Saturday, March 7, 2009

Reading List rock

I stole this from Grumpator. BBC said that they believe people would only have read 6 out of the 10o books listed below. Technically they include series of books so there are quite a few more book than 100 but there are 100 enteries.
I noticed a lot of Jane Austin and that will pump up my numbers since I went through a Jane Austen phase.

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen - yes
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien - No (I have tried and tried. I can't do it. I won't do it!)
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte - yes
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling - No (Again, I tried the first book. Blah. And the movies engrage me.)
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee - yes
6 The Bible – no ( Again I tried. I felt since it influenced so many people I should read it. I got bored in Genesis)
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte - yes
8 1984 - George Orwell - 1/2 (I hate you Orwell. I tried to read this book but started to get a sneaky suspicion half way. I got grupmy and put it down)
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman - No
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens - yes
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott - yes
12 Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy - no
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller – no
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare - I have read Hamlet, Othello, Taming of the Shrew, Much Ado about Nothing, and one other.
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier -no
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien - yes
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks - no
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger - yes (Only because I had a 3 hour waiting session at an airport. It was a painful read)
19 The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger - No
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot- no
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell - no
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald - Yes
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens- no
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy - no
25 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams - yes
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh - no
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky - No
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck -Yes
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll - yes
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame - no
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy - no
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens - no
33 The Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis - 1/2 (I might have read them all but it was a long time ago. I remember reading the first 3 at least. I'm unsure abou the rest)
34 Emma - Jane Austen - yes
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen - yes (My favorite of Jane Austin!)
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe -yes
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini - No
38 Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres- No
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden - no
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne - Yes
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell - Yes
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown - No (Started it but got through only 4 chapters)
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez - no
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving - no
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins - No
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery - yes
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy - No
48 The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood - Yes (Love it!)
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding - yes
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan - no
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel - No
52 Dune - Frank Herbert- yes
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons - No
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen - yes
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth - no
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon - No
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens - yes
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley - Yes (Very similiar to the movie)
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon - No
50 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez - No
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck - yes
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov - no
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt - no
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold - yes
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas - No
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac - no
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy - no
68 Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding - no
69 Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie - no
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville - no (Own it but have not tried yet)
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens - No
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker - yes
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett - yes
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson - No
75 Ulysses - James Joyce - no
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath - no
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome - No
78 Germinal - Emile Zola - no
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray - No
80 Possession - AS Byatt- no
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens - yes
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell - No
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker - no
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro - no
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert - no
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry - no
87 Charlotte's Web - EB White - yes
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom - no
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - yes but not all
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton - No
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad - no
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupe - yes
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks - No
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams - No
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole - yes (only because a friend and I were doing a book club. I detest this book)
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute - No
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas - no
98 Hamlet – Shakespeare – yes
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl - yes
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo - no

My total was 33 but I read 7 of these books in school. I'm actually interested in reading most of these though maybe not "THe Five People you meet in Heaven).

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