Friday, December 3, 2010

How Many Have I Read?

I saw this on Facebook, and while I’m not sure of the list, I reproduced it here. I think that an American list might have a few more books, like The Call of the Wild or White Fang on it. It’s definitely a Western survey as the Koran and Torah aren’t listed. No Heinlein, and a modern list might have Ender’s Game on there as well. Perhaps even The Autobiography of Malcolm X.

Anyway, there are a few on here I think I might tackle, like Of Mice and men.

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 this into your NOTES.
  • Bold those books you've read in their entirety.
  • Italicize the ones you started but didn't finish or read only an excerpt.
  • Tag other book nerds. Tag me as well so I can see your responses!

I followed a friend's note and used Xs. I've read 38 of these. Or recall having to read them.

  1.     Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
  2.     The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien     
  3. X  Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
  4. x  Harry Potter series - JK Rowling      
  5. x  To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
  6.     The Bible       
  7. x  Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte      
  8. x  Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell      
  9.     His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman (all 3)    
  10. x  Great Expectations - Charles Dickens     
  11.     Little Women - Louisa M Alcott    
  12.     Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy    
  13. x   Catch 22 - Joseph Heller     
  14. x   Complete Works of Shakespeare - I bought this one year in college. I think I read them all, but hard to be sure.    
  15.      Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
  16. x   The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
  17.      Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk    
  18. x   Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger     
  19.      The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger    
  20.      Middlemarch - George Eliot    
  21.      Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell    
  22. x   The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald     
  23.      Bleak House - Charles Dickens    
  24. x   War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy - In progress now, part IV
  25. x   The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams     
  26.      Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh    
  27. x   Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky     
  28. x   Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeckx    
  29. x   Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll     
  30.      The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame    
  31.      Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy    
  32.      David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
  33. x   Chronicles of Narnia - C.S. Lewis     
  34.      Emma -Jane Austen    
  35.      Persuasion - Jane Austen
  36. x   The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe - CS Lewis     
  37.      The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini    
  38.      Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres    
  39. x   Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
  40. x   Winnie the Pooh - A.A. Milne
  41. x   Animal Farm - George Orwell
  42. x   The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown     
  43.       One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez    
  44. x    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. x    Lord of the Flies - William Golding     
  50.       Atonement - Ian McEwan    
  51.       Life of Pi - Yann Martel
  52. x    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 Zafonx   
  57.       A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens    
  58. x    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. x    Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas     
  66.       On The Road - Jack Kerouac    
  67.       Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy    
  68. x    Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding     
  69.       Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdiex   
  70. x    Moby Dick - Herman Melville
  71. x    Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens     
  72. x    Dracula - Bram Stoker     
  73.       The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett    
  74.       Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson    
  75. x    Ulysses - James Joyce 
  76. x    The Inferno - Dante     
  77.       Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome    
  78.       Germinal - Emile Zola    
  79.       Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray    
  80.       Possession - AS Byatt
  81. x    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. x    Charlotte’s Web - E.B. White     
  88.       The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom    
  89. x    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. x    Hamlet - William Shakespeare
  99. x    Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl     
  100.       Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

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