Book meme

[velessa]

Stolen from alittledffrnt

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, italicize the ones you started but didn't finish or read an excerpt.


1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen (only seen the movie)

2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien (started it a few times, didn't get anywhere)

3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte

4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling

5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee

6 The Bible (read pieces of it for school, blech!)

7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte

8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell (I'm in the middle of it)

9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman (LOVE this series!)

10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens

11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott (saw the play)

12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy

13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller

14 Complete Works of Shakespeare

15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier

16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien (keep trying to read this, get bored and put it down...)

17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk

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

24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy

25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams (saw the movie, Alan Rickman's voice was the only memorable part of it)

27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck

29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll (I did start this at one point but didn't finish)

30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame (saw the cartoon...)

31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy

32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens

33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis (no thanks)

34 Emma - Jane Austen

35 Persuasion - Jane Austen

36 The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe - CS Lewis (seen two movie versions, didn't like either)

37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini

38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres

39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden (love it)

40 Winnie the Pooh - A.A. Milne (think I only ever saw the cartoons)

41 Animal Farm - George Orwell (excellent book)

42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown (did see the movie, it was okay)

43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

44 A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving

45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins

46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery (saw the tv show)

47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy

48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood

49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding (somehow this was skipped in my English class career)

50 Atonement - Ian McEwan

51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel

52 Dune - Frank Herbert (tried to watch the movie, figured the book is just as boring)

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 (really want to read this one)

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

63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt

64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold

65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas (great book!)

66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac

67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy

68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding (saw the movie, yuck)

69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie

70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville

71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens

72 Dracula - Bram Stoker (saw the Gary Oldman movie)

73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett (saw a few movies of it)

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

80 Possession - AS Byatt

81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens (who doesn't know this story anyway?)

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 - E.B. 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

92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery (I think I'm the only one who's never read this)

93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks

94 Watership Down - Richard Adams (only one of my favorite books EVER!)

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 (saw the Kenneth Branagh movie)

99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl (sadly never read it, just saw the movie; I've read a number of his other books, though)

100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo (I read The Hunchback of Notre Dame, does that count for something?)

So I've read...12 of them. Eh, that's still twice as many as 6. Although to be fair a few of these are series of books, like Harry Potter and His Dark Materials.

Comments

[glitterberrys.livejournal.com]

I've read Les Miserables like 90 times, does that get me bonus points? There really needs to be a category for "forced to read it for school," because that's a separate animal. (Had to read Gatsby twice. Hated it both times. SO MUCH.)

[velessa.livejournal.com]

Ah yes, the ones here in the "forced to read for school" category for me are To Kill a Mockingbird, Great Expectations, Catcher in the Rye, The Great Gatsby, and The Color Purple. Actually, except for Great Expectations, I liked all of them.

[hotarumusume.livejournal.com]

I loved Gatsby! Far better than Catcher in the Rye. I hated les Mis, though.

[glitterberrys.livejournal.com]

I was a fanbrat of the musical so love for the book kind of went with that. It DID get tremendously tedious in places, though. Victor Hugo loved him some sewers.

[glitterberrys.livejournal.com]

Oh, btw, Anne of Green Gables is a deceptively awesome book. I read it in fifth grade expecting to hate it but it was laugh out loud awesomeness. Oh, and you WILL cry buckets at the end. But it's worth reading I'd say, and it goes really fast.

[tinlizzie82.livejournal.com]

Huh, I've read 54 of them and started but not finished 7 - although I am tempted to switch "the complete works of Shakespeare" into the read column because I think I've read most of them except for two or three odd ones.

ETA: Miscounted - actually read 63. OK, yes, i read ... a lot.

[hotarumusume.livejournal.com]

33, and at least 7 more I have read excerpt from. I read fast though, so it's not really a great labor.

For example I reread the last Harry Potter book this afternoon. As in started it at 2, stopped reading around 4:45 to go ride and feed the horses, and the picked it up again at 7 and finished it by 10. My boyfriend thinks this is an unfair advantage to any sort of "how many books have you read?" list.

[coanteen.livejournal.com]

I've read 32 in their entirety, wooo! And started a bunch more.
What do I get for reading all of Revelations while drunk? (it's the only fun part of the Bible really).

Don't worry about The Little Prince, I'm the only person who's never read/watched/really knows nothing about Watership Down.

[allevil.livejournal.com]

I have read 51 of that list plus some other Shakespear...just not the Complete works. So 51 1/4 or so for me.