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| teapot |
Are You A Reader? BBC ListThe BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books here. How do your reading habits stack up?[x] Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen [x] The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien [x] Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte [x] Harry Potter series - JK Rowling [x] To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee [x] The Bible [x] Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte [x] Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell [ ] His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman [x]Great Expectations - Charles Dickens [x] Little Women - Louisa M Alcott [x ] Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy [x] Catch 22 - Joseph Heller [x ] Complete Works of Shakespeare [x ] Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier [x] The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien [ ] Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk [x] Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger [x] The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger [x ] Middlemarch - George Eliot [x ] Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell [x] The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald [x ] Bleak House - Charles Dickens [x ] War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy [x] The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams [x] Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky [x ] Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck [x] Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll [x ] The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame [x ] Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy [x ] David Copperfield - Charles Dickens [x ] Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis [x ] Emma - Jane Austen [x ] Persuasion - Jane Austen [x ] The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis [ ] The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini [x ] Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres [x] Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden [x] Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne [x] Animal Farm - George Orwell [x] The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown [x] One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez [x] A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving [x] The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins [x ] Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery [x ] Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy [x] The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood [x] Lord of the Flies - William Golding [x ] Atonement - Ian McEwan [x ] Life of Pi - Yann Martel [x] Dune - Frank Herbert [x ] Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons [x] Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen [x] A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth [x] The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon [x] A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens [x ] Brave New World - Aldous Huxley [x ] The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night - Mark Haddon [x ] Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez [x ] Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck [x ] Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov [ ] The Secret History - Donna Tartt [x ] The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold [x] Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas [x] On The Road - Jack Kerouac [x ] Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy [x ] Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding [ ] Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie [x ] Moby Dick - Herman Melville [x ] Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens [x ] Dracula - Bram Stoker [x] The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett [ ] Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson [x ] Ulysses - James Joyce [x] The Inferno – Dante [ ] Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome [ ] Germinal - Emile Zola [x ] Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray [x ] Possession - AS Byatt [x] A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens [ ] Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell [x ] The Color Purple - Alice Walker [x ] The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro [x ] Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert [ ] A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry [x] Charlotte’s Web - EB White [ ] The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom [x ] Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle [ ] The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton [x] Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad [x ] The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery [ ] The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks [x] Watership Down - Richard Adams [x ] A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole [x ] A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute [x ] The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas [x] Hamlet - William Shakespeare [x] Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl [x] Les Miserables - Victor Hugo If you would like to post your own, Copy this, look at the list and put an 'x' next to those you have read. I have no idea why the BBC lists Hamlet separately from The Complete Works, but I chose not to edit their list! I am off to find copies of the ones I have not read. How erudite are YOU? |
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| Felix Felicis |
I'm ashamed to say that I've only read about 25 of those. Lots of work to do!
[x] Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen [x] The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien [ ] Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte [x] Harry Potter series - JK Rowling [ ] To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee [x] The Bible [ ] Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte [ ] Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell [x] 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 [x] Complete Works of Shakespeare [ ] Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier [x] The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien [ ] Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk [x] Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger [x] 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 [x] The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams [ ] Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky [ ] Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck [x] Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll [x] The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame [ ] Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy [ ] David Copperfield - Charles Dickens [x] Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis [ ] Emma - Jane Austen [ ] Persuasion - Jane Austen [x] The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis [x] The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini [ ] Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres [ ] Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden [x] Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne [x] Animal Farm - George Orwell [x] 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 [x] Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery [ ] Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy [ ] The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood [x] Lord of the Flies - William Golding [ ] Atonement - Ian McEwan [x] 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 [x] The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night - Mark Haddon [ ] Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez [x] 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 Inferno – Dante [x] Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome [ ] Germinal - Emile Zola [ ] Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray [ ] Possession - AS Byatt [x] 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 [x] 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 [x] Watership Down - Richard Adams [ ] A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole [ ] A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute [ ] The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas [x] Hamlet - William Shakespeare [x] Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl [ ] Les Miserables - Victor Hugo I actually have most of these knocking around the house, so I should start working through them. |
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| Nettik |
Only 14/100 here. I have some reading to do!
[ ] 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 [ ] Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte [ ] Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell [x] 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 [ ] Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier [ ] The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien [ ] Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk [ ] 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 [ ] Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky [ ] Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck [x] 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 [x] 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 - 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 [x] Moby Dick - Herman Melville [x] Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens [x] Dracula - Bram Stoker [x] The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett [ ] Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson [ ] Ulysses - James Joyce [ ] The Inferno – Dante [ ] Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome [ ] Germinal - Emile Zola [ ] Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray [ ] Possession - AS Byatt [x] A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens [ ] Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell [x] The Color Purple - Alice Walker [ ] The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro [ ] Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert [ ] A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry [x] 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 [x] The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery [ ] The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks [x] Watership Down - Richard Adams [ ] A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole [ ] A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute [ ] The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas [x] Hamlet - William Shakespeare [x] Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl [ ] Les Miserables - Victor Hugo |
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| Mr_X |
20! Not bad, though a lot of that is due to school. I'm going to have to do more reading...
[ ] Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen [ ] The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien [ ] Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte [x] Harry Potter series - JK Rowling [ ] To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee [ ] The Bible [ ] 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 [x] Complete Works of Shakespeare [ ] Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier [x] The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien [ ] Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk [x] Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger [ ] The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger [ ] Middlemarch - George Eliot [ ] Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell [x] 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 [ ] 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 [x] Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis [ ] Emma - Jane Austen [ ] Persuasion - Jane Austen [x] The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis [x] 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 [x] 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 [x] The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood [x] Lord of the Flies - William Golding [ ] Atonement - Ian McEwan [x] 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 [x] The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night - Mark Haddon [ ] Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez [x] 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 [x] Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens [ ] Dracula - Bram Stoker [ ] The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett [ ] Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson [ ] Ulysses - James Joyce [ ] The Inferno – Dante [ ] Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome [ ] Germinal - Emile Zola [ ] Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray [ ] Possession - AS Byatt [ ] 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 [x] Charlotte’s Web - EB White [x] The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom [ ] Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle [ ] The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton [x] 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 [x] Hamlet - William Shakespeare [x] Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl [ ] Les Miserables - Victor Hugo |
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| what_the_heck013 |
[ ] Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
[ ] The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien [x] Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte [x] Harry Potter series - JK Rowling [x] To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee [x] The Bible (most of it, anyways) [ ] Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte [x] Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell [ ] His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman [x]Great Expectations - Charles Dickens [ ] Little Women - Louisa M Alcott [ ] Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy [ ] Catch 22 - Joseph Heller [ ] Complete Works of Shakespeare-I've read a lot of Shakespeare but not all of it! [ ] Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier [x] The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien [ ] Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk [x] Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger [x] The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger [ ] Middlemarch - George Eliot [ ] Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell [x] The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald [ ] Bleak House - Charles Dickens [ ] War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy [x] The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams [ ] Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky [ ] Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck [x] Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll [x] The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame [ ] Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy [ ] David Copperfield - Charles Dickens [x] Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis [ ] Emma - Jane Austen [ ] Persuasion - Jane Austen [x] The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis [ ] The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini - I NEED TO READ THIS ONE! [ ] Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres [ ] Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden AND THIS ONE!!! [ ] Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne [x] Animal Farm - George Orwell [x] 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 [x] Lord of the Flies - William Golding [ ] Atonement - Ian McEwan [x] 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 [x] The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night - Mark Haddon [ ] Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez [x] Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck [ ] Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov [ ] The Secret History - Donna Tartt [x] The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold [ ] Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas [x] 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 [x] Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens [x] Dracula - Bram Stoker [ ] The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett [ ] Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson [ ] Ulysses - James Joyce [x] The Inferno – Dante [ ] Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome [ ] Germinal - Emile Zola [ ] Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray [ ] Possession - AS Byatt [x] 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 [x] Charlotte’s Web - EB White [x] The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom [x] Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle [ ] The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton [ ] Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad [x] The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery [ ] The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks [x] Watership Down - Richard Adams [ ] A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole [ ] A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute [ ] The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas [x] Hamlet - William Shakespeare [x] Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl [ ] Les Miserables - Victor Hugo 35! With all the Marquez on here, they would leave out the one I actually read. |
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| curlyhairedsoprano91 |
35 read.
