By wisdom a house is built, and by understanding it is established; and by knowledge
the rooms are filled with all precious and pleasant riches. ~Proverbs 24:3-4
• Feb. 22, 2009 - Book List!
The BBC believes most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here. How do your reading habits stack up?
Instructions:
1) Look at the list and put an 'x' after those you have read.
2) Add a '+' to the ones you LOVE.
3) Star (*) those you plan on reading.
4) Tally your total at the bottom.
1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen X
2. The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien X++++
3. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4. Harry Potter series - JK Rowling X++
5. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee X
6. The Bible X+++++
7. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte X (maybe)
8. Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell X
9. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens X++
11. Little Women - Louisa May Alcott X++
12. Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller X
14. Complete Works of Shakespeare X (okay, just some of them)
15. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16. The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien X+++
17. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
18. Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger X
19. The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20. Middlemarch - George Eliot
21. Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell X+++
22. The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald X
23. Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy X+++ (Okay, so I am weird!)
25. The HitchHiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams X+++
26. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky X++ (yup, more weird!)
28. Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck X
29. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll X
30. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame X
31. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy X+++ (Confirmed weirdness!)
32. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens X
33. Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis X+++
34. Emma - Jane Austen
35. Persuasion - Jane Austen
36. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis X+++
37. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini (Paul says BLEEEEEK!)
38. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40. Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne X
41. Animal Farm - George Orwell X
42. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown X
43. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44. A Prayer for Owen Meany - 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 X++
49. Lord of the Flies - William Golding X
50. Atonement - Ian McEwan
51. Life of Pi - Yann Martel (Another Paul BLEEEK!)
52. Dune - Frank Herbert X++
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 X
58. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley X
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 X (I tried...)
71. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens X+
72. Dracula - Bram Stoker
73. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett *
74. Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75. Ulysses - James Joyce X
76. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath X
77. Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78. Germinal - Emile Zola
79. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray (maybe)
80. Possession - AS Byatt
81. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens X
82. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83. The Color Purple - Alice Walker X
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 X++
88. The Five People You Meet In Heaven - 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 X++
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 X
99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl X
100. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo (saw the movie version)
Where is the Iliad? The Aeneid?? There so much better than Ulysses!! The Iliad is one my faves!
Okay 42, with about 3 maybe/can't remembers! Guess I need to read more Jane Austen. Everyone seems to be a fan. And Dumas - I must have read some of his, but I can't really remember!
So how about you? Yes - Suanna, I know you have read all of these - twice!
You're better than me! - LOL
I have read 20 (and seen the movies for about 15 more)
I know I should read more of them - but some just don't interest me in the least.
• Feb. 23, 2009 - Untitled Comment
I have read 20 (and seen the movies for about 15 more)
I know I should read more of them - but some just don't interest me in the least.