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Stolen from Becky - Book List

  • Feb. 23rd, 2009 at 11:32 AM
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The BBC alleges that the average person will only have read 6 of these books. I must be an overachiever or something.

Bold I've read, italics I started but never finished.



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 (Yep, I've read it cover to cover a few times)
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 (I've read 4 or 5)
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
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 - CS Lewis (uhh...isn't this covered under The Chronicles of Narnia??)
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 (Brilliant book)
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan (I loved the movie, think I should pick this up)
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 (This was one of my favorite books as a child, I've probably read this at least 25 times)
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

A lot of the ones I haven't read are already on my personal reading list. I should like...play less Rai and read more. I used to read a minimum of two books a week, I don't think I've read a book since Christmas.
  • Mood: groggy

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(Anonymous) wrote:
Feb. 23rd, 2009 08:50 pm (UTC)
ToniB & Stimulus Post on DS
Ariana, for someone who's mood is "groggy", you are right on target today with your post on DS. I checked out those 10 Planks and WOW! I'm trying to keep my comments civil but I can't help but think there are some unhappy voters who didn't like the outcome of the election. Never mind the last bailout went directly to the banks and Wall St.
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[info]arianasilver wrote:
Feb. 23rd, 2009 10:53 pm (UTC)
Re: ToniB & Stimulus Post on DS
I mean, I understand that people are getting bailed out that should just have to suck it up and deal with making bad financial choices. That doesn't change the fact that letting them flounder is just going to bring the rest of us down, too. What's the point in whining over it, ya know?

The socialism thing just really irks me. People threw that around so much during the election, c'mon. It's like a buzzword to drive people to do things out of fear.
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[info]myuumaster wrote:
Feb. 23rd, 2009 09:29 pm (UTC)
I'm not sure I agree with some of these being on the list - Like, I know they're uber-famous and (supposedly) great reads Harry Potter and the His Dark Materials series really seem too new to be considered literary masterpieces. Actually, a few others are that way to me too, but... Meh. :P
I say 'supposedly' because I was not at all impressed with Harry Potter after the first 2 books (Couldn't even force myself to read them, and that's saying a lot) and I haven't had a chance to pick up the latter to see what it's like, so I can't really say...

Still, though, I think something should be like 20 years old or something before it's on a list with things like Lord of the Rings and Dracula. D:

Also,

im in ur lj
stalkin ur postz
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[info]arianasilver wrote:
Feb. 23rd, 2009 10:55 pm (UTC)
I agree, I was going through this list kinda like "huh"? Especially when it lists The Chronicles of Narina and then The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe separately. Maybe because some people have read the first book but haven't read the rest of the series.
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[info]arianasilver wrote:
Feb. 23rd, 2009 10:55 pm (UTC)
Also...zomg stalker!! XD
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[info]celtic_faerie13 wrote:
Feb. 24th, 2009 03:02 am (UTC)
I've made it through like 25 of them. I agree some of them were a surprise to me. There were also ones that I am surprised weren't on there as well as shocked that some of them did make the list.


And the average person has really only read 6 of these??!! That seems odd to me. A lot of those were definitely required readings in HS for me.
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