Another Great Books meme

[gridlore]

The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books here. How do your reading habits stack up? Bold the ones you've read! Italicize the ones you've partially read!


01 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen (I've read the zombie version, for what that's worth)
02 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
03 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
04 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
05 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
06 The Bible
07 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
08 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
09 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman (Read the first book and really disliked it.)
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller (Pretty much required reading for the military.)
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 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 Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
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 (Read the first couple of books and lost interest.)
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - CS Lewis (OK, as opposed to The Chronicles of Narnia?)
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 Nighttime - 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 (I tried, as Rob Halford as my witness, I tried...)
76 The Inferno – Dante (OK, and the other two parts of Comedia are where?)
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

Comments

[pauldrye.livejournal.com]

24 for me, but then I have a degree in English....

[valkyrwench.livejournal.com]

47

[glinda-w.livejournal.com]

70 here. But... The Complete Works of Shakespeare and Hamlet? Am confused; having read the first, of *course* you get to claim the latter.

(Zero degrees in anything, but a voracious reader for never mind how many years...)

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[capplor.livejournal.com]

Only counting the ones I read through, and erring on the low side if I can't remember whether I read the book or saw the movie. Another 6 were partly read.

[ciarhwyfar.livejournal.com]

It looks like 27 and 8 that I have started and 2 that have been read around me but I can't say that I really hear/read in total.

[bunnybutt.livejournal.com]

70. Several of the ones I haven't read are because I read other things by the author and didn't care for them (Yann Martel, whoever wrote the Kite Runner, Flaubert, Joyce...). I'm not sure this score means much except I've read a lot of books. Is it supposed to be a modern cannon or something?

[murphymom.livejournal.com]

Forty completely, 8 partially...

[lizzibabe.livejournal.com]

about 33. I read a lot. a few of them were required school reading. the rest I came to it later. Oddly enough, Bronte and Austen were not required reading for me in school. i came to them as an adult, and enjoyed them more for it.

[shadowcat48li.livejournal.com]

29 Here

[kshandra]

I am having a very hard time believing that you've never read any Sherlock Holmes. There were several other titles on there that made me go "You haven't...?" but none so much as that.

100 books

[elderwitty]

26 and 3 partials.

[melchar.livejournal.com]

I've read these ones =

02 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien

04 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
or rather, listened to them all in audio format

06 The Bible
08 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell

09 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman (Read the first book and really disliked it.)
agreeing on this one; book 1 put me off the others

11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
- along with about 5 of the follow-ons

13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
25 The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
36 The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
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
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck

65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
the FULL 1300 page version!

72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
76 The Inferno – Dante
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens

89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
every single Holmes story Doyle wrote - and pastiches by others

91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole

97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
the complete 710 page Penguin edition [which I own]

98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
read it regularly and still love it

So that makes 35 of them read through [at least once]. I've also had to do book reports or been tested on some of the other books [that I skimmed - the other Dickens or Steinbecks or Austens - or all of those 'classics' forced upon students] - but I can't honestly say that I -read- them. ^_^

[whiteknucklejoe.livejournal.com]

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