I read on another blog that the average adult has read only 6 out of 100 of the following books! (I don't know if those stats are true, but I guess it doesn't matter). I've bolded the books I have read.
1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen (loved the movie, too, every time I see it!)
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 (the majority of it)
7. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8. Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens (liked it better when I taught it in HS vs. reading it in high school.)
11. Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
12. Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14. Complete work of Shakespere (pretty much gonna happen as an English major)
15. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16. The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18. Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger (taught this one too, and yes, lots of bad language.)
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
28. Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll (stick with Disney; but I did learn more about the word "caucus")
30. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy (tried it because Oprah recommended it. Big mistake.)
32. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33. Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis (Thanks Mrs. Braeggar; 3rd grade)
34. Emma - Jane Austen
35. Persuasion - Jane Austen
36. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini (Loved it.)
37. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
38. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden (Loved it; hated the ending, though)
39. Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
40. Animal Farm - George Orwell
41. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
42. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez (one of my fave college books)
43. A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving (started it)
44. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
45. Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
46. Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
47. The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
48. Lord of the Flies - William Golding (taught it)
49. Atonement - Ian McEwan (on my list)
50. Life of Pi - Yann Martel (on my list on on my bookshelf)
51. Dune - Frank Herbert
52. Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
53. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
54. A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
55. The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
56. A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
57. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
58. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
59. Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
60. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
61. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
62. The Secret History - Donna Tartt
63. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
64. Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
65. On The Road - Jack Kerouac
66. Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
67. Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fiedling
68. Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdi
69. Moby Dick - Herman Melville (Call me Ishmael. PUKE!)
70. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
71. Dracula - Bram Stoker
72. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
73. Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
74. Ulysses - James Joyce
75. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
76. Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
77. Germinal - Emile Zola
78. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
79. Possession - AS Byatt
80. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
81. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
82. The Color Purple - Alice Walker (read it in HS and loved it so much I took it to church to read during sacrament meeting; kinda innappropriate!)
83. The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
84. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
85. A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
86. Charlotte’s Web - EB White
87. The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
88. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
89. The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
90. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
91. The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
92. The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
93. Watership Down - Richard Adams
94. A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
95. A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
96. The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
97. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
98. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
99. Night - Elie Wiesel
100. Twilight series - Stephanie Myers
The last 2 were missing, so I added two I could get credit for. I got 32. How many did you get? What are your reviews?
Some other books I've read that I'd reccommend:
The Color of Water - James McBride
The Glass Castle - Jeannette Walls
Oh My Stars - Lorna Landvik
The Good Earth - Pearl S. Buck
Pillars of the Earth - Ken Follett
Books I'm working on:
Life of Pi - Yann Martel
Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
The Sex Lives of Cannibals - J. Maarten Troust
Mere Christianity - C.S. Lewis
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
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9 comments:
Very impressive Sarah. How do you find time to read? Loved all the pictures of your vacation. You are a brave woman and I hope someday to have motherhood down as well as you do.
I totally stole this and put it on my blog. I've read 25 of them.
I pretty much suck. I've only read 13. And how did The Scarlet Letter not make this list??? That would up my number too. Props on reading 32 of them...
oh. I got one. Yep. One lousy book. I am so stupid!!
I've read 17 of the ones on your list. I'll have to print out this list and work on a few more. :)
you should sign up on goodreads.com so you can share and update and we can keep track of what we want to read from your recommendations!
I loved your post. I've never considered myself a reader, but I had 12. I guess out of 100 that's pretty bad, but now I have somethings to add to my "to do" list.
are you on goodreads? i second candice on getting yourself on there if you already are not.
i guess i am a nerd :P because if i counted right, i've read 56 out of the 100.
I've seen some of the movies. Does that count
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