110?
Put an x next to each book you've read and post your score in the subject line.
[X]Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
[x]The Iliad by Homer
[x]The Odyssey by Homer
[ ]I, Claudius by Robert Graves
[X]Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
[X]Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
[ ]Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach
[ ]Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie
[x]Who Moved My Cheese? by Spencer Johnson
[X]Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
total: 7
[X]Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
[X]Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling
[X]Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling
[X]Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling
[X]Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling
[X]Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling
[X]Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling
[ ]The Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley
[ ]A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. LeGuin
[ ]Eragon by Christopher Paolini
[ ]Eldest by Christopher Paolini
total: 7
[x]A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett
[x]The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
[x]Stuart Little by E.B. White
[x]James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
[x]Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
[x]Charlotte's Web by E.B. White
[ ]Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder (I couldn't stand the show, so never read any books)
[X]Bunnicula by James and Deborah Howe
[x]The Giver by Lois Lowry
[ ]Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
total: 8
[x]The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
[x]The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
[ ]The House of Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne
[x]Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
[ ]All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren
[x]The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
[x]The Story of my Life by Helen Keller
[x]Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
[x]Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
[x]The Crucible by Arthur Miller
total: 8
[x]A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
[ ]The Maltese Falcon by William Golding
[x]From Here to Eternity by James Jones
[x]The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
[x]A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
[x]A Separate Peace by John Knowles
[x]Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
[ ]The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper (I generally don't like western or nature books either)
[x]The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
[x]The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
total: 8
[x]The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien
[x]The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien
[x]The Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien
[x]The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
[x]The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
[x]The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
[x]Prince Caspian by C.S. Lewis
[x]The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C.S. Lewis
[ ]The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien
[ ]Unfinished Tales by J.R.R. Tolkien
total: 8
[ ]The Brother's Keeper by Tracy Groot
[x]The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough
[ ]The Color Purple by Alice Walker
[ ]Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants by Ann Brashares (I saw the movie on a flight to CA, that was bad enough.)
[x]Roots by Alex Haley
[x]Jaws by Peter Benchley
[x]Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
[x]The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin
[ ]The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
[x]Sophie's Choice by William Styron (I read this book before seeing the movie, and completely fell in love with Stingo, then I see the movie and he's played by Peter "the fucking BISCUIT MacNicol! HEARTBREAKING!)
total: 6
[x]Dune by Frank Herbert
[x]Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert
[x]Children of Dune by Frank Herbert
[x]1984 by George Orwell
[x]Animal Farm by George Orwell
[ ]Star Wars: The Phantom Menace by Terry Brooks (I don't think a novelization of a movie should count!)
[x]The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
[x]War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
[x]The Once and Future King by T.H. White
[x]Lord of the Flies by William Golding
total: 9
[ ]Time and Again by Nora Roberts (Bleah)
[ ]Reflections and Dreams by Nora Roberts
[ ]Dance Upon Air by Nora Roberts
[ ]A Walk to Remember by Nicholas Sparks (Still more bleah)
[ ]The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks (I just don't like this sappy stuff)
[ ]The Deep End of the Ocean by Jacquelyn Mitchard
[ ]The Horse Whisperer by Nicholas Evans
[x]East of Eden by John Steinbeck
[x]Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
[ ]Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
total: 2
[x]Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
[ ]Congo by Michael Crichton (I started it but it made me go zzzz)
[x]Watchers by Dean Koontz
[x]Phantoms by Dean Koontz
[x]The Firm by John Grisham
[ ]The Last Juror by John Grisham
[x]The Client by John Grisham
[x]The Pelican Brief by John Grisham
[x]The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown (Just so I can mock it!)
[x]Angels and Demons by Dan Brown (Ditto!)
total: 8
[x]20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
[x]Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne
[x]Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne
[x]Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
[x]Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
[x]Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
[x]The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
[x]The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
[x]The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
[x]Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
total: 10 (Thank you, AP English for helping me get all of these)
[x]The Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket
[x]Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie
[x]Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
[x]Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
[x]Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
[x]The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
[x]The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
[x]Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
[x]Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
[ ]Old Yeller by Fred Gipson (zzzzz)
total: 9
[x]The Green Mile by Stephen King
[x]The Stand by Stephen King
[x]Salem's Lot by Stephen King
[x]The Shining by Stephen King
[x]The Talisman by Stephen King and Peter Straub
[x]Ghost Story by Peter Straub
[x]I Am Legend by Richard Matheson
[x]Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice
[x]The Vampire Lestat by Anne Rice
[x]Dracula by Bram Stoker
total: 10
[x]Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
[x]Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte (Jane Eyre kicks Wuthering Heights' ass!)
[x]Tess of the D'Urbevilles by Thomas Hardy
[x]Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls
[ ]The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. McCain
[ ]The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom (Bleah!)
[x]Watership Down by Richard Adams
[ ]Sleepers by Lorenzo Carcaterra
[ ]Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All by Allan Gurganus
[x]War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
total: 6
[x]The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
[x]The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
[ ]The Prisoner of Zenda by Anthony Hope
[x]The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving
[ ]The Call of the Wild by Jack London (zzzz)
[x]Moby Dick by Herman Melville
[x]Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
[x]Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
[x]The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells
[ ]The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells
total: 7
Scoring:
more than 100......you're extremely well read
50-100.....you're on your way
30-50.......not too bad
20-30.......who has time for books?
0-20.......what's a book?
