Book Meme

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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