Book Meme

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This time, it's helen_c's fault.

According to "The Big Read", the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they've printed.  Well, let's see...

Here's what to do:

• Look at the list and bold those you have read.
• Italicize those you intend to read.
• Underline the books you LOVE.
• Strike out the ones you thought SUCKED.

1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2. The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien  (One of these days, I'll finish reading it.  But I've seen the movie adaptation countless times by now)
   
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 (I want to read this series with my son)
   
10. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11. Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12. Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Harding  (I loved the Roman Polanski's movie adaptation where Nastassja Kinski starred as Tess)
    
13. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14. Complete works of Shakespeare  (Yeah, I'll finish this too, one of these days)
    
15. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16. Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
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  (Another one I'm yet to finish.  In fact I don't think I've finished any of the Tolstoy novels)
    
25. The Hitch Hiker's Guide to Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh  (it's not on my read-list, but I'm interested in listening to the audio play where Jamie Bamber voiced Sebastian)
    
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 (I really love the movie version where Gwyneth Paltrow starred as Emma)
    
35. Persuasion - Jane Austen
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 - AA Milne
40. Animal Farm - George Orwell
41. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown (I had a jolly good time reading it.  Although I loved Angels and Demons better)
    
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 (I couldn't finish the sequels though)
    
52. Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
53. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
54. A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
55. The Shadows 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 - Alexander Dumas
65. On The Road - Jack Kerouac
66. Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
67. Bridget Jones' Diary - Helen Fielding
68. Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
69. Moby Dick - Herman Melville  (another hard one for me to finish)
    
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 Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath  (I thought about reading this, but was afraid being depressed by it)
    
76. Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
77. Germinal - Emile Zola
78. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
79. Possession - AS Byatt
80. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens  (hee, I've seen adaptations on TV, and read children's versions to my son, I've yet to read the real thing)
    
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 - EB White
87. The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom (hubby loves Albom's books.  Per his recommendation, it's on my read-list)
    
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 (I have the DVD only, not the book)
    
94. A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
95. A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
96. The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
97. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
98. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo (I love the book and its adaptations:  the movie - French version, and the Broadway Musical)

Hmmm, the list is short of two books, or did I mess things up?!

I don't have any book to strike out from this list.  If I hate a book I'm reading, I simply stop and toss it off my bookshelf.  Looks like I'm indeed not that well-read.  This also reminds me I have a lot of readings to do.  If only I can find time...