Updated Reading List Meme
May. 4th, 2010 07:11 amA friend of a friend by the handle of
lebo_superman updated the meme that's been making the rounds regularly the last few years, to take out some of the inconsistencies and reorganize it a bit. Here's mine, with some commentary.
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
3 Jayne Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
5 Harry Potter (any - 1pt each) - JK Rowling So that's seven points, because I've read them all.
6 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
7 The Bible
8 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien I know, I know. Apparently I quit about ten pages before the pace picked up, and I've never gone back to it.
9 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
10 The Two Towers - JRR Tolkien
11 Return Of The King - JRR Tolkien
12 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
13 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
14 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
15 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
16 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
17 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
18 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
19 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
20 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
21 You Can Heal Your Life - Louise L. Hay
22 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
23 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
24 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
25 The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
26 Middlemarch - George Eliot
27 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
28 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
29 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
30 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
31 The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
32 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
33 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
34 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
35 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
36 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis (1 point each)
37 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis So, seven points there, too. Do I get bonus points for reading them multiple times?
38 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
39 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
40 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 1984 - George Orwell Yes, I skipped this. I got the Coles Notes version from being married to Piet.
43 Brave new World - Aldous Huxley
44 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
45 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
46 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
47 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
48 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
49 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
50 The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
51 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
52 Atonement - Ian McEwan
53 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
54 Dune - Frank Herbert
55 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
56 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
57 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
58 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night - Mark Haddon
59 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
60 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
61 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
62 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
63 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
64 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
65 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
66 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
67 Bridget Jones' Diary - Helen Fielding
68 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
69 Dracula - Bram Stoker
70 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
71 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
72 Ulysses - James Joyce
73 The Inferno – Dante
74 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
75 Germinal - Emile Zola
76 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
77 Possession - AS Byatt
78 Common Sense for the 21st Century - Myrddin McGill
79 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
80 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
81 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
82 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert In French, no less.
83 Five Wishes - Gay Hendricks
84 Learning To Love Yourself - Gay Hendricks
85 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
86 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
87 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
88 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad I think I read this. It was in the library in my town in France, French on one side of the page, English on the facing page. I was desperate enough for reading material that I read it all the way through. In fact I think I read it in both languages.
89 Courageous Souls - Robert Schwartz
90 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
91 Watership Down - Richard Adams
92 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
93 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
94 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas Again, in French.
95 The Power of Now - Eckhart Tolle
96 The Spontaneous Fulfillment of Desire - Deepak Chopra
97 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo I've read the whole thing in English and parts of it in French.
98 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
99 Illusions - Richard Bach
100 The Essene Gospel of Peace - Edmond Bordeaux Szekely
So, thirty-nine. There are some I still intend to read but have never gotten around to it, like Dune and Watership Down. And there are a bunch of books that ought to be on this list, like A Wrinkle in Time, that I've read and loved.
I should take some time sometime soon to write about some of the books I bought my students for literature circles this year. I'm bringing myself up-to-date on current YA literature, and there's some really good stuff being written.
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1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
3 Jayne Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
5 Harry Potter (any - 1pt each) - JK Rowling So that's seven points, because I've read them all.
6 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
7 The Bible
8 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien I know, I know. Apparently I quit about ten pages before the pace picked up, and I've never gone back to it.
9 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
10 The Two Towers - JRR Tolkien
11 Return Of The King - JRR Tolkien
12 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
13 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
14 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
15 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
16 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
17 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
18 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
19 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
20 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
21 You Can Heal Your Life - Louise L. Hay
22 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
23 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
24 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
25 The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
26 Middlemarch - George Eliot
27 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
28 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
29 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
30 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
31 The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
32 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
33 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
34 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
35 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
36 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis (1 point each)
37 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis So, seven points there, too. Do I get bonus points for reading them multiple times?
38 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
39 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
40 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 1984 - George Orwell Yes, I skipped this. I got the Coles Notes version from being married to Piet.
43 Brave new World - Aldous Huxley
44 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
45 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
46 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
47 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
48 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
49 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
50 The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
51 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
52 Atonement - Ian McEwan
53 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
54 Dune - Frank Herbert
55 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
56 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
57 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
58 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night - Mark Haddon
59 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
60 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
61 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
62 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
63 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
64 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
65 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
66 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
67 Bridget Jones' Diary - Helen Fielding
68 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
69 Dracula - Bram Stoker
70 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
71 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
72 Ulysses - James Joyce
73 The Inferno – Dante
74 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
75 Germinal - Emile Zola
76 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
77 Possession - AS Byatt
78 Common Sense for the 21st Century - Myrddin McGill
79 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
80 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
81 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
82 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert In French, no less.
83 Five Wishes - Gay Hendricks
84 Learning To Love Yourself - Gay Hendricks
85 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
86 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
87 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
88 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad I think I read this. It was in the library in my town in France, French on one side of the page, English on the facing page. I was desperate enough for reading material that I read it all the way through. In fact I think I read it in both languages.
89 Courageous Souls - Robert Schwartz
90 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
91 Watership Down - Richard Adams
92 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
93 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
94 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas Again, in French.
95 The Power of Now - Eckhart Tolle
96 The Spontaneous Fulfillment of Desire - Deepak Chopra
97 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo I've read the whole thing in English and parts of it in French.
98 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
99 Illusions - Richard Bach
100 The Essene Gospel of Peace - Edmond Bordeaux Szekely
So, thirty-nine. There are some I still intend to read but have never gotten around to it, like Dune and Watership Down. And there are a bunch of books that ought to be on this list, like A Wrinkle in Time, that I've read and loved.
I should take some time sometime soon to write about some of the books I bought my students for literature circles this year. I'm bringing myself up-to-date on current YA literature, and there's some really good stuff being written.