Tuesday, August 26, 2008
I found this on Wan Ching's blog and decided to give it a go as well =)
Instructions:
- Look at the list and bold those you have read
-Italicise the ones you want to read
- Underline the books you really loved and strikethrough the ones really didn't enjoy [I don't know how to strike through text on blogger so I'm just going to use an X to indicate the books I didn't like]
- Reprint this list in your own journal if you want to... you know you want to.
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen [yes, I know my knowledge of canonical lit sucks.]
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 [not all of it, though...]
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 _Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell_
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens [I never managed to get through more than half of this horrible novel!] X
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott [read this when I was a child]
12 Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy [well well, I didn't even touch this novel even though it was one of the set texts for the Tragedy module...]
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare [err, I've only read several of his plays]
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier [I think I didn't complete this book as well even though it was set for the Feminism module...] X
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
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 X
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 - CS Lewis
34 Emma - Jane Austen [I have ambivalent feelings abt Mr Knightley]
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
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
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 [oh, I read this text for the 19th c mod in my first year! Didn't finish it though 'cos its pacing was way too slow for a mystery novel...]
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery [childhood reading again]
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 _Lord of the Flies - William Golding_ [I want to read it again!]
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 ['A' level text. Brings back memories of the good (?) old days in AJ]
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_ [one of my alltime favs]
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60 Love In A Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov [read this during 'A' levels and couldn't think of what to make of the ending...]
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 [yet another 'A' level text]
68 Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie [tell me about wanting to read this book! I've been looking for it in Central Lib since May and every time it's been borrowed by someone else!!]
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker [this was good fun to take apart in Feminism class]
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett [childhood reading again]
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 [I remember reading this as a sec sch lit text??]
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 [I remember I was charmed by this novel as a child]
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 [sec sch text again...]
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 _Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl_
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo [my sister is trying to read this - don't know how far she has gotten]
kaoru said at 7:43 AM
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