Friday, September 26, 2008

HAVE YOU READ A GOOD BOOK LATELY??

My friend Melissa posted this list of books from The Big Read. 
How many have you read?  If you are bored this list should keep you busy unless you were an overachiever in high school and you've already made your way through them.  I have put the titles I have read in purple but I have to say that did read a lot of them in high school and I only have vague recollections of them now but a good deal of them I read in college.  I should probably reread most of them what with all my free time with three kids running around (one of which is Andrew!!).  Feel free to copy the list for your blog so you can take an inventory of ones you've finished and maybe you can inspire someone to read a book!

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
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 
Nineteen 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'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 
Complete Works of Shakespeare (all but 7)
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
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7 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
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 Corelli'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 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
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 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-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
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
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 
The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
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 Zola
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 
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 
99 
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 
Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

3 comments:

Rebecca McAllister said...

Does it count if we saw the movie?

I'm affraid that more than finding the time to read them, my problem would be that I have not been able to do ANYTHING without interuption for the past six years and my brain doesn't remember how to focus long enough to get through anything more literary than Stephanie Meyer's Twilight series these days. A very, very, sad state of affairs...

jenny said...

I am having trouble reading your blog. It is all dark... is it just me?

Liza said...

Wow! Almost half the list Vicki, I'm impressed.