Monday, August 10, 2009

Well Read?

So, really, this is a screwy list. There is no #26.... and there are at least 2 repeats. But it's still interesting.

I saw this on One Literature Nut!

X= read
TBR= on my list, I just haven't read it yet
--= unsure if I want to read it
?= I'm not sure I've ever even heard of it!

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen (X)
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien (X)
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte (X)
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling (X)
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee (X)
6 The Bible (X)
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte (X)
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell (TBR)
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman (?)
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens (TBR)
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott (X)
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy (--)
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller (TBR)
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare (Oh, come on, don't I get points for having read some?)
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier(TBR)
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien (X)
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk (?)
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger (TBR)
19 The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger (TBR)
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot (TBR)
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell (--)
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald (X)
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens (--)
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy (--)
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams (TBR)
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky (--)
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck (--)
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll (X)
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame (TBR)
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy (--)
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens (TBR)
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis (X)
34 Emma-Jane Austen (X)
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen (X)
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis (X)
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hossein (TBR)
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres (--)
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden (TBR)
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne (TBR)
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell (TBR)
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown (TBR)
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez (?)
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving (?)
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins (TBR)
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery (--)
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy (X)
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood (--)
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding (TBR)
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan (?)
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel (X)
52 Dune - Frank Herbert (TBR)
53 Cold Comfort Farm (TBR)
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen (TBR)
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth (?)
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon (TBR-June Possibility)
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens (X)
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley (TBR)
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night - Mark Haddon (TBR)
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 (TBR)
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac (TBR)
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy (--)
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding (TBR)
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie (?)
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville (--)
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens (TBR)
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker (TBR)
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett (X)
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson (?)
75 Ulysses - James Joyce (--)
76 The Inferno – Dante (X)
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome (?)
78 Germinal - Emile Zola (?)
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray (TBR)
80 Possession - AS Byatt (?)
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens (X)
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 (X)
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom (--)
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (TBR)
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton (?)
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad (--)
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery (TBR)
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks (?)
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams (TBR)
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole (?)
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute (?)
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas (X)
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare (X)
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl (TBR)
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo (TBR)

X= 24
TBR= 34
--= 19
?= 21





Those totals don't include The Complete Works of Shakespeare. Shakespeare is a whole other post!

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