The Book List!
1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Reprint this list in your own LJ so we can try and track down these people who've read 6 and force books upon them.
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 Woot.
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible In bits through the years...
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman The first book was the best.
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens Bleh.
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott A looong time ago
12 Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger Ugh. Can't stand this stupid book, I wished the main character would just shut up already.
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 Liked this one
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams If any book shows how words, wordplay, and narrative structure can be an artform, this is it. Also it is funny.
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck I mean, did people read the ending? That was nasty.
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll Though you should really read 'The Annotated Alice,' which has some interesting insight on Carroll and the mathematical and philosophical meanings behind his writings.
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis Freaking Dawn Treader, amirite?
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis You can't count this twice, can you? Bad list!
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
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown Read it...ish.
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
52 Dune - Frank Herbert Again...ish. Got told most of the plot, didn't like the writing style, eh.
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 Casualty of the English class. I probably would like it better if I'd read it on my own.
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley In eighth grade, because of the bit about cloning.
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon Seen it around, never picked it up though.
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 Casualty of English. Billy Budd too.
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett Love love love this book! It probably explains my being a closet botanist...
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
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 The Muppet version is the film adaptation that is the most faithful to the book, believe it or not. They actually USE Dicken's writing, and it's nifty.
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 Also The Trumpet of the Swan. I love how he slipped large words into his books. Because of him I know what 'crepuscular' means.
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Some of them I've read...I remember The Musgrave Ritual and The Speckled Band specifically.
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery Read it in English as a small child (the best time to, in my opinion). Read it in French and in English again in high school, and I still read it from time to time, especially when I'm feeling very dull and/or mundane.
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams Say what you will about animal fiction. This one also kind of started the trend. Now we've got novels that are like this about cats, and deer, and wolves, and probably sloths too.
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 Also counted twice. That's cheating! I demand 2 more books on this list!
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl Ah, Roald Dahl. Never sugarcoated stuff in his books (no pun intended). Kids and adults alike died in horrible, though often fantastic ways.
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
Mind you, this list shouldn't be considered the be and end all of books. I mean, where are the nonfiction books? Just because people haven't read these books doesn't mean they don't read, either. What about magazines and newspapers. Heck, what about reading articles online? Doesn't that count too? People need to stop equating 'reading' with a small number of selections. Even if you're reading absolute trash, you're still reading, you know? I'm just saying...
2) Italicize those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Reprint this list in your own LJ so we can try and track down these people who've read 6 and force books upon them.
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 Woot.
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible In bits through the years...
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman The first book was the best.
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens Bleh.
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott A looong time ago
12 Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger Ugh. Can't stand this stupid book, I wished the main character would just shut up already.
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 Liked this one
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams If any book shows how words, wordplay, and narrative structure can be an artform, this is it. Also it is funny.
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck I mean, did people read the ending? That was nasty.
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll Though you should really read 'The Annotated Alice,' which has some interesting insight on Carroll and the mathematical and philosophical meanings behind his writings.
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis Freaking Dawn Treader, amirite?
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis You can't count this twice, can you? Bad list!
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
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown Read it...ish.
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
52 Dune - Frank Herbert Again...ish. Got told most of the plot, didn't like the writing style, eh.
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 Casualty of the English class. I probably would like it better if I'd read it on my own.
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley In eighth grade, because of the bit about cloning.
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon Seen it around, never picked it up though.
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 Casualty of English. Billy Budd too.
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett Love love love this book! It probably explains my being a closet botanist...
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
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 The Muppet version is the film adaptation that is the most faithful to the book, believe it or not. They actually USE Dicken's writing, and it's nifty.
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 Also The Trumpet of the Swan. I love how he slipped large words into his books. Because of him I know what 'crepuscular' means.
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Some of them I've read...I remember The Musgrave Ritual and The Speckled Band specifically.
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery Read it in English as a small child (the best time to, in my opinion). Read it in French and in English again in high school, and I still read it from time to time, especially when I'm feeling very dull and/or mundane.
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams Say what you will about animal fiction. This one also kind of started the trend. Now we've got novels that are like this about cats, and deer, and wolves, and probably sloths too.
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 Also counted twice. That's cheating! I demand 2 more books on this list!
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl Ah, Roald Dahl. Never sugarcoated stuff in his books (no pun intended). Kids and adults alike died in horrible, though often fantastic ways.
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
Mind you, this list shouldn't be considered the be and end all of books. I mean, where are the nonfiction books? Just because people haven't read these books doesn't mean they don't read, either. What about magazines and newspapers. Heck, what about reading articles online? Doesn't that count too? People need to stop equating 'reading' with a small number of selections. Even if you're reading absolute trash, you're still reading, you know? I'm just saying...