So I saw this meme type thing over at Nine Acres, and thought I would do it too. It goes along nicely with what I have been blogging about recently!
Here is what you do:
1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize the books you LOVE.
3)Strike out the books you have no intention of ever reading, or were forced to read at school and hated.
I didn't strike out any, but there are a few on here I have no intention of reading. I also thought if I used bold and italics together that it was too hard to tell which ones I LOVED. So if I Italicized it I obviously read it and LOVED it. Hey what if I make it RED? Makes it stand out easier! And I just realized due to my background the bold is hard to make out so bold will be in yellow.
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 ( I have read parts of it, but not the whole thing!)
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 William Shakespeare
15 Rebecca Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong Sebastian Faulks
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 Bleak House Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy Douglas Adams (saw the movie)
26 Brideshead Revisited Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck(on my must read list)
29 Alice in Wonderland Lewis Carroll(saw the movie and it's on my list of need to read)
30 The Wind in the Willows Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy (started it, but didn't finish,plan to)
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 Bernières
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(saw the movie)
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(love the movie)
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(on my must read list)
67 Jude the Obscure Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones's Diary Helen Fielding (saw the movie)
69 Midnight's Children Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist Charles Dickens
72 Dracula Bram Stoker(saw the movie)
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(saw the movie)
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(on my must read list)
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(love the movie and I LOVE James and the Giant Peach, the book not the movie)
100 Les Misérables Victor Hugo
Now I feel bad for not having read more. Guess most on this list are just not in my kinda genre of fave books! Or should I say not my cup of tea?! iPost said it was a BBC list. No wonder the Little House on the Prairie series was not on there, or any Vonnegut. Maybe someday I'll make a list of MY favorite books that I have read!
Here is what you do:
1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize the books you LOVE.
3)
I didn't strike out any, but there are a few on here I have no intention of reading. I also thought if I used bold and italics together that it was too hard to tell which ones I LOVED. So if I Italicized it I obviously read it and LOVED it. Hey what if I make it RED? Makes it stand out easier! And I just realized due to my background the bold is hard to make out so bold will be in yellow.
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 ( I have read parts of it, but not the whole thing!)
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 William Shakespeare
15 Rebecca Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong Sebastian Faulks
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 Bleak House Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy Douglas Adams (saw the movie)
26 Brideshead Revisited Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck(on my must read list)
29 Alice in Wonderland Lewis Carroll(saw the movie and it's on my list of need to read)
30 The Wind in the Willows Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy (started it, but didn't finish,plan to)
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 Bernières
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(saw the movie)
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(love the movie)
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(on my must read list)
67 Jude the Obscure Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones's Diary Helen Fielding (saw the movie)
69 Midnight's Children Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist Charles Dickens
72 Dracula Bram Stoker(saw the movie)
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(saw the movie)
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(on my must read list)
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(love the movie and I LOVE James and the Giant Peach, the book not the movie)
100 Les Misérables Victor Hugo
Now I feel bad for not having read more. Guess most on this list are just not in my kinda genre of fave books! Or should I say not my cup of tea?! iPost said it was a BBC list. No wonder the Little House on the Prairie series was not on there, or any Vonnegut. Maybe someday I'll make a list of MY favorite books that I have read!
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No don't read Watership Down! Don't go it! You'll never look and rabbits the same way again! Plus you'll be bored stupid! Owen Meany on the other hand is FANTASTIC!
there are a LOT of these that i haven't read.
guess i'm just illiterate ;-)
I'm playing along. I recognize 2 or ten of em.
9 - I've only read 9 and that's counting the Bible which I figure I have never completely read. I started to once and wow, but I haven't read it all, consecutively anyway.
I love Winnie the Pooh ;)
I haven't read at least half of the books listed.
Yes for Owen Meany. I just got Grapes of Wrath in the mail today--finally nearing the top of my must reads. I don't think I can do the whole meme, but I think I will use a bit of it.
I've read 40 - do you think I need a new hobby :)
Highly recommend His Dark Materials (better than Harry P) and Cloud Atlas and Cold Comfort Farm.
I loved the original Willy Wonka movie, but I wasn't that crazy aout the book. (That is so unusual. As in most cases the book is always better)
Jane Austen books are very hard to read.
My highlighted list would be similar to yours.