Book meme and quick update
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3rdragonI've actually been doing work for a lot of this week, so I haven't been posting as frequently as I have be wont to. But it's VERY quiet today, so I bring you:
The Big Read thinks the average adult has only read six of the top 100 books they've printed, listed below.
01. Bold the books you have read
02. Italicise those you intend to read (I'm semi-italicizing those that I feel that it might be nice to read at some point, but don't have anything as strong as an intention to read.)
03. Underline the books you've seen a film version of (I'm going to declare that {} means I've seen a Wishbone version.)
04. Place books that you have started but never finished in round brackets
05. Place books that you read in school in square brackets
{001 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen}
002 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
003 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte I've seen the musical live. Does that count?
004 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
[005 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee] (I read it again outside of class, though)
(006 The Bible) (I've read large portions of it, certainly, but not the entire thing; one tends to get a bit bogged down in the begats.)
007 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
008 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
009 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
[(010 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens)] - It was for extra credit. I decided that I didn't want/need extra credit enough to try to finish it in a week and write something on it.
011 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
012 Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
013 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
014 Complete Works of Shakespeare
015 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
016 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
017 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
[018 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger]
019 The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
020 Middlemarch - George Eliot
021 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
[022 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald]
023 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
024 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
025 The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
026 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
027 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
028 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
029 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
030 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
031 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
032 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
033 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
034 Emma - Jane Austen
035 Persuasion - Jane Austen
036 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - C.S. Lewis (Shouldn't this be in Chronicles of Narnia? -Tonje, Yes, I quite agree. -M)
037 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
038 Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
039 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
040 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
[041 Animal Farm - George Orwell]
042 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
043 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez (I have read Croninca de una muerte anunciada, though)
044 A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
045 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
046 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
047 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
048 The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
049 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
050 Atonement - Ian McEwan
051 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
052 Dune - Frank Herbert
053 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
054 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen (Listened to it on audiobook.)
055 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
056 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
{057 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens}
058 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
059 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon (I think so. I know I started it the first summer I worked at the camp; the summer I read Silent to the Bone. I don't remember finishing it, but I don't remember not finishing it, either.)
060 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
061 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
062 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
063 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
064 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
065 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
066 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
067 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
068 Bridget Jones' Diary - Helen Fielding
069 Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
070 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
071 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
072 Dracula - Bram Stoker
073 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
074 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson (Maybe. My dad was reading it, and I intended to read it. I certainly read excepts. I think I read the whole thing.
075 Ulysses - James Joyce
076 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
(077 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome) Um. I really ought to find this and finish it and give it back to Emily. She lent it to me ages ago.
078 Germinal - Emile Zola
079 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
080 Possession - AS Byatt
{081 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens} I saw a play last winter. It was a two-person cast, I think, and they used puppets really effectively. It was very cool.
082 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
083 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
084 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
085 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
086 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
087 Charlotte's Web - EB White
088 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
{089 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle}
090 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
091 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
092 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
093 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
094 Watership Down - Richard Adams (it was read to me)
095 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
096 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
{097 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas}
[098 Hamlet - William Shakespeare ]
099 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo (Both a musical/movie and a live performance, actually.)
The Big Read thinks the average adult has only read six of the top 100 books they've printed, listed below.
01. Bold the books you have read
02. Italicise those you intend to read (I'm semi-italicizing those that I feel that it might be nice to read at some point, but don't have anything as strong as an intention to read.)
03. Underline the books you've seen a film version of (I'm going to declare that {} means I've seen a Wishbone version.)
04. Place books that you have started but never finished in round brackets
05. Place books that you read in school in square brackets
{001 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen}
002 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
003 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte I've seen the musical live. Does that count?
004 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
[005 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee] (I read it again outside of class, though)
(006 The Bible) (I've read large portions of it, certainly, but not the entire thing; one tends to get a bit bogged down in the begats.)
007 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
008 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
009 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
[(010 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens)] - It was for extra credit. I decided that I didn't want/need extra credit enough to try to finish it in a week and write something on it.
011 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
012 Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
013 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
014 Complete Works of Shakespeare
015 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
016 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
017 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
[018 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger]
019 The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
020 Middlemarch - George Eliot
021 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
[022 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald]
023 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
024 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
025 The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
026 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
027 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
028 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
029 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
030 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
031 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
032 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
033 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
034 Emma - Jane Austen
035 Persuasion - Jane Austen
036 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - C.S. Lewis (Shouldn't this be in Chronicles of Narnia? -Tonje, Yes, I quite agree. -M)
037 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
038 Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
039 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
040 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
[041 Animal Farm - George Orwell]
042 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
043 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez (I have read Croninca de una muerte anunciada, though)
044 A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
045 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
046 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
047 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
048 The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
049 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
050 Atonement - Ian McEwan
051 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
052 Dune - Frank Herbert
053 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
054 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen (Listened to it on audiobook.)
055 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
056 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
{057 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens}
058 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
059 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon (I think so. I know I started it the first summer I worked at the camp; the summer I read Silent to the Bone. I don't remember finishing it, but I don't remember not finishing it, either.)
060 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
061 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
062 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
063 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
064 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
065 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
066 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
067 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
068 Bridget Jones' Diary - Helen Fielding
069 Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
070 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
071 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
072 Dracula - Bram Stoker
073 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
074 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson (Maybe. My dad was reading it, and I intended to read it. I certainly read excepts. I think I read the whole thing.
075 Ulysses - James Joyce
076 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
(077 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome) Um. I really ought to find this and finish it and give it back to Emily. She lent it to me ages ago.
078 Germinal - Emile Zola
079 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
080 Possession - AS Byatt
{081 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens} I saw a play last winter. It was a two-person cast, I think, and they used puppets really effectively. It was very cool.
082 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
083 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
084 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
085 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
086 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
087 Charlotte's Web - EB White
088 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
{089 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle}
090 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
091 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
092 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
093 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
094 Watership Down - Richard Adams (it was read to me)
095 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
096 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
{097 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas}
[098 Hamlet - William Shakespeare ]
099 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo (Both a musical/movie and a live performance, actually.)
