I got this off of Facebook from Sherie. I had to show off how cool our bookclub is since most of what I have read is because The Ladies of the Club are so smart in choosing books for us to enrich our already brilliant minds.
The BBC believes most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here. How do your reading habits stack up? Let us know and post your score at the bottom.Copy, edit and paste into a note of your own. (bold and red are what I've read)
I could tell you that most of these would make my all time favorites list too. And that I own many of them as my own personal friends in my library.
I have read 42 of these! The stars are what we read in book club. Plus signs I have read more than once!
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
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 (some, not all)
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 *+
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker’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 *+
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens 3
3 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis+
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
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
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 *
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
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 *
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
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 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 *
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+
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
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
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl +
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo *
And finally a tribute to my grandfather whom I never met. Turns out he is one of the reasons I love books so much.
BOOK HOUSE
from the papers of my Grandfather Sidney W. Campbell
I always think the cover of a book is like a door
Which opens into someone's house where I've not been before.
A pirate or a fairy queen may lift the latch for me.
I always wonder when I knock, what welcome there will be.
And when I find a house that's dull, I do not often stay
But when I find one full of friends, I'm apt to spend the day.
I never know what sort of folks will be within you see.
And that's why reading always is so interesting to me.
~~Annie Fellows Johnston
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8 comments:
I've read 27 of the books on your list and most of Shakespeare's collected works. So many books, so little time...
Wow, I am feeling a bit sheepish for I have not read most of those books. However, I think I have found a new goal that I would like to accomplish. Thanks for posting!
*hanging head*... I've only read 12 of those books. I would like to read more.
I have read 28 of the books listed! I noticed a few of the books on the list are some that I would like to read so I am taking the list with me when I go to the library!
Wow, those are some good book titles. I should count how many I've read, but as I've glanced at the list, I've read quite a few. Some of the titles intrigued me and perhaps I'll end up reading some more! PS- I'm trying to fix my blog so that people can leave comments.
I've read every one that you have read but 2! How funny! Mine is thanks to awesome English teachers all through high school. I refuse to read "The Lovely Bones" though because I am already a paranoid freak about stuff like that and my mom advised against it! I would like to read many of those books again because, like I said, it has been since high school since I read most of them. One you may not ever care to read that I had to read my senior year is "Crime and Punishment"-- yes, I know it's a classic, but it the most boring and pointless book I've ever read in my entire life!
OK, I've read 46 of them and I have another 16 of them stacked on the side of my bed along with about 200 others (I am a year sale freak) in my to-read pile!
Nice! I may have to borrow this for my blog! I love your blog
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