My friend posted this on her blog a few weeks ago, and being the good friend that I am, I hurried right over to my blog I kept forgetting to blog about it I waited for just the right time to post it on my blog :)
Have you read more than 6 of these books? The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books listed here.
I have bolded (and enlargened cause bold isn't readible...yes, all of those words exist. I said so) the books I've read in their entirety and italicized the ones I want to read and plan on reading and underlined the ones I've started (and shranken them all to show a huge difference...yes, that is a word too), a lot of the others I've never heard of sadly...but they're on my list now.
I have bolded (and enlargened cause bold isn't readible...yes, all of those words exist. I said so) the books I've read in their entirety and italicized the ones I want to read and plan on reading and underlined the ones I've started (and shranken them all to show a huge difference...yes, that is a word too), a lot of the others I've never heard of sadly...but they're on my list now.
- Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
- The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
- Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
- Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
- To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
- The Bible (Old Testament, New Testament)
- Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
- Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
- His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
- Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
- Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
- Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
- Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
- Complete Works of Shakespeare
- Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
- The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
- Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
- Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
- The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
- Middlemarch - George Eliot
- Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
- The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
- Bleak House - Charles Dickens
- War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
- The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
- Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
- Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
- Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
- The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
- Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
- David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
- Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
- Emma -Jane Austen
- Persuasion - Jane Austen
- The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe - CS Lewis
- The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
- Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
- Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
- Winnie the Pooh - A.A. Milne
- Animal Farm - George Orwell
- The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
- One Hundred Years of Solitude- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
- The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
- Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
- Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
- The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
- Lord of the Flies - William Golding
- Atonement - Ian McEwan
- Life of Pi - Yann Martel
- Dune - Frank Herbert
- Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
- Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
- A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
- The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
- A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
- Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
- Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
- Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
- The Secret History - Donna Tartt
- The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
- Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
- On The Road - Jack Kerouac
- Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
- Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
- Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
- Moby Dick - Herman Melville
- Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
- Dracula - Bram Stoker
- The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
- Ulysses - James Joyce
- The Inferno - Dante
- Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
- Germinal - Emile Zola
- Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
- Possession - AS Byatt
- A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
- Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
- The Color Purple - Alice Walker
- The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
- Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
- A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
- Charlotte’s Web - E.B. White
- The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
- Adventures of Sherlock Holmes- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
- Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
- The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
- The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
- Watership Down - Richard Adams
- A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
- A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
- The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
- Hamlet - William Shakespeare
- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
- Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
I've only read 9, which is a lot less than my friend has, but...it's a start right? I have read a lot of other books that are NOT on this list...does that count??
We're going to a family party tonight, so I have to go get ready
One of my goals is to read 10 more books on that list above
Another is to fix all of the problems wrong with my body so that I can be as healthy as possible and go to the gym as much as possible
That just requires me having healing powers...so I'll have to work on that
I hope you all have a Happy New Years Eve and that you have fun and enjoy the time spent with your family
Night!!
15 comments:
Wish I could say that I have. I never have time to read and when i have tme I dot have the patience to sit down and read a novel.
you have done well on the book reading. sadly, some of those I read in school, many, many, many years ago.
Little Women. Cried my eyes out in that book.
HAPPY NEW YEAR my dear friend. I wish you and yours the very best in 2011. Good luck with your goals and challenges. Other then my weigh loss goals I don't think I'll do any other big goals other then to just make the very best out of 2011. Enjoy every single minute the Lord give us. To feel blessed every single day and thank the Lord for it all.
Take care my dear friend. God Bless you and yours.
I'm so glad you posted this!! Just barely I said, "i'm in a reading mood but I don't know what book sounds good to read." now I have a whole list to choose from... and to prove the BBC wrong.
oh and happy new year!
cheers.
Okay, I realize how long it's been since I've read. I think I've read only Little women from that list. You have me inspired. :) Happy new year!
I have read quite a few books on that list, but I am a book nerd. I eat books up like chocolate. It's a lofty goal to have. Good luck on that. And good luck on creating a healthy you. I'm working on that one, too.
Oooohhhhhh. Now I just want to sit around and read....
That's an interesting list. I've only read 19 of them and have 2 on the shelf that I plan to read. Will pick up some more of them and keep crossing them off. I've always wanted to read The Count of Monte Cristo. Thanks for sharing the list and happy reading!!!
I read 14 of them. Although I was an English major in college, and a lot of them were required reading for my classes, and I probably wouldn't have picked them up on my own. For example, Bleak House. Aw. Ful. Haha!
This was interesting though, thanks for posting! And Happy New Year!!
I've read 22 of them. Not too bad right? Definitely beats 6. You should add The Life of Pi to your list...then tell me if you liked it or not.
Yes, I have read that, and unfortunately, it only served to make me feel illiterate!
wow. took you long enough! :)
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
I think I read 10 books of the list, or less....
Happy New Year !
x
flore
Wow! Thanks for the list! Some of those I might read again. Loved Lord of The Flies.
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