Wednesday, May 6, 2009

Reading list for the holidays

BBC believes most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here. How do your reading habits stack up?
Copy this into your NOTES. Look at the list and put an 'x' (or put a number) after those you have read. Tag other Book Nerds and Publish.

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)
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee ()
6 The Bible - () 
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte () first few pages, i think HAHAHA
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell (X) one of my favs (:
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman ( )
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens (X) HAHAHAHA
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott (X)
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy ( )
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller (X) one of my favs (:
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare ( ) 
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier ( )
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien ()
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk ( )
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger ()
19 The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger (X) another fav (:
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot ( )
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell ( ) movie? :D
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald ( )
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens ( )
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy ( )
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams ( )
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh ( )
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky ( )
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck ( )
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 ( ) Carmen's book is still here :x
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen ()
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis ( )
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini (X)
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres ( )
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden (X)
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne ()
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell ()
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown (X)
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 ( )
 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 ( ) 
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel () 
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 ( X) love love love 
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night - 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 (X) :D 
 69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie ( ) 
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville ( )
 71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens ()
 72 Dracula - Bram Stoker ()
 73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett ( ) 
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson ( ) 
75 Ulysses - James Joyce ( ) 
76 The Inferno - Dante ( ) supposed to. 
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 (X) 
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) *covers face in anguish* 
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery (X)
 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 (X)
 100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo () I WANT!!!! 

weizheng, you noob. 
people, if you happen to possess the books for those in bold, gimme gimme gimme! (: 

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