book meme

[pandora_parrot]

Meme caught from veedub

Have you read more than 6 of these books? The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books listed here.

Instructions: Copy this list; bold those books you've read in their entirety. Italicize the ones you started but didn't finish or read only an excerpt.


1Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen

x 2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien

3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte

x 4 Harry Potter Series - JK Rowling

x 5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee

x 6 The Bible - I've made it through the first 8 books or so... But I didn't retain much. Pretty dry stuff. Also read most of the "new testament"

x 7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte - I love this book so much.

x 8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell

x 9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman - One of the most important book series ever, IMO.

10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens

11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott

12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy

x 13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller - I just couldn't get into it.

x 14 Complete Works of Shakespeare - I've read maybe a third to a half of his plays?

15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier

x 16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien

17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk

18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger

19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger

20 Middlemarch - George Eliot

21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell

x 22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald - Thank you private education.

23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens

24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy

x 25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams - If you're a geek and you haven't read this, you need to stop what you're doing right now and read it. Period.

26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh

x 27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky - AMAZING book.

x 28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck - Thank you private education again.

x 29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll - A classic book for psychonauts.

30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame

31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy

32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens

x 33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis

34 Emma - Jane Austen

35 Persuasion - Jane Austen

x 36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis

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

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

47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy

x 48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood - Chillingly accurate to today's society.

x 49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding

50 Atonement - Ian McEwan

51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel

x 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

x 57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens - I remember loving this novel.

x 58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley - One of the most important books I ever read.

59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon

60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

x 61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck - Liberal education again.

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

71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens

72 Dracula - Bram Stoker

73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett

74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson

75 Ulysses - James Joyce - But I do own it...

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

x 81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens

82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell

83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker

84 The Remains of the Day - Kazu Ishiguro

85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert

86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry

x 87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White - Doesn't everyone read this in grade school?

88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom

89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton

91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad

x 92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery - weird ass little book.

93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks

x 94 Watership Down - Richard Adams - soooo good.

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

99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl

100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

That makes 28 of these for me. Yay!

Incidentally, this isn't quite what the meme description indicates. It's from BBC's list of the top 100 books of all time

Comments

[alicephilippa.livejournal.com]

I've read 31 of them. And there are quite a few that I have no intention of reading.

[dana-grrl.livejournal.com]

I've read 24 of them and have about that many more I'd like to read. I also shamelessly stole this and put it on Facebook.

[osakadensetsu.livejournal.com]

Funny how some of these are repeated (i.e. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe and the Chronicles of Narnia both appear on it.)

...actually comparing it to the link, the lists are somewhat different. The BBC list doesn't condense anything into series (like Harry Potter), but lists books out individually. So that might explain the discrepancy.

Maybe it's a different top 100 list? I noticed The Color Purple (#136 on BBC's original list) moved up to 83 on this list and yet Les Miserables (#114 on the original) moved only up to #100. And others between them went missing, and at least one appeared (The Time Traveler’s Wife)...

[paradox-puree.livejournal.com]

I expect the meme has evolved somewhat since its origin.

[osakadensetsu.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that could well explain it. XD

[vvvexation.livejournal.com]

Lessee...I've read six of the first eight, and parts of the other two. Of the entire list, fifty, and parts of nine others.

[pocketscoon.livejournal.com]

Hmm. 25 of them here, and probably only another 10-12 I'd ever bother with. Another twenty past that I know the stories, characters, situations and everything well enough that I'd just be reading them to remind myself of the author's voice.

[peaceofpie.livejournal.com]

40. I think this list is kind of ridiculous though. And also extremely biased toward Euro-American literature.