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Friday 1 July 2011

Book List

Book List

BBC Book List
Apparently the BBC reckons most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here.
Instructions:
1) Look at the list and make those you have read bold.
2) Star (*) the ones you LOVE.
3) Italicize those you plan on reading

I've organised it like I saw someone else do it in read, partially read, and yet to read.

Read
  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. His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman
  6. Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
  7. Little Women – Louisa M Alcott
  8. Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
  9. Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
  10. The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame
  11. Swallows and Amazons – Arthur Ransome
  12. Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson
  13. Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis
  14. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – CS Lewis
  15. The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown
  16. Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery
  17. Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
  18. The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett 
  19. Charlotte’s Web – EB White
  20. The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton
  21. Hamlet – William Shakespeare
  22. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl
  23. The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
  24. David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
  25. Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne
  26. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Partially Read
  1. The Bible
  2. Complete Works of Shakespeare
  3. The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien
  4. Animal Farm – George Orwell
  5. Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
  6. Moby Dick – Herman Melville
  7. A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens

Yet to read
  1. War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
  2. Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
  3. Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell 
  4. Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger
  5. The Time Traveller’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger
  6. Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell
  7. The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald
  8. Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
  9. Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
  10. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
  11. Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
  12. Dune – Frank Herbert
  13. The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold
  14. Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helen Fielding
  15. Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
  16. Dracula – Bram Stoker
  17. The Inferno – Dante
  18. The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
  19. The Color Purple – Alice Walker
  20. The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
  21.  Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
  22. The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery
  23. Watership Down – Richard Adams
  24. Les Miserables – Victor Hugo
  25. Catch 22 – Joseph Heller
  26. Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks
  27. Middlemarch – George Eliot
  28. Bleak House – Charles Dickens
  29. Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
  30. Emma – Jane Austen
  31. Persuasion – Jane Austen
  32. The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
  33. One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  34. The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins
  35. The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
  36. Lord of the Flies – William Golding
  37. Atonement – Ian McEwan
  38. A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
  39. Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  40. On The Road – Jack Kerouac
  41. Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy
  42. Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
  43. Possession – AS Byatt
  44. Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
  45. The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom
  46. Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
  47. The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
  48. Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
  49. Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier
  50. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis De Berniere
  51. A Prayer for Owen Meaney – John Irving
  52. Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons
  53. The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon
  54. Germinal – Emile Zola
  55. Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
  56. A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
  57. The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks
  58. A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute
  59. Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  60. Ulysses – James Joyce
  61. Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy
  62. Life of Pi – Yann Martel
  63. A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth
  64. Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
  65. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon
  66. Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
  67. Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
  68. The Secret History – Donna Tartt
Ohk I an slightly appalled at myself! I pride myself on having read a variety of books but I realise how little I have actually read. I tend towards fantasy of course which isn't represented much on this list. But that is no excuse.

I'm starting a book review page and I am going to make a vow to start reading a lot of books I have never read.

My parents have gone through their books and over half of the books in their bookcase I haven't read. So at least once a month I am going to have a book review of a book I have never read before. It will be good for me. I'm halfway through a new book at the moment. So when I'm done I will post a review.

 
Caitlin

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