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Book meme - taken from Red, Jane, everyone...

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
5
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee

6
The Bible

7
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte

8
Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell

9
His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
(made a start anyway)
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 Faulks
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
(tried)
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 - C.S Lewis

34
Emma - Jane Austen

35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
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

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
(I'm sure I've read it but I don't remember a thing about it)
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
(boring)
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 Alborn
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
(this falls into the category of 'I know I'm a peasant, but I could not finish this)

Date: 2008-06-24 10:48 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ford-of-bruinen.livejournal.com
oh god did i ever hate Ulyssess all three times diffrent lit classes pushed it on us. *shudders* bad memories

Date: 2008-06-24 21:54 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] keiliss.livejournal.com
I think they had to force it on you because very few normal people would read it from choice. That includes me - I was challenged to by the friend who lent me the notes and was battling with it herself in class at the time :D

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