7/28/09

Book Meme

Yet another book meme.The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books here. How do your reading habits stack up? Put this into your NOTES. Look at the list and put an 'x' after those you have read. Tag other book lovers.
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen - X
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien - X
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte -X
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling - X
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee - X
6 The Bible - X
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte - X
8 1984 - George Orwell - X
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman -
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens - X
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott - X
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy -
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller - X
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare - (some of them)
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier - X
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien - X
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks -
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger - X
19 The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot - X
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell -
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald -X
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams - X
26 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky -
27 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck - X
28 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll - X
29 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame - X
30 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy - X
31David Copperfield - Charles Dickens -
32Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis - X
33Emma-Jane Austen -X
34 Persuasion - Jane Austen - X
35The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis - X
36The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini - X
37Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres -
38Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden - X
39Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne- X
40Animal Farm - George Orwell - X
41The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown - X
42One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez - X
43A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving -
44The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins -
45Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery - X
46Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy -
47The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood - X
48Lord of the Flies - William Golding -
49 Atonement -Ian McEwan -X
50Life of Pi - Yann Martel - X
51Dune - Frank Herbert -
52Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons -
53Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen - X
54A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
55The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon -
56A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens - X
57Brave New World - Aldous Huxley - X
58The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night - Mark Haddon - X
59 Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez -
60Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck - X
61Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov - X
62The Secret History - Donna Tartt -
63The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold -
64Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas - X
65On The Road - Jack Kerouac -
66Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy -
67Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding - X
68Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie -
69 Moby Dick - Herman Melville - X
70Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens - X
71Dracula - Bram Stoker - X
72The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett - X
73Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson -
74Ulysses - James Joyce
75The Inferno – Dante -X
76Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome -
77Germinal - Emile Zol
78Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray -
79 Posession - AS Byatt -
80A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens - X
81Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
82The Color Purple - Alice Walker - X
83The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro -
84Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert -
85A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry -
86Charlotte’s Web - EB White - X
87The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom -
88Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - X
89 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton -
90 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad - X
91 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint- Exupery - X
92 The Wasp Factory - Ian Banks
93 Watership Down - Richard Adams - X
94A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole -
95A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
96The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas - X
97Hamlet - William Shakespeare - X
98Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl - X
99 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo -

My friend Amanda from Life and Times of a "New New Yorker" had this list and I thought I would see where I measured up. (I really love quizes like this!)

Drum roll please... I came in with 58.g! Funny I have some of the books on the list in my collection of to read on my shelves. =)

2 comments:

Amanda said...

Oh that's good!! I know, it makes me want to read more of the good classics.

Sarah said...

I feel good now! 50! How patronising of the BBC!