I had caught this earlier this week from Elana’s blog. It is not an award or something, but I thought it was nice for a short recap.
Here are the instructions:
1) Look at the list and put an 'X' (and bold) after those you have read.
2) Add a '+' to the ones you LOVE.
3) Star/Asterisk (*) those you plan on reading.
4) Put a # (and italics) by those you've started but not finished.
5) Tally your total at the bottom.
The first thing to do with the rules is to mess them around. So rather than putting different pug marks, I chose to colour code my reads. Red is for books that I have read. Green is for books I began but never finished. And blue is for books I want to read. What can I say? I am a colourful person…
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen [Enjoyed the book and the different adaptations of it into TV Series and Movies. Least favourite adaptation: Gurinder Chaddha’s Version ]
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 [a Fantastic Read]
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte [Worth Reading]
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott [Beautifully Memorable]
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 [Yes Yes Yes! I have read this book more than once…and loved Vivien Leigh’s portrayal of Scarlett O’Hara]
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 [read it a long time ago]
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens [I read this one when I was 11 years old. Dora was a fascinating name for me since then.]
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden [Poignant]
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown [I did read it…I found Deception Point more interesting.]
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 [This book was shoved down my throat and I gagged on it. It was in our ‘syllabus’.]
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 [I quite like Austen. I found this similar to P & P]
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 [Totally in love with the book…Treasures and Lost Love and Voyages, what a mix!]
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding [Saw the movie, before I read the book]
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie [I am not a SR fan. Period.]
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville [Oh, my favourite sea villain!]
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens [Have read it a long time back]
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker [read it in an e-book]
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 [Have talked about this one in a previous Show and Tell]
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray [Read this one when I was in school]
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 [Downloaded an e-book to read this one]
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
Total read = 20
Total started but not finished = 3
Total I still want to read = 4
Even though I have not read all of the above books, I have read several that do not figure on this list at all. One of the books that’s queued up in my reading list is Dr Zhivago by Boris Pasternak.
Would you like to do it? Want to talk about any of these books? You can leave me some comment love about this….
The Central Librarian resides here...
^WiseGuy^
Here are the instructions:
1) Look at the list and put an 'X' (and bold) after those you have read.
2) Add a '+' to the ones you LOVE.
3) Star/Asterisk (*) those you plan on reading.
4) Put a # (and italics) by those you've started but not finished.
5) Tally your total at the bottom.
The first thing to do with the rules is to mess them around. So rather than putting different pug marks, I chose to colour code my reads. Red is for books that I have read. Green is for books I began but never finished. And blue is for books I want to read. What can I say? I am a colourful person…
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen [Enjoyed the book and the different adaptations of it into TV Series and Movies. Least favourite adaptation: Gurinder Chaddha’s Version ]
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 [a Fantastic Read]
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte [Worth Reading]
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott [Beautifully Memorable]
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 [Yes Yes Yes! I have read this book more than once…and loved Vivien Leigh’s portrayal of Scarlett O’Hara]
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 [read it a long time ago]
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens [I read this one when I was 11 years old. Dora was a fascinating name for me since then.]
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden [Poignant]
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown [I did read it…I found Deception Point more interesting.]
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 [This book was shoved down my throat and I gagged on it. It was in our ‘syllabus’.]
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 [I quite like Austen. I found this similar to P & P]
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 [Totally in love with the book…Treasures and Lost Love and Voyages, what a mix!]
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding [Saw the movie, before I read the book]
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie [I am not a SR fan. Period.]
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville [Oh, my favourite sea villain!]
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens [Have read it a long time back]
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker [read it in an e-book]
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 [Have talked about this one in a previous Show and Tell]
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray [Read this one when I was in school]
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 [Downloaded an e-book to read this one]
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
Total read = 20
Total started but not finished = 3
Total I still want to read = 4
Even though I have not read all of the above books, I have read several that do not figure on this list at all. One of the books that’s queued up in my reading list is Dr Zhivago by Boris Pasternak.
Would you like to do it? Want to talk about any of these books? You can leave me some comment love about this….
The Central Librarian resides here...
^WiseGuy^
Ha! I love Lolita. I can still recite the first page.
ReplyDeleteNo Harry Potter! For shame!
I have a version of the list on my Facebook. Think I might borrow this idea from you for my Show & Tell, too. :)
ReplyDeleteLife of Pi is marvellous - a huge hit in Canada when it was released. I just skimmed the first 100 pages, and then chowed down on the rest. I recommend it.
