Tuesday, March 3, 2009

100 Books

The BBC believes most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here. How do your reading habits stack up?
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.
4) Tally your total at the bottom.
(@ are the books Ed has read or partially read = 36!!!)


(X+, @) 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
(X+, @) 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 Faulk
(X, @) 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
(X, @) 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
(*) 35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
(X+, @) 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
(*) 46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
() 47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
() 48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
(X, @) 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
(X, @) 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
(X, @) 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 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
(*) 97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
(X, @) 98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
(*@) 99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
(*@) 100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

WOW... I've only read 10% of these books! I'd better get crackin'!!! And I'm a S-L-O-W reader, too! :o) If you read this, you're tagged :o)

2 comments:

The Buckwalter Four said...

Okay, so I haven't been blog surfin' in FOREVER ... So great to catch up on you guys and see the pictures of your adorable kiddos! Lots of love to you!

lisalisa said...

# 94 Watership Down- BEST BOOK EVER! If you like talking rabbits....

p.s. your pics of jaren are adorable! Hope he is doing ok :)