Ok, I'm assured that this is brand new material - so how do you pass it up? And thus I present the latest in the good ol' "What have you read" lit memes - you know the drill, bold what you've read, italicize the ones you like (and bold, too, presumably), strike out those you don't like, add comments at will. Props to the LLamabutchers (Robbo, in particular) for this rare foray into Saturday blogging. (I didn't actually strike out things - look for blehs.)
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
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 (Bleh. Hate Dickens. Hate hate hate. With the notable exception of A Tale of Two Cities.)
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 (Bleh again, I don't get why people love this.)
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald (Why I loved this so much, I have no idea.)
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 (As I've always said, the crime was that it was written and it's punishment for high schoolers everywhere. Just stick with the Brothers K!)
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 (By far my favorite. And fabulous movie with Ciaran Hinds).
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
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 (Read it every year. In the summer. It's just a summer book.)
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 (I'm counting this, though I've not actually read it 100% through, but I've tried it so many times, wanting desperately to like it..just can't. The movie w/ Sting wasn't bad though.)
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 (Everyone should have to read this.)
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 (Bleh).
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 Alborn
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
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
4 hours ago
Mine's up:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.lynellen.com/weblog/2007/03/brit-lit-meme.html
but you can hardly tell which ones are bolded and which arent. grr.
I needed a list like that, Beth! I'm always looking for something good to read, and this will inspire me to go back and read some classics! Thanks!
ReplyDeleteYou still haven't read The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime?! Or Prayer For Owen Meany? Oy! But I commend you for reading The Complete Works of Shakespeare and easily more than half of the list. Ever thought about opening up a bookstore? ;-)
ReplyDeleteJanie - I can't take too much credit - it's just one of those lovely lists floating about. But there's some good stuff on here. :) Happy reading!
ReplyDeleteGwynne - I know. I know. Really. I do. See (prepare for lame excuse...now) I can't find them at my bookstore. So I'm waiting for the next time I need something from Amazon - they're sitting in my cart, but I try to make sure that I'm ordering enough for free shipping before I actually buy stuff. And so I wait. They're in my plan for this year though! I'd love to one day have a bookstore/cafe. That's a dream. Truly!
Eric - I'll add it to my list. My main problem is trying to remember to read in a British accent. But all those extraneous p's get me as well. Like with Pfaltzgraff. Definitelly a British word.