I also adore Little Women and Gone with the Wind!
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy will not disappoint when you get to reading it :)
ReplyDeleteAusten... who doesn't like Austen. Love every single one of her books, all six. My favorite is Pride and Prejudice, and Persuasion. But, Northanger Abbey is hilarious. And Emma has it's charm too. Ahhh, they all have their charm!
I posted this list awhile back I think... or a similar list. It's been awhile though.
I'm ashamedto say most of the books I did read from that list were read when I was in school, lol!! I am thriller/horror junkie.
ReplyDelete#20 is one of my all-time favorites. Long, but well worth it.
ReplyDelete48 has an infertility/surrogacy theme that you would find interesting.
Some of my other favorites on the list (Hobbit, Pooh, Charlotte's Web, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory) you can hopefully read with your kids someday.
I love that so many of my faovrite bloggers are so well read.
ReplyDeleteLollipop - Would love if you did!
ReplyDeleteHarry Potter is not my kind of 'read'.
OHW - Yann Martel book won the Booker for a particular year...It was quite a hit, yes.
Another Dreamer - Yes, I have heard about it and I am interested to get my hands onto it. Uh oh, I must have missed your post about that list.
Candice - LOLOL! Making them textbooks, just snuffs their joy! I too love horror books, have read quite a bit of Dean Koontz and Stephen King myself.
Cassandra - I am not unnerved by a book's length. Mrityunjay (a book I reviewed for a show and tell, a few months back) was lengthy too. I shall definitely look into your suggestion.
Kristin - Thank You! You made me smile, and that is such a nice thing, you know!
What a neat idea! I'm definitely stealing this one. . .
ReplyDeleteHugs,
Jo
I really liked The Kite Runner and The Color Purple. Both were pretty heavy (emotionally), though. This was a great S&T, by the way.
ReplyDeleteI also recommend Rohinton Mistry's "A Fine Balance."
ReplyDeleteThis is a great list, and you've already done so much of it!
I love this list - someone sent it to me and i did it on Facebook. You should read The Time Traveler's Wife - one of my favorite books!
ReplyDeleteI have determined that I am very poor at reading the classics. Most of books on there I have not read, or read only because I was in high school or college. Somehow, I feel like those don't count....
ReplyDeleteI agree with Leah the the Time Traveler's Wife was really good. However, the infertility angle hit waaaaayyy to close to home for me. I cried until I made myself sick.
On another note, thanks for asking about my health. I am feeling A LOT better. Almost human again :)
Brenda :)
Jo - Hey, I can't get through to you! Clicked to your profile, but it is not public...so I can't leave a comment back for you!
ReplyDeleteLeah - Same as Jo for you! Thanks for the suggestion... Shall add it to my list of future reads...
Brenda - Nice that you are better....Syllabusizing these classics and then hammering them at students kill their joy....I guess, now is the time to start reading - at your own sweet pace!
Maybe skip Love in the Time of Cholera and speed right to The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. Love it!
ReplyDeleteRe: blog layout.
ReplyDeleteI went here: http://www.pyzam.com/bloggertemplates.
I've noticed that many IF blogs use the Cutest Blog on the Block web site, but all the good layouts are taken. That's why I went elsewhere.
Happy designing! :)
finally...some time to myself since the male is asleep!! ;)
ReplyDeleteI love the idea of the list... I've gotta say, I'm a HUGE (well, 'literally' too, hahaha I'm such a pun whore) sylvia plath fan, most of my older unknown bloggy posts (where I was mostly venting) were influenced strongly by her, cummings and gibran. I wanted to also say that the first line of 'rebecca' is one of the most beautiful, haunting lines I've ever read "last night I dreamt I went to manderlay again". I havent read it in YEARS!! (decades actually) but what I remember was I really loved the sense of impending doom and the whole gothic and chilling feel of the whole love thing. I noticed it wasn't in blue but thought I'd recommend it toyou. I think its the only novel by du maurier I've read too. Oh and don't you think Salman Rushdie is so fucking overrated??? (although salman is on the list of potential boy names)... I also really recommend the little prince (I did a nerdy book blog post not too long ago), beautiful haunting tale. Y'know, just in case you're taking suggestions!
ciao,
xx
P.S. now that all I have to read are law textbooks (yuck), I really only dabble in horror fiction, love F paul wilson, steve king, richard laymon (now he was one fudged up cracker!!) ... xx
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