I found this while catching up on the excellent Freelance Writing Tips and given my love of lists and books, how could I resist?
I will tag Searching For Serenity, Darcs Falcon, Gary Andrews and Books Worth Reading.
You are supposed to:
Look at the list and:
1) Bold those you have read.
2) Italicise those you intend to read.
3) [Bracket] the books you LOVE.
4) Reprint this list on your own blog.
1 Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen (I can’t believe I haven’t read this yet seeing as it’s been sat on my shelf for years)
2 The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien (well, I’ve struggled through most of it)
3 Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series – JK Rowling (I’ve read the first three and I suppose I should read the rest!)
5 To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
6 [The Bible] (some of it, anyway)
7 Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell
9 [His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman] (I looooooooooove this)
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 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
26 Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
29 Alice’s Adventures 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 Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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 This one was missing so I’m putting in my own favourite book [High Fidelity - Nick Hornby]
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 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
76 The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons – Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal – Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession – A. S. 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, how well read am I? Not very, according to this! A score of 38 leaves some room for improvement. I love reading but I’ve never got very far with “The Classics”. Maybe I should give them a go. I’ve just started two weeks’s holiday from work and I’m intending to spend a lot of it with a book in my hand
[...] (singular. aka me) , Life Tags: books, classical literature, memes I’ve been tagged by Pink Sunshine on my reading habits. In fact, I think this is the first meme I’ve ever been tagged in on [...]
I really wouldn’t worry – apaprently most people fib about which (and how many!) books they have read. I would do better with a list of issues of Heat and OK, I think.
Thanks for link and connected use of ‘excellent’
really appreciated.
Ha ha, I have a subscription to Heat magazine! I’ve given up the pretence that it’s just for the TV guide…
I did the test (well, it’s kind of a test) and I think it’s time for a trip to Amazon… Oh dear…
LOL I did this about a month ago! A few people – on the blog I got it from – were complaining that it wasn’t a list of classic titles but a list of popular titles, so I found some links to classics as well.
Here’s the post I did if you’d like to check it out.
http://darcsfalcon.wordpress.com/2008/06/27/what-have-you-read-lately/
There’s also a site at http://www.gutenberg.org where you can find tons of books to read online for free.
Free! Woo!
Hmmm, I would have said it was a good mix of classics and popular titles – they just aren’t the ones I’ve read! Thanks for the links – I’ve just read The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies by Beatrix Potter on Project Gutenberg
!
[...] July 30, 2008 at 7:33 am | In Books, Memes | A meme, a meme, I’ve been tagged for a meme by Pink Sunshine. As per usual, I won’t tag anyone but if you’re reading this and feel inspired to take [...]
Hey –
Where is 44?
Well spotted! I hadn’t noticed that at all. Ooops!