Sunday, June 14, 2009

100 books

Via Dave Mock on Facebook:
The BBC believes most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here. How do your reading habits stack up?"
I've augmented the commenting slightly with these instructions:
Instructions:
1) Look at the list and put an 'x' after those you have read.
2) Add a '+' to the ones you LOVE.
3) Star (*) those you plan on reading.

  1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen x
  2. The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien x+
  3. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
  4. Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
  5. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee x+
  6. The Bible x+
  7. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
  8. Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell x
  9. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman x
  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 x
  17. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks x
  18. Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger x
  19. The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger x
  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 x
  25. The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy -
    Douglas Adams x
  26. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh *
  27. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky x
  28. Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck x
  29. Alice in Wonderland- Lewis Carroll x
  30. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth
    Grahame x
  31. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy x
  32. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens x
  33. Chronicles of Narnia -CS Lewis x
  34. Emma - Jane Austen
  35. Persuasion- Jane Austen
  36. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe -CS Lewis x
  37. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini x
  38. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
  39. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden x (mostly)
  40. Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne x
  41. Animal Farm - George Orwell x
  42. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown x
  43. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez x
  44. A Prayerfor 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 x
  49. Lord of theFlies - William Golding x
  50. Atonement - Ian McEwan *
  51. Life of Pi - Yann Martel
  52. Dune - Frank Herbert x
  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 Huley x
  59. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon x*
  60. Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  61. Of Mice and Men -John Steinbeck x
  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 x
  72. Dracula - Bram Stoker
  73. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
  74. Notes FromA Small Island - Bill Bryson
  75. Ulysses - James Joyce
  76. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
  77. Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome x
  78. Germinal - Emile Zola x
  79. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
  80. Possession - AS Byatt x
  81. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens x
  82. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
  83. The Color Purple - Alice Walker
  84. The Remains of theDay - 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 x
  90. The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
  91. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad *

  92. The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Eupery x
  93. The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks *
  94. Watership Down - Richard Adams x
  95. A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
  96. A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
  97. The Three
    Musketeers - Aleandre Dumas
  98. Hamlet - William Shakespeare x
  99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory -Roald Dahl
  100. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

I make that 41 out of the 100.
I must look at the css for this blogger style it removes numbers from ordered html lists, which (IMHO) is just perverse!

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