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INSTRUCTIONS: Have you read more than 6 of these books? The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books listed here. Copy this list. Bold those books you've read in their entirety, italicize the ones you started but didn't finish or read an excerpt. Tag other book nerds. Tag me as well so I can see your responses!
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 (all)
5 To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four – 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
15 Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller’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 Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
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
37 The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis De Berniere
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
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney – John Irving
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 Life of Pi – Yann Martel
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
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
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
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
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
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables – Victor Hugo
Well, obviously, I read more than six of the 100 above ;-). To be fair, I was a Philosophy and English major. If I weren't, I don't think I would have read Zola. Or Moby Dick.
And where is Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand? I thought everyone has either read or attempted to read that one.
How about you?
Friday, December 03, 2010
The 100 Books Meme Everyone Will Inevitably Do This Month
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yea this list is missing several classics and has some interesting n00bs. i too was an english major (for 5 classes) though most of the ones i read as assigned were in high school.
assigned
5 To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
10 Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
18 Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger
22 The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald
49 Lord of the Flies – William Golding
57 A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
92 The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery
98 Hamlet – William Shakespeare
assigned but not finished
70 Moby Dick – Herman Melville (assigned three times twice in hs and once in college and never made it more than a hundred pages in Damn but that was a boring book thank you cliff notes)
read on own
11 Little Women – Louisa M Alcott
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
29 Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
39 Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
42 The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown
46 Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery
64 The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold
87 Charlotte’s Web – EB White
started on own but not finished
40 Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne (recently picked up again)
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
100 Les Miserables – Victor Hugo
read more than once: 22, 29, 49
that last "more than once" should have been 46 not 49, flies creeped me out but anne is comfortable.
Yes, I still suffer from the aftermath of reading Moby Dick, esp. Ch. 25. You have to read Ch 25. I think it's 25. You have to, so you could at least know the full horror of it.
This is an odd compilation of books. Some glaring omissions like Hemingway (The Old Man and the Sea), Isabel Allende (Eva Luna), Vargas Llosa (Ciudad de los Perros), etc.
READ AND LOVED:
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 (all)
5 To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare (CAN'T SAY COMPLETE WORKS, BUT MOST)
15 Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier
21 Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald (GOTTA ADMIT, I READ IT CAUSED I LOVED ROBERT REDFORD IN THE MOVIE)
33 Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis
34 Emma – Jane Austen
35 Persuasion – Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – CS Lewis
42 The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown
54 Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
65 Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helen Fielding
92 The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery
97 The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet – William Shakespeare
READ CAUSE I HAD NO CHOICE:
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
28 Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
61 Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
57 A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
BEGAN READING AND DIDN'T FINISH:
39 Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
49 Lord of the Flies – William Golding
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
70 Moby Dick – Herman Melville
72 Dracula – Bram Stoker
85 Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
I've read 25 of the ones listed, although shouldn’t all the Harry Potters count for 7? Ha! (Does listening to the unabridged version on CD while driving to and from work count? if so, I get to count the Bible, too.)
Agree that Atlas Shrugged should be on there although I was a bigger fan of The Fountainhead. What I'd really love to see on the list would be even more scifi stuff--read a lot of that in high school. Childhood's End was great...oh, and Stranger in a Strange Land. Very hip at the time.
Oh, and I've read Gone With The Wind about 13 times. Catcher in the Rye about that many, I'll bet, too. First book I’d read at that age that sounded like something I’d wished I’d written.
My minor was in English; I was a math major, but novels...ah novels. They make the math fun. Maybe if it had been my major, I could have stomached all the Jane Austen books. That writing is tough to read.
Know what else is missing? The Good Earth by Pearl Buck. Major wow book.
Am I supposed to include the list?
1. Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
3 Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series – JK Rowling (all)
5 To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
6 The Bible
8 Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell
11 Little Women – Louisa M Alcott
18 Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger
21 Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald
24 War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
27 Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – CS Lewis
41 Animal Farm – George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown
49 Lord of the Flies – William Golding
58 Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
61 Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
64 The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold
76 The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
81 A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
83 The Color Purple – Alice Walker
87 Charlotte’s Web – EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom
92 The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Not including the list, but I have read way more than 6 on that list, and yes, most of them were read for pleasure. Some were read for school, and some I started but never finished.
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