Book meme stolen from Contradictacat
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breakinglight11Instructions: Look at the list and put an X after those you have read.
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen (X)
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien (x)
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte (x)
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling (x) I enjoy them, but I don't think they're very good.
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee (x)
6 The Bible (x) I don't care who you are, you should know the Bible.
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte ( )
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell ()
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman (x) Wasn't terribly impressed.
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens (x)
Total so far: 8/10
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott (x)
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy ()
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller ()
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare (x)
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier ( )
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien (x)
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk ( )
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger (X) Didn't like it, everyone else does, though
19 The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger (x) This is too recent and not nearly on the caliber of the others to be in this grouping
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot ( )
Total so far: 12/20
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell ( )
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald (x) Another one everyone loves but me.
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens ( )
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy ( )
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams (x) I don't think I always get it.
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky ( )
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck (X) I keep trying to like Steinbeck, but he never quite does it for me.
29 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll (X) Heh. Oh, yes.
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame (X) LOVE talking animal books.
Total so far: 17/30
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy ( )
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens (X)
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis (x) One of the most important works of my life as a writer, as a Christian, and as a human being.
34 Emma - Jane Austen ( )
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen ( )
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis (x) Why is this and the whole series on here?
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini ()
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres ( )
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden () What the hell is up with these groupings?
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne (X) What?
Total so far: 21/40
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell (x) It hurts me to read this.
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown (X) Hated it.
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez (X)
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 (x)
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding (x)
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan ( )
Total so far: 25/50
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel ( )
52 Dune - Frank Herbert ( ) Despite being the only nerd in my family, I am the only one who hasn't read and isn't an ENORMOUS fan of this
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 (x) Love, love, LOVE this book. My favorite Dickens.
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley ()
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime - Mark Haddon ( )
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez ( )
Total so far: 26/60
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck (x) Again, I kept trying to like 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 ( ) Always loved the title, though.
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding ( )
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie (X)
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville (X) My dad read this to me when I was a kid for the first time. He loves it. Particularly chapter 86, The Tail.
Total so far: 29/70
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens (x)
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker (X)
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett (x)
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson ( )
75 Ulysses - James Joyce ( )
76 The Inferno – Dante (x) Adore it.
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome ( )
78 Germinal - Emile Zola ( )
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray ( )
80 Possession - AS Byatt ( )
Total so far: 33/80
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens (x) Adore it. It's brilliance is almost overshadowed by its popularlity, if you can believe it.
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell (x)
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker ( )
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro ( ) Again, love the title.
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert ( )
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry ( )
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White (x)
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom ( )
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (x) Huge fan. Read them all.
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton ( )
Total so far: 37/90
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad (x) Hated it.
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery ( )
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks ( )
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams (x) One of the two contenders for my favorite book of all time.
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole ( )
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute ( )
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas (x)
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare (x) Heh. I've got a fondness.
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (x)
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo ( )
Total: 42/100
Wow, stupid score. But frankly, I find this a very suspect list. I consider myself to be fairly well-read. Perhaps I'll make my own.
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen (X)
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien (x)
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte (x)
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling (x) I enjoy them, but I don't think they're very good.
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee (x)
6 The Bible (x) I don't care who you are, you should know the Bible.
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte ( )
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell ()
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman (x) Wasn't terribly impressed.
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens (x)
Total so far: 8/10
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott (x)
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy ()
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller ()
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare (x)
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier ( )
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien (x)
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk ( )
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger (X) Didn't like it, everyone else does, though
19 The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger (x) This is too recent and not nearly on the caliber of the others to be in this grouping
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot ( )
Total so far: 12/20
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell ( )
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald (x) Another one everyone loves but me.
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens ( )
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy ( )
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams (x) I don't think I always get it.
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky ( )
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck (X) I keep trying to like Steinbeck, but he never quite does it for me.
29 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll (X) Heh. Oh, yes.
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame (X) LOVE talking animal books.
Total so far: 17/30
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy ( )
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens (X)
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis (x) One of the most important works of my life as a writer, as a Christian, and as a human being.
34 Emma - Jane Austen ( )
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen ( )
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis (x) Why is this and the whole series on here?
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini ()
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres ( )
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden () What the hell is up with these groupings?
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne (X) What?
Total so far: 21/40
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell (x) It hurts me to read this.
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown (X) Hated it.
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez (X)
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 (x)
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding (x)
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan ( )
Total so far: 25/50
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel ( )
52 Dune - Frank Herbert ( ) Despite being the only nerd in my family, I am the only one who hasn't read and isn't an ENORMOUS fan of this
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 (x) Love, love, LOVE this book. My favorite Dickens.
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley ()
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime - Mark Haddon ( )
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez ( )
Total so far: 26/60
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck (x) Again, I kept trying to like 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 ( ) Always loved the title, though.
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding ( )
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie (X)
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville (X) My dad read this to me when I was a kid for the first time. He loves it. Particularly chapter 86, The Tail.
Total so far: 29/70
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens (x)
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker (X)
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett (x)
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson ( )
75 Ulysses - James Joyce ( )
76 The Inferno – Dante (x) Adore it.
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome ( )
78 Germinal - Emile Zola ( )
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray ( )
80 Possession - AS Byatt ( )
Total so far: 33/80
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens (x) Adore it. It's brilliance is almost overshadowed by its popularlity, if you can believe it.
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell (x)
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker ( )
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro ( ) Again, love the title.
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert ( )
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry ( )
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White (x)
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom ( )
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (x) Huge fan. Read them all.
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton ( )
Total so far: 37/90
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad (x) Hated it.
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery ( )
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks ( )
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams (x) One of the two contenders for my favorite book of all time.
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole ( )
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute ( )
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas (x)
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare (x) Heh. I've got a fondness.
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (x)
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo ( )
Total: 42/100
Wow, stupid score. But frankly, I find this a very suspect list. I consider myself to be fairly well-read. Perhaps I'll make my own.
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