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iriththedreamer

Hundred Book List

Mar 23, 2010 13:03

horrifically had this in her journal and I decided to do it because I was curious.

Bold the ones you’ve read COMPLETELY, italicize the ones you’ve read part of, and no cheating. Watching the movie or the cartoon doesn’t count. Abridged versions don’t count either. BTW, according to the BBC if you’ve read 7 of these, you are above the average.

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newtypeshadow March 24 2010, 07:59:56 UTC

ROFL! I counted which I'd read all of as I went down the list, and also ended up with 26.

There are others I've read part of (and to hell with Dickens's work, I plan to read "A Christmas Carol" and that is it. Also, I hated The Time Traveler's Wife and do not intend to finish it ever), but I was lazy.

I like that there is enough literature in the world that we can have lists of "classics." I want a sci-fi/fantasy heavy list though, since many of the lists I've seen are literary fiction heavy. Oh well?

iriththedreamer March 24 2010, 15:46:18 UTC

XD I agree about Dickens. A Christmas Carol was good but I'm not really interested in the rest. I didn't intend to ever read The Time Traveler's Wife, and I'm glad to know that was the right choice.

I would love to see that Sci-Fi/Fantasy List too. I can think of a few things I definitely think should be on it, but who knows if anyone else would agree with me.

im_writing March 25 2010, 13:00:47 UTC

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 (Three times, in fact & I hate it.)
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 -want to read!
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
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 Fitzgerald23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens ( ... )

iriththedreamer March 25 2010, 17:00:51 UTC

Yeah, I thought it was odd that they listed both the Chronicles of Narnia and The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. It's kind of and oddly put together list. But it was still fun to do.