02 December 2010

Reading from the Hundred

The first book blog of the night - Bookalicio.us - had me neglecting my Google Reader to participate in the fun. Gotta love Pam! :)

“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, in their The Big Read list. Instructions: Bold those books you’ve read in their entirety, italicize the ones you started but didn’t finish or read an excerpt.” In italics are ones I didn’t finish or hope to read soon.

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
5. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
6. The Bible - I've read about half....
7. Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
8. Nighteen Eighty Four – George Orwell
9. His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman
10. Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
11. Little Women – Louisa M Alcott
12. Tess of the D’Ubervilles – Thomas Hardy
13. Catch 22 – Joseph Heller
14. Complete Works of Shakespeare - I've read all the plays, half the poems...
15. Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier
16. The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien
17. Birdsong – Sebastian Faulk
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
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
29. Alice 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 Correlli’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
44. A Prayer for Owen Meany – John Irving
45. The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins
46. Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery - not all of them...

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 - sort of...this was a DNF for me
51. Life of Pi – Yann Martel
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 – 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 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
74. Noted from a Small Island – Bill Bryson
75. Ulysses – James Joyce - Reading it this winter for a readalong...join us...
76. The Inferno – Dante
77. Swallows and Amazons – Arthur Ransome
78. Germinal – Emilie Zola
79. Vanity Fair – William Makepiece
80. Possession – AS Byatt
81. A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
82. Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell - well about half of it anyway

83. The Color Purple – Alice Walker
84. The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro - yet another where I only read about half

85. Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert (Currently Reading)
86. A Fine Balance – Robinston 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 - Read it and did. not. like. it.
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 I've read 45 off the list. 45% is definitely failing, and yet I'm perfectly happy with this number. :)

16 comments:

  1. Only 15 for me, but I have about 20 more on my shelves or on my Kindle. I need to get crackin!

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  2. I've read 45 of these too!! :D

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  3. Run go read To Kill a Mockingbird! It is absolutely wonderful--funny, quick to read, powerful and thought-provoking. And I keep recommending Ransome's Swallows and Amazons to everybody when I see this list. It is a perfectly charming vacation book, especially but not necessarily if you can share it with a young person.

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  4. Wow, 45 is pretty awesome! I've read close to that but not quite.

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  5. I've read 28 and, oddly enough, am reading two others at present! I'm quite impressed by your 45...especially since that includes things like the complete works of Shakespeare!

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  6. Look at you! Does it count if you OWN them LOL.

    One book I've seen mentioned a lot of lately for some reason is Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier. You just reminded me to add it to my ever growing wishlist!

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  7. I've read twenty-eight of them. Forty-five is impressive though!

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  8. I just posted on this list too! I'm at 71, but there's still so many good ones to read. Great job so far!

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  9. You haven't read TKAM??? Horrors!!!

    I'll be doing my own list soon...I love things like this.

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  10. I saw this on another blog so I know my count: 42. I consider that very respectable ... so you should too since you read more than me.

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  11. Yikes, I fail with only 25%. But ummm...it's a British list, yes? So perhaps I would pass the AMERICAN list, yes?

    Yes...?

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  12. Me 36 but half of that whilst I was in school. Thats the convent education part of me!

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  13. Got 37. This is kind of an odd list. Why both The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe AND the Chronicles of Narnia? And Hamlet AND the Complete Works of Shakespeare? And then list nearly all of Jane Austen but not just say "Complete Works of Jane Austen"? I'm so confused. But I loved perusing the list anyway :)

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  14. Why both The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe AND the Chronicles of Narnia? And Hamlet AND the Complete Works of Shakespeare?

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  15. 've read 28 and, oddly enough, am reading two others at present! I'm quite impressed by your 45...especially since that includes things like the complete works of Shakespeare!

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  16. I've read 37 of them, and don't fell like I failed at all!

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