[x] Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen [x] The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien [x] Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte [x] Harry Potter series - JK Rowling [x] To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee [ ] The Bible [ ] Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte [x] Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell [ ] His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman [ ]Great Expectations - Charles Dickens [x] Little Women - Louisa M Alcott [ ] Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy [x] Catch 22 - Joseph Heller [x] Complete Works of Shakespeare [ ] Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier [x] The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien [ ] Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk [x] Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger [ ] The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger [ ] Middlemarch - George Eliot [x] Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell [x] 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 [ ] Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky [ ] Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck [x] Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll [x] 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 [x] 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 [x] Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne [x] Animal Farm - George Orwell [x] 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 [x] Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery [ ] Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy [ ] The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood [x] Lord of the Flies - William Golding [ ] Atonement - Ian McEwan [x] 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 [x] Brave New World - Aldous Huxley [x] The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night - 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 [x] Moby Dick - Herman Melville [ ] Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens [ ] Dracula - Bram Stoker [x] The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett [ ] Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson [ ] Ulysses - James Joyce [ ] The Inferno – Dante [x] Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome [ ] Germinal - Emile Zola [ ] Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray [ ] Possession - AS Byatt [x] A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens [ ] Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell [x] The Color Purple - Alice Walker [ ] The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro [ ] Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert [ ] A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry [x] 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 [x] Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad [x] The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery [ ] The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks [x] Watership Down - Richard Adams [ ] A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole [ ] A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute [ ] The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas [x] Hamlet - William Shakespeare [x] Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl [x] Les Miserables - Victor Hugo |
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| And All That Jazz |
[x] Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
[ ] The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien [x] Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte [x] Harry Potter series - JK Rowling [ ] To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee [ ] The Bible [x] 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 [x] Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier [ ] The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien [ ] Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk [ ] Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger [ ] The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger [ ] Middlemarch - George Eliot [x] 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 [ ] Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky [ ] Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck [x] 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 [x] 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 [x] 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 [x] 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 [x] A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens [ ] Brave New World - Aldous Huxley [ ] The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night - Mark Haddon [ ] Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez [ ] Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck [x] 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 [x] The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett [ ] Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson [ ] Ulysses - James Joyce [ ] The Inferno – Dante [ ] Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome [ ] Germinal - Emile Zola [ ] Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray [ ] Possession - AS Byatt [ ] 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 [x] 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 [x] Les Miserables - Victor Hugo |
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| Beagle On Stage |
Re: Are You A Reader? BBC ListIs their estimate really only six for the average person? I despise reading and am filled with contempt for it, but even I have read twenty-one of these. I'm only counting books I have actually read, not the countless ones I was clever enough to never touch, but still dupe college professors into totally buying that I read. Reading is for dorks.[ ] Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen [ ] The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien [ ] Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte [ ] Harry Potter series - JK Rowling [X] To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee [X] The Bible [X] Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte [X] Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell [ ] His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman [ ]Great Expectations - Charles Dickens [X] Little Women - Louisa M Alcott [ ] Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy [ ] Catch 22 - Joseph Heller [ ] Complete Works of Shakespeare [X] Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier [ ] The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien [ ] Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk [ ] Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger [ ] The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger [ ] Middlemarch - George Eliot [X] Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell [X] 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 [ ] 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 [X] 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 [X] 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 [X] Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery [ ] Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy [X] The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood [X] 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 - Mark Haddon [ ] Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez [X] Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck [X] 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 [X] The Inferno – Dante [ ] Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome [ ] Germinal - Emile Zola [ ] Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray [ ] Possession - AS Byatt [X] A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens [ ] Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell [ ] The Color Purple - Alice Walker [X] The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro [ ] Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert [ ] A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry [X] 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 [X] 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 [X] Hamlet - William Shakespeare [ ] Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl [ ] Les Miserables - Victor Hugo |
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| fjays |
I feel pathetic looking at this thread.. However, I have just started Pride and Prejudice.. I really hope I enjoy it! | ||||||||
| *paradox in pink* |
17. Got some reading to do! But, I'm only 16 years old, so I've got some time.
[X] Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen [X] The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien [ ] Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte [X] Harry Potter series - JK Rowling [X] To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee [X] The Bible [ ] Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte [ ] Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell [ ] His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman [X]Great Expectations - Charles Dickens [ ] Little Women - Louisa M Alcott [ ] Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy [ ] Catch 22 - Joseph Heller [ ] Complete Works of Shakespeare [ ] Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier [X] The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien [ ] Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk [ ] 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 [ ] 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 [X] Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis X] Emma - Jane Austen [X] Persuasion - Jane Austen [X] 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 [X] 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 [X] Atonement - Ian McEwan [ ] Life of Pi - Yann Martel [ ] Dune - Frank Herbert [ ] Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons [X] 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 - 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 Inferno – Dante [ ] Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome [ ] Germinal - Emile Zola [ ] Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray [ ] Possession - AS Byatt [X] 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 [X] 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 [X] Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl [ ] Les Miserables - Victor Hugo |
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| RED15 |
11/100 I'm not a Jane Austen fan. It was just too hard for me and there wasn't enough happening
[x] Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen [] The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien [] Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte [x] Harry Potter series - JK Rowling [x] To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee [] The Bible [] Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte [] Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell [] His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman []Great Expectations - Charles Dickens [x] Little Women - Louisa M Alcott [] Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy [] Catch 22 - Joseph Heller [] Complete Works of Shakespeare [Only 2] Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier [] The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien [] Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk [] 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 [] 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 [x] Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis [] Emma - Jane Austen [] Persuasion - Jane Austen [x] 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 [x] 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 [x] 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 - Mark Haddon [] Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez [x] 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 [x] The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett [] Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson [] Ulysses - James Joyce [] The Inferno – Dante [] Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome [] Germinal - Emile Zola [] Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray [] Possession - AS Byatt [] 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 [x] 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 |
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| Brigantine |
[x] Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
[ ] The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien [x] Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte [x] Harry Potter series - JK Rowling [x] To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee [x] The Bible (well, maybe not EVERY word, but most of it, yeah) [ ] Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte [ ] Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell [ ] His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman [ ]Great Expectations - Charles Dickens [x] Little Women - Louisa M Alcott [ ] Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy [ ] Catch 22 - Joseph Heller [ ] Complete Works of Shakespeare [x] Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier [ ] The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien [ ] Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk [x] Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger [ ] The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger [ ] Middlemarch - George Eliot [x ] Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell [ ] The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald [ ] Bleak House - Charles Dickens [ ] War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy [x] The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams [ ] 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 [x ] Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis [x ] Emma - Jane Austen [x ] Persuasion - Jane Austen [x ] 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 [x] 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 - 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 [x ] Dracula - Bram Stoker [x] The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett [ ] Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson [ ] Ulysses - James Joyce [ ] The Inferno – Dante [ ] Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome [ ] Germinal - Emile Zola [ ] Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray (I've tried, does that count?  )
[ ] Possession - AS Byatt (Is that the same story as the movie with Gwen Paltrow?) [x] 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 [x] 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 [x ] 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 [x ] The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas [x] Hamlet - William Shakespeare [X] Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl [ ] Les Miserables - Victor Hugo .... hmm... 23 I'm surprised that "Frankenstein" is not on the list, since "Dracula" is. A lot of these I'd really like to read, but it's not the first thing I think of when I go to the bookstore. Thank goodness for Jane Austen or my list would be even more pitiful.
