Tuesday, November 23, 2010

Something fun

Via Mez.

Have you read more than 6 of these books? The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books listed here.

Instructions:
• Copy this list.
• Bold those books you’ve read in their entirety.
• Italicize the ones you started but didn’t finish or read only an excerpt.
• Tag other book nerds.

I have read:

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. Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell
9. His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman
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
15. Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier
16. The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien
17. Birdsong – Sebastian Faulk
18. Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger
19. The Time Traveler’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger
20. Middlemarch – George Eliot
21. Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell
22. The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald
23. War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
24. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
25. Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
26. Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
27. Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
28. Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
29. The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame
30. Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
31. David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
32. Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis
33. Emma -Jane Austen
34. Persuasion – Jane Austen
35. The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe – CS Lewis
36. The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
37. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis De Bernieres
38. Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
39. Winnie the Pooh – A.A. 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
45. Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery
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
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
64. Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
65. On The Road – Jack Kerouac
66. Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy
67. Bridget Jones’s 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
73. Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson
74. Ulysses – James Joyce
75. The Inferno – Dante
76. Swallows and Amazons – Arthur Ransome
77. Germinal – Emile Zola
78. Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
79. Possession – AS Byatt
80. 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 – E.B. White
87. The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom
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
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. Hamlet – William Shakespeare
98. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl
99. Les Miserables – Victor Hugo


That's how I got the list. Because I have MAJOR ISSUES counting an entire series as one book to read, I present the new and improved BBC list:

1. Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
2. The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring – JRR Tolkien
3. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers – JRR Tolkien
4. The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King – JRR Tolkien

5. Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
6. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone – JK Rowling
7. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets – JK Rowling
8. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban – JK Rowling
9. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire – JK Rowling
10. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix – JK Rowling
11. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince – JK Rowling
12. Harry Potter and the Deadly Hollows – JK Rowling
13. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
14. The Bible

15. Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
16. Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell
17. His Dark Materials: The Golden Compass – Philip Pullman
18. His Dark Materials: The Subtle Knife – Philip Pullman
19. His Dark Materials: The Amber Spyglass – Philip Pullman
20. Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
21. Little Women – Louisa M Alcott
22. Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
23. Catch 22 – Joseph Heller
24. Complete Works of Shakespeare
25. Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier
26. The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien
27. Birdsong – Sebastian Faulk
28. Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger
29. The Time Traveler’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger
30. Middlemarch – George Eliot
31. Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell
32. The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald
33. War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
34. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
35. Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
36. Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
37. Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
38. Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
39. The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame
40. Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
41. David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
42. Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe – CS Lewis
43. Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian – CS Lewis
44. Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader – CS Lewis
45. Chronicles of Narnia: The Silver Chair – CS Lewis
46. Chronicles of Narnia: A Horse and His Boy – CS Lewis
47. Chronicles of Narnia: The Magician's Nephew – CS Lewis
48. Chronicles of Narnia: The Final Battle – CS Lewis

49. Emma -Jane Austen
50. Persuasion – Jane Austen
51. The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
52. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis De Bernieres
53. Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
54. Winnie the Pooh – A.A. Milne
55. Animal Farm – George Orwell
56. The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown
57. One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
58. A Prayer for Owen Meaney – John Irving
59. The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins
60. Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery
61. Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy
62. The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
63. Lord of the Flies – William Golding
64. Atonement – Ian McEwan
65. Life of Pi – Yann Martel
66. Dune – Frank Herbert
67. Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons
68. Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
69. A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth
70. The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon
71. A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
72. Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
73. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon
74. Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
75. Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
76. Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
77. The Secret History – Donna Tartt
78. The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold
79. Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
80. On The Road – Jack Kerouac
81. Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy
82. Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helen Fielding
83. Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
84. Moby Dick – Herman Melville
85. Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
86. Dracula – Bram Stoker
87. The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett

88. Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson
89. Ulysses – James Joyce
90. The Inferno – Dante
91. Swallows and Amazons – Arthur Ransome
92. Germinal – Emile Zola
93. Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
94. Possession – AS Byatt
95. Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
96. Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
97. The Color Purple – Alice Walker
98. The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
99. Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
100. A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
101. Charlotte’s Web – E.B. White
102. The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom
103. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
104. The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton
105. Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
106. The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery
107. The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks
108. Watership Down – Richard Adams
109. A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
110. A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute
111. The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
112. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl

113. Les Miserables – Victor Hugo

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1 comment:

ryivhnn said...

I've been tagged for that a few times. I can see why they'd group series seeing as they're usually a story arc but really.

Unlike you though I was entirely too lazy to expand it :)