I stole this meme from Amy , but Molly and Janelle have also done it.
What books have you read? Bold the ones you have read, italicize the ones you are planning on reading (stuck in Mt. To Be Read) and underline the ones you loved:
1.Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen - I’ve talked a bit about my priest’s recommendation that one should read the classics during Lent. This was one of my choice a few years ago. Very lovely.
2. The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien – I have never been able to get into the LOTR.
3. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte – also a Lenten read.
4. Harry Potter series - JK Rowling - they get absorbing and are always a lovely read.
5. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee - it doesn’t get much better than the story of Scout Finch.
6. The Bible – I read a couple of pages each night.
7. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte - I read this in high school and wrote a paper on the fact that I felt Heathcliff was an expendable character. I wonder if I’d like it better now? Interestingly, I read a book this weekend in which Heathcliff and Catherine figured.
8. Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11. Little Women - Louisa M Alcott – I read and re-read this book growing up, and have it in my “to be re-read” pile. I must admit, though that I always think of Friends now when I think about it – “Beth’s really sick, and I don’t think she’s going to make it”
12. Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy – I have this in my “to be swapped” pile, but I keep hearing good things, so I should rescue it from there and put it in line.
13. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14. Complete Works of Shakespeare - many but not all. My favorite Sonnet is 130, and favorite play is MacBeth. But, so many are really good, it’s hard to choose.
15. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier – upon several recommendations, I have it in my TBR.
16. The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien – odd since I never got into LOTR, but fabulous.
17. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks – I’ve never even heard of this book.
18. Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger - the oldest's aunt and uncle gave it to him for Christmas this past year, I should go dig it out and read it.
19. The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger – one of my all time favorites
20. Middlemarch - George Eliot – another oft recommended book in my TBR
21. Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell – the next plane ride I am on, this is going with me for a read.
22. The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald - not since High School, though.
23. Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy I just read this earlier this year – for the heft, it’s a quick read. Really.
25. The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams – it’s been a long time.
26. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh - I've heard very good things.
27. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky - part of my journey to Orthodoxy was through this book.
28. Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck - I don't usually like Steinbeck, but love Cannery Row.
29. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll – Another one I’ve read again and again.
30. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33. Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis Not until adulthood
34. Emma - Jane Austen
35. Persuasion - Jane Austen
36. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
37. Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres – oh, so so good. Sigh.
38. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
39. Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
40. Animal Farm - George Orwell
41. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
42. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
43. A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
44. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins - this is another I've not heard of.
45. Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery - another not until adulthood - sorry mom.
46. Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
47. The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
48. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
49. Atonement - Ian McEwan – I thought it was good, but I know a lot of people who disagree.
50. Life of Pi - Yann Martel
51. Dune - Frank Herbert
52. Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
53. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
54. A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
55. The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
56. A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
57. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
58. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
59. Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
60. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
61. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
62. The Secret History - Donna Tartt
63. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold - blech, blech, blech. I need the opposite of underlining for this one.
64. Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
65. On The Road - Jack Kerouac - I attempted but never succeeded.
66. Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
67. Bridget Jones' Diary - Helen Fielding
68. Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
69. Moby Dick - Herman Melville
70. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
71. Dracula - Bram Stoker
72. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett - I re-read recently
73. Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
74. Ulysses - James Joyce
75. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
76. Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
77. Germinal - Emile Zola
78. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
79. Possession - AS Byatt - Another I've heard very good things about.
80. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
81. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
82. The Color Purple - Alice Walker
83. The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
84. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
85. A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
86. Charlotte's Web - EB White - sniff, sniff. Sob.
87. The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom - dreck.
88. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
89. The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
90. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
91. The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery - I am half bolding it, because I think I have only made it halfway through.
92. The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
93. Watership Down - Richard Adams
94. A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
95. A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
96. The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
97. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
98. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo - another recent (I'm discovering that I read a lot recently, and blogged about a lot of books, grin)
Janelle contributed two to her list, I'm retaining her first
99. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
and adding a personal favorite:
100. The Outsiders by SE Hinton
I get 44 out of 100. There's still so many to read! Can't wait!
Let me know what your results were.
posted by Mimi @ 7/08/2008 02:12:00 PM
15 Comments
15 Comments:
I can't wait to do this! Fun!
I just did it. 48-100, but a lot of them I don't want to read :)
You gotta read Gone With the Wind, girl! ;)
Mimi, I was just going to turn in but saw this meme. :-)Thanks!
Anne of Green Gables...I liked the PBS series better than the book. Oh wait a minute... right post, wrong day (tee hee)
great meme...I'll have to think about this one!
ooh I will have to do this!
reading classics during Lent? that is very interesting.
So many books... so little time. Enjoy your journey into our neck of the woods. We will miss you at Liturgy! Maybe another time. Rebeca
BTW, I have not written you a thank you card for the lovely little book you made Raphael, but it's coming...
Here's a simple thank you in advance!
I have quite a few favorites....all the "No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency" series. And oh my latest good-read "Animal Vegetable Miracle."
Oh to make a teacup card...simple, get some embroidery floss, larger than usual needle and start poking! Some tutorials here: www.cutchens.com
I'll have to sit down and do this!
Wow, Mimi! I have a lot of these boks, but most of them I haven't read yet. I am going to read "Pride and Prejudice" though...
eI got 69 (really 68 1/2) and there were several I could have done with the opposite of underlining for! If you haven't read 'Persuasion' and 'Emma' though - you should. Persuasion is a beautiful story of second chances, remember the quote LM Montgomery chose for 'Anne of the Island', "All precious things discovered late To those that seek them issue forth, For Love in sequel works with Fate, And draws the veil from hidden worth."? I never got it in the context of Anne Shirley but it's lovely in the story of Anne Elliot. And 'Emma' is an insight into village life in Austen's day, one of my favourite things about it is that it's not only the story of a girl finding love but of a community, as if we knew about all the principal people of Meryton as well as the courtship of Elizabeth and Mr Darcy. Someone gave me a list of books I 'ought' to read once. It started with Cardinal Newman's 'An Idea of a University' which was great, but his Anglican sermons keep me sane so I am biased. Then there was something called 'The Bishop's Jaegers' which starts with a description of the underpants worn by all the protagonists from the Bishop himself in his sturdy jaegers to the Dutch coffee importer's secretary in her frillies and the former model drinking gin and aspirin and squeezing herself into yards of elastic. After that came 'Women in Love' with all its fabulous descriptions of Ursula and Gudrun's clothes, even to the colours of their stockings. After those two, somewhat incongruously, came the Simarillion with all its "beautiful Celtic madness, then "Till We Have Faces", CS Lewis's retelling of the Cupid and Psyche myth, one of my favourite books ever which I didn't read until a friend took it off the shelf at Tolleshunt Knight's Monastery bookshop (Elder Sophrony's foundation) and bought it for me. It was a lovely list until it got to 'Ulysses' and then I went backwards and forwards unable to finish either the book or the list. Some books are like that. I googled 'The Lovely Bones', it wasn't on my to read list and it won't be getting on it either. Urgh.
You have read a lot of great books - you rock!
Nice to see you Mimi - hope you had a good weekend! See you soon - Kellan
wow, this is the best meme i've seen yet! i'll try it but i don't think i'll do as well as you! good job!
enjoyed this... It takes a lot of time to make this list!
fun! thanks.
Harry Potter series - JK Rowling - they get absorbing and are always a lovely read --> I absolutely agree :).
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