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| Orestes Fasting |
Re: Are You A Reader? BBC ListI have an awful habit of not finishing books, so I'm putting an 'x' by the ones I've finished and a '-' by the ones I've only read part of.34 finished, 8 unfinished. What is this supposed to be a list of, anyway? Books that make up the English-speaking collective unconscious? That's the only justification I can think of for putting dreck like the Da Vinci Code on the same list as the Brontë sisters. A lot of these seem to be books that are important not for what they are but because a lot of people have read them and they form a sort of cultural reference point. [-] Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen [x] The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien [x] Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte [x] Harry Potter series - JK Rowling [x] To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee [-] The Bible [x] Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte [x] Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell [x] His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman [x]Great Expectations - Charles Dickens [ ] Little Women - Louisa M Alcott [ ] Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy [-] Catch 22 - Joseph Heller [-] Complete Works of Shakespeare [ ] Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier [x] The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien [ ] Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk [x] 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 [x] The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams [-] Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky [ ] Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck [x] 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 [x] 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 [x] Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne [x] Animal Farm - George Orwell [x] The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown [ ] One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez [ ] A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving [x] The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins [-] Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery [ ] Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy [x] The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood [x] 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 [x] The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon [x] A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens [x] Brave New World - Aldous Huxley [x] The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time - Mark Haddon [ ] Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez [x] Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck [ ] Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov [ ] The Secret History - Donna Tartt [ ] The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold [x] 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 [x] Dracula - Bram Stoker [x] The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett [ ] Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson [ ] Ulysses - James Joyce [x] The Inferno – Dante [ ] Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome [ ] Germinal - Emile Zola [ ] Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray [ ] Possession - AS Byatt [ ] 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 [x] Charlotte’s Web - EB White [ ] The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom [x] 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 [x] The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas [x] Hamlet - William Shakespeare [x] Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl [x] Les Miserables - Victor Hugo |
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| kiwitechgirl |
[x] Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
[x] The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien [x] Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte [x] Harry Potter series - JK Rowling [x] To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee [x] The Bible [x] Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte [x] Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell [x] His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman [x]Great Expectations - Charles Dickens [x] Little Women - Louisa M Alcott [x] Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy [ ] Catch 22 - Joseph Heller [x] Complete Works of Shakespeare [x] Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier [x] The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien [ ] Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk [x] Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger [x] The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger [ ] Middlemarch - George Eliot [x] Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell [x] The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald [ ] Bleak House - Charles Dickens [x] War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy [x] The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams [ ] Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky [x] Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck [x] Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll [x] The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame [ ] Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy [x] David Copperfield - Charles Dickens [x] Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis [x] Emma - Jane Austen [x] Persuasion - Jane Austen [x] The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis [ ] The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini [ ] Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres [x] Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden [x] Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne [x] Animal Farm - George Orwell [x] The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown [ ] One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez [ ] A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving [x] The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins [x] Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery [ ] Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy [x] The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood [x] Lord of the Flies - William Golding [x] Atonement - Ian McEwan [ ] Life of Pi - Yann Martel [x] Dune - Frank Herbert [x] Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons [x] Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen [ ] A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth [ ] The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon [x] A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens [x] Brave New World - Aldous Huxley [ ] The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night - Mark Haddon [x] Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez [x] Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck [x] Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov [ ] The Secret History - Donna Tartt [x] The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold [x] Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas [ ] On The Road - Jack Kerouac [ ] Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy [x] Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding [ ] Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie [x] Moby Dick - Herman Melville [x] Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens [x] Dracula - Bram Stoker [x] The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett [x] Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson [x] Ulysses - James Joyce [ ] The Inferno – Dante [x] Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome [ ] Germinal - Emile Zola [x] Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray [ ] Possession - AS Byatt [x] A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens [ ] Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell [ ] The Color Purple - Alice Walker [ ] The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro [x] Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert [ ] A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry [x] Charlotte’s Web - EB White [ ] The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom [x] Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle [x] The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton [ ] Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad [x] The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery [ ] The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks [x] Watership Down - Richard Adams [ ] A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole [x] A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute [x] The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas [x] Hamlet - William Shakespeare [x] Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl [x] Les Miserables - Victor Hugo 69...not too bad, really! Curious that the Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe is listed seperately from The Chronicles of Narnia though. |
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| RainbowJude |
Moral Issue
Reading is not for dorks. And while some people may think that fooling college professors into thinking that they have read books prescribed for a course is really clever, it's just cheating really and mostly the kind in which those people cheat themselves of a better education and a richer mind. Later days David |
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| Beagle On Stage |
[mod edit - let's not get personal]
That, and if you've read one of hers, you've read them all. Same story, different character names.
If you're going to read just one thing on this list, make it this one. I do highly reccommend it. |
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| Brigantine |
Ummm... NO. |
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| Beagle On Stage |
It's how I found it to be. Sense and Sensibility vs. Pride and Prejudice is like red-orange vs. orange-red. | ||||||||
| Gwen |
I love reading and I haven't read that many of these....Anything in bold and cursive is something I'd like to start reading in the near future.
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen [x] The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien [] Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte [x] Harry Potter series - JK Rowling [] To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee [x] The Bible [ ] Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte [x] Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell [x] His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman [ ]Great Expectations - Charles Dickens -currently reading [ ] Little Women - Louisa M Alcott [ ] Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy [ ] Catch 22 - Joseph Heller [ ] Complete Works of Shakespeare -working on this [ ] Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier [x] The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien [ ] Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk [ ] 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 [ ] Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky [ ] Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck [x] Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll [ ] The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame [ ] Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy [ ] David Copperfield - Charles Dickens [x] Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis [ ] Emma - Jane Austen [ ] Persuasion - Jane Austen [ ] Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres [x] Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden [x] Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne [x] 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 [x] 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 - 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 Inferno – Dante [ ] Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome [ ] Germinal - Emile Zola [ ] Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray [ ] Possession - AS Byatt [ ] 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 [x] 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 [x] Hamlet - William Shakespeare [x] Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl [ ] Les Miserables - Victor Hugo I was apparently very tired the last time I did my list, because there were quite a few that were wrongly marked, and a few that were missed! (Hello Lord of the Rings!) |
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| Beagle On Stage |
Gwen, I know you would appreciate The Handmaid's Tale. Pick it up the next chance you get. A reccommendation from me on this subject means a lot. | ||||||||
| UniquePerspective |
(The arguing, not the book lists) Seriously, it's very simple. Either you like doing it or you don't. No sense judging a person whether or not they like to do something like this. Some people like to read, some people don't. End. |
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| kozafluitmusique |
I fail.
[] Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen [] The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien [] Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte [x] Harry Potter series - JK Rowling [] To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee [/] The Bible-not completely [] Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte [] Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell [] His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman-tried to hated it. []Great Expectations - Charles Dickens [x] Little Women - Louisa M Alcott [] Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy [] Catch 22 - Joseph Heller [] Complete Works of Shakespeare [] Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier [] The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien [] Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk [x] Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger [] The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger-will soon! [] 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 [] 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 [x] Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis [] Emma - Jane Austen [] Persuasion - Jane Austen [x] 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 [x] 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 - 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 Inferno – Dante [] Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome [] Germinal - Emile Zola [] Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray [] Possession - AS Byatt [] 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 [x] Hamlet - William Shakespeare [x] Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl [] Les Miserables - Victor Hugo |
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| le_moofin |
I've only read 33 of these... but then again, some of these books listed I would not consider "must-reads" any more than some of the books I've read that AREN'T on the list, so... But still, there are quite a number that I've been wanting to read for a while now.
[x] Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen [x] The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien [x] Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte [x] Harry Potter series - JK Rowling [x] To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee [x] The Bible [] Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte [x] Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell [ ] His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman [x]Great Expectations - Charles Dickens [x] Little Women - Louisa M Alcott [] Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy [] Catch 22 - Joseph Heller [x ] Complete Works of Shakespeare [] Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier [x] The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien [ ] Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk [x] Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger [] The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger [] Middlemarch - George Eliot [x ] Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell [x] The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald [] Bleak House - Charles Dickens [] War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy [x] The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams [] Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky [x ] 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 [x ] Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis [x ] Emma - Jane Austen [x ] Persuasion - Jane Austen [x ] The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis [ ] The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini [] Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres [x] Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden [x] Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne [x] 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 [x ] Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery [] Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy [] The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood [x] Lord of the Flies - William Golding [] Atonement - Ian McEwan [] Life of Pi - Yann Martel [] Dune - Frank Herbert [] Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons [x] 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 - Mark Haddon [] Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez [x ] 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 [x] The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett [ ] Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson [] Ulysses - James Joyce [] The Inferno – Dante [ ] Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome [ ] Germinal - Emile Zola [] Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray [] Possession - AS Byatt [x] 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 [x] 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 [x] 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 [x] Hamlet - William Shakespeare [x] Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl [] Les Miserables - Victor Hugo |
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| le_moofin |
Don't feel pathetic and enjoy that book. And if you haven't read Emma, I suggest that one too. It's my favorite. 
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| RainbowJude |
Re: Are You A Reader? BBC List
Quite simply, it's because this list wasn't put out by the BBC. The actual list of 100 books, which was compiled after a search to find the most popular books in the UK is here and consists of the following titles:
What has been posted here, along with the statistical "6 books" idea, is a corrupted version of this list that has appeared in email forwards and on blogs since this list appeared in 2003. You'll notice, for instance, that there are no plays in the list and separate books in series (like the four Harry Potters or The Magic Faraway Tree) are listed separately. The Bible doesn't appear on the list either. Later days David |
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| le_moofin |
Sweet, according to the list David posted, I've read 36 books.
