Meme time!

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Stolen from at least becroberts, lovelycoconuts, and dilettantka, and possibly others:

1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicise those you intend to read
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Strike those you HATE and encourage people to burn before reading (now i Normally do not encourage burning books so I just striked the books I really did not like and would never re-read again)


1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien read in 7th grade
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte read in 9th and currently re-reading
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling I read some of them but overall they are SO overrated
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible I've read a good portion of it going to services or at least the Torah part of it. Heck, I've even read some of it in the vowelless Hebrew :P
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte Senior Year of HighSchool
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman the heavy handed anti-Christian attitude even got to me and I'm Jewish.
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens 10th grade
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare (not bolding but I have read a bunch of his plays)
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier 9th grade
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger I spent this whole book praying Holden Caulfield would get hit by a car and die, damn you High School English!
19 The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell 9th grade
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald My favorite book in 11th grade English
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 And I read Through the Looking Glass too
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy Senior year high school and I hated everyone in the book. I liked Lermontov's Hero of Our Time so much more
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis All of them but Horse and His boy which SUCKED
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis Ummmm 33?
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini When I feel like being weepy >>;
38 Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden should have been about catboy geisha >>;
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell 6th Grade
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown (absolutely no desire to read this)
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 hated this book and the anti-semitism and anti-immigrant attitudes as well.
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood I tried starting this book..
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding 6th Grade, It has more subtext and fewer cardgames XD;
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 10th grade
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 So BAD!
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 Why is this here????
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 Though I like Little Princess a lot more
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
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 No but after Un Coeur Simple I have sworn off all Flaubert, that was like torture!
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte's Web - EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom (I think I would rather go to Heaven than read this book >>; )
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (I read some excerpts)
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad I think this is the Conrad I read?
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


OK what the hell, why is this mostly Russian Lit for non English lit? Shouldn't Camus or Macchiavelli be on this list? ^_^;; Also where is Hawthorne????? I don't feel bad because my minor in English concentrated on plays and pretty much Shakespeare is the only playwright represented here. ~.~ *shakes fist at the lack of Susannah Centlivre, Tennessee Williams, Gore Vidal and Eugene O'Neill*