meme taken from
blackbird_song
Feb. 20th, 2009 01:46 pmX marks the books you've read, and put the number of times you've read them next to it
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien -X (at least five times)
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte -
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling - X (around 5 times)
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee -
6 The Bible -
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte -
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell -X (twice)
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman -
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens- X (once)
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 (at least 5 times)
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
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 - X (at least twice)
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams - X (probably twice, and I still find it sad that someone at work thought it was just a movie. *shakes head*)
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh -
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky -
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck - X
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll - X (lost count of how many times)
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 - X (once, maybe twice)
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown - X (once)
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 -
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
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 Zifon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens -
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley - X (three)
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 - X (once)
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 - X (twice)
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville - X (once)
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens -
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker - X (lost count)
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett - X (once)
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce -
76 The Inferno - Dante - X (twice)
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome -
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray -
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens - X (several)
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 (several)
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 - X (twice)
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factoy - Roald Dahl -X (lost count, I've loved this book since I was a kid....still have the same copy)
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo -
See, this tells me what I already knew. My education in some of the "classic" novels is sorely lacking. I keep meaning to rectify this, but then I get distracted. Now, ask me how many Stephen King novels I've read! ;-)
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien -X (at least five times)
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte -
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling - X (around 5 times)
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee -
6 The Bible -
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte -
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell -X (twice)
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman -
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens- X (once)
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 (at least 5 times)
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
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 - X (at least twice)
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams - X (probably twice, and I still find it sad that someone at work thought it was just a movie. *shakes head*)
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh -
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky -
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck - X
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll - X (lost count of how many times)
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 - X (once, maybe twice)
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown - X (once)
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 -
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
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 Zifon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens -
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley - X (three)
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 - X (once)
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 - X (twice)
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville - X (once)
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens -
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker - X (lost count)
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett - X (once)
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce -
76 The Inferno - Dante - X (twice)
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome -
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray -
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens - X (several)
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 (several)
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 - X (twice)
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factoy - Roald Dahl -X (lost count, I've loved this book since I was a kid....still have the same copy)
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo -
See, this tells me what I already knew. My education in some of the "classic" novels is sorely lacking. I keep meaning to rectify this, but then I get distracted. Now, ask me how many Stephen King novels I've read! ;-)