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| Beagle On Stage |
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| Micaela? |
[x] Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
[x] The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien [x] Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte [x] Harry Potter series - JK Rowling [x] To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee [x] The Bible [x] Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte [x] Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell [ ] His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman [x]Great Expectations - Charles Dickens [x] Little Women - Louisa M Alcott [ ] Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy [x] Catch 22 - Joseph Heller [x] Complete Works of Shakespeare [x] Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier [x] The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien [ ] Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk [x] Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger [x] The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger [ ] Middlemarch - George Eliot [x] Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell [x] The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald [x] Bleak House - Charles Dickens [x] War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy [x] The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams [x] Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky [x] Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck [x] Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll [x] The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame [x] Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy [x] David Copperfield - Charles Dickens [x] Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis [x] Emma - Jane Austen [x] Persuasion - Jane Austen [x] The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis [x] The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini [x] Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres [x] Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden [x] Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne [x] Animal Farm - George Orwell [x] The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown [x] One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez [x] A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving [x] The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins [x] Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery [ ] Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy [x] The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood [x] Lord of the Flies - William Golding [x] Atonement - Ian McEwan [x] Life of Pi - Yann Martel [ ] Dune - Frank Herbert [ ] Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons [x] Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen [ ] A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth [ ] The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon [x] A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens [x] Brave New World - Aldous Huxley [x] The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night - Mark Haddon [x] Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez [x] Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck [x] Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov [ ] The Secret History - Donna Tartt [x] The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold [x] Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas [x] On The Road - Jack Kerouac [ ] Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy [x] Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding [ ] Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie [x] Moby Dick - Herman Melville [x] Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens [x] Dracula - Bram Stoker [x] The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett [ ] Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson [x] Ulysses - James Joyce [x] The Inferno – Dante [ ] Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome [ ] Germinal - Emile Zola [x] Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray [ ] Possession - AS Byatt [x] A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens [ ] Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell [x] The Color Purple - Alice Walker [ ] The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro [ ] Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert [ ] A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry [x] Charlotte’s Web - EB White [x] The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom [x] Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle [ ] The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton [x] Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad [x] The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery [ ] The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks [x] Watership Down - Richard Adams [x] A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole [x] A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute [x] The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas [x] Hamlet - William Shakespeare [x] Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl [x] Les Miserables - Victor Hugo 79? Is that right? I did a really quick count earlier when I was on the chat...and came up with a different number? Either way, I have read all of the checked ones...yeah, I'm that cool. Well, evidently the Intensive/Honors English system in my school district is hard a work. |
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| shakalakababy |
only 11, ah well.
[ ] Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen [ ] The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien [ ] Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte [x] Harry Potter series - JK Rowling [ ] To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee [ ] The Bible [ ] 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 [ ] Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier [ ] The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien [ ] Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk [x] 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 [ ] 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 [x] 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 [x] Lord of the Flies - William Golding [ ] Atonement - Ian McEwan [x] 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 [x] The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night - Mark Haddon [ ] Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez [x] 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 Inferno – Dante [ ] Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome [ ] Germinal - Emile Zola [ ] Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray [ ] Possession - AS Byatt [ ] 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 [x] 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 [x] 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 [x] Hamlet - William Shakespeare [x] Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl [ ] Les Miserables - Victor Hugo |
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| teapot |
David, thanks for doing the research! Where ever the list originated, and however it was corrupted, I am delighted to see so many people not only looking to see which they have read, but also considering reading others. While I have read most of these, they are not a list of my favorites, though some are included. I am thinking about doing a "List your 25 favorite books" thread... with no requirement that they be classics, considered literature, or even acceptable by anyone's standards. I'd really like to know what you all are reading, whether it's chapbooks or graphic novels! (But you can't include your newspapers, What You Own...they are a separate guilty pleasure you have already shared!) | ||||||||
| Mademoiselle Lanoire |
I have read:
x] Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen [x] The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien [x] Harry Potter series - JK Rowling (up to book 5) [x] To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee [x] The Bible (not 100% - at least half) [x] Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte [x] Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell [x]Great Expectations - Charles Dickens [x] Little Women - Louisa M Alcott [x ] Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier [x] The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien [x ] Bleak House - Charles Dickens [x] The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams [x] Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll [x ] Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis [x ] The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis (why the repetitition? shouldn't they list something else?) [x] Animal Farm - George Orwell [x] The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood [x] Dune - Frank Herbert [x] A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens [x ] Brave New World - Aldous Huxley [x] Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas [x ] Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens [x ] Dracula - Bram Stoker [x] The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett [x] A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens [x] Charlotte’s Web - EB White [x ] The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery [x ] The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas [x] Hamlet - William Shakespeare [x] Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl [x] Les Miserables - Victor Hugo Edit: And on the original list, I've read: 1. The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien 2. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen 4. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams 5. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, JK Rowling 6. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee 8. Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell 9. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis 12. Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë 14. Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier 17. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens 18. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott 22. Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone, JK Rowling 23. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets, JK Rowling 24. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban, JK Rowling 25. The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien 30. Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll 35. Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl 39. Dune, Frank Herbert 44. The Count Of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas 45. Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh (maybe) 46. Animal Farm, George Orwell 47. A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens 51. The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett 56. The BFG, Roald Dahl 59. Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer 63. A Tale Of Two Cities, Charles Dickens 68. Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman (Maybe?) 73. Night Watch, Terry Pratchett 74. Matilda, Roald Dahl 79. Bleak House, Charles Dickens 83. Holes, Louis Sachar 87. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley |
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| Mademoiselle Lanoire |
Antiquated? What definition of "antiquated" are you using? Well over half that list is 20th and 21st century. |
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| Disney-Bway27 |
[] The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien
[] Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen [] His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman [x] The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams [x] Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, JK Rowling [x] To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee [x] Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne [] Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell [x] The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis [] Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë [] Catch-22, Joseph Heller [] Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë [] Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks [] Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier [] The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger [] The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame [x] Great Expectations, Charles Dickens [] Little Women, Louisa May Alcott [] Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres [] War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy [x] Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell [x] Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone, JK Rowling [x] Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets, JK Rowling [x] Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban, JK Rowling [x] The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien [] Tess Of The D'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy [] Middlemarch, George Eliot [] A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving [] The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck [x] Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll [] The Story Of Tracy Beaker, Jacqueline Wilson [] One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez [] The Pillars Of The Earth, Ken Follett [] David Copperfield, Charles Dickens [x] Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl [x] Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson [] A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute [] Persuasion, Jane Austen [] Dune, Frank Herbert [] Emma, Jane Austen [] Anne Of Green Gables, LM Montgomery [] Watership Down, Richard Adams [] The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald [] The Count Of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas [] Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh [x] Animal Farm, George Orwell [x] A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens [] Far From The Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy [] Goodnight Mister Tom, Michelle Magorian [] The Shell Seekers, Rosamunde Pilcher [x] The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett [] Of Mice And Men, John Steinbeck [] The Stand, Stephen King [] Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy [] A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth [x] The BFG, Roald Dahl [] Swallows And Amazons, Arthur Ransome [x] Black Beauty, Anna Sewell [x] Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer [] Crime And Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky [] Noughts And Crosses, Malorie Blackman [x] Memoirs Of A Geisha, Arthur Golden [x] A Tale Of Two Cities, Charles Dickens [x] The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCollough [] Mort, Terry Pratchett [] The Magic Faraway Tree, Enid Blyton [] The Magus, John Fowles [] Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman [] Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett [] Lord Of The Flies, William Golding [] Perfume, Patrick Süskind [] The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Robert Tressell [] Night Watch, Terry Pratchett [x] Matilda, Roald Dahl [] Bridget Jones's Diary, Helen Fielding [] The Secret History, Donna Tartt [] The Woman In White, Wilkie Collins [] Ulysses, James Joyce [] Bleak House, Charles Dickens [] Double Act, Jacqueline Wilson [x] The Twits, Roald Dahl [] I Capture The Castle, Dodie Smith [x] Holes, Louis Sachar [] Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake [] The God Of Small Things, Arundhati Roy [] Vicky Angel, Jacqueline Wilson [] Brave New World, Aldous Huxley [] Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons [] Magician, Raymond E Feist [] On The Road, Jack Kerouac [] The Godfather, Mario Puzo [] The Clan Of The Cave Bear, Jean M Auel [] The Colour Of Magic, Terry Pratchett [x] The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho [] Katherine, Anya Seton [] Kane And Abel, Jeffrey Archer [] Love In The Time Of Cholera, Gabriel García Márquez [] Girls In Love, Jacqueline Wilson [] The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot [] Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie I enjoy reading. :] I've only read 26 though, lol. |
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| Robinflamingo |
x] Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
