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Saturday, April 11, 2009

book list (further proof that i'm a nerd)

I borrowed this idea from WiseGuy for Show & Tell.
You may find the rest of the class over here!

Here are the instructions:

1) Look at the list and bold the ones you have read.
2) Add a '+' to the ones you LOVE.
3) Star/Asterisk (*) those you plan on reading.
4) Italicize those you've started but not finished.
5) Tally your total at the bottom.

I, of course, changed the original instructions, but whatever.

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
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 Faulks
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 +
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 +
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
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis (This is a duplicate...) +
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
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 +
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
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
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare (this is a repeat)
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl +
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

Total read = 44

Total started but not finished = 3

Total I still want to read = 17

I am the bookwormiest of bookworms, and many of my favourites don't appear here. E.g., no Toni Morrison or Carol Shields.
I find this list biased toward the western canon, so if anyone has book recommendations that are outside of the mainstream, please tell me! :)

11 comments:

Lollipop Goldstein said...

I'm going to recommend #19--it was a really cool book and the sequel is coming out soon.

AnotherDreamer said...

You've got some good stuff read on that list! Awesome :)

Candice said...

Wow, you have read quite a few of those.

Kate said...

I've read so many books, I can't even remember what I've read and what I've thought about reading. I'm a total SciFi freak at times, and loved Robert Heinlein and Anne McCaffrey and Orson Scott Card. Turned more to chicklit the last few years (Marian Keyes is fun) as a nice escapist easy read. Can't wait for my exams to be totally done to really dig into novels again. I used to go through 15 or so a week in high school (lots were the short teen novels, but still).
Hope you're having more fun than me off the pill. I'd been spotting for the last 2 weeks, and then had weird brown EWCM today. My body had better not be screwing up despite the pill. I'll flip out if they cancel me after my baseline bloodwork and u/s.
Good luck getting scripts - if you could avoid mentioning that it was me that spread the word about getting them, I'd appreciate it (would hate to piss them off in some way as I'm starting the cycle!). I'd imagine if you said money's really tight and you live right near a pharmacy that carries all that stuff, they couldn't have much of an objection anyhow. It's not like that can be a large part of their income, given how much they charge for the IVF itself.
Happy Easter!

Lori Lavender Luz said...

I loved a Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry.

Oh, to have the time to read all these...

Mrs. Gamgee said...

Drat... more books to add to my 'to read' list! :) There are so many incredible titles on that list... and so many left out... One that I would recommend, if you like mysteries, is "Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie". It's a fabulous read, funny and intriguing at the same time.

Kristin said...

Oh oh oh...a sequel to Time Traveler's Wife...YAY!!!

You've read a lot on that list.

..al said...

44! Jesus!

Though you are not a nerdalone!

And I see somebody smooth linking...you learn fast!

Anonymous said...

I have started SO many of these. I have tried to read literature for many years. This is a good list to bookmark.

Anonymous said...

Most of the ones I would recommend you noted that you planned to read--but I would recommend A Prayer for Owen Meany...and now I'm going to have to check out, Time Traveller's Wife. :)

Jennifer said...

Now I *really* need a trip to the library. I've just been re-reading the books I have on hand; I need some new material! (I have no excuse - our library even has a drive-up window for picking up reserved items.) There are some great suggestions on the list - I'm going to check them out! (literally...sorry, that was a bad pun!)