books and procrastination
Instructions:
1) Look at the list and put an 'X' after those you have read.
2) Add a '+' to the ones you LOVE.
3) Star “@” those you plan on reading.
4) Tally your total at the bottom.
5) Add a '-' to ones you really didn't like.
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen X +
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien @
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte X++++ (come on...I wrote my thesis on it!)
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling X+
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee X
6 The Bible X
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte X- (Just didn't really like the characters)
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell X (only the play version)
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman X @ (not all three yet)
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens X
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott X @ (half)
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare X @ (I've read several plays and I've seen some renditions of them as well as reading a few sonnets, etc. It's just A LOT to read)
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier @
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien @
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger X
19 The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot X
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald X
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens @
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy @
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy X+
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh @
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky X+
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck @
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll @
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame @
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy @
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens X
33 Chronicles of Narnia @ (again, I've only read the first)
34 Emma - Jane Austen @
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen X+
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis X (why is this on here twice?
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 X+
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown X
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 X
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 @ (I've owned this for 3 years and haven't read it)
52 Dune - Frank Herbert @
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 X+
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 X
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 X+
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens @
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker @ (another one I've owned for ages and haven't read)
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett X+
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce @ (Daunting, but I WILL read it!)
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath @
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray @ (another I own but haven't read)
80 Possession - AS Byatt X+++++++ (God, I love this book! I just started re-reading it)
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens @ (yeah, I know...I love Dickens and haven't read it and I own it...sad)
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker @
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro X (good one...I want to see the movie version)
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert @ (yet another I own and haven't picked up)
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White X+
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Alborn @
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle X @ (only some...they're fun)
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad @
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery X+ (If you've never read it...READ IT...its really short)
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams @
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole X+
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas @
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare X
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl @
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo @
Total: 30 sad sad. I disappoint myself
Wish List: 40 (but at least I already own a few of them!)
1) Look at the list and put an 'X' after those you have read.
2) Add a '+' to the ones you LOVE.
3) Star “@” those you plan on reading.
4) Tally your total at the bottom.
5) Add a '-' to ones you really didn't like.
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen X +
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien @
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte X++++ (come on...I wrote my thesis on it!)
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling X+
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee X
6 The Bible X
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte X- (Just didn't really like the characters)
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell X (only the play version)
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman X @ (not all three yet)
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens X
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott X @ (half)
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare X @ (I've read several plays and I've seen some renditions of them as well as reading a few sonnets, etc. It's just A LOT to read)
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier @
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien @
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger X
19 The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot X
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald X
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens @
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy @
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy X+
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh @
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky X+
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck @
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll @
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame @
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy @
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens X
33 Chronicles of Narnia @ (again, I've only read the first)
34 Emma - Jane Austen @
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen X+
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis X (why is this on here twice?
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 X+
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown X
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 X
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 @ (I've owned this for 3 years and haven't read it)
52 Dune - Frank Herbert @
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 X+
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 X
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 X+
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens @
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker @ (another one I've owned for ages and haven't read)
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett X+
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce @ (Daunting, but I WILL read it!)
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath @
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray @ (another I own but haven't read)
80 Possession - AS Byatt X+++++++ (God, I love this book! I just started re-reading it)
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens @ (yeah, I know...I love Dickens and haven't read it and I own it...sad)
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker @
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro X (good one...I want to see the movie version)
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert @ (yet another I own and haven't picked up)
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White X+
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Alborn @
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle X @ (only some...they're fun)
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad @
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery X+ (If you've never read it...READ IT...its really short)
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams @
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole X+
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas @
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare X
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl @
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo @
Total: 30 sad sad. I disappoint myself
Wish List: 40 (but at least I already own a few of them!)