[x] The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien [] Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte [] Harry Potter series - JK Rowling [x] To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee [x] The Bible [x] Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte [x] Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell [ ] His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman [x]Great Expectations - Charles Dickens [x] Little Women - Louisa M Alcott [ ] Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy [x] Catch 22 - Joseph Heller [x ] Complete Works of Shakespeare [] Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier [x] The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien [ ] Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk [x] Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger [] The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger [ ] Middlemarch - George Eliot [x ] Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell [x] The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald [ ] Bleak House - Charles Dickens [] War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy [x] The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams [x] Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky [x ] Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck [x] Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll [x ] The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame [] Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy [x ] David Copperfield - Charles Dickens [x ] Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis [ ] Emma - Jane Austen [ ] Persuasion - Jane Austen [x ] The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis [ x] The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini [ ] Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres [] Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden [x] Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne [x] 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 [x ] Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery [] Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy [] The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood [x] Lord of the Flies - William Golding [ ] Atonement - Ian McEwan [ ] Life of Pi - Yann Martel [x] 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 [x] A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens [ ] Brave New World - Aldous Huxley [ ] The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night - Mark Haddon [] Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez [x ] Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck [x ] Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov [ ] The Secret History - Donna Tartt [ ] The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold [x] Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas [x] On The Road - Jack Kerouac [] Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy [x ] Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding [ ] Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie [x ] Moby Dick - Herman Melville [x ] Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens [x ] Dracula - Bram Stoker [] The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett [ ] Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson [ ] Ulysses - James Joyce [x] The Inferno – Dante [ ] Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome [ ] Germinal - Emile Zola [x ] Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray [ ] Possession - AS Byatt [x] A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens [ ] Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell [x ] The Color Purple - Alice Walker [ ] The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro [] Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert [ ] A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry [x] Charlotte’s Web - EB White [x ] The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom [x ] Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle [ ] The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton [x] Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad [x ] The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery [ ] The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks [x] Watership Down - Richard Adams ] A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole [ ] A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute [x ] The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas [x] Hamlet - William Shakespeare [x] Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl [x] Les Miserables - Victor Hugo Is this good? I didn't read the thread... |
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| Mumsytype |
Re: Moral Issue
In what possible way can reading the finest and most stimulating works of imagination and expression of the ages be considered an activity for 'dorks'? What a very sad attitude. The books are supposed to be read by everyone on a course, so that their contents may form a body of common matter to discuss, consider, and use as debating material. Without knowing the body of common matter, how could you ever form an educated opinion in discussion, or for that matter even know what the heck someone else (who HAD read the books) was talking about? All cheats end up with is a facile, superficial awareness of the outline of a book. They deny themselves the opportunity to enrich their minds and truly learn from it. |
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| Felix Felicis |
Re: Moral Issue
Yeah, this. There are few greater pleasures than opening a book and being taken away to somewhere completely different for an hour or two; somewhere you can never go to meet people you never will, and to "learn about ways of life different to yours". The most beautiful of human thought and feeling can be found in our books, and it is worth every moment going out and finding them. It can't be that you are averse to story itself, so I can only guess it must be the physical act of reading, in which case I would suggest audiobooks. Or it may be that you don't like to use your imagination and prefer to have the thing physically shown in front of you. Either way, you are missing out on something incredibly important. Looking back, it's quite remarkable the range and scope of things I read thanks to my school. Off the top of my head, I have a fairly in-depth analytical knowledge of: Shakespeare, Williams, Shelley, Yeats, Salinger, Steinbeck, Camus, Mauriac, Frost, Wordsworth, Dickinson, Rosetti, Sophocles, Miller, Chaucer and Bierce. And I know I'm so much the richer as a person for reading them. Anyway, the ones I want to move onto next are The Shadow of the Wind and Persuasion. |
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| teapot |
Felix, when you finish Shadow of the Wind, let me know. I'd love to hear what you think... I thoroughly enjoyed the book. | ||||||||
| Felix Felicis |
I'm very much looking forward to it. I've had it for years and never got round to it, but one day my French teacher just out of the blue asked me if I'd read it and I thought I'd like to be able to say yes. | ||||||||
| SianZena |
I'm quite impressed that I've read thirteen because, even though I love to read, most of these books are classics, and my prefered style is Modern Romantic novels.
[x] Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen [ ] The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien [ ] Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte [x] Harry Potter series - JK Rowling [x] To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee [ ] The Bible [ ] 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 [x] Complete Works of Shakespeare [ ] Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier [ ] The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien [ ] Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk [ ] 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 [ ] Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky [ ] Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck [x] Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll [x] 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 [x] Atonement - Ian McEwan [x] 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 [x] The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night - Mark Haddon [ ] Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez [x] 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 Inferno – Dante [ ] Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome [ ] Germinal - Emile Zola [ ] Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray [ ] Possession - AS Byatt [ ] 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 [x] Watership Down - Richard Adams [ ] A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole [ ] A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute [ ] The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas [x] Hamlet - William Shakespeare [x] Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl [ ] Les Miserables - Victor Hugo |
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| Mumsytype |
56. Not bad. I adopted the habit quite early in childhood of determinedly reading even the most unprepossessing books, partly out of profound boredom during long summer holidays and partly because I knew there was a strong likelihood that even something like 'The Island of Doctor Moreau' would have some merit or interest, since it had attained 'classic' status.
I feel that reading voraciously and widely has enriched my outlook on life, deepened my appreciation of my own culture and state, and given me more understanding of other cultures and peoples. [x] Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen [x] The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien [x] Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte [ ] Harry Potter series - JK Rowling [x] To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee [x] The Bible [x] Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte [x] Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell [x] His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman [x] Great Expectations - Charles Dickens [x] Little Women - Louisa M Alcott [x] Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy [ ] Catch 22 - Joseph Heller [x] Complete Works of Shakespeare [x] Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier [x] The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien [ ] Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk [ ] Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger [ ] The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger [ ] Middlemarch - George Eliot [x] Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell [ ] The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald [x] Bleak House - Charles Dickens [x] War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy [x] The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams [ ] Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky [ ] Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck [x] Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll [x] The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame [ ] Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy [x] David Copperfield - Charles Dickens [x] Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis [x] Emma - Jane Austen [ ] Persuasion - Jane Austen [x] 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 [x] Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne [x] 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 [x] The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins [x] Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery [x] Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy [x] The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood [x] Lord of the Flies - William Golding [ ] Atonement - Ian McEwan [ ] Life of Pi - Yann Martel [x] Dune - Frank Herbert [x] Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons (a deliciously funny comedy of manners and observation - one I'd re-read again and again!) [x] Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen [x] A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth [ ] The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon [x] A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens [x] Brave New World - Aldous Huxley [x] The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night - Mark Haddon [ ] Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez [x] Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck [ ] Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov [ ] The Secret History - Donna Tartt [x] The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold [x] 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 [x] Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens [ ] Dracula - Bram Stoker [x] The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett [x] Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson [ ] Ulysses - James Joyce [ ] The Inferno – Dante [x] Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome [ ] Germinal - Emile Zola [ ] Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray [ ] Possession - AS Byatt [x] 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 [x] Charlotte’s Web - EB White [ ] The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom [x] Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle [x] The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton [ ] Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad [x] The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery [ ] The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks [x] Watership Down - Richard Adams [ ] A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole [x] A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute [x] The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas [x] Hamlet - William Shakespeare [x] Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl [x] Les Miserables - Victor Hugo |
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| Moci |
Re: Are You A Reader? BBC List[x] Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen[x] The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien [ ] Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte [x] Harry Potter series - JK Rowling [ ] To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee [x] The Bible [ ] Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte [x] Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell [x] His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman [x]Great Expectations - Charles Dickens [x] Little Women - Louisa M Alcott [x] Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy [ ] Catch 22 - Joseph Heller [ ] Complete Works of Shakespeare [ ] Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier [x] The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien [ ] Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk [ ] Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger [ ] The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger [ ] Middlemarch - George Eliot [ ] Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell [x] The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald [x] Bleak House - Charles Dickens [ ] War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy [ ] The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams [ ] Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky [ ] Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck [x] Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll [x] The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame [ ] Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy [x] David Copperfield - Charles Dickens [x] Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis [ ] Emma - Jane Austen [ ] Persuasion - Jane Austen [x] The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis [x] The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini [ ] Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres [ ] Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden [x] Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne [x] Animal Farm - George Orwell [x] The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown [ ] One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez [ ] A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving [x] 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 [x] Lord of the Flies - William Golding [x] 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 [x] A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens [ ] Brave New World - Aldous Huxley [x] The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night - Mark Haddon [ ] Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez [x] 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 [x] Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding [ ] Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie [x] Moby Dick - Herman Melville [x] Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens [x] Dracula - Bram Stoker [x] The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett [x] Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson [ ] Ulysses - James Joyce [ ] The Inferno – Dante [x] Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome [ ] Germinal - Emile Zola [ ] Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray [ ] Possession - AS Byatt [x] A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens [ ] Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell [ ] The Color Purple - Alice Walker [x] The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro [ ] Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert [ ] A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry [x] Charlotte’s Web - EB White [ ] The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom [x] Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle [x] The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton [ ] Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad [x] The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery [ ] The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks [x] Watership Down - Richard Adams [ ] A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole [ ] A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute [x] The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas [x] Hamlet - William Shakespeare [x] Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl [x] Les Miserables - Victor Hugo |
