore space.
I am glad to see I am not the last human in the planet that has yet to shake hands with Harry Potter. I hope he is not holding his breath...
if harry is holding his breath, it could be nothing other than wizardry keeping him going; i have not read the series, either.
ReplyDeletei have read 69 of the 100 books, and must say i find the list itself rather intriguing; a strange combination indeed.
p.s. why is it that the lion, the witch and the wardrobe is listed separately than the chronicles of narnia? isn't it part of the series?
That is a rather strange assortment. I don't think I've read as many as you, but certainly far more than six.
ReplyDeleteYou are a true bookworm :)
ReplyDeleteI do have one on the list that you HAVEN'T read that I very highly recommend .... Dune. It's a favorite of mine. In fact the trilogy (there are actually more than 3 - but the first 3 are the best) is a fabulous read.
Last week I read "The Sky Unwashed" and am now reading everything I can get my hands on about Chernobyl.
I love a good reading list :) Thanks!
I can't wait to do it. I am going to put it on my blog Elizabeth.
ReplyDeleteExciting sincle I look like I've read tons of them.
I just read what Allegra posted on her blog. Totally bawling.
xoxo
Well, I'm annoyed there's no Forster. That's criminal.
ReplyDeleteBut it's so funny--that's all I want to do lately, too. I've even been fantasizing about a book vacation--possibly on an island in a small, warm cottage with 5 straight days of light rain. Hee.
I did this a year ago or so and I think I got 70? or so out of the list.
ReplyDeleteI'd have bet huge sums that you'd read Ulysses, but despite missing that one you've read far more of them than I have. No Harry Potter for me either.
ReplyDeleteOh, sweet! I'm totally going to print this list out and get going. I'm not sure how many I've already read. Fun!
ReplyDeleteYou have to read Swallows and Amazons! They are amazing! If your boys are at all into boats/adventures/camping they would love them too. And Ransome himself, excitingly, was a double-agent for the British and the Soviets and ultimately married Trotsky's secretary!
ReplyDeleteNo Harry Potter? Tell me it is not true.
ReplyDelete