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Friday, December 03, 2010

The 100 Books Meme Everyone Will Inevitably Do This Month

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.

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6 comments:

kim said...

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

kim said...

that last "more than once" should have been 46 not 49, flies creeped me out but anne is comfortable.

Gennita said...

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.

alund said...

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

Debra Moore said...

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

Mo said...

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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