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| jfmillet |
[] Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
[] The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien [] Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte [x] Harry Potter series - JK Rowling [x] To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee [x] The Bible [] Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte [] Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell [] His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman [x]Great Expectations - Charles Dickens [] Little Women - Louisa M Alcott [] Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy [] Catch 22 - Joseph Heller [X] Complete Works of Shakespeare [] Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier [] The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien [ ] Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk [x] Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger [] The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger [] Middlemarch - George Eliot [x] Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell [x] The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald [] Bleak House - Charles Dickens [] War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy [x] The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams [x] Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky [x] Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck [x] Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll [x] The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame [] Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy [x] David Copperfield - Charles Dickens [x] Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis [] Emma - Jane Austen [] Persuasion - Jane Austen [x] The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis [ ] The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini [x] Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres [x] Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden [x] Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne [x] Animal Farm - George Orwell [] The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown [] One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez [x] A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving [] The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins [x] Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery [] Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy [] The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood [x] Lord of the Flies - William Golding [] Atonement - Ian McEwan [] Life of Pi - Yann Martel [x] 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 [x] A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens [x] Brave New World - Aldous Huxley [] The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night - Mark Haddon [x] Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez [x] Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck [] Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov [] The Secret History - Donna Tartt [] The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold [x] Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas [x] On The Road - Jack Kerouac [] Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy [] Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding [] Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie [x] Moby Dick - Herman Melville [x] Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens [x] Dracula - Bram Stoker [x] The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett [] Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson [] Ulysses - James Joyce [x] The Inferno – Dante [] Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome [] Germinal - Emile Zola [] Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray [] Possession - AS Byatt [] A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens [ ] Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell [x] The Color Purple - Alice Walker [] The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro [] Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert [] A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry [x] Charlotte’s Web - EB White [] The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom [x] 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 [x] Watership Down - Richard Adams [] A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole [] A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute [x] The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas [x] Hamlet - William Shakespeare [x] Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl [x] Les Miserables - Victor Hugo 43 - Which is somewhat surprising considering that I don't usually read fiction unless the cover has the words "Star" and "Wars" on the cover. |
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| Beagle On Stage |
I wonder how many claims of having read the Bible actually mean every page has been read. | ||||||||
| jfmillet |
For me it does...three different versions. |
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| Damask and Dark |
I think I've ready 31, which is all right, but some of these are going on my to-read-when-I-have-time list:
[] Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen [x] The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien [] Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte [] Harry Potter series - JK Rowling (not all of them yet, sorry to say) [x] To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee [x] The Bible [] Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte [x] Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell [] His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman [x]Great Expectations - Charles Dickens [] Little Women - Louisa M Alcott [] Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy [] Catch 22 - Joseph Heller [] Complete Works of Shakespeare (not all of them yet either) [] Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier [x] The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien [] Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk [] Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger [] The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger [] Middlemarch - George Eliot [] Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell [x] 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 [] Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky [x] Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck [] Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll [x] The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame [] Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy [] David Copperfield - Charles Dickens [x] Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis [] Emma - Jane Austen [] Persuasion - Jane Austen [x] The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis [] The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini [] Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres [x] Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden [x] Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne [] Animal Farm - George Orwell [x] 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 [x] Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery [] Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy [] The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood [x] 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 [x] A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens [x] Brave New World - Aldous Huxley [x] The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night - 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 [x] Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas (abridged version, though) [] 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 [x] Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens [x] Dracula - Bram Stoker [] The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett [] Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson [] Ulysses - James Joyce [] The Inferno – Dante [] Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome [] Germinal - Emile Zola [] Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray [] Possession - AS Byatt [x] A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens [x] Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell [] The Color Purple - Alice Walker [x] The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro [] Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert [] A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry [x] Charlotte’s Web - EB White [] The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom [x] Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle [] The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton [] Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad [x] The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery (and I read it in French )
[] The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks [x] Watership Down - Richard Adams [] A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole [] A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute [] The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas [x] Hamlet - William Shakespeare [x] Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl [] Les Miserables - Victor Hugo |
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| Beagle On Stage |
That's as it should be. |
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| Felix Felicis |
You can't really appreciate the majority of the English literature canon without having read the Bible. Goodness, every other metaphor you read is a Biblical reference. And one (KJV) was quite enough for me, thank you very much. |
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| Moci |
You're either going to see it as the book which inspires you and which you should live by and learn from, or as the world's most influential work of fiction. Whichever, it's a must read. |
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| Beagle On Stage |
What I mean is, everyone is checking off the Bible as one they have read. But for some reason I'm doubting that everyone has read every book of the Bible. I think it's more likely that most have read Genesis, Exodus, about half of the gospels, and know several of the stories in between. | ||||||||
| Moci |
Nah, wars, incest, plagues, miracles, crucifixion and people getting eaten by whales, it's a total page turner. Although Paul's letters to the Corinthians are pretty hard going. |
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| hyperactress23 |
I lose. I've read 8 of these completely through, and part of 6 (as indicated by the "P").
[P] Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen [ ] The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien [x] Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte [ ] Harry Potter series - JK Rowling [P] To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee [P] The Bible [ ] Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte [ ] Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell [ ] His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman [ ]Great Expectations - Charles Dickens [x] Little Women - Louisa M Alcott [ ] Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy [ ] Catch 22 - Joseph Heller [ ] Complete Works of Shakespeare [ ] Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier [ ] The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien [ ] Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk [ ] 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 [ ] 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 [P] 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 [x] 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 [P] 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 - 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 [x] Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens [ ] Dracula - Bram Stoker [x] The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett [ ] Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson [ ] Ulysses - James Joyce [ ] The Inferno – Dante [ ] Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome [ ] Germinal - Emile Zola [ ] Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray [ ] Possession - AS Byatt [x] 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 [x] 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 [P] Hamlet - William Shakespeare [x] Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl [P] Les Miserables - Victor Hugo |
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| Robinflamingo |
Mine does. |
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| *paradox in pink* |
As does mine. I don't think I would have posted it otherwise. |
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| Felix Felicis |
Exactly. |
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| Beagle On Stage |
"Exactly," like it goes without saying? You aren't naive, Felix - don't start now. | ||||||||
| Felix Felicis |
Excuse me? Naive? I was echoing the sentiments that I put it on my list because I have read the entire book - and I explained why it was useful to me above. |
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| Micaela? |
Same here...granted, I didn't wake up one day and say "I'm going to read the Bible today" but I did read the entire thing, cover to cover, for class. |
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| *paradox in pink* |
I spent about a year reading/studying the New Testament plus Psalms and Proverbs, and a bit longer than a year going through the rest of the Old. I took my time, just reading a bit every night, but I would say it was a good experiance, reading the bible itself and then commentary on that section and then meditating on it for a while. |
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| Mumsytype |
Same here. I read every word of the King James Version when I was 16. |
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| kozafluitmusique |
That's why I said only read some of it. I still need to go through it more. However, this reminds me of a survey that someone I know did that he wanted to compare someone reading the entirety of the Bible with a Lord of the Rings series. Personally, I think that's an unfair comparison. | ||||||||
| Katie-chan |
I only have... ten? O_o
[ ] Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen [ ] The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien [ ] Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte [x] Harry Potter series - JK Rowling [ ] To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee [x] The Bible [ ] 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 [ ] Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier [ ] The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien [ ] Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk [x] 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 [ ] 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 [x] 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 - Mark Haddon [ ] Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez [x] 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 [x] Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding [ ] Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie [ ] Moby Dick - Herman Melville [ ] Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens [ ] Dracula - Bram Stoker [x] The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett [ ] Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson [ ] Ulysses - James Joyce [ ] The Inferno – Dante [ ] Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome [ ] Germinal - Emile Zola [ ] Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray [ ] Possession - AS Byatt [ ] 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 [x] 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 [x] Les Miserables - Victor Hugo (working on it) |
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| wicked_diva |
I looked at both the lists - from the "internet" list, I've read 30, and parts of 3 more. And from the initial BBC list, I've read 29. Not too bad, though I admit, most of these were read for classes.
