Monday, January 03, 2011

Random fun thing

The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books listed here. Instructions: Bold those books you’ve read in their entirety, italicize the ones you started but didn’t finish or read an excerpt (or those that you read the kids’ version of).

1 Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen

2 The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien (i even read the poems lor)

3 Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte (fav book when kid, no idea why)

4 Harry Potter series – JK Rowling (never. going. near.)

5 To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee (becuz of school)

6 The Bible (must have read excerpts somewhere along going to christian schools for 6 years?)

8 Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell

9 His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman

10 Great Expectations – Charles Dickens (forced.)

11 Little Women – Louisa M Alcott (so long ago i don't even remember what its about)

12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy (reminds me of hound of the baskervilles)

13 Catch 22 – Joseph Heller

14 Complete Works of Shakespeare (I'll go mad before i complete the complete works)

15 Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier

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

25 The Hitchhiker’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 (scarily thick book of the old)

30 The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame (frigtening frogs and badgers. scene of the lake haunts me)

31 Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy

32 David Copperfield – Charles Dickens (thought it was about the magician :X)

33 Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis (more childhood stories)

34 Emma – Jane Austen

35 Persuasion – Jane Austen

36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – CS Lewis (thanks to dad's magical childhood reads)

37 The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini

38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis De Berniere

39 Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne (thanks to niewtums for snitching it from her sch lib which was gonna throw away their old books!! and giving it to me as a birthday present)

41 Animal Farm – George Orwell (forced by school)

42 The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown (cuz i couldnt watch the movie)

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

48 The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood

49 Lord of the Flies – William Golding

50 Atonement – Ian McEwan (watched movie counted?)

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 (awesome)

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 (again watched movie counted?)

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 Dickens

72 Dracula – Bram Stoker

73 The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett (wow i just mentioned this to honeybun recently)

74 Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson (only read notes from an even smaller island... which is more relevant!)

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 (childhood book)

88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom

89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (iphone book)

90 The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton (must have read some of this)

91 Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad

92 The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery (fav book now)

93 The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks

94 Watership Down – Richard Adams (attracted by bunnies on the cover)

95 A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole

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 (who won't read this??)

100 Les Miserables – Victor Hugo


Yay! I've read 18 of them. A very meaningful number for me. And considering i hate reading!! And started reading late. i guess its not bad? Though most of the people i know would have read like, twice of what i did -.- Many of the books are right in the bookshelf at home and i have glanced at them but never thought of picking them up or even flipping through them otherwise i would have more italics! I'm just not such a big reader :C I'm trying to improve though, because my vocab is sad and minimal... and my general knowledge? Can be concentrated into one pocky stick. And not the giant kind.

The ones in grey are those i think i want to try reading. And cuz they either have very cute thus appealing titles, are books for children, or I can easily find.

Must. Read. More!

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