Monday, September 7, 2009

So how many have you read?

If you have a facebook, you've probably seen this floating around already. Apparently the BBC believes that out of their list of 100 books, most people will only have read 6. I'm proud to say that I've read many more than that, but I still have a long way to go!

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austenlove it and teach it!
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
read all three
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
love it, and teach it!
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
love it!

5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
love it, and teach it!
6 The Bible
of course!
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte started, but never finished

8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell –
read it in high school

9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman

10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
used to teach it, not my favorite

11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller

14 Complete Works of Shakespeare – not all of them, but quite a few!
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier

16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkienread it
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger read it in high school
19 The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger – want to read it
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot

21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgeraldtaught it last year
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams – own it, but never read it
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh

27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevskyonly book I’ve ever hated
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck – should have read it in high school
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carrolgreat story
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame

31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy – own it, but never read it
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens

33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewisread them as a child, re read some as an adult
34 Emma-Jane Austen – not yet, but I want to!
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen – not yet, but I want to!
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewisgreat book
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 Orwellnot my favorite
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
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomeryread as a child
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding – graded lots of papers on this, but never read it
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 – started, but not finished
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens – own it, but never read it
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez – own it, but never read it

61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck taught it a couple years ago
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas – want to read it
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 one of my favorites when I was little
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Inferno – Dante – read parts of it
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
read it
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 Whiteloved it as a kid
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albomread it
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton

91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad teach it
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 want to read it
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare – teach it

99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
loved it as a kid
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo



So I've read 26 of them, and I teach/have taught 8 of them. There are a bunch more I'd like to read, but also quite a few I know I will never get around to. Moby Dick? No thank you.War and Peace? I don't think so. I don't blame you if you don't want to repost, but I would love to know what you've read, and what books you love (even if they aren't on the list). I'm always looking for news things to read.

4 comments:

Mrs. T said...

Here's my list, Diana. I only included those I've read. One of the things I thought I would do while in Switzerland was read some classics I hadn't ever read or re-read some favorites. I ended up spending more time on the hillsides than reading, but I am working my way down my list!!

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen – One of my all time favorites!!
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien – read and enjoyed all 3
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte – love it.
4 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee – great book.
5 The Bible – over and over
6 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte – enjoyed it
7 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell – read it in high school. Not a favorite
8 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens – Another I enjoyed
9 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
10 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
11 Complete Works of Shakespeare – not all of them, but a number
12 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien – read it and enjoyed
13 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald – keep starting, but never finished
14 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky – never got through it
15 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck –
16 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carrol – great story
17 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis – read them as a child, re read some as an adult
18 Emma-Jane Austen – loved it!
19 Persuasion - Jane Austen – great book!!
20 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis – great book
21 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne - yep :)
22 Animal Farm - George Orwell – didn't enjoy
23 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery – enjoyed
24 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen – enjoyed!
25 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens – still haven't finished
26 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
27 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck –
28 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens. Great book
29 The Inferno – Dante – read most of it
30 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens – re read it every Christmas
31 Charlotte’s Web - EB White – enjoyed re-reading to my kids
32 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad – really disliked it
33 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
34 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
35 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

I'll give some thought to books I love that aren't on the list. I'm sure there are a "few." ;-)

So many Ideas not enough Time said...

I have READ 12 of them but have seen the movies for many of them. And why does they list Chronicles of Narnia and LW&theW seperate but don't list All the books cause I've read the entire chronicle so that would add 5 more books. Unfortunately most of the books that I've read on this list were read in HS and were only read well enough for the test or report.

Rhonda said...

I have read 18 of them.
I LOVED The Count of Monte Cristo, which I read in the 9th grade.
There are several on the list that I want to read though!

Melissa said...

I've read 38 of them and own about another 5 or 6 I haven't gotten around to reading yet. I've read some of them like Anne of Green Gables so many times my books are ragged! Great list! Thanks for sharing.