[x] Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen [x] The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien [ ] Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte (It's on my to-read list) [x] Harry Potter series - JK Rowling [x] To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee [ ] The Bible (I've read all of the old testament and about half of the new testament) [x] Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte [x] Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell [ ] His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman [ ]Great Expectations - Charles Dickens [x] Little Women - Louisa M Alcott [ ] Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy [ ] Catch 22 - Joseph Heller [ ] Complete Works of Shakespeare (not the complete works, but Twelfth Night, All's Well, Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, As You Like It, Merchant of Venice,Merry Wives, Much Ado, Tempest, and Hamlet) [ ] Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier [ ] The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien [ ] Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk [ ] Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger [ ] The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger [ ] Middlemarch - George Eliot [ ] Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell [x] 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 [x] Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky [x] Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck [x] Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll [x] The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame [ ] Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy [ ] David Copperfield - Charles Dickens [x] Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis [ ] Emma - Jane Austen [ ] Persuasion - Jane Austen [x] The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis [ ] The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini [ ] Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres [x] Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden [x] Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne [x] Animal Farm - George Orwell [x] 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 [x] 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 [x] A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens [ ] Brave New World - Aldous Huxley [ ] The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night - 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 [x] 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 [x] Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens [ ] Dracula - Bram Stoker [x] The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett [ ] Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson [ ] Ulysses - James Joyce [ ] The Inferno – Dante [ ] Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome [ ] Germinal - Emile Zola [ ] Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray (I started to read it, but when I was on pg 90 and still on character introductions, I gave up) [ ] Possession - AS Byatt [x] A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens [ ] Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell [x] The Color Purple - Alice Walker [ ] The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro [ ] Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert [ ] A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry [x] 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 [x] Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad [ ] The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery [ ] The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks [x] Watership Down - Richard Adams [ ] A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole [ ] A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute [ ] The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas [x] Hamlet - William Shakespeare [x] Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl [ ] Les Miserables - Victor Hugo 1. The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien 2. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen 3. His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman 4. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams 5. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, JK Rowling 6. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee 7. Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne 8. Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell 9. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis 10. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë 11. Catch-22, Joseph Heller 12. Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë 13. Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks 14. Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier 15. The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger 16. The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame 17. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens 18. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott 19. Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres 20. War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy 21. Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell 22. Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone, JK Rowling 23. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets, JK Rowling 24. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban, JK Rowling 25. The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien 26. Tess Of The D'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy 27. Middlemarch, George Eliot 28. A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving 29. The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck 30. Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll 31. The Story Of Tracy Beaker, Jacqueline Wilson 32. One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez 33. The Pillars Of The Earth, Ken Follett 34. David Copperfield, Charles Dickens 35. Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl 36. Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson 37. A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute 38. Persuasion, Jane Austen 39. Dune, Frank Herbert 40. Emma, Jane Austen 41. Anne Of Green Gables, LM Montgomery 42. Watership Down, Richard Adams 43. The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald 44. The Count Of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas 45. Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh 46. Animal Farm, George Orwell 47. A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens 48. Far From The Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy 49. Goodnight Mister Tom, Michelle Magorian 50. The Shell Seekers, Rosamunde Pilcher 51. The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett 52. Of Mice And Men, John Steinbeck 53. The Stand, Stephen King 54. Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy 55. A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth 56. The BFG, Roald Dahl 57. Swallows And Amazons, Arthur Ransome 58. Black Beauty, Anna Sewell 59. Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer 60. Crime And Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky 61. Noughts And Crosses, Malorie Blackman 62. Memoirs Of A Geisha, Arthur Golden 63. A Tale Of Two Cities, Charles Dickens 64. The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCollough 65. Mort, Terry Pratchett 66. The Magic Faraway Tree, Enid Blyton 67. The Magus, John Fowles 68. Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman 69. Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett 70. Lord Of The Flies, William Golding 71. Perfume, Patrick Süskind 72. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Robert Tressell 73. Night Watch, Terry Pratchett 74. Matilda, Roald Dahl 75. Bridget Jones's Diary, Helen Fielding 76. The Secret History, Donna Tartt 77. The Woman In White, Wilkie Collins 78. Ulysses, James Joyce 79. Bleak House, Charles Dickens 80. Double Act, Jacqueline Wilson 81. The Twits, Roald Dahl 82. I Capture The Castle, Dodie Smith 83. Holes, Louis Sachar 84. Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake 85. The God Of Small Things, Arundhati Roy 86. Vicky Angel, Jacqueline Wilson 87. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley 88. Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons 89. Magician, Raymond E Feist 90. On The Road, Jack Kerouac 91. The Godfather, Mario Puzo 92. The Clan Of The Cave Bear, Jean M Auel 93. The Colour Of Magic, Terry Pratchett 94. The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho 95. Katherine, Anya Seton 96. Kane And Abel, Jeffrey Archer 97. Love In The Time Of Cholera, Gabriel García Márquez 98. Girls In Love, Jacqueline Wilson 99. The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot 100. Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie |
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| Mistress |
I know it's a bit late, but then I've just found this thread (haven't been able togon on here too much lately) and I feel like smacking Beagle for "detesting" reading. I'm a total book-a-holic when I have the time (I can go through several books in week sometimes) and can think of nothing better than losing yourself in a good novel (except maybe losing yourself in a godo movie). Books basically got me through my elementary years where I was almost a total loner for one reason or another. I spent a lot of time at recess reading Nancy Drew or Agatha Christies and wrote something like 3 or 4 pages for a reading journal or Rats of NIMH when it was only supposed to be half that length. Now, most of the books on the list I read in School. I have fond emories of being one of the only students who remotely enjoyed Jane Eyre XD. Anyway, I mean no disrespect to Beagle, but it does anger and sadden me that someone could hate reading so much (except, apparantly, A Handmaid's Tale)... | ||||||||
| Catherine |
Similar to Orestes, I'm putting the plus sign for the books I haven't finished yet.
