Book List Meme Thing
One of those 'mark which books you've read' things, geared toward classic literature (with some, er, noteable exceptions to this rule). Things I've read have an X. Things I'm going to quibble over have, well, quibbling. I don't tag people, I find it demeaning for all concerned, so reproduce, or don't, as you please.
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen - I've not read it, but I sat through about the first three weeks of the BBC adaptation, which I believe any jury would agree counts as having read it.
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien - X
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling - Yes, yes, I know, I'm the last person on Earth who hasn't, I will, I swear. (But until then you all have to keep your spoilers under lock and key! Ha ha ha ha ha.)
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee - Not read it, but I was in the play in high school.
6 The Bible - X
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell - Does living in the U.S. for the past 8 years count? No? Never mind, then.
9 His Dark Materials - Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens - Some other Dickens, but not this.
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott - I feel like I've read this, but I can't recall when, so I probably haven't.
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare - Selected works, yes, but not everything the man wrote.
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien - X
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger - In case you were wondering if I were an assassin in training, the answer is no.
19 The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger - I've vaguely wanted to read this one, but never really stumbled across it when I was a position to get hold of it.
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell - Saw all seventeen years of the movie (see also Prejudice, Pride and, for precedent)
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens - I could have sworn that Bleak House was written by someone else. Maybe I'm thinking of something else entirely. I've lived in a house that was sort of bleakish, if that counts.
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy - Read some other Tolstoy, but not this.
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams - X
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Started once, got distracted by something shiny, never picked it up.
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll - X
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame - X (I think so, anyway. When I was a kid.)
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy - Was Master and Man Tolstoy or Dostoyevsky? I know I've read *something* of Tolstoy's, dagnabbit!
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis - X
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen - Oh come on, everything that Jane Austen ever wrote, including her laundry lists, but only one Douglas Adams novel? (Actually, that's fair enough.)
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis - X (Surely this is implicit in having read The Chronicles of Narnia)
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 - X
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown - aliasmoi, who posted this, wondered in her list why some other book was included on a list of classic literature. I echo her question here.
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez - This is on my short list of 'whenever I get around to it' books. Which isn't so much a short list as a really long vague mish-mash of timey-wimey stuff.
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery - X (Yes, really.)
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 - X (None of the sequels though, which I hear is just as well)
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens - X
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night - 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 - Another book I feel sure I have read but cannot actually recall reading.
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens - X
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker - And yet another. I vaguely remember starting to read it, but cannot remember if I finished.
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett - I know I read something vaguely secretive and gardeny once, but I don't know if it was this.
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce - Some Joyce, but not this.
76 The Inferno - Dante
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 - Read it *and* several adaptations (the best of which is 'Adaptation' by Connie Willis) *and* seen several film adaptations too, one with Muppets.
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 - Read it and was in the play. I was in a lot of plays in high school. I had the largest male role that did not belong to an animal character, as I recall. Farmer Guy, I think his name was.
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - X - I have read enough various Sherlock Holmes stories over the years that I feel I can safely say I have read of his Adventures, published in that specific title or no.
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad - Nor have I seen Apocalypse Now. I did see the Animaniacs parody of same, though. (And I have read other things by Conrad.)
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint - X
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams - X
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas - X - I quite like this book, though I like the pastiche that Steven Brust wrote in his Dragaera setting a little more.
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare - X
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl - X - The Great Glass Elevator is better. I think. It's been forever. James and the Giant Peach is better than both of them put together, though.
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen - I've not read it, but I sat through about the first three weeks of the BBC adaptation, which I believe any jury would agree counts as having read it.
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien - X
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling - Yes, yes, I know, I'm the last person on Earth who hasn't, I will, I swear. (But until then you all have to keep your spoilers under lock and key! Ha ha ha ha ha.)
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee - Not read it, but I was in the play in high school.
6 The Bible - X
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell - Does living in the U.S. for the past 8 years count? No? Never mind, then.
9 His Dark Materials - Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens - Some other Dickens, but not this.
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott - I feel like I've read this, but I can't recall when, so I probably haven't.
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare - Selected works, yes, but not everything the man wrote.
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien - X
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger - In case you were wondering if I were an assassin in training, the answer is no.
19 The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger - I've vaguely wanted to read this one, but never really stumbled across it when I was a position to get hold of it.
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell - Saw all seventeen years of the movie (see also Prejudice, Pride and, for precedent)
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens - I could have sworn that Bleak House was written by someone else. Maybe I'm thinking of something else entirely. I've lived in a house that was sort of bleakish, if that counts.
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy - Read some other Tolstoy, but not this.
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams - X
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Started once, got distracted by something shiny, never picked it up.
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll - X
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame - X (I think so, anyway. When I was a kid.)
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy - Was Master and Man Tolstoy or Dostoyevsky? I know I've read *something* of Tolstoy's, dagnabbit!
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis - X
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen - Oh come on, everything that Jane Austen ever wrote, including her laundry lists, but only one Douglas Adams novel? (Actually, that's fair enough.)
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis - X (Surely this is implicit in having read The Chronicles of Narnia)
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 - X
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown - aliasmoi, who posted this, wondered in her list why some other book was included on a list of classic literature. I echo her question here.
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez - This is on my short list of 'whenever I get around to it' books. Which isn't so much a short list as a really long vague mish-mash of timey-wimey stuff.
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery - X (Yes, really.)
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 - X (None of the sequels though, which I hear is just as well)
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens - X
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night - 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 - Another book I feel sure I have read but cannot actually recall reading.
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens - X
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker - And yet another. I vaguely remember starting to read it, but cannot remember if I finished.
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett - I know I read something vaguely secretive and gardeny once, but I don't know if it was this.
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce - Some Joyce, but not this.
76 The Inferno - Dante
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 - Read it *and* several adaptations (the best of which is 'Adaptation' by Connie Willis) *and* seen several film adaptations too, one with Muppets.
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 - Read it and was in the play. I was in a lot of plays in high school. I had the largest male role that did not belong to an animal character, as I recall. Farmer Guy, I think his name was.
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - X - I have read enough various Sherlock Holmes stories over the years that I feel I can safely say I have read of his Adventures, published in that specific title or no.
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad - Nor have I seen Apocalypse Now. I did see the Animaniacs parody of same, though. (And I have read other things by Conrad.)
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint - X
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams - X
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas - X - I quite like this book, though I like the pastiche that Steven Brust wrote in his Dragaera setting a little more.
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare - X
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl - X - The Great Glass Elevator is better. I think. It's been forever. James and the Giant Peach is better than both of them put together, though.
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo