Meme #2

[scottishlass]

Snurched from little_witch27

1. Bold those titles of books that you have definitely read.
2. According to the BBC the average person only has read 6 out of these 100 books.



01 | Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen

02 | The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien

03 | Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë

04 | Harry Potter series - JK Rowling

05 | To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee

06 | The Bible

07 | Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë

08 | Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell

09 | 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 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

33 | 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 Meaney - 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 Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath

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 Misérables - Victor Hugo

I have to admit though that almost all Victorian classics like Dickens, Hardy and Eliot have been read during two courses of Victorian Literature during my university years. The rest is/was interest.


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Comments

[shenai.livejournal.com]

I only make it to 9 books =.=° and half of those were for school.
I'm just not one for classic literature.

But wow, you've read a lot of those. Interestingly some of what I read are some of the few you haven't. I know many more of those stories but I've never read the actual books.

[scottishlass.livejournal.com]

The scary bit is - apart from a few exceptions - I still own all the books I have ever read. :D

[shenai.livejournal.com]

Why is that scary? So do I :D
I actually used to read a looot, just not this type of book^^ These days I simply have no time *sigh*

[scottishlass.livejournal.com]

Yeah I read a lot as well, but nowadays I mostly re-read with only a few exceptions of my favourite authors. :s

[nicocoer.livejournal.com]

. . . I've read 48? and started on another um. 35? *eyes all the half read books about her room*

[krissasaur]

i have only 12

[kawinslow.livejournal.com]

I bow down to your Dickens reading prowess. I couldn't get into "Great Expectations" when I had to read it in school and ever since then I automatically start falling asleep the second I even see one of his books.

And I think they have every Jane Austen book on this list except the one I've read, "Northanger Abbey."

[scottishlass.livejournal.com]

Oh I have to admit, I really had to force myself to read Dickens. But between Hardy and Dickens, Dickens is the less evil. What I can't understand is that here in Germany, Dickens books are considered fit for children. All just because of A Christmas Carol and Oliver Twist.
During Victorian Lit 101 I hated Thomas Hardy and his blooming Tess of blooming D'Ubervilles the most :)

[kawinslow.livejournal.com]

Obviously people who saw the movies and didn't read the books made that decision. ("But it has Muppets! Kids will love it!")

Haven't read that one either. I'm guessing your advice is to skip it, huh?

[scottishlass.livejournal.com]

Aww I love the Emily Strange icon :)

Haven't read that one either. I'm guessing your advice is to skip it, huh?
Well, if you are not into the sociological background of Victorian England, then yes, skip them. If you want Victorian literature WITH social issues dissected then read George Elliot or Gaskell. Their books are well written and entertaining ... women :)