Book meme

[amado1]

Stolen from huxleyenne 

The rules are simple — bold what you've read, italicize what you intend to read, and underline what you loved. I've read 53 out of 100 books and am largely uninterested in the rest, tbh. Many of them are books I've started in the past and put down without regrets. There's a very distinct vibe to this list, and when I finished reading it, I realized what it is -- it's all the same books stocked at my Christian elementary school library, and/or the local Walmart, when I was growing up! 

1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2. The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien (I've read The Hobbit and enjoyed it, but not enough to keep reading the series)
3. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4. Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6. The Bible (I do love the King James version...or parts of it)
7. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8. 1984 - 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
14. Complete Works of Shakespeare 
15. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16. The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks (I generally like WWI novels, but I don't think I have any inherent interest in the themes of this one -- not without some additional hook)
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 (I did love this book as a teen; I'm sure I'd feel differently now)
22. The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
23. Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25. The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28. Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33. Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34. Emma - Jane Austen
35. Persuasion - Jane Austen
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
40. Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
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 Meany - John Irving
45. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46. Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47. Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48. The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
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 (this book was name-dropped in a Belle/Rumplestiltskin fic I read once, where the author was showcasing how smart and well-read they are)
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. The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas (my favorite book as a kid. First read it in 3rd grade but liked Three Musketeers more. Read it again in 7th grade and became obsessed).
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 (counting this as unread because I read it as a 2nd grader and don't remember it, and didn't appreciate it much at the time. I know I'd love it now).
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
79. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80. Possession - AS Byatt
81. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83. The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84. The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86. A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87. Charlotte's Web - EB White
88. The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom (ABSOLUTELY NOT)
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 (doubtful I'll ever get to it, it's been on my TBR since I was a teen)
94. Watership Down - Richard Adams
95. A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole (I always misremember this as a Mark Twain book)
96. A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97. The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98. Hamlet - William Shakespeare .
99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl (I've read enough of his stories to know that I'd rather read his adult work; I'm sure I would have liked it as a kid, and I enjoyed both BFG and Witches as an adult)
100. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
I think that ALL of these are books I read in childhood or *wanted* to read in childhood but couldn't get my hands on. "Heart of Darkness" and "Lolita" are the only books on the entire list that I had a continued interest in past the age of 16, and even then, they were rereads or semi-rereads (like, I managed to read part of the book on a trip to another school's library, but didn't have time to finish it). 

Comments

[mucky]

Someone I work with recommended I read Mitch Albom the other day. My face was stuck like :^] *politely nods*

[amado1]

XD

[huxleyenne]

I always misremember this as a Mark Twain book

You might be thinking of the book A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, which Mark Twain did write.

[amado1]

Yeah, I read them back to back!

[greghousesgf]

I never read Rebecca but I'm a big Alfred Hitchcock fan so I've seen the movie lots of times, does deWinter call her a fool and an idiot all the time in the book like he does in the movie?
I loved Wind in the Willows, I read that when I was a kid.
I've read the Color Purple and the Little Prince.
I love Sherlock Holmes. I have all the books.

[amado1]

I don't remember, actually. I watched two different film adaptations right after reading the book so my ability to keep them distinct is nil.