If you're the "average" person, you've only read SIX, according to the National Endowment for the Arts.So, here's what you do: Copy onto your blog. Bold the books you have read. Italicize the books you intend to read.
Im actually amazed that Ive read over 30 of these books. Not holding a candle to Amy's almost 50, but hey, Im a math girl to her English girl. Im amazed at how many of these books I read in high school and once again revel at the blessing of a high quality education...truly one of the most loving sacrifices my parents gave to my sister and myself.
When e and I first married, I had a habit of reading a classic novel during the summer (cause I was off school) not necessarily something I would choose to read, but something that would be GOOD for me to read. It was a great habit because it exposed me to stuff I wouldnt have ordinarily picked up to read. I havent done that the last three summers and need to get back on the bandwagon!!
Novels im suprised arent on the list? Ayn Rand's Anthem, more Shakespeare, and more lit from other cultures.
Hats off to Amy for the fun project! Now, I best get reading.
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...triple loved this series. Beyone fabulous
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee...hands down my all time favorite fiction novel
6 The Bible...what can you say? A lost people, A hero, A happy ending. Its amazing!
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte...high school english. Heathcliff I love thee NOT!!
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens More high schoolliterature!
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott How many times have read this book??
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy MORE high school reading
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 Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald ...beautiful and haunting
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 You got to give it to Steinbeck for his vivid imagery!!
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll Crazy crazy mixed up book!
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy Read during pregnancy. Loved it but associate it with vomit
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis Childhood in bed under the covers reading
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini Definately on my top five. Amazing amazing amazing
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden Again...in the top five. Incredible writing!
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown Good but tedious. Too much intrigue for me
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meany - 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 Freshman lit. I love Piggy!
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel I cried when Richard Parker leaves the boat. Sobbed!!!
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 I love a peek into the future.
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 "I will love him and pet him and..."
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 The origional Chick Lit!!!
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens Tedium but hey, I had to pass the test!!!
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett Sweet!!!
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 Zola7
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 I wanted to BE Fern!!
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection
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... "Out out damn spot!!!"
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl This book scared me...still does
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
5 comments:
Ok, just 14, but I did read the Dune trilogy, the Lord of the Rings trilogy, and the four books in the Hitch Hiker's Guide trilogy (yes, the 4 books in the trilogy), so I think I should get to add 7 more books to my total. What about HG Wells and Jules Verne and Stanley Clark (2001, etc.)? Bah, humbug to the NEA for not including any of those authors.
Taylor
I've read 21 of these... many of them have been read in the last 6 years.I have an English teacher in my book club. lol I think Matthew will be the one who shares my love of reading, a refreshing change after the math/science lovers I've raised. It's hard to have dinner conversation about Calulus or Geometry, and the Biology stuff bothers the others--haha
This summer we've read the kids classic versions Tom Sawyer, Phantom of the Opera, Around the World in 80 Days, and started Oliver Twist last night. He has better insight into some of these books than I do!!
i've read 6.. i'm pretty sure i have read charlie and the chocolate factory..if not it's 5.
haha
Love that yours HAD to have commentary too! What's up with all my friends who haven't read Pride and Prejudice or LOTR? Next assignment, people!
Why wasn't Algorithms and Logic on the list? I could have at least had one that I have read. Anne of Green Gables, I have seen the movie so many times, I believe I could quote the verses/lines and it would qualify for reading the book - GREAT story, and a good, rainy, hurricane day movie. Can't say I've ever ready Ulysses - know him, never read it, might be intriguing. Color Purple, excellent! Never read Lovely Bones, but read Lucky by Alice Sebold - my sister-in-law was the district attorney in the case in that book-tough book to read.
I am just plain old NOT a good reader. Gotta give you credit for being so good at it Patti.
Bren
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