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[felis_ultharus]

My first post in weeks, and it's a meme. But a good one :)

Apparently the BBC reckons most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here.
Instructions:

1) Look at the list and put an 'x' by those you have read.
2) Add a '+' to the ones you LOVE.
3) Add a '-' to the ones you HATED.
3) Star (*) those you plan on reading.
4) Tally your total at the bottom.

and I'm adding:

5) put a "parts" for things you've read parts of -- because, after all, how many people have read absolutely everything Shakespeare ever wrote?

(*)1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
(+) 2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
() 3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
(+) 4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
() 5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
(-) 6 The Bible
() 7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
(x) 8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
() 9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
() 11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
() 12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
() 13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
(parts) 14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
() 15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
(x) 16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
() 17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
() 18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
() 19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
() 20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
() 21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
(+) 22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
() 23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
() 24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
(x) 25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
() 26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
() 27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
(x) 28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
(x) 29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
(*) 30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
() 31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
() 32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
(x) 33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
() 34 Emma - Jane Austen
() 35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
(x) 36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
(*) 37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
() 38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
() 39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
(x) 40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
(x) 41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
() 42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
(*) 43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
() 44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
() 45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
(+) 46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
() 47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
(x) 48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
(x) 49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
() 50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
(*) 51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
(*) 52 Dune - Frank Herbert
() 53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
(*) 54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
(*) 55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
() 56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
() 57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
(*) 58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
() 59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
() 60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
() 61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
() 62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
() 63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
() 64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
(*) 65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
() 66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
() 67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
() 68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
(x) 69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
(x) 70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
(x) 71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
(+) 72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
() 73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
() 74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
(-) 75 Ulysses - James Joyce
() 76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
() 77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
() 78 Germinal - Emile Zola
(parts) 79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
() 80 Possession - AS Byatt
(x) 81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
() 82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
() 83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
() 84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
() 85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
() 86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
(x) 87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White x
() 88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Alborn
(parts) 89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
() 90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
(+) 91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
(+) 92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
(*) 93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
(x) 94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
() 95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
() 96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
() 97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
(x) 98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
()99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
() 100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

So that's more than six, at least.

Comments

[kurosakihisoka.livejournal.com]

I don't know if it'd be your sort of fare, but my favourite book is Lolita by Nabokov and I highly recommend it. It has a very interesting style, to say the least.

[felis-ultharus.livejournal.com]

I haven't. I was largely turned off Russian literature by slogging through Chekov.

ETA: Although now I see (thanks to Wikipedia) he was mostly US-based.

[kurosakihisoka.livejournal.com]

Indeed! Paragraphs of the book are written in French, as well.