Monday, October 19, 2009

a meme...

Have you read more than 6 of these books?

The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books here. How do your reading habits stack up?

Instructions: Copy this into your NOTES. Look at the list and put an 'x' after those you have read. Tag 20 other book nerds. Tag me as well so I can see your responses!

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen - have started it multiple times and can't get into it! I know, I should have read it.
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien - (does The Hobbit count?)
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte - X LOVE
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling - x
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee - X
6 The Bible - x (ok, not every page...)
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte - X LOVE
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell - X totally thought provoking. I'm strange and constantly relate this book to my every day experience.
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman - (my roommate is obsessed. no thank you.0
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens -
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott -X
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy -
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller – x (is it weird that I was jealous when my little brother was assigned this for summer reading?)
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare - x (I took this class for my English major requirement... I've read 13 plus some sonnets)
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier -
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien - x (oh, so I guess the Hobbit counts... here, not above)
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk -
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger - X
19 The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger- x (her latest is on deck)
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot -
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell - x
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald - X (twice)
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens -
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy -
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams -
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky - x (ugh)
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck -
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll - x
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame- x
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy -
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 (I guess I don't know the difference between this and The Chronicles of Narnia, listed above)
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini - (mom told me not to)
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres -
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden - X
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 Meaney - John Irving-
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins -
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery - x
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy -
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood -
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding - x
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan - X
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel - x
52 Dune - Frank Herbert -
53 Cold Comfort Farm -
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen- (no Austen... yes I know a disgrace)
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 - Mark Haddon -
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez-
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck - X
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov- X (reading NOW!)
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt -
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold - X
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas -
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac - x (this traveled everywhere with me for a few years)
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy -
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding - X
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie –
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville - X (reading next semester)
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens-
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker -
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett - x
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson -
75 Ulysses - James Joyce -
76 The Inferno – Dante -
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 - X
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 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 x
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton -
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad - X
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery - x (extra credit if read in French?) I did read it in French!!
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 - x
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare - x (three times)
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl - x
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo X (extra credit if read in French) I've read excerpts of it in French)

I've read roughly 40 give or take a few that I've read partially and adding ones I've read multiple times! How about you?

2 comments:

  1. I've read 65- I'm either a huge nerd, or very well read, I suppose.

    Just found your blog- enjoying it :)

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  2. Just found your blog via Summer Wind and love it to bits! It's nice to find a book lover online:)
    I've read 75 of these:) Let's just say I read books and didn't make friends when I was younger:(

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