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Envinyatar (envinyatar15) wrote,
@ 2008-06-26 00:12:00

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100 books
From gfeather - apparently the average adult has only read six of those? Eep!

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 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
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
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 - C.S. 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 Miln
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' 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

That makes:
- 27 I read
- 22 I would really like to read
- ... of which I'm currently reading 0
- ... and of which 6 more are on my immediate to-read list (Anna Karenina, The Shadow of the Wind, Heart of Darkness, Atonement, Jane Eyre, The Secret Garden)

And that at the age of 19. I think in twenty years I'll have read the whole list :/

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	gfeather 2008-06-26 12:58 am UTC (link)
	Good luck with Les Mis... I rarely give up on a book, even if I'm not especially enjoying it, but I died trying to read it. I think I made it close to 100 pages, but I don't remember much about it save the Cardinal's expenses. 24 before 20 is pretty darn good. (Reply to this) (Thread)

envinyatar15
2008-06-27 08:44 pm UTC (link)

Ha, I think I've spend way more of my life reading than doing anything else. Not particularly healthy sometimes, but hey, whatever ;)

You actually make me curious about Les Misérables! I'm not sure, but I think I wasn't that much into Hunchback either, though I made it through, but I can't quite remember. I need to work on others before that (The Woman in White, Anna Karenina, The Shadow of the Wind), so it'll be some time before I tackle Les Mis anyway.

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	gfeather 2008-06-27 09:25 pm UTC (link)
	I thought it was something I would like when I was poking through the classics in the library at the school I worked at in Turkey. I gave up when I found myself reading the same page over and over again without taking anything in. I might go back and try it again, but there are so many other wonderful books it will probably be a long time before I do. (Reply to this) (Parent)

shiny_crystal
2008-06-26 08:52 am UTC (link)

I've read twenty of those as far as I can see ^^ Though the list is a bit strange, I mean why are Shakespeare's complete plays listed, but Hamlet separately? Same for Chronicles of Narnia, of which, I believe, The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe is a part? But oh well.

On my definite to-read-list are 18 of these. Thumbs up for wanting to read Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Hamlet and OMG Atonement. Think I need to re-read that one soon. And the list reminds me that I really, really want to read 'Crime and Punishment' >.>

Also, you don't have Animal Farm on your immediate to-read-list? I'd strongly recommend it ^^ And it's only 100 pages, so yeah, you read that one through in a few hours ;)

See you later :D

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envinyatar15
2008-06-27 08:49 pm UTC (link)

Hey hon, I wanted to say sorry again about yesterday - I really was beat to death. I spent almost thirty hours straight asleep, with maybe 2.5 hours half-awake - I managed to catch a solid thirty minutes of the match :( I just wouldn't have been any good to be around, you know? I slept through until my mother got home from work, then let her walk me to the doctor, then just so remembered to text you before falling straight back asleep. Hope you're not too angry at me :(

I hear you on the WTF note and strongly agree.

I think I had to read some outtakes from Animal Farm in eleventh grade? And didn't like it. So it's not on my to-read list for the immediate future.

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