Book Meme

[teleen_fiction]

Ganked from hawk_soaring.  When I first looked it over, I thought I'd only read 14.  Turns out it was slightly more than that, especially if you count the ones I've read excepts of or started and not finished, :).  ETA - Read 20.  Started or read excerpts of 24.  Assuming I know how to count, :).  I've also made more notes, :).

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...

Instructions: Copy/paste this. 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

2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien (I'm never going to read this because hubby says that the movies are far better.  Plus, I once tried to read The Hobbit and nearly died of boredom.)

3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte

4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling

5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee (It's on my list, :).)

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 (Saw the movie when I was a kid & don't remember much of anything but the ending, so there's no point in reading it.)

13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller

14 Complete Works of Shakespeare (I think it's actually better to see these performed than to read them - they're meant to be seen that way.  I've read a lot of sonnets (have # 23 memorized) and a couple of the plays, but again - it's better to see them performed.)

15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier

16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien

17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk

18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger (On my list.)

19 The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger (Seen the movie, own the book & might one day break down and read it.  Maybe.)

20 Middlemarch - George Eliot

21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell (This is another one you'd have to pay me to read.)

22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald Note: I loathed this book.

24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy (On my list.)

25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams

27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky (On my list)

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 (I've heard excerpts read of this in "Music From Another Room" but I didn't think that counted, :).)

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 Bernieres

39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden (On my list.)

40 Winnie the Pooh - A.A. Milne (I think only one of them.)

41 Animal Farm - George Orwell

42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown  (Read the prologue at a Sam's Club to see if I wanted to read the rest.  You would have to pay me to do so.)

43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez  (We own this one - I should probably check it out, :).)

44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving

45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins

46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery (I read like the first six, actually - great series.)

47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy

48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood (Saw the movie, found it to be the cure for Prozac and will probably never read this unless all other books have been burned.)

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 (I highly recommend this for everyone.  The concepts in it are something that everyone should know and pay attention to.)

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 (I heard Captain Picard quoting it and know it starts with "Call me Ishmael" (and how it ends), so I'll probably never read it.)

71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens

72 Dracula - Bram Stoker (We own this one, too.)

73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett

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

82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell

83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker (Amazing book.)

84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro (The movie looked like the cure for insomnia.  I can't imagine the book not being the same way (for me)).

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 (I've read a couple.)

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 (Weird, weird book.)

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 (I read this & 'Elevator about a million times as a kid.)

100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

 

Comments

[eve-from-oz.livejournal.com]

Ooh I did this one a while back, I've read (goes off to count) 27 of them, and parts of about half a dozen more.

I like to reread Anne of Green Gables, I still giggle a little when I read the phrase 'lovemaking' it always take a moment to flip the historical context switch in my brain lol

[teleens-journal.livejournal.com]

LOL.

I haven't read Anne in a long time - I lost my copies long ago, :(. I need to get new ones one of these days, :).

[eve-from-oz.livejournal.com]

I got all of mine from second-hand bookshops, which I am kind of incapable of walking past lol I do like my published pre-1950 children's books :)

[teleens-journal.livejournal.com]

That's where I'll go to get new copies one of these days, :). I've always been partial to "The Five Little Peppers and How They Grew" myself, :).

[eve-from-oz.livejournal.com]

I haven't read that one I'll make myself a note to look it up :)

Re: Lord of the Rings, the trilogy is much better than The Hobbit. Still has some immensely tedious parts (random singing wtf?) and I found them really hard to read because of the style they are written in. It's an amazing story but I still only got through the whole thing once ^^

Of course I only read them because of how much my mother, who is a fan, whined about how awful the movies were ^^ personally i think they did a worse job with the Harry Potter movies and recent Narnia movies, even if the LotR mob did throw in a giant battle that wasn't in the books into the second movie :)

[teleens-journal.livejournal.com]

I agree with you on the HP movies, Prisoner of Azkaban especially...

