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[hathycol]

1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.

2) Italicize those you intend to read.

3) Underline the books you LOVE.

4) Reprint this list in your own LJ so we can try and track down these people who've read 6 and force books upon them!


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
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 Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Elliot
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 Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky (oh, the pain)
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
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
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen (You know, I only finished my Collected Austen book yesterday.)
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
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown NOT a great read!
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 Alborn
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
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

I have thirty on there, which isn't bad. Plus, I am currently trying to work through all my Classic Literature, because I live in a university town and therefore the second-hand book shops and charity shops ae crawling with cheap copies of them. It's not that I want to read them, but I'm enjoying being challenged by literature and big thick books take up a lot of time. And sometimes I do enjoy them; Cranford was wonderful, and I read Les Miserables and Anna Karenina voluntarily and for fun when I was on holiday. Enjoyed them, too! Crime and Punishment, on the other hand, BRINGS ME PAIN. But, well, Dickens got paid by the word and I'm looking for that at the moment, so there we are.

Still have no voice. Well, I sometimes do, but when I do I sound like a sexy jazz singer. By 'sexy' read 'Any Winehouse' to be honest with you. I have ice cream now, though.

Comments

[balthaser.livejournal.com]

Ugh, I tried to read Lolita ad it was just so difficult, oh and you should totally read: 88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Alborn because it is really rather good and it made me cry.

I think I might attempt to read a lot this summer.

[hathy-col.livejournal.com]

I have such a great list for recommending reading this summer. Yay!

[tashmania.livejournal.com]

I like this meme :-)

Don't read 'The Grapes of Wrath'; I found it to be the single most depressing piece of dirge I've ever had the misfortune to read. Though that's only my opinion, don't let it put you off ;-) On the other side of the coin, 'Notes From A Small Island' and 'A Christmas Carol' are great books :-)

Aaaand lastly. Would you recommend 'Dune'? I keep hearing the name and I'm curious but I know nothing about it.

[kittyc1978.livejournal.com]

I have to agree with Tashmania on the grapes of wrath...it sucked. Depressing AND boring. The greatest sins of novelists. Stienbeck could have done better.

[hathy-col.livejournal.com]

Dune is... weird. To be honest, I sort of like the film because it has Sting wandering around in a loincloth and I just howl with laughter.

It's a very, very strange book, but well worth a read if you like your SF classics.

[gothmog-dave.livejournal.com]

Read 47 of those myself. Of Mice and Men is good but depressing in parts.

[emmysuze.livejournal.com]

You have to read One Hundred Years of Solitude. It is absolutely fantastic! x

[hathy-col.livejournal.com]

I am so hitting the charity shops tomorrow. Yay books!