Wednesday, February 18, 2009

What does this say about me?

One of my friends posted this on her blog (apparently the BBC has speculated that most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books in this list) and I thought it was interesting because as I was scanning down the list I noticed that I had read more than six of these books by the time I was 13. Additional proof that I attended some seriously fantastic schools. I've also read some crazy things like Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales in Middle English. What does your list look like and what does that say about you? 

Key:
x - I've read it
+ - I love it
* - I plan on reading 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 x

9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman *

10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens x

11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott x

12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy

13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller

14 Complete Works of Shakespeare x

15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier x

16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien x

17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks

18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger x

19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger

20 Middlemarch - George Eliot

21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell x

22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald x

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 *

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 *

32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens

33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewisx +

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 Hosseini

38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Berniere

39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden 

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 *

44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving

45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins

46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery x

47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy

48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood 

49 Lord of the Flies - 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 x

55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth

56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon

57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens x

58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley x+

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 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 x+

71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens 

72 Dracula - Bram Stoker x+

73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett x

74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson

75 Ulysses - James Joyce x+

76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath x

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

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 x

90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton

91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad

92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery x

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 x

98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare x

99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl x

100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo x

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