Here we go: another meme. Can't believe how far I've fallen that I'm actually doing this. According to the original post, the BBC claims that most people have only read about six of these books. I'm gonna go ahead and call foul on that. A lot of these books have two listings, and I don't know anyone that's read six of these. My bet is some bored teenager made this up to spam all his friends. Still, it looks like fun, so here we go.
So everything marked with an "X" is something I've read.
Everything with a "+" is something I read and "loved."
And, since I can't just follow the instructions, be on the lookout for some fun-filled commentary.
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
- Never going to read it. Ever. Unless it's got zombies in it. Then I might.
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien / (That's a half-X, by the way)
- I've made it halfway through The Two Towers, then decided I was done.
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte X
- Don't remember much about it, other than it's miserable.
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling X+
- Yes, I like Harry Potter. And I'm okay with that.
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee X+
- A junior high favorite. Also, a pretty darn good story.
6 The Bible - X+
- Love the book of Psalms. Good poetry.
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte X+
- Not sure why I like this one. Torturous to read, but good.
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell X- (And that's a half-+)
- I can't say for certain if I like the book, but I feel everyone should read it.
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 X
- See Jane Eyre.
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
- This one's on my list to read eventually.
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare /
- I've read some. Others I'll read... maybe... if I feel like it.
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien X+
- Read it in third grade. Liked it then. Haven't read it since. But the dramatized radio play is a lot of fun.
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
- Also on my list.
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
- George Eliot's a girl, by the way.
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
- Wrote papers on it in college; never read it.
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky X+
- I liked it when I read it, but Russian translations are brutal. I'll never read it again, probably.
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck X+
- Steinbeck's depressing, but I love him for it.
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll X+
- I know it's probably creepy for a guy to love this book as much as I do, but I don't care.
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
- I started it, but I forgot how painful Russian translations are. Never finished it.
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
- I saw the OLD movies - the BBC ones they aired on PBS. Yeah, those were cool.
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lost World - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini X+
- Not sure I'd read this one again, either, but it was worth reading once.
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden X+
- To this day, I'm not sure why I read this book. I think I was trying to appear sensitive to some girl.
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne X+
- The Disney films leave out the part where Pooh and Rabbit kidnap Roo and try to blackmail Kanga into leaving the 100 Acre Woods.
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell X+
- Orwell makes you think. This, by the way, is a good thing.
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
- Meh.
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
- I was in a musical version of it once. Man, that was a horrible play!
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
- On my list.
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
- List.
52 Dune - Frank Herbert X
- Loved it in junior high. Tried to read it again a couple of years ago, and it bored me to tears. I hate crying, so I didn't finish it.
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
- What's with all the bloody Jane Austen books?!
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
- I read the first chapter.
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley X?
- I honestly don't remember if I finished this one.
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
- Ew.
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
- The movie depressed me. Don't know why.
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
- Remember that list of mine? Yeah, this one's on there.
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
- No. Just... just no.
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker X+
- Read it in eighth grade. I keep telling myself I'll read it again. Then I keep buying more movies.
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
- This one's actually on my bookshelf, but I've never read it.
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
- On my list. I'll probably do some baking that day, too.
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 X+
- The BEST book to read out loud.
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 X+
- Dexter's Laboratory references Heart of Darkness. Seriously.
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery X+
- Grown-ups take themselves too f****** seriously.
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams X
- And the cartoon's scary as sin!
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 The Witches - Roald Dahl X
- Big fan of this guy. Should read more of his stuff.
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
- Like this one, for example. And I like the Johnny Depp version. A LOT.
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo X
- The whole thing... all 1232 pages of it... NOT fun!
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