Saturday, February 21, 2009

A reading meme: this one's right up my alley!

Facebook is "meme city" lately! I couldn't resist this one.

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.


1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen (x +)
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien (x +)
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte (x +)
4 Harry Potter series - JK (x +)
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee (x +)
6 The Bible (*)
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte (x)
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman (x +)
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens (*)
Running total: 7

11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott (x)
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy (x +)
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare (*)
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier (*)
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien (x +)
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger (x)
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger (x +)
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot (x)
Running total: 13

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 - Douglas Adams (x)
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky (x)
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll (*)
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
Running total: 16

31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy (x +)
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens (*)
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis (x +)
34 Emma - Jane Austen (*)
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen (*)
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis (x +)
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini (x +)
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres (x)
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden (*)
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne (x +)
Running total: 22

41 Animal Farm - George Orwell (x)
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown (x)
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez (x)
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving (x)
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 (x)
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding (*)
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan (x +)
Running total: 28

51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel (*)
52 Dune - Frank Herbert (x)
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)
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon (x)
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez (*)
Running total: 33

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
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy (x)
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding (x +)
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
Running total: 36

71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens (*)
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett (x +)
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson (*)
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath (x)
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome (x +)
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray (*)
80 Possession - AS Byatt (x +)
Running total: 40

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 (x +)
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry (*)
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White (x +)
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Alborn
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
Running total: 43

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 (x +)
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 (x +)
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo (*)

Grand total: 45

Not too bad. At least I've read more than six, which is apparently what the BBC says is how many most people have read out of these. I hope I don't sound like a snob, but if you've only read a few of these, you are REALLY missing out. Lots of great ones here, people! Get to work! ;)

6 comments:

RoyMcC said...

Erm, I think I've read 15 of those. How do you find the time Miranda?

jen said...

Fun! You are such a reader, I am not surprised by your very high number. :) Both my husband and I have each read about 18 of them. I have seen several of the movies of others, haha. In fact, I'm watching Charlie and the Chocolate Factory right now. :P Augustus just fell in the chocolate river.

Black Bear! said...

You have the best blog! The best book on this list is Bridget Jones' Diary bahhhahhahaha. I LOVED that book. 6 cigarettes, 4 alcohol, 1231 calories.

#18,49 = I never understood the greatness factor.
#95 = That reminds me of the people I worked with once.

No Ayn Rand or Wm Faulkner? Or AJ Jones?

Black Bear! said...

Ooops, I meant "A.J. Jacobs", not AJ Jones

mirnr

TiredMamaRunning said...

I've read a number of those, but not as many as I would like to be able to say I've read. Went to high school during a time of throwing out a lot of the classics in favor of some alternative reading...not necessarily a bad thing but I'd like to go back through this list and read a few.

Joe said...

Hey, Mir, a question.

Are you still planning to run the Illinois Marathon on April 11?

If so, is there a chance you could pick up my packet? I can't get over there on Friday night and need someone to get it for me and connect with me Saturday morning.

If possible, can you email me? joeely618 at gmail dot com

Thanks!!