Monday, February 16, 2009

Major Works of Literature-a survey

It's strange, but I haven't been in a reading mood lately. I was loving Alphie McCourt's book, but I'm at a bit of a standstill in the reading of it. It will pick up again soon, and I'll post about it. In the meantime, here's a little survey that my friend Karen posted on Facebook this morning. I completed it and am posting for you. I'd love to see which of these you have read, loved, and/or are planning to read. I have no idea how true the statement at the beginning is, but whatever... :-)

Apparently the BBC reckons most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here.
Instructions:
1) Look at the list and put an 'x' after those you have read.
2) Add a '+' to the ones you LOVE.
3) Star (*) those you plan on reading.
4) Tally your total at the bottom.
5) Tag the person who sent you this

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen X +
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien *
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte X * (required reading in high school, so I didn't enjoy it...that'll change, though)
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling X +
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee X +
6 The Bible (I've read part, but not all) + *
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte *
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell *
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman *
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens * (I started it once...I'll finish someday)
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 not read all, but I've loved all that I've read so far!)
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier *
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien X +
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliott
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell *
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald X
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy *
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy *
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky *
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck X
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll X +++
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame X +++
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy (I've started it before...I'll finish it someday!)
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens *
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis X +++
34 Emma - Jane Austen X +
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen *
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis X + (why is this listed separately from Chronicles?)
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres *
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden X ++
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne *
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell X
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 X (I HATED this one!)
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 X +++
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens X
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley X + (This one scared me...)
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 X +
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas X +++
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 X +++ (scared me out of my mind...I loved it!)
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett X
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce X
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 X +
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker *
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro *
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert X +
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White X +
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 X +++
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare X ++
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl *
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo (I've read bits & pieces...but I can't find a nice, unabridged copy...) *

TOTAL READ: 28 plus several partials
TOTAL LOVED: 22
TOTAL PLAN TO READ: All of the remaining are in the plan...the *s are the ones I especially want to read.

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