Thursday, July 24, 2008

The Meme in Which I Prove I am A Big Giant Nerd!

I was tagged for this Meme, which fits my Literature Major self oh so well.
Here's the deal: books in bold type I've read, books in italics I'm planning to read.
And, since commenting / discussing books is my favorite pass time there are many comments. Well, not too many, I self edited.

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 i HATED this book with every fiber of my 11 year old being.
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy this one flat out sucked.
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare – half bolded, I’ve read many, but not all...
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier I LOVE this book and the movie.
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 - an all time favorite
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 – this is my husband’s favorite book, so I’ve promised him I’ll read it at some point.
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky -
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck –
I have a strong dislike for this novel.
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 – my favorite Austin novel.
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
(why is this on the list separately from #33? Anyway, it’s the only one I read)
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini – I’ve heard only good things about this book; it’s on my to read list.
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres -
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden – Another favorite
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
– Angels and Demons was MUCH better.
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meany - 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 – the overly aggressive marketing campaign bugs me too much to read this.
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen – my least favorite of Austin’s works.
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 – I bought and read this in San Francisco Intl Airport, during a marathon flight delay three years ago.
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac – seriously anti-climatic
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
– another let down
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 – on my literary to do list.
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray – brilliant book, simply brilliant
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker – this book started me off an Alice Walker binge in 1995, where I read everything Walker ever wrote.
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro – stunning book.
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
– I read this the night before my brother’s wedding. I started it about 10pm and was finished by 4am; be warned it’s a weeper.
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad – I was forced to read this for a class in college. I hated it.
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

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