Copied this of a facebook friend, Chandra.
INSTRUCTIONS: Have you read more than 6 of these books? The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books listed here. Copy this into your NOTES. Bold those books you've read in their entirety, italicize the ones you started but didn't finish or read an excerpt.
And just like her, I don’t know what happened to number #3. Shame, that.
1. Pride and Prejudice -Jane Austen
2. The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
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4. Harry Potter Series - JK Rowling
5. To Kill a Mockingbird -Harper Lee
6. The Bible
7. Wuthering Heights- Emily Bronte
8. 1984 - George Orwell
9. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11. Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
12. Tess D'Ubervilles - Thomas Hardy
13. Catch 22- Joseph Harper
14. Complete Works of Shakespeare
15. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16. The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17. Bridsong - Sebastian Faulks
18. Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19. The Time Traveller's Wife - Aundrey 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 Waugh
27. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28. Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Caroll
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 Aunsten
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 Berniere
39. Memoires 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 of Owen Meaney - John Irving
45. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46. Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47. Far From the Maddening Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48. The Handmaid's Tale - Maragret Atwood
49. Lord of the Flies - William Goldin
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 Zafron
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. Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66. On the Road - Jack Kerouak
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
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 - Willaim Makepeace Thackeray
80. Possession - AS Byatt
81