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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
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
( 11-100 )
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).
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).
