Yes, I'm spamming today... here's a books-read meme

[cairistiona]

From  bluegerl The BBC thinks you will have read 6 of the books on this list. Copy and
paste your bolded books read, italicized books not completed, and then
sum up with a head count, so to speak.

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 (Read some, still reading others, so I bolded and italicized)

5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee

6 The Bible - (New Testament cover to cover, many of the OT books)

7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte

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

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 Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger

20 Middlemarch - George Eliot

21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell

22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald

23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens*

24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy

25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams*

26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh

27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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

33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis (read some of them, still working through the series)

34 Emma - Jane Austen

35 Persuasion - Jane Austen

36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe

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

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

48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood

49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding

50 Atonement - Ian McEwan

51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel

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*

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

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

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

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

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

92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery

93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks

94 Watership Down - Richard Adams

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

So... I've read 31, and figure I'll read several more (marked by the asterisks). Admittedly, several of those books I read in high school and college 30+ years ago and couldn't tell you what they were about to save my life! And I think there are classics I've read that aren't on their list that should be, like Cormac McCarthy's The Road.

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[shirebound]

I've read 23. (I have no idea why people love Watership Down so much when Duncton Wood is sooooo much better.)

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen

2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien

4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling

5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee

6 The Bible

8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell

13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller

16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien

25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams

29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll

30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame

33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis

36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe

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

49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding

52 Dune - Frank Herbert

58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley

89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery

94 Watership Down - Richard Adams

[cairistiona7.livejournal.com]

23 is great!

I have to admit, I wasn't crazy about Watership Down. I read it, but I didn't see what the fuss was about. Now LOTR... I know what the fuss is about with it!

[mikononyte.livejournal.com]

Can always tell the well educated ones in these lists. LOL
I got you beat on the Bible even if I did hate reading it. haha

[cairistiona7.livejournal.com]

Or at least the well-read ones. *g* My father is one of those that haven't had a lot of formal schooling but has probably read 90% of that list. He's 82 and working his way through all the Dickens novels, on his Kindle. Talk about a role model!

There are definitely parts of the Bible I find very tedious! But I do find a lot of strength and inspiration in the non-tedious parts. :)

[vamp-ress.livejournal.com]

The list seems to be ancient, I did it in 2008: http://michelle.fancrone.net/2008/life/books/book-meme-2

If my counting isn't off (you never know, with my mathematical skills...) I've read 32.

[cairistiona7.livejournal.com]

Ancient and apparently morphed several times into slightly differing versions, I've since found out. Still, an interesting list. You've read about as many as I have.

[scarvenartist.livejournal.com]

Yay, books! By my count, I've read 44 of these, and parts of 6 others. (I do think listing "The complete works of Shakespeare" as one item is completely unfair. :D)

[cairistiona7.livejournal.com]

Well, I've since learned that this meme is old and has been done before, and moreover wasn't about the BBC saying the average person has only read 6 of these... though it was new to me and still interesting. I'm a sucker for book lists of any kind. :)

44+ is very impressive! And I'm with you... hard to justify all of Shakespeare's works as counting for only one!

[estelcontar1.livejournal.com]

I've read 38 books on the list, and I can't say anything about Watership Down because it's a book I've never read.

I'm a sucker for booklists too. And now I know you've ready To Kill a Mockingbird way before I did.

[cairistiona7.livejournal.com]

38 is impressive! And I read To Kill a Mockingbird kind of late by most standards. It's required reading in a lot of schools but somehow I missed it!