Admittedly, I have been reading more in the last month than I have in the last year... but for someone who once read everyday for hours on end (granted I was a kid who didn't work), this just isn't enough. But... I am working on it. I am cutting down on the TV time (yea!) and ramping up the reading and scrapbooking (one of these days maybe I'll post some pictures of my favorite layouts).
Anyway, here is a fun list I found. It seems that there is a statistic somewhere saying that most adults have only ever read 6... I find that hard to believe because I would say you were forced to at least read 10 of these in school. But, anyway... here is how I fared:
Here’s how it works:
1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read.
3) Mark in red the books you LOVE.
4) Reprint this list in your blog
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte- it was recently recommended to me... I'll give it a try
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling- If you know me, you know I have read this, a million times (and listened to it on CD)
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee- I'd like to read this again since I read it in 8th grade and probably didn't have a grasp on all it offered
6 The Bible - I haven’t read all of it, I admit, but would like to someday
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman - maybe, I'll have to think about reading them
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott- I read this some much as a child... LOVE IT!
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare - don't ever plan to read all of them... but I'll watch them on stage, if you force me to
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger - another that I want to revisit now that I am an adult.
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell - never read it and don't plan too... the movie was bad enough (and normally I don't judge books by movies and visa versa, but this one... it was painful!)
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 - forced to in AP English... man it was over Christmas break and was AWFUL! But, the grayness of the book was the point, I think...
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- I have only read the Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe... shoot me... but I do plan on reading all of them
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis - Why is this on here if the Chronicles are also on here?... but it is a favorite now that I am older... CS Lewis is a genius!
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- is it sad I didn't know the show/movies were based on a book? maybe I did know this... but where have I been living not to know this?
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell- twice, once in Middle School and once in High School
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving- just finished it; I really liked it.
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- as a kid I started this about 10 or 15 times and never finished... maybe one day I'll get through it
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- as a kid, how could you not have read this classic?
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection
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- if the complete works is on here, why single one out? But no, I don't plan on reading it... Shakespeare is painful people.
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl- my second grade teacher read us all of Dahl's books after lunch each day.
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo- probably not... seems to daunting.
18 of the 100... not the best ever, but I at least beat the statistic. However, there are a good number I plan on reading someday. Too bad I have about 100 million books on the "to read" list. Its a good thing I like it! And it has to be healthier for me than the TV. :-).
Hope all of you are reading something you enjoy today!
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