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Book Meme!
Jun. 24th, 2008 05:20 pmThe Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they've printed. Well let's see.
1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicise those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Reprint this list in your own LJ, or not, as you see fit.
(Don't forget to remove the comments in brackets)
1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen (I've actually read about half of this - up to Mr Darcy's unfortunate first proposal? Part of![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
telyanofcelore's crusade to turn us all into Dwiggies)
2. The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien (all of the Fellowship, all of Two Towers, 1/3 of ROTK. And I know I'm a heretic for saying this, but WAY overrated. Do Not Like.)
3. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte (I'm just pretty sure that I'd never be able to read it without flashing back to the "Jayne Eyre" parody of it once read. And sorry, but mental images of Jayne Cobb in a dress would ruin better books than this one.)
4. Harry Potter series - JK Rowling (yes, yes, shut up. But not underlined because I like the fandom better.)
5. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6. The Bible (Thank you SLE.)
7. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte (not Brontes for me, thanks)
8. Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens (I have much less Dickens hate than most people I know. *shrugs* But I've only read Hard Times, and not any of the famous ones)
11. Little Women - Louisa M Alcott (when I was like 7, and even then I thought it was silly. I just wanted to get to the part where Beth died, so I could laugh)
12. Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy (HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATE. Hardy should NOT write prose. NEVER NEVER NEVER AGAIN)
13. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14. Complete Works of Shakespeare (someday...long way to go though)
15. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16. The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks (never heard of it?)
18. Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger (HAAAAAAAATE. Had to read it junior year, and my god, what trash. Holden Caufield is such a whiny little useless emo snot I wanted to throw him off a cliff.)
19. The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger (don't know what it's about, but it sounds interesting)
20. Middlemarch - George Eliot
21. Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22. The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald (Junior year strikes again. And mostly I love it because Nick is /so obviously/ madly in love with Gatsby. But also it was just kind of neat.)
23. Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy (I'm saving it for the next time I get stranded in another galaxy XD.)
25. The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams (and Restaurant At The End of Universe, and Life, The Universe, And Everything, and So Long And Thanks For All The Fish (although that one's rather nonsense), and Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, and Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul...Mostly Harm
less sucks though. But I reread something of his at least every four months.)
26. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky (Notes From Underground more or less turned me off Dostoyevsky forever, buttelyanofcelore's been making a good case for reading C&P, at least for the crazy.)
28. Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck (not a Steinbeck fan. Don't really hate him, just don't /care/.
29. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame (I know we have a copy somewhere, but I never bothered)
31. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy (No more angsty Russians please!)
32. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33. Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis (I fail as a fantasy fan, I swear.)
34. Emma - Jane Austen (it's been sitting on my bookcase at school all year, after a certain someone gave it to me for Christmas, and I even started it on the plane home for spring break. I think, if I ever finish it, I'll like it, but that has yet to happen.)
35. Persuasion - Jane Austen
36. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis (meh)
37. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38. Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden (very silly, kind of fun, in a depressing/romantic sort of way.)
40. Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41. Animal Farm - George Orwell (*also fails as a sci fi fan*)
42. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown (God no. Not after all the Betsch rants I heard when I took art history.)
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 (and every sequel through Anne of Ingleside, and I love them with all the love of a 12 year old girl who wanted to get into mischievious but innocuous hijinks in early 1900s era Canada while wearing puffed sleeves.although not as much as I wanted to be a sword-maiden like Aerin and Keladry )
47. Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy (what did we say about Hardy writing prose? Seriously, the man was a /much/ better poet.)
48. The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
49. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50. Atonement - Ian McEwan
51. Life of Pi - Yann Martel (you'd think a book about a boy stuck on a boat with a tiger couldn't be boring. You'd be wrong.)
52. Dune - Frank Herbert (once more, see how I fail at the classics of my genre of choice!)
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 (shudderingly creepy, and oh so very plausible, even if the prose is unimpressive. Read in China, too.)
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 (this would be the source of my blazing indifference to Steinbeck, although hearing Ms Leese do the voices was kind of cool.)
62. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63. The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold (read in 15 page installments while I was working in the library. Interesting concept, for sure.)
65. Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66. On The Road - Jack Kerouac (maybe. I'm undecided.)
67. Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68. Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding (Eh, it was funny and cute, a good brain candy read, even if I did and always will fail completely to identify with this sort of character.)
69. Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
70. Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72. Dracula - Bram Stoker (vampires aren't really my kink, but this always sounded cool)
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 (be more sel-absorbed and pretentious! Go on, try!)
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 ( I think? I'm not actually sure)
82. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83. The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84. The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro (once again, never heard of it, but sounds interesting)
85. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert (read the beginning and the end but skipped the middle? But I did write a paper on it, and I'm still not sure /why/ I liked it, because it seems exactly the sort of book I should /hate/, but there you are.)
86. A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87. Charlotte's Web - EB White (much prefer The Trumpet of the Swan, by same)
88. The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Alborn
89. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90. The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad (People suck. We GET it. Now cease to be belabouring the point please)
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 (telyanofcelorehas made a good case for NEVER EVER touching this book EVER.)
96. A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97. The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas (will finish, I swear! Because it is wonderfully absurd and swashbuckle-y)
98. Hamlet - William Shakespeare (the original angsty emo hero with an incredibly slashy relationship with his best friend? How can I not love? Also very funny, and some of the soliloquies make me cry *hearts crazy!Ophelia* Also the origin of THUD=DEAD?)
99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl (Not my favourite Dahl. Think that was Matilda.)
100. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
That's...well, it's more than six. Also, I have no taste in literature. And Terry Pratchett should be on here. *pouts*
1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicise those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Reprint this list in your own LJ, or not, as you see fit.
(Don't forget to remove the comments in brackets)
1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen (I've actually read about half of this - up to Mr Darcy's unfortunate first proposal? Part of
telyanofcelore's crusade to turn us all into Dwiggies)2. The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien (all of the Fellowship, all of Two Towers, 1/3 of ROTK. And I know I'm a heretic for saying this, but WAY overrated. Do Not Like.)
3. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte (I'm just pretty sure that I'd never be able to read it without flashing back to the "Jayne Eyre" parody of it once read. And sorry, but mental images of Jayne Cobb in a dress would ruin better books than this one.)
4. Harry Potter series - JK Rowling (yes, yes, shut up. But not underlined because I like the fandom better.)
5. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6. The Bible (Thank you SLE.)
7. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte (not Brontes for me, thanks)
8. Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens (I have much less Dickens hate than most people I know. *shrugs* But I've only read Hard Times, and not any of the famous ones)
11. Little Women - Louisa M Alcott (when I was like 7, and even then I thought it was silly. I just wanted to get to the part where Beth died, so I could laugh)
12. Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy (HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATE. Hardy should NOT write prose. NEVER NEVER NEVER AGAIN)
13. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14. Complete Works of Shakespeare (someday...long way to go though)
15. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16. The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks (never heard of it?)
18. Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger (HAAAAAAAATE. Had to read it junior year, and my god, what trash. Holden Caufield is such a whiny little useless emo snot I wanted to throw him off a cliff.)
19. The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger (don't know what it's about, but it sounds interesting)
20. Middlemarch - George Eliot
21. Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22. The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald (Junior year strikes again. And mostly I love it because Nick is /so obviously/ madly in love with Gatsby. But also it was just kind of neat.)
23. Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy (I'm saving it for the next time I get stranded in another galaxy XD.)
25. The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams (and Restaurant At The End of Universe, and Life, The Universe, And Everything, and So Long And Thanks For All The Fish (although that one's rather nonsense), and Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, and Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul...Mostly Harm
less sucks though. But I reread something of his at least every four months.)26. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky (Notes From Underground more or less turned me off Dostoyevsky forever, but
telyanofcelore's been making a good case for reading C&P, at least for the crazy.)28. Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck (not a Steinbeck fan. Don't really hate him, just don't /care/.
29. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame (I know we have a copy somewhere, but I never bothered)
31. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy (No more angsty Russians please!)
32. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33. Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis (I fail as a fantasy fan, I swear.)
34. Emma - Jane Austen (it's been sitting on my bookcase at school all year, after a certain someone gave it to me for Christmas, and I even started it on the plane home for spring break. I think, if I ever finish it, I'll like it, but that has yet to happen.)
35. Persuasion - Jane Austen
36. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis (meh)
37. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38. Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden (very silly, kind of fun, in a depressing/romantic sort of way.)
40. Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41. Animal Farm - George Orwell (*also fails as a sci fi fan*)
42. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown (God no. Not after all the Betsch rants I heard when I took art history.)
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 (and every sequel through Anne of Ingleside, and I love them with all the love of a 12 year old girl who wanted to get into mischievious but innocuous hijinks in early 1900s era Canada while wearing puffed sleeves.
47. Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy (what did we say about Hardy writing prose? Seriously, the man was a /much/ better poet.)
48. The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
49. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50. Atonement - Ian McEwan
51. Life of Pi - Yann Martel (you'd think a book about a boy stuck on a boat with a tiger couldn't be boring. You'd be wrong.)
52. Dune - Frank Herbert (once more, see how I fail at the classics of my genre of choice!)
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 (shudderingly creepy, and oh so very plausible, even if the prose is unimpressive. Read in China, too.)
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 (this would be the source of my blazing indifference to Steinbeck, although hearing Ms Leese do the voices was kind of cool.)
62. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63. The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold (read in 15 page installments while I was working in the library. Interesting concept, for sure.)
65. Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66. On The Road - Jack Kerouac (maybe. I'm undecided.)
67. Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68. Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding (Eh, it was funny and cute, a good brain candy read, even if I did and always will fail completely to identify with this sort of character.)
69. Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
70. Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72. Dracula - Bram Stoker (vampires aren't really my kink, but this always sounded cool)
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 (be more sel-absorbed and pretentious! Go on, try!)
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 ( I think? I'm not actually sure)
82. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83. The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84. The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro (once again, never heard of it, but sounds interesting)
85. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert (read the beginning and the end but skipped the middle? But I did write a paper on it, and I'm still not sure /why/ I liked it, because it seems exactly the sort of book I should /hate/, but there you are.)
86. A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87. Charlotte's Web - EB White (much prefer The Trumpet of the Swan, by same)
88. The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Alborn
89. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90. The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad (People suck. We GET it. Now cease to be belabouring the point please)
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 (
telyanofcelorehas made a good case for NEVER EVER touching this book EVER.)96. A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97. The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas (will finish, I swear! Because it is wonderfully absurd and swashbuckle-y)
98. Hamlet - William Shakespeare (the original angsty emo hero with an incredibly slashy relationship with his best friend? How can I not love? Also very funny, and some of the soliloquies make me cry *hearts crazy!Ophelia* Also the origin of THUD=DEAD?)
99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl (Not my favourite Dahl. Think that was Matilda.)
100. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
That's...well, it's more than six. Also, I have no taste in literature. And Terry Pratchett should be on here. *pouts*