Tuesday 17 February 2009

My First Meme.


BBC Book List

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.

1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen X+
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien Tried, but failed to finish.
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte X +++
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling X
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee X
6 The Bible - X
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte X+++
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell X
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman X
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens X
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott X+ (plus the rest of the series)
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy X (at school so hated on principle)
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare* Read some, should read more, and will as I like.
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks (I think I read this at school, but not counting as fuzzy)
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger X
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger X+
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot X
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 X
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams X
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky (Started but never finished.)
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck X
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll (Started but never finished.)
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame X +
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis X
34 Emma - Jane Austen X
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen X
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis X
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Berniere
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden (Bought for my gran, so flicked through, not read).
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne X
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell X
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown X
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez X +++ adore
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins X
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery - X
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy X
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
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 X
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck X
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov* (Own, but not read).
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt * (Almost bought the other day, prob will).
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold X (Hated).
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac (Started, but never finished).
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy X
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie* (Bought this last month, so should read)
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens X
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett X
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce* (Started but never finished, will probably try again one day).
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
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
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 X
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton X
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad (Started, but never finished due to remnants of childhood rebellion)
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery X
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks X (not his best by miles!)
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute X
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare - X
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl - X
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

I think I counted 52 read, and another five started and abandoned, but I may have miscounted. Evidence of a mispent youth. Six I hope to read, and one day I plan to get through the rest of Dickens and Shakespeare, but I may need to retire first!

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

21, if I've counted correctly. The others I really wouldn't want to read. Particularly Captain Corelli's Mandolin.

I really don't see the point of 'must read' lists I have to say. The idea that reading is a task, rather than a pleasure is what puts people off reading.

Feminist Avatar said...

Ooh, I have never wanted to read Capt Corelli's Mandolin either- I think the film put me off.

I know what you mean about putting people off reading, but on the other hand it let's those of us who have read the list feel smug and superior and surely that is what matters.

Val said...

OK, my count was 36...
But what's it all about?!? that's an awfully eclectic list!

Feminist Avatar said...

Responding late, but I think it was the BBC list of the population 100 most favourite book- although it may have been edited by bloggers along the way...