[Planning to read this ] Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen [ ] The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien [ ] Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte [x] Harry Potter series - JK Rowling [x] To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee [ ] The Bible [+] 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 [ ] Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier [ ] The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien [ ] Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk [x] Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger [x] 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 [ ] 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 [I plan to read this ] 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 - 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 [x] 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 Inferno – Dante [ ] Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome [ ] Germinal - Emile Zola [ ] Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray [ ] Possession - AS Byatt [ ] 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 [x] 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 [x] Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl [x] Les Miserables - Victor Hugo Wow, only read 8. That's kinda depressing. |
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| brizejellicle |
[x] Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
[] The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien [x] Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte [] Harry Potter series - JK Rowling [x] To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee [x] The Bible [x] Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte [] Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell [ ] His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman []Great Expectations - Charles Dickens [x] Little Women - Louisa M Alcott [x ] Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy [x] Catch 22 - Joseph Heller [ ] Complete Works of Shakespeare [ ] Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier [] The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien [ ] Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk [x] Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger [] The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger [ ] Middlemarch - George Eliot [x ] Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell [x] 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 [] Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky [x ] Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck [x] Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll [x ] The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame [] Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy [x ] David Copperfield - Charles Dickens [x ] Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis [x ] Emma - Jane Austen [x ] Persuasion - Jane Austen [x ] 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 [x] Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne [x] Animal Farm - George Orwell [x] 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 [x ] Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery [ ] Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy [x] The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood [x] Lord of the Flies - William Golding [ ] Atonement - Ian McEwan [ ] Life of Pi - Yann Martel [] Dune - Frank Herbert [] Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons [x] Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen [] A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth [] The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon [x] A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens [ ] Brave New World - Aldous Huxley [ ] The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night - Mark Haddon [ ] Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez [x ] Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck [ ] Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov [ ] The Secret History - Donna Tartt [ ] The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold [x] Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas [ On The Road - Jack Kerouac [ ] Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy [x ] Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding [ ] Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie [ ] Moby Dick - Herman Melville [x ] Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens [ ] Dracula - Bram Stoker [x] The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett [ ] Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson [x ] Ulysses - James Joyce [ The Inferno – Dante [ ] Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome [ ] Germinal - Emile Zola [ ] Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray [ ] Possession - AS Byatt [x] 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 [x] Charlotte’s Web - EB White [ ] The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom [x ] Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle [ ] The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton [] Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad [x ] 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 [x ] The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas [x] Hamlet - William Shakespeare [x] Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl [x] Les Miserables - Victor Hugo |
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| Silverweed |
19/100
[ ] Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen [x] The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien [ ] Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte [x] Harry Potter series - JK Rowling [x] To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee [ ] The Bible [ ] Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte [ ] Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell [ ] His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman [ ]Great Expectations - Charles Dickens [x] Little Women - Louisa M Alcott [ ] Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy [ ] Catch 22 - Joseph Heller [ ] Complete Works of Shakespeare [ ] Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier [x] The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien [ ] Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk [x] 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 [ ] Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky [ ] Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck [x] 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 [x] The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis [ ] The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini [ ] Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres [x] Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden [x] Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne [x] 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 [x] The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins [x] 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 - Mark Haddon [ ] Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez [x] 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 [x] Dracula - Bram Stoker [x] The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett [ ] Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson [ ] Ulysses - James Joyce [ ] The Inferno – Dante [ ] Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome [ ] Germinal - Emile Zola [ ] Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray [ ] Possession - AS Byatt [ ] 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 [x] 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 [x] 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 [x] Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl [ ] Les Miserables - Victor Hugo |
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| Sweeney Hyde |
This is the perfect final post... God, what an amazing person we've lost. 
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| kozafluitmusique |
Seriously : ( |
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| Dax |
I read dozens of books a year, and I'm not ashamed to say that I haven't read a lot of these books. Most of them are boring as hell. Yeah, I know most of them are "classics." Call me an iconoclast but after attempting to slog my way through many of them, I've found that they are less awesome in this day and age, and more yawnsome. (No Mark Twain? Bah!)
Today, authors have to grab the reader within a chapter, if not the first page to keep a person's attention. List is redundant anyway. You have the Chronicles of Narnia, but list the Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, as a separate entry? And do the Chronicles count as 7 books? The Lord of the Rings are 3 books...Harry Potter series is another 7..um..Hey, there's 17 books right there. 
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| Salome |
[ ] Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
[x] The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien [x] Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte [x] Harry Potter series - JK Rowling ...the first 2 [x] To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee [x] The Bible ..parts [x] Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte [x] Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell [ ] His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman [x]Great Expectations - Charles Dickens [ ] Little Women - Louisa M Alcott [ ] Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy [x] Catch 22 - Joseph Heller [x ] Complete Works of Shakespeare [x ] Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier [x] The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien [ ] Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk [ ] Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger [ ] The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger [ ] Middlemarch - George Eliot [x ] Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell [x] The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald [x ] Bleak House - Charles Dickens [ ] War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy [x] The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams [ ] Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky [x ] Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck [x] Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll [x ] The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame [x ] Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy [x ] David Copperfield - Charles Dickens [x ] Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis [ ] Emma - Jane Austen [x ] Persuasion - Jane Austen [x ] 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 [x] Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne [x] Animal Farm - George Orwell [x] The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown [ ] One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez [ ] A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving [x] 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 [x] Lord of the Flies - William Golding [ ] Atonement - Ian McEwan [ ] Life of Pi - Yann Martel [x] Dune - Frank Herbert [x ] Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons [x] Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen [ ] A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth [ ] The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon [x] A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens [x ] Brave New World - Aldous Huxley [ ] The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night - Mark Haddon [ ] Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez [x ] Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck [x ] Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov [ ] The Secret History - Donna Tartt [ ] The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold [x] 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 [x ] Moby Dick - Herman Melville [x ] Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens [x ] Dracula - Bram Stoker [x] The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett [ ] Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson [x ] Ulysses - James Joyce [x] The Inferno – Dante [ ] Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome [ ] Germinal - Emile Zola [x ] Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray [ ] Possession - AS Byatt [x] A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens [ ] Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell [ ] The Color Purple - Alice Walker [x ] The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro [ ] Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert [ ] A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry [x] Charlotte’s Web - EB White [ ] The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom [x ] Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle [ ] The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton [x] Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad [x ] The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery [ ] The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks [x] Watership Down - Richard Adams [ ] A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole [x ] A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute [x ] The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas [x] Hamlet - William Shakespeare [x] Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl [x] Les Miserables - Victor Hugo |
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| nycbound |
Not as many as I thought, but many of them are on my TBR list:
[ ] Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen [x] The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien [x] Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte [] Harry Potter series - JK Rowling [] To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee [] The Bible ..parts [x] Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte [x] Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell [ ] His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman [x]Great Expectations - Charles Dickens [ ] Little Women - Louisa M Alcott [ ] Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy [x] Catch 22 - Joseph Heller [x ] Complete Works of Shakespeare [x ] Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier [x] The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien [ ] Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk [X ] Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger [X ] The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger [ ] Middlemarch - George Eliot [x ] Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell [x] The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald [x] Bleak House - Charles Dickens [ ] War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy [] The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams [ ] Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky [x ] Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck [x] Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll [x ] The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame [x] Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy [] David Copperfield - Charles Dickens [x ] Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis [ ] Emma - Jane Austen [ ] Persuasion - Jane Austen [x ] The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis [ ] The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini [ ] Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres [ X] Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden [x] 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 [ X] 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 [x] Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen [ ] A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth [ ] The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon [x] A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens [ ] Brave New World - Aldous Huxley [ ] The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night - Mark Haddon [ ] Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez [x ] Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck [x ] 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 [ X] Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding [ ] Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie [x] Moby Dick - Herman Melville [x ] Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens [x ] Dracula - Bram Stoker [x] The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett [ ] Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson [x ] Ulysses - James Joyce [] The Inferno – Dante [ ] Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome [ ] Germinal - Emile Zola [x] Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray [ ] Possession - AS Byatt [x] 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 [x] Charlotte’s Web - EB White [X ] The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom [x ] Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle [ ] The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton [x] Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad [x ] The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery [ ] The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks [x] Watership Down - Richard Adams [ ] A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole [ ] A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute [x ] The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas [x] Hamlet - William Shakespeare [x] Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl [x] Les Miserables - Victor Hugo |
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| Angel-of-Music* |
] Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
[x] The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien [ ] Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte [x] Harry Potter series - JK Rowling [ ] To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee [x] The Bible [ ] Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte [ ] Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell [ ] His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman [x]Great Expectations - Charles Dickens [ ] Little Women - Louisa M Alcott [ ] Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy [ ] Catch 22 - Joseph Heller [ ] Complete Works of Shakespeare [ ] Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier [x] The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien [ ] Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk [ ] 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 [ ] Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky [ ] Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck [x] Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll [x] The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame [ ] Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy [ ] David Copperfield - Charles Dickens [x] Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis [ ] Emma - Jane Austen [ ] Persuasion - Jane Austen [x] 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 [x] Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne [ ] Animal Farm - George Orwell [x] 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 [x] Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery [ ] Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy [ ] The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood [x] 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 [x] The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night - Mark Haddon [ ] Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez [x] 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 [x] Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding [ ] Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie [ ] Moby Dick - Herman Melville [x] Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens [ ] Dracula - Bram Stoker [x] The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett [ ] Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson [ ] Ulysses - James Joyce [ ] The Inferno – Dante [ ] Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome [ ] Germinal - Emile Zola [ ] Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray [ ] Possession - AS Byatt [ ] 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 [x] The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom [x] 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 [x] Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl [x] Les Miserables - Victor Hugo I feel like such a fail having read so few on the list, considering I read a ridiculous amount |