Something fun for those of us who read voraciously...a list (in no particular order) via Elizabeth from About New York:
1. Bold the books you have read
2. Italicize those you intend to read (none for me....I've read what I want to read on this list)
3. [Bracket] those you have viewed via movie, TV or theater
4. I’m adding to this and putting an * by the books I’ve read as well as seen on film
*Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
*Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
*Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
*To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
The Bible (certainly not the entire thing)
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
*Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
Complete Works of Shakespeare (well...not the complete works…)
*Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
Middlemarch - George Eliot
*Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
[The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald]
Bleak House - Charles Dickens
War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
*Emma - Jane Austen
*Persuasion - Jane Austen
*The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
*Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
Animal Farm - George Orwell
*The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
*Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
Atonement - Ian McEwan
Life of Pi - Yann Martel
Dune - Frank Herbert
Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
*Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
The Secret History - Donna Tartt
The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
On The Road - Jack Kerouac
Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
*Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
Moby Dick - Herman Melville
Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
Dracula - Bram Stoker
*The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
Ulysses - James Joyce
The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
Germinal - Emile Zola
Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
[A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens]
Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
[The Color Purple - Alice Walker]
[The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro]
Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
*Charlotte’s Web - EB White
The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
Watership Down - Richard Adams
A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
[The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas]
[Hamlet - William Shakespeare]
[Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
23 comments:
You know, our minds must work on the same path..I just wrote about two books..You have a great list..
Fun game, I am going to do this too.
But I do recommend you give Watership Down a go. It's one of my all-time favortite books! I have an extra copy, want me to send it to you?
wow..another long list like Elizabeth..
Great list. I have read a lot of these, but it reminds me of how many more I still wish to read, both on and off of this list. I need to get crackin'!
awww man..going to have look at this list after work! looks great (and i LOVe the photo of the old books!)
this is a great list. I may have to do this on my blog one day.
Today WAS a book day in the world of blogs, wasnt it??
Oh boy. I better break out my library card. Actually there's some I've read and some I have no interest in reading. There's also a few I've never even heard of. Obviously, I don't read much these days.
I love to read, but never take the time anymore, I fall asleep after the first page. I'm saving it for old age, when I really have the time. I know I'm missing out but...what's that...the soap is calling my name...nuff said.
sharon
Um - I feel kind of lame. I seriously have only read like 5 of these and I am voracious reader! I think my reading leans to the the more "mysterious" and "lighter" side!
impressive list my friend.
Great collection, I just wish they would make kids in school read even a small percentage of those titles. My fav's to add are Hunter S. Thompsons " Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas",Kurt Vonneguts" Breakfast of Champions" and Ayn Rands " Atlas Shrugged " Thanks for the List I'm going to read those that I haven't. Course John Steinbeck anything by him is a must.
Oh yes I did see this list on 'About New York' the other day. It's quite a list! You haven't read Crime & Punishment or The Bell Jar? I really love both those books! Go on, give them a go! Hey did you like The Five People You Meet In Heaven book? Just curious...can't figure out why it's on this list...
Hey Harriet,
I did like The Five People You Meet in Heaven. I liked his book Tuesdays with Morrie as well.
I studied English Lit in college, and I am a huge defender of the great books tradition. When I was in graduate school, there was a big push by some influential academics to eliminate or dramatically decrease many of the "dead white guy" books from the canon, and it broke my heart. Reading this list made me smile.
Bold
Harry Potter series - JK Rowling (1st one in Spanish with my son)
The Bible (certainly not the entire thing)
Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
Complete Works of Shakespeare (well...not the complete works…)
Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
Animal Farm - George Orwell
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
On The Road - Jack Kerouac
Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
The Color Purple - Alice Walker
Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Bracket
Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
Watership Down - Richard Adams (saw a stage production last with my family)
The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
Hamlet - William Shakespeare
Wow! That was exhausting. I better go and have a liedown now.
Greetings from London.
I love the list! It looks like I still have some work to do.
Holy list sista! Wow you have read a lot, I feel ashamed to say there are not too many on that list I have read but have seen a billiondy of them on film. So wrong, I am getting a library card tomorrow! Great list :)
You should watch the movie, Great Expectations, with Gwyneth Paltrow, Ethan Hawk and Robert de Niro a movie you'll never forget!
Many of these classics I had to read for English Literature at school and I loved it!
I know you said you've read the ones you intend to read on this list, but I must urge you to read The Lord of the Rings Trilogy! And One Hundred Years of Solitude is a favorite of mine. RECONSIDER!!! Great list. Now I have more reading to do. Thanks.
Wow, you are a voracious reader. An inspiration!
Peace, Judi
Great list! I nabbed this for my blog - I love books! :)
what a great list, i've read about 3/4 of them but am gonna take note of the others and add them to my "must read" list.
Books to the ceiling,
Books to the sky,
My pile of books is a mile high.
How I love them! How I need them!
I'll have a long beard by the time I read them.
- Arnold Lobel
Oh boy. This is a fabulous list. I need to add a ton to mine now! I found your blog through a comment of yours on another blog...I can't remember which now. Was it staroftheeast, thesweetspot, thisisglamorous...I can't remember now. I was all over the place when I found yours!
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