As taken from Hannah's blog, the top 100 list of books to read. I think I did something like this a very very long time ago, but it's never a bad idea to see if I've kept up to date ^^
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
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 Traveler’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
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
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
Well, it comes up to only 34 titles, with 10 intend to read, and out of the 34 I really enjoyed and loved 10 of them. I used to read heaps when I was younger and now technology has led me astray lol, so much of those I loved as you may notice are kind of 'younger audience' directed...
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane AustenThe Big Read is an NEA program designed to encourage community reading initiatives and of their top 100 books, they estimate the average adult has read only six. According to another blogger they encourage us to:
*Look at the list and bold those we have read.
*Italicize those we intend to read.
*Underline the books we LOVESine I can't underline, I'll ** instead.
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
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 Traveler’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
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
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
Well, it comes up to only 34 titles, with 10 intend to read, and out of the 34 I really enjoyed and loved 10 of them. I used to read heaps when I was younger and now technology has led me astray lol, so much of those I loved as you may notice are kind of 'younger audience' directed...
3 comments:
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen *DE INTEND*
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien *D LOVES*
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte *DE INTEND*
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling *DE LOVE*
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee *DE LOVE*
6 The Bible *DE STARTED*
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte *D INTENDS*
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell *D* *E INTENDS*
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman *D LOVES E*
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens *ED INTEND*
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott *E INTEND*
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller *D*
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare *DE STARTED* *E LOVES LOTS BUT NOT ALL*
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier *?*
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien *D LOVES E HATES WITH PASSIONATE FURY*
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks *?*
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger *D INTENDS*
19 The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger *DE LOVE*
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot *?*
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell *E DOESN'T INTEND EVER, EVER EVER EVER. BLEAH BLEAH BLEAH* *D INTENDS TO READ TO E DESPITE HER VIOLENT AND ALTOGETHER UNJUSTIFIED PROTESTATIONS*
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald *(NOW BRUISED AND BATTERED) D LOVES*
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens *DE INTENDS*
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy *D INTENDS*
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams *DE LOVE YAY*
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh *?*
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky *D INTENDS*
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck *D INTENDS*
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll *E LIKED LOTS* *D INTENDS*
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame *E LIKED LOTS* *D INTENDS*
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy *DE STARTED*
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis *E LOVES D*
34 Emma - Jane Austen *D*
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen *D*
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis *DE*
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini *D*
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres *DE INTENDS*
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden *E LOVES* *D INTENDS*
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne *E LOVES D*
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell *E LOVES, YET SO CREEPY* *D INTENDS*
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown *ED*
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez *D LOVES*
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving *D INTENDS*
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins *D INTENDS*
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery *E LOVES*
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy *D INTENDS*
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood *?*
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding *D*
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan *D INTENDS*
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel *DE STARTED*
52 Dune - Frank Herbert *DE LOVE*
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons *D INTENDS*
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth *D INTENDS*
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon *?*
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens *DE INTENDS*
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley *DE INTENDS*
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog - Mark Haddon *E LOVES D*
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez *D INTENDS*
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck *D INTENDS*
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov *D INTENDS*
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt *?*
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold *E LOVES BUT NOT IN A DISTURBED WAY* *D INTENDS*
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas *E LOVES WHEN READ ALOUD BY D* *D HAS READ ALOUD AND SURVIVED THE PARAGRAPH-LONG SENTENCES WITH LIMITED BRAIN DAMAGE DUE TO ASPHYXIATION*
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac *D INTENDS*
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy *D INTENDS*
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie *D INTENDS*
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville *D READING*
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens *DE INTENDS*
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker *DE INTENDS*
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett *E*
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson *DE INTENDS*
75 Ulysses - James Joyce *D STARTED* *E READ READER'S DIGEST CONDENSED VERSION AND SWEARS THAT THAT COUNTS. D IS NOT CONVINCED AND GIVES HER HALF A POINT*
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath *D INTENDS*
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome *D* *E INTENDS*
78 Germinal - Emile Zola *?*
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens *E LOVES D*
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker *E LOVES* *D INTENDS*
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro *D INTENDS*
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert *E STARTED AND GOT BORED. REALLY, REALLY BORED*
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry *?*
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White *D* *E STARTED AND CAME TO THE CONCLUSION THAT IT WASN'T WORTH READING BECAUSE HER SISTER WAS READING IT AND ONE SIMPLY SHOULDN'T DO ANYTHING THAT HER SISTER DOES (ASIDE FROM VITAL BODILY FUNCTIONS SUCH AS BREATHING AND EATING ETC. ETC.)*
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom *D*
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle *DE STARTED*
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton *E INTENDS*
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad *D INTENDS*
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery *D INTENDS* *E INTENDS IF IN ENGLISH*
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks *D INTENDS*
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams *D INTENDS* *E HATES BECAUSE IT INVOLVES RABBITS. D WILL CROSS OUT ALL REFERENCES TO RABBITS AND REPLACE WITH BILBIES. EXCEPT THE ONES THAT DIE --- THEY CAN STAY AS RABBITS*
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole *D READ THIS, BUT THINKS YOU NEED TO HAVE LIVED IN NEW ORLEANS IN THE 60s/70s FOR IT TO MAKE ANY SENSE...*
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute *?*
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas *E LOVES D'ARTAGNON BECAUSE HE IS A HUNK (HE WAS PLAYED BY GENE KELLY... WHO ELISE HAS A HUGE CRUSH ON, OR WOULD IF HE WASN'T DEAD) ACTUALLY: IRRELEVANT!!! ELISE STILL HAS A CRUSH ON HIM EVEN THOUGH HE IS DEAD. SORRY - SHE STILL LOVES HIM EVEN THOUGH HE IS DEAD.*
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare *DE BUT E THINKS THIS IS A STUPID CHOICE: OF ALL THE WORKS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, WHY CHOOSE HAMLET SPECIFICALLY FOR THIS LIST? WHY NOT SOMETHING WITH A BIT OF OOOOMPH, LIKE MACBETH?? (THIS COMING FROM THE GIRL WHO SAYS SHE DOESN'T LIKE SHAKESPEARE'S TRAGEDIES... SHE'S A NUT. SHE REALLY IS.)*
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl *E LOVES D*
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo *E STARTED AND THEN DECIDED THAT SHE SHOULD STOP BECAUSE EVERYONE SAID SHE SHOULD, AND E ALWAYS DOES WHAT EVERYONE SAYS (????!!!!)* *D INTENDS*
So: The score card at the end of that bout of minor/major insanity:
E: has read 25.5, has loved 18 (because she's easy to please), liked 2, and intends to read another 15
D: Has read 29, loved 10 (because he's hard to please / bitter and twisted), liked none, and intends to read 46.
Take out some of that Jane Austen nonsense and add Frankenstein! :P
Post a Comment