I found this over at Fabianspace, Karina Fabian's blog. Read her post here: http://fabianspace.blogspot.com/2010/12/how-many-of-these-classics-have-i-read.html
Instructions: Bold those books you've read in their entirety.
Italicize the ones you started but didn't finish or read only an excerpt.
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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 1984--George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman - boring, then I found out it was written to teach kids atheism. Still boring.
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch-22 --Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare - I like Titus Andronicus the best.
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
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 - one of the first grown-up books I read as a child.
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy - I read the first paragraph or so in Russian when I was learning Russian.
25 The Hitchhicker's Guide to the Galaxy--Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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 thought the ending was really, really funny....
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis (All 7 of them!)
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
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown - very dull, at least if you've already read the book Brown used as his source for the wild theories.
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
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood - liked it in spite of the hysterical anti-Christianism
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 (and Seamonsters?)
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 - is that the one about the kid with Asperger's Syndrome? if so it's on my must-read list.....
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov - I only read it for the smutty bits.
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas - I keep thinking of it as the Count of Monte Crisco....
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding - my mom made me watch the movie because Colin Firth was in it and she has a crush on him.....
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville - did you know Melville is believed to have Asperger's Syndrome?
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens - must have read it a hundred times in school (if I had admitted I was finished with it, I'd have had to write a book report.)
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
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 - I like the Doctor Who version better....
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazu Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert - Nearly as funny as Anna Karenina.
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom - I'm betting one of them won't be Mitch Albom.
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-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 - I want to have a lackey just like D'Artagnon does.
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
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Well, actually it's a kitten. And she's so wild you'll have to come here and catch her yourself.
They think most people will have only read six? That's sad.
ReplyDeleteI liked Wuthering Heights. If you have time and desire, you might pick it up.
The complete works of Shakespeare? Like they want to you have read everything he ever wrote, poems and all? I've read a lot, but not all.
Winnie the Pooh. I read every one of those. Maybe that makes up for my holes in Shakespeare. LOL
Read Dracula. It's not like any of the movie versions.
Okay. I should be cooking dinner. I'll do my blog thingy later. But I already have a wild shy kitten. Also a tubby cat that will just flop on the kitchen floor and I have to slide him out of the way with my foot to get anything done. :p
I've always wanted to have my Heights Wuthered, but never got around to it....
ReplyDeleteI do have a very nice hardcover edition of Dracula, but I never seem to get more than halfway when I get distracted by something.....
I wonder if I get extra credit for reading the first Harry Potter book in German and in Spanish as well as English? (I don't actually speak Spanish, but know enough words to read some books in Spanish.)
I counted 27 of those that I had read.
ReplyDeleteOh yeah, if you read any of them in a language other than your native, you get extra credit. :)
ReplyDeleteMy daughter has read a couple of the Harrys in both American and Brit. edition. I guess counts as a half point extra because there are small differences. LOL