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Books, books, books... I really should start reading more D: Those Vampire Hunter D Novels I keep buying are still sitting there with a bookmark only in the second book. Maybe I'll bring one of them on the train with me tomorrow. List includes some commentary:
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte -- I read the script, was doing costumes for it.
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling -- Maybe if I borrow the books, but I wouldn't pay money for them.
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-- Did this one in the local theater. I played Aunt March.
12 Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare-- Did some in theater, read the rest. I still have the crown I wore when I played Oberon.
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien-- It was either this or 'The High King' by Lloyd Alexander. I chose the latter but wound up reading this one for the summer. :3 I liked it.
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger-- Forced to read it twice, piss-ass boring.
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
25 The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams-- Read book first, watch movie after.
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll-- Also read 'Through the Looking Glass'
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame-- Love this book, love it.
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis-- Got teased in grade school for these. Those uncultured swine.
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis-- Same as above
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden-- Mom has this, I'll find it eventually.
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell-- I hate this book, we had to read it four times in my high school government class because we apparently 'didn't get it'. If I ever have to read this book again I'm using it for cat litter.
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-- Three times, second semester of the same, frikken' government class. For those who are curious, this class was a requirement for Junior and Senior year, so I the read counts are from both years.
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert-- My friends rave about it, I'd like to see what the hubub is all about...
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-- Read this book after seeing the Wishbone episode 'A Tale of Two Sitters'. I love Wishbone.
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-- Freshmen english requirement. Boring as fuck.
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold-- Sounds interesting.
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas-- I have the first DVD of 'Gankutsuou'. haven't watching it yet, I think I should read the book first before the anime mindfucks me.
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-- just wow
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker Excellent-- I blame this book for my vampire obsession since grade school.
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett-- Book was better than the movie.
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath--Mom has this book too, I read the first few chapters and found it dull so I'm not bolding it
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-- Read this a few times. It's also not Christmas Eve until we've watched the Muppet version in this house.
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-- Awesome
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
Books I feel this list is missing:
101 Two Years Before the Mast - Richard Henry Dana, Jr.-- This was the highlight of 5th grade for me.
102 The Chronicles of Prydain - Lloyd Alexander-- All of them, loved them. Especially the last one, which I unfortunately read first as my 6th grade reading requirement choice. I was one in three students who chose it and the only one who actually read/finished it XD
103 The Wonderful Wizard of OZ - Frank L. Baum--... How can this not be on the list?
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte -- I read the script, was doing costumes for it.
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling -- Maybe if I borrow the books, but I wouldn't pay money for them.
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-- Did this one in the local theater. I played Aunt March.
12 Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare-- Did some in theater, read the rest. I still have the crown I wore when I played Oberon.
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien-- It was either this or 'The High King' by Lloyd Alexander. I chose the latter but wound up reading this one for the summer. :3 I liked it.
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger-- Forced to read it twice, piss-ass boring.
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
25 The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams-- Read book first, watch movie after.
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll-- Also read 'Through the Looking Glass'
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame-- Love this book, love it.
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis-- Got teased in grade school for these. Those uncultured swine.
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis-- Same as above
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden-- Mom has this, I'll find it eventually.
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell-- I hate this book, we had to read it four times in my high school government class because we apparently 'didn't get it'. If I ever have to read this book again I'm using it for cat litter.
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-- Three times, second semester of the same, frikken' government class. For those who are curious, this class was a requirement for Junior and Senior year, so I the read counts are from both years.
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert-- My friends rave about it, I'd like to see what the hubub is all about...
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-- Read this book after seeing the Wishbone episode 'A Tale of Two Sitters'. I love Wishbone.
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-- Freshmen english requirement. Boring as fuck.
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold-- Sounds interesting.
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas-- I have the first DVD of 'Gankutsuou'. haven't watching it yet, I think I should read the book first before the anime mindfucks me.
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-- just wow
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker Excellent-- I blame this book for my vampire obsession since grade school.
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett-- Book was better than the movie.
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath--Mom has this book too, I read the first few chapters and found it dull so I'm not bolding it
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-- Read this a few times. It's also not Christmas Eve until we've watched the Muppet version in this house.
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-- Awesome
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
Books I feel this list is missing:
101 Two Years Before the Mast - Richard Henry Dana, Jr.-- This was the highlight of 5th grade for me.
102 The Chronicles of Prydain - Lloyd Alexander-- All of them, loved them. Especially the last one, which I unfortunately read first as my 6th grade reading requirement choice. I was one in three students who chose it and the only one who actually read/finished it XD
103 The Wonderful Wizard of OZ - Frank L. Baum--... How can this not be on the list?