As seen in letoile82's journal.
[X]Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
[x]The Iliad by Homer
[x]The Odyssey by Homer
[ ]I, Claudius by Robert Graves
[X]Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
[X]Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
[ ]Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach
[ ]Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie
[x]Who Moved My Cheese? by Spencer Johnson
[X]Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
total: 7
[X]Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
[X]Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling
[X]Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling
[X]Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling
[X]Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling
[X]Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling
[X]Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling
[ ]The Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley
[ ]A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. LeGuin
[ ]Eragon by Christopher Paolini
[ ]Eldest by Christopher Paolini
total: 7
[x]A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett
[x]The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
[x]Stuart Little by E.B. White
[x]James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
[x]Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
[x]Charlotte's Web by E.B. White
[ ]Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder (I couldn't stand the show, so never read any books)
[X]Bunnicula by James and Deborah Howe
[x]The Giver by Lois Lowry
[ ]Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
total: 8
[x]The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
[x]The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
[ ]The House of Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne
[x]Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
[ ]All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren
[x]The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
[x]The Story of my Life by Helen Keller
[x]Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
[x]Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
[x]The Crucible by Arthur Miller
total: 8
[x]A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
[ ]The Maltese Falcon by William Golding
[x]From Here to Eternity by James Jones
[x]The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
[x]A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
[x]A Separate Peace by John Knowles
[x]Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
[ ]The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper (I generally don't like western or nature books either)
[x]The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
[x]The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
total: 8
[x]The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien
[x]The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien
[x]The Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien
[x]The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
[x]The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
[x]The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
[x]Prince Caspian by C.S. Lewis
[x]The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C.S. Lewis
[ ]The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien
[ ]Unfinished Tales by J.R.R. Tolkien
total: 8
[ ]The Brother's Keeper by Tracy Groot
[x]The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough
[ ]The Color Purple by Alice Walker
[ ]Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants by Ann Brashares (I saw the movie on a flight to CA, that was bad enough.)
[x]Roots by Alex Haley
[x]Jaws by Peter Benchley
[x]Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
[x]The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin
[ ]The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
[x]Sophie's Choice by William Styron (I read this book before seeing the movie, and completely fell in love with Stingo, then I see the movie and he's played by Peter "the fucking BISCUIT MacNicol! HEARTBREAKING!)
total: 6
[x]Dune by Frank Herbert
[x]Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert
[x]Children of Dune by Frank Herbert
[x]1984 by George Orwell
[x]Animal Farm by George Orwell
[ ]Star Wars: The Phantom Menace by Terry Brooks (I don't think a novelization of a movie should count!)
[x]The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
[x]War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
[x]The Once and Future King by T.H. White
[x]Lord of the Flies by William Golding
total: 9
[ ]Time and Again by Nora Roberts (Bleah)
[ ]Reflections and Dreams by Nora Roberts
[ ]Dance Upon Air by Nora Roberts
[ ]A Walk to Remember by Nicholas Sparks (Still more bleah)
[ ]The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks (I just don't like this sappy stuff)
[ ]The Deep End of the Ocean by Jacquelyn Mitchard
[ ]The Horse Whisperer by Nicholas Evans
[x]East of Eden by John Steinbeck
[x]Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
[ ]Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
total: 2
[x]Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
[ ]Congo by Michael Crichton (I started it but it made me go zzzz)
[x]Watchers by Dean Koontz
[x]Phantoms by Dean Koontz
[x]The Firm by John Grisham
[ ]The Last Juror by John Grisham
[x]The Client by John Grisham
[x]The Pelican Brief by John Grisham
[x]The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown (Just so I can mock it!)
[x]Angels and Demons by Dan Brown (Ditto!)
total: 8
[x]20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
[x]Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne
[x]Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne
[x]Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
[x]Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
[x]Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
[x]The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
[x]The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
[x]The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
[x]Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
total: 10 (Thank you, AP English for helping me get all of these)
[x]The Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket
[x]Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie
[x]Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
[x]Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
[x]Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
[x]The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
[x]The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
[x]Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
[x]Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
[ ]Old Yeller by Fred Gipson (zzzzz)
total: 9
[x]The Green Mile by Stephen King
[x]The Stand by Stephen King
[x]Salem's Lot by Stephen King
[x]The Shining by Stephen King
[x]The Talisman by Stephen King and Peter Straub
[x]Ghost Story by Peter Straub
[x]I Am Legend by Richard Matheson
[x]Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice
[x]The Vampire Lestat by Anne Rice
[x]Dracula by Bram Stoker
total: 10
[x]Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
[x]Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte (Jane Eyre kicks Wuthering Heights' ass!)
[x]Tess of the D'Urbevilles by Thomas Hardy
[x]Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls
[ ]The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. McCain
[ ]The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom (Bleah!)
[x]Watership Down by Richard Adams
[ ]Sleepers by Lorenzo Carcaterra
[ ]Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All by Allan Gurganus
[x]War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
total: 6
[x]The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
[x]The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
[ ]The Prisoner of Zenda by Anthony Hope
[x]The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving
[ ]The Call of the Wild by Jack London (zzzz)
[x]Moby Dick by Herman Melville
[x]Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
[x]Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
[x]The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells
[ ]The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells
total: 7
Scoring:
more than 100......you're extremely well read
50-100.....you're on your way
30-50.......not too bad
20-30.......who has time for books?
0-20.......what's a book?
As seen in letoile82's journal.