book meme

[keiliss]

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)

Comments

[phyncke.livejournal.com]

I attempted to read Ulysses by Joyce on my own. Most people I know have read that in lit class. Never got it so I did not put in on my list. It seemed like one big insider joke to me. A self indulgent work if ever there was one...but then again, that could be my own personal resentment of it. He he he.

I thought this was interesting.

I thought I had read Cold Comfort but then realized I had only seen the movie. I want to read it as the movie was brilliant.

PS: I loved Vanity Fair. That was a total romp. But strange things appeal to me.

[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

[ennorwen.livejournal.com]

Isn't this fun? I've really enjoyed reading everyone's lists - you're quite a classisist! Oh God, you probably couldn't pay me enough to read Ulysses and Heart of Darkness! Go you.

It's interesting to compare American with non-American reading lists - I suspect there are some that are very USAish (Confederacy of Dunces, for one), that I wouldn't expect non-Americans to read and vice-versa - The Faraway Tree Collection???

Cold Comfort Farm - like you, I read it, but really only remember the movie now.

[riina2504.livejournal.com]

Yay! We're still the only 2 people left who haven't read Harry Potter *grins*

[keiliss.livejournal.com]

I read Ulysses with my lit student friend's crib notes and commentary, and I even reread the Odyssey (which I adore) in case it would help. It didn't. I kept getting the sense Joyce was sitting somewhere watching and laughing his head off - self indulgent is an understatement. It's - an intensely annoying work to wade through, though there's a sense of accomplishment when you finish that god-awful final episode.

I've always known I should reread Vanity Fair. I think I was in the wrong headspace when I originally read it, and never got a chance to go back. Probably worth a visit.

[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

[keiliss.livejournal.com]

Ulysses is a horrible read, and I'm not convinced Joyce wasn't just pulling a huge practical joke. Heart of Darkness has so many layers within layers and so much symbolism it's exhausting. I found I had to do a lot of reading back and thinking. Not easy, but I'm glad I finished it.

I can't tell if this list has a British or American bias, though the Faraway Tree series strongly implies British input (an absolutely wonderful, old fashioned, irresistible fantasy series for children, which I read as a kid and in turn read to my own children. The Enchanted Wood, the Faraway Tree, always with a new, strange land through the clouds at the top, the people who live in the tree, the children who get to know them... um, yes, you can see this is a deep love, lol) I have never encountered Confederacy of Dunces, btw.

I didn't have time to read everyone's list last night, so I'm making myself coffee and am now going to treat myself :)

[keiliss.livejournal.com]

No retreat, no surrender!! I figure at this point, why give in? **hugs you** Great to see you, sweetie. Hope everything's well with you.

[heartofoshun.livejournal.com]

I actually really enjoyed Ulysses, but I cannot begin to imagine a more inappropriate thing to read as a class assignment--unless it was a voluntary choice for specialists or graduate students. I had compulsively read Joyce's earlier work before I started it and knew all about his life. I don't think it is the kind of book most people would just pop into and think "wow, this is terrific! great read, a real page turner" (hardly that and yes, self-indulgent; now I could barely read Finnegan's Wake and admit I skimmed a lot--talk about SELF-INDULGENT--I don't write to be read; I only write for myself. LOL).

I never knew of The Enchanted Wood, etc., sounds like I would like it (I am never above reading children's books. although I don't seek them out). The Confederacy of Dunces was the only book by a writer who died very young (21 or so?) and it concerns New Orleans and focuses a lot what a strange city it is. I thought it was a great book, but only read it once many years ago.

(Pardon me, please, for hopping in an catching typos--I leave the rest!)

[heartofoshun.livejournal.com]

If you ever change your mind, you could skip the last one--it sucked.

[phyncke.livejournal.com]

Now the Odyssey and the Iliad. Love those. I just could read those again and again. Amazing tale.

I carried Vanity Fair in my backpack through Europe when I was 21 years old and read that everywhere I travelled that year. I just found it a great book to sink into and escape in. The language and descrip is masterful. And SHE...just a wonderful character. Really the most amazing anti-heroine...

I finished that book and traded it for other books on that trip. Travellers did that in those days at youth hostels. I forget what I got for that one. Hmm. Might have been a Milan Kundera book. We swapped out things. Very fun to do that.

So I have real memories of that book. Don't know what possessed me to TRAVEL with that HUGE book. It really was a weight to carry. Huh.

[riina2504.livejournal.com]

Exactly! I shall also forever refrain from reading Da Vinci Code. And from watching Titanic. Among other things. *laughs*

Good to see you too *hugs* Things are ok on my side of the world. Still a bit too busy for my liking, but one of these days... I hope all is well with you.

[keiliss.livejournal.com]

I think I must find The Confederacy of Dunces - you've piqued my curiosity there. Nice thing about this list is I've found a couple of titles I need to read and an even longer list of books due for a revisit.

*I don't write to be read; I only write for myself. LOL*

"... and we both know you're not intelligent enough to understand this, so why are you wasting your time trying to read it, you stupid girl" was how I interpreted it :|

Might be why I finished Ulysses actually - I have a stubborn streak that comes to the fore when I'm challenged :D It's interesting though - out of five people who have seen this list and commented on this book, there have been five completely different responses to it. I suppose that's the mark of genius. Or something.

[keiliss.livejournal.com]

LOL! Hear so, yes. I don't know what it is. I adore fantasy, always have. I like children's' books - I probably got as much pleasure reading to my kids when they were small as they did from listening. But - HP just never worked for me. Skimmed part of the first one and let it go. Watch the movies, sure.

[keiliss.livejournal.com]

It goes as it goes. You're missed *hugs*

[red-lasbelin.livejournal.com]

Not only two. Three by my count.

[(Anonymous)]

Weeell, if it's three, then it's a party! :) It's lovely to see there are still few of us resisting!

Things should get back to normal in our household tomorrow, when we get stiches off the cat and can reclaim our bedroom. Should we meet on Thursday?

[riina2504.livejournal.com]

And that anonymous was naturally I :D

[red-lasbelin.livejournal.com]

Hey, email me dear. tell me what works out for you. Sorry it took so long to get back to you. *hugs*