I've been a bad blogger, but actually there hasn't been much to report. The dayjob is driving me nuts (it's a short trip), the Dismal Swamp is still burning and when the wind is blowing our way we get the smoke from the peat fires (Larissa thought I was joking until the winds shifted and blew it all her way), the afternoon heat index was 106. On the plus side, I've been getting caught up on my reading.
The writing retreat was a blast, I didn't get a lot done, but it did get me started writing again, and made me want to write (which is half the battle).
Anyway, I saw this meme at
Gabriele's blog and thought I'd give it a shot. Let me know if you do it, too, I'm always interested to see what other people have read.
Instructions:
1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Reprint this list in your own blog so we can try and track down these people who've read six and force books upon them.
1 Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
2
The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien3
Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte4
Harry Potter series – J.K. Rowling5 To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
6
The Bible7 Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
8
Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell9
His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman10 Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
11
Little Women – Louisa M Alcott (loved this book growing up- reread it regularly)
12 Tess of the D'Urbervilles– Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 – Joseph Heller
14
Complete Works of Shakespeare15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16
The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien17 Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks
18
Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger19 The Time Traveler'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
25 The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26
Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh27 Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia – C.S. Lewis
34 Emma – Jane Austen
35 Persuasion – Jane Austen
36
The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – C.S. Lewis37 The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli's Mandolin – Louis de Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
40
Winnie the Pooh – A.A. Milne41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42
The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown43
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel García Márquez44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney – John Irving (the only one I haven't read-I think)
45 The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins (I prefer the Moonstone)
46 Anne of Green Gables – L.M. Montgomery
47 Far From the Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy
48
The Handmaid's Tale – Margaret Atwood49
Lord of the Flies - William Golding50
Atonement – Ian McEwan51 Life of Pi – Yann Martel
52
Dune - Frank Herbert (read all six and took them right back to the bookstore)
53 Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons
54
Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen55 A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafón
57 A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley59
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 Nabokov63 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
69 Midnight's Children – Salman Rushdie
70 Moby-Dick – Herman Melville
71
Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens72
Dracula - Bram Stoker73
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
79 Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
80
Possession – A.S. Byatt81
A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens82 Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
83
The Color Purple – Alice Walker84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
87
Charlotte's Web – E.B. White88 The Five People You Meet in Heaven – Mitch Albom
89
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle90 The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton
91
Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad92
The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94
Watership Down – Richard Adams95 A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
98
Hamlet - William Shakespeare99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100
Les Miserables – Victor Hugo (read it in 4 days- say the musical twice)
