Interesting, if complicated, meme found at Seeking Xanadu.
The BBC say that most people will have read only six of these. But we're not most people, are we?
Instructions:
1) Bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you've read only a part of.
3) Add a '#' to those you were supposed to have read in school, but didn't.
4) Underline the ones you LOVE.
5) Set small those you plan on reading.
6) Set large those you did not read, but saw the movie!
7) Strikethrough those you really didn't like.
8) Tally your total at the bottom.
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 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
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The 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 Mitchell22 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 Brown43 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 Fielding69 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 Miserables - Victor Hugo
So 47 read completely.
12 partly read
1 only watched in cinematic form
12 I loved
2 not so much
I'm adding a category. I own at least 69 of these books, which gives some indication of the number of books in the 'to be read' category.
One other thing. I thought this list was slightly skewed towards women's reading preferences.
11 comments:
A quick survey and I too have read a lot of the books on this list. Among my favorites are "Vanity Fair" and anything by Jane Austen.
I have never figured out how to underline or score through text, but that is an interesting list.
Evilganome - I'm a bit affronted at myself for not having read any Thackery or more than one Austen.
Ronni - if you're using Word, although it applies to most word processing apps, you go into Format then pick Font for underlining and strikethrough options.
OK. thanks, Nelly!
51 read
10 partly read
2 plan to read
0 supposed to have read but didn't
5 loved
2 saw the movie instead
5 I didn't like, plus
1 I absolutely hated
I have owned quite a few of them, but don't know, any more, due to the boxed-up, mixed-up nature of my library!
Ronni - I need to know which one you hated.
To Kll a Mockingbird is my all time favourite book. The characters - Scout, Gem, Atticus - all beautifully depicted. Such a simple but brilliant piece of writing. Also the dark materials - waow! A few of my friends had read the trilogy and recommended it to me. I thought fantasy was a weak genre to direct my energies towards but I'm SO glad I did - Phil Pullman is quite simply a genius!
I'm taking a few books with me tomorrow on my little trip to Berlin - one i a book about Australis as I'm dreaming of runing away to a new life there and the other is called 'The Accidental' by Ali Smith - I'll keep you posted!
xx
I can't believe that I've actually read 22 of these books fully. I've started a lot of them but through them in the fire, partly out of coldness and partly out of boredom.
i've read 79.5 of them, amazed i am.
always have a book with me or near, there is so much to know, experience, enjoy. now getting a fix belonging to www.bookcrossing.com
Well-impressed with you all especially Brighid. But book-burning Tuesday Kid! I'm shocked!
A book-burner.....arrggh!
God,if she had read enough of them all the way through, who knows she may have learnt how to spell "threw".
Ned
Sadly Tuesday Kid is afflicted with a crack addiction so we don't like to pick on him too much.
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