[eve-from-oz.livejournal.com]

*nods!* that's still my favourite of the books and the movie was just so bad ><

[teleens-journal.livejournal.com]

No kidding! There was so much that should have been included that they just... left out. Plus it was the first regular film I saw in IMax and the one that made me say, "Never again,"... 'til Avatar, *headdesk*

[eve-from-oz.livejournal.com]

I *know* and then they threw in random stuff that didn't even happen in the book >< I stopped watching them at the cinema after that and altogether after Goblet (which i only watched because I was trapped at my mother's house and she - having never read the books - thinks the movies are wonderful)

Not sure what IMax is though i think some of the places in the city here have it :)

you should try wanting to watch 3D movies when you have to wear glasses to see the screen clearly (it can be done lol)

[teleens-journal.livejournal.com]

*nods* I sorta get dragged to all of them, sigh. We'll be seeing DH too, just 'cause, double-sigh.

iMax is a super huge screen. And I wear glasses too, so yep.

[eve-from-oz.livejournal.com]

My sister laughed the first time i went to the movies with her with my glasses on I said something like "wow is this what it's always looked like to you?". I only have one really bad eye so for a long time I didn't realise I *needed* glasses ^^

[lefaym.livejournal.com]

Oooh! I've read 33 of them in their entirety. Which is actually probably a pretty poor result for someone going for her PhD in English.

[teleens-journal.livejournal.com]

Eh, given that 'The DaVinci Code' is one of them, I wouldn't feel too bad...

Sorry if you liked it, but I don't consider it great literature.

[lefaym.livejournal.com]

Lol, The Da Vinci Code is definitely on my "have not read" list, and I do not plan on changing that. :P

[teleens-journal.livejournal.com]

Again, I read the Prologue just to see and...

Wow.

To say that it's made of suck may be an insult to suck manufacturers everywhere...

[heeroluva.livejournal.com]

I've read over 60 of them...

[eve-from-oz.livejournal.com]

How many of them did you enjoy? (serious question, my ability to convey tone via text is less than brilliant ^^)

[heeroluva.livejournal.com]

At the time probably only about half of them? Some of them were really above my ability to truly comprehend at the age that I read them.

[eve-from-oz.livejournal.com]

I definitely find that the way I feel about books changes as I get older. Authors I used to love I still read but get annoyed by little things they do (I'm looking at you, David Eddings)

[teleens-journal.livejournal.com]

Impressive! :)

[evalentine99.livejournal.com]

Have read 35 including complete works of shakespere and all of harry potter - so BBC talking load of b*******s

All the books i have read on list were ejoyable except one Lord of the Rings.

When i saw teh film i was blown away they had got that that pice &&&&

[teleens-journal.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm never reading LOTR. Never. I loved the films, but I couldn't slog through the books & I did try...

I haven't read all of Shakespeare, but I've seen many of the plays performed and with Shakespeare, I think that actually counts because that's the way I think it's meant to be experienced. :)

[evalentine99.livejournal.com]

LOTR don't get me started - don't bother. The films are incredible.

When it was being filmed here in New Zealand everyone knew of someone who had worked on it at some point.

Tt got called Bored of the Ring

Elijah Wood spend a lot of time in Hamilton where i live and surfing in Raglan just down the road so its an incredible expreaicne for NZ

Regards

[teleens-journal.livejournal.com]

Very cool - it sounds amazing! :)

[madder-rose.livejournal.com]

I think I read about 38? I just did this on my journal, so I think it's 38 lol. I enjoyed them all (even Dan Brown, because it's good not to have to think when you commute ;D) but I prefer non-fiction and probably definitely won't read most of the classics.

OHOH LOTR is bloody fantastic once you get through the first fifty pages LOL. Between the birthday party and them getting to the Prancing Pony it's all singing, Tom Bombadill and OMG I want to bash his skull in. An editor today would've just gone "OUT OUT OUT NONE OF THIS SINGING SHITE!". Hopefully.

I got into a discussion once with someone who claimed that nono, there wasn't really any singing and it was all good. I went back and counted. 35 pages of WEIRD POETRY and SINGING. Gah.

[teleens-journal.livejournal.com]

I don't commute that way, but I guess I could see it, :). It seems like it would be brain candy - I just didn't care for the subject matter on top of not really liking his style, :(,

Eh, if I can't get into a book in the first 50 pages, I'm not going to read it, lol.

[hawk-soaring.livejournal.com]

Memoirs of a Giesha is phenomenal. And I really liked a Handmaids Tale as well although I agree the movie sucked. :)

[teleens-journal.livejournal.com]

Hmmm. I'll have to keep both of those in mind for the future, though I'm not quite to that level yet, :).