http://townx.org/blog/elliot/book-thing Comments for "Book thing" en http://townx.org/blog/elliot/book-thing <p><a href="http://pesky33.livejournal.com/221305.html">My sister</a> did this book meme thing, and I thought the list was interesting, so I decided to do it too.</p> <p>(Although now I'm researching it, I'm not sure where the original list came from, and am starting to feel like I've just wasted my time.)</p> <p>The rules are:</p> <p>1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.<br /> 2) Italicize those you intend to read.<br /> 3) Underline the books you <span class="caps">LOVE.</span><br /> 4) Strike out the books you have no intention of ever reading, or were forced to read at school and hated.<br /> 5) Reprint this list on your own blog.</p> <p>I've adapted this slightly, and have only highlighted things I've read.</p> <p>1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen<br /> 2 The Lord of the Rings - <span class="caps">JRR</span> Tolkien<br /> 3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte<br /> <strong>4 The Harry Potter Series - JK Rowling</strong> (some of them)<br /> <strong>5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee</strong><br /> <strong>6 The Bible</strong> (well, 3 of the gospels)<br /> 7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte<br /> <strong>8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell</strong><br /> <strong>9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman</strong> (first two books)<br /> <strong>10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens</strong> (I hated this)<br /> 11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott<br /> 12 Tess of the <span class="caps">D'U</span>rbervilles - Thomas Hardy<br /> <strong>13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller</strong> (started, but not sure I finished it)<br /> <strong>14 Complete Works of Shakespeare</strong> (you've got to be joking if you think anyone, other than Shakespaeare scholars, has read every single piece of his work; I've read a fair bit)<br /> 15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier<br /> <strong>16 The Hobbit - <span class="caps">JRR</span> Tolkien</strong><br /> 17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks <br /> <strong>18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger</strong><br /> 19 The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger<br /> 20 Middlemarch - George Eliot<br /> 21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell<br /> <strong>22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald</strong> (I think...)<br /> 23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens<br /> 24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy<br /> <strong>25 The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams</strong><br /> 26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh<br /> 27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky<br /> 28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck<br /> <strong style="text-decoration:underline;">29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll</strong><br /> 30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame<br /> 31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy<br /> 32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens<br /> 33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis<br /> 34 Emma - Jane Austen<br /> <strong>35 Persuasion - Jane Austen</strong> (I detested this)<br /> 36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis<br /> 37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini<br /> 38 Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres<br /> 39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden<br /> 40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne<br /> <strong>41 Animal Farm - George Orwell</strong><br /> 42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown (now, why would I want to read that?)<br /> 43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez<br /> 44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving<br /> 45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins<br /> 46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery<br /> 47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy<br /> 48 The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood<br /> <strong>49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding</strong><br /> 50 Atonement - Ian McEwan<br /> 51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel<br /> <strong>52 Dune - Frank Herbert</strong> (it is good, but where's all the better science fiction?)<br /> 53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons<br /> 54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen (why so much bloody Jane Austen?)<br /> 55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth<br /> 56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon<br /> 57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens<br /> <strong>58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley</strong><br /> 59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon<br /> 60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez<br /> <strong style="text-decoration:underline;">61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck</strong><br /> 62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov<br /> <strong>63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt</strong><br /> 64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold<br /> 65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas<br /> 66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac<br /> 67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy<br /> 68 Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding<br /> 69 Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie<br /> <strong>70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville</strong> (Jesus, that was tiresome)<br /> 71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens<br /> 72 Dracula - Bram Stoker<br /> 73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett<br /> 74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson<br /> <strong>75 Ulysses - James Joyce</strong> (yes, really, for my English Lit. degree)<br /> <strong style="text-decoration:underline;">76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath</strong><br /> 77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome<br /> <strong>78 Germinal - Emile Zola</strong><br /> 79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray<br /> 80 Possession - AS Byatt<br /> <strong>81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens</strong><br /> <strong>82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell</strong> (good, but not that good)<br /> 83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker<br /> 84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro<br /> <strong>85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert</strong><br /> 86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry<br /> 87 Charlotte's Web - EB White<br /> 88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom<br /> 89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle<br /> 90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton<br /> <strong>91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad</strong><br /> 92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery<br /> <strong>93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks</strong><br /> 94 Watership Down - Richard Adams<br /> 95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole<br /> 96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute<br /> 97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas<br /> <strong>98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare</strong> (isn't this included as part of The Complete Works?)<br /> 99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl<br /> 100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo</p> http://townx.org/blog/elliot/book-thing#comments misc Thu, 26 Jun 2008 14:58:58 -0500 elliot 730 at http://townx.org