I wear my sunglasses at night...
1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicise those you intend to read I forgot to do this and I'm not starting now, but I marked some of them.
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Reprint this list in your own LJ so we can try and track down these people who've read 6 and force books upon them
1) Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2) The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien - I struggled through the last book, though.
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 1&2
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 - Not all of them. I've yet to read Othello or Julius Caesar. Does seeing them count as reading them?
15) Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier - Oh, and the movie. Has anyone seen the movie? !!!
16) The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17) Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18) Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger Me and Holden C have one of those relationships. I almost want to underline this, but something stops me. I have, at times, very much disliked this book, and, at times, loved it to pieces. I think sometimes, people like it for the wrong reasons, and that frustrates me. Though I suppose, if people are reading it, no matter what the reason, then that's the ticket.
19) The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger I don't think I could recommend this book enough. It's touching and beautiful, it exhibits spectacular attention to detail. And it makes the unbelievable visceral and real enough to seem... well... true. It makes me feel the way the last five minutes of x-men 2 makes me feel.
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 - I bought it though! I've been meaning to read it, but its such a tome and I have so much reading for school.
25) The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams I'm in the middle of reading 'The Restaurant at the End of the Universe' again right now, to break up the space between reading King Lear again and closely analysing Hunting the Wild Pineapple. It is funny.
26) Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27) Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28) Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29) Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll Did I tell you about the 'Through the Looking Glass' opera?!!!
30) The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33) Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis I have a mind-crush on Lewis.
34) Emma - Jane Austen (naturally).
35) Persuasion - Jane Austen (was this her gothic mystery? something? It rings a bell)
36) The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - C.S. Lewis Why is this seperate? Hm.
37) The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini - I bought it and still haven't had time. I hate this year.
38) Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39) Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden but the movie was horrible.
40) Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41) Animal Farm - George Orwell
42) The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown Don't get me started. The only thing worse than the book is the film.
43) One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44) A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45) The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins The first of the Sensation novels!
46) Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery was there more than one of these?
47) Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48) The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
49) Lord of the Flies - William Golding I wasn't expecting to love this book.
50) Atonement - Ian McEwan I read it this year, actually, to have something to quote in an essay about the nature of Christian atonement.
51) Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52) Dune - Frank Herbert I read number one. Never read these books. See the movie though, its hilarious as shit.
53) Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54) Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen Unfortunately. The best thing in it is that description of a guy trying to buy an ornate cigarette case.
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 His 2006 novel 'a Spot of Bother,' was much better.
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 Sweet and very sad, but at times frustrating and somewhat idealistic.
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 such a comfort book for me. I read it endlessly while Howard was dying, because its silly and funny and its like a friend.
69) Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
70) Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71) Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72) Dracula - Bram Stoker One of the books I meant to read this year, and did!along with a few fantastic essays about Bram Stoker and... vampires. Its funny how much less human Vampires become. I mean... 30 days of night.
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 I've heard people say different things about this one, but I loved it. Maybe even more than Tuesdays...
89) Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90) The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton Fanny!
91) Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad Drainer.
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 I don't know if these should really be on the reading list. Is this not included in Shakespeare's complete works?
99) Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100) Les Miserables - Victor Hugo The most best thing that ever happened was at my brother's speech night, when the school captain referenced the play as "Les Miser-blah-blah." Oh, I laughed so much.
Puppy is someish sick, still. He's just kind of sleepy, still, not eating, still... he has a fluid filled subcutaneous something. I dunno.
Also, there's lots of drama that's about Jessie and Jay right now, which has become drama about everyone. Also, this ridiculous girl named Hannah has been. Draining. Also. I don't know.
I just don't want to deal with anything right now. People are ridiculous and counter-productive, and self-preservation is clearly a myth.
Anyway - love you all!!
xx
2) Italicise those you intend to read I forgot to do this and I'm not starting now, but I marked some of them.
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Reprint this list in your own LJ so we can try and track down these people who've read 6 and force books upon them
1) Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2) The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien - I struggled through the last book, though.
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 1&2
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 - Not all of them. I've yet to read Othello or Julius Caesar. Does seeing them count as reading them?
15) Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier - Oh, and the movie. Has anyone seen the movie? !!!
16) The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17) Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18) Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger Me and Holden C have one of those relationships. I almost want to underline this, but something stops me. I have, at times, very much disliked this book, and, at times, loved it to pieces. I think sometimes, people like it for the wrong reasons, and that frustrates me. Though I suppose, if people are reading it, no matter what the reason, then that's the ticket.
19) The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger I don't think I could recommend this book enough. It's touching and beautiful, it exhibits spectacular attention to detail. And it makes the unbelievable visceral and real enough to seem... well... true. It makes me feel the way the last five minutes of x-men 2 makes me feel.
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 - I bought it though! I've been meaning to read it, but its such a tome and I have so much reading for school.
25) The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams I'm in the middle of reading 'The Restaurant at the End of the Universe' again right now, to break up the space between reading King Lear again and closely analysing Hunting the Wild Pineapple. It is funny.
26) Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27) Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28) Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29) Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll Did I tell you about the 'Through the Looking Glass' opera?!!!
30) The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33) Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis I have a mind-crush on Lewis.
34) Emma - Jane Austen (naturally).
35) Persuasion - Jane Austen (was this her gothic mystery? something? It rings a bell)
36) The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - C.S. Lewis Why is this seperate? Hm.
37) The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini - I bought it and still haven't had time. I hate this year.
38) Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39) Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden but the movie was horrible.
40) Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41) Animal Farm - George Orwell
42) The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown Don't get me started. The only thing worse than the book is the film.
43) One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44) A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45) The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins The first of the Sensation novels!
46) Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery was there more than one of these?
47) Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48) The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
49) Lord of the Flies - William Golding I wasn't expecting to love this book.
50) Atonement - Ian McEwan I read it this year, actually, to have something to quote in an essay about the nature of Christian atonement.
51) Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52) Dune - Frank Herbert I read number one. Never read these books. See the movie though, its hilarious as shit.
53) Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54) Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen Unfortunately. The best thing in it is that description of a guy trying to buy an ornate cigarette case.
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 His 2006 novel 'a Spot of Bother,' was much better.
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 Sweet and very sad, but at times frustrating and somewhat idealistic.
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 such a comfort book for me. I read it endlessly while Howard was dying, because its silly and funny and its like a friend.
69) Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
70) Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71) Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72) Dracula - Bram Stoker One of the books I meant to read this year, and did!along with a few fantastic essays about Bram Stoker and... vampires. Its funny how much less human Vampires become. I mean... 30 days of night.
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 I've heard people say different things about this one, but I loved it. Maybe even more than Tuesdays...
89) Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90) The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton Fanny!
91) Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad Drainer.
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 I don't know if these should really be on the reading list. Is this not included in Shakespeare's complete works?
99) Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100) Les Miserables - Victor Hugo The most best thing that ever happened was at my brother's speech night, when the school captain referenced the play as "Les Miser-blah-blah." Oh, I laughed so much.
Puppy is someish sick, still. He's just kind of sleepy, still, not eating, still... he has a fluid filled subcutaneous something. I dunno.
Also, there's lots of drama that's about Jessie and Jay right now, which has become drama about everyone. Also, this ridiculous girl named Hannah has been. Draining. Also. I don't know.
I just don't want to deal with anything right now. People are ridiculous and counter-productive, and self-preservation is clearly a myth.
Anyway - love you all!!
xx