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[rynne]

That book meme. :)

1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Strike out the books you have no intention of ever reading, or were forced to read at school and hated.
5) Reprint this list in your own LJ so we can try and track down these people who've read 6 and force books upon them.


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 (Um, several of them, but not all)
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 (NOT a fan of Charles Dickens. I do not want to read any more Dickens unless forced to)
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams (I keep meaning to read this, and have never managed it yet)
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck (Only Steinbeck I've read that I liked)
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 (Why is this on here as well as the whole Chronicles?)
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
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
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 (I have it, but never got around to reading it)
69 Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville (I promised nextian I would try)
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett (I like A Little Princess better, but this was still good)
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce (OH JAMES JOYCE NO. If I could barely get through Portrait of the Artist, I'd never be able to read Ulysses.)
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
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

Am watching Ruby in the Smoke right now. It is totally reminding me of how much I love the Sally Lockhart books, and Sally herself. This was my first exposure to Philip Pullman, not His Dark Materials (though I love that as well), though it doesn't seem like that many people have really heard of them, especially not compared to the success of HDM. I need to read these books again.

ETA: Oh, Fred! Yay for Fred. I love Fred. He was totally one of my first literary crushes, and I'm really reminded of that now.

Comments

[deaka.livejournal.com]

I loved the Sally Lockhart books, and adored Fred. :D Is it the BBC miniseries you're watching? I just saw that recently, and I really liked it.

[rynne.livejournal.com]

No, the 2006 Masterpiece Theatre with Billie Piper. I didn't know they had a BBC miniseries! I need to see if I can find that. Do they have all the books, or just Ruby in the Smoke?

[deaka.livejournal.com]

I was using the term 'BBC miniseries' lightly, sorry. *blushes* :p It sounds like it was the one you saw, with Billie Piper - they've done Ruby In the Smoke and Shadow in the North that I know of. :D It was good, because I haven't been able to find the book version of Ruby in the Smoke anywhere, so I could finally get the background on Sally's past and how she met Fred. :p

[tsukara.livejournal.com]

I....liked the first Sally Lockhart book? And most of the second one, except for the ending. That ending made me want to throw the book across the room (nearly did, but it was a library book). I tried reading the next one, but bleh. The Tin Princess was interesting though...

[rynne.livejournal.com]

It was the baby bit you disliked, I gather? I wasn't especially thrilled with that myself, but I did like how Sally could be an unmarried mother in Victorian England and still keep all of her spirit. And, much as I am generally an OTP person and much as I love Fred and Sally/Fred, I did like that Sally was able to love again. Still, Ruby in the Smoke is my favorite of the Sally books (I did love Shadow in the North as well, but Fred breaks my heart), and I do love The Tin Princess.

[tsukara.livejournal.com]

Well, just that it as so unlikely and such a contrivance. That's really why I don't like his writing so much. A lot of times it feels either too contrived, or as if he's sacrificing story to make a point.

Sally was, however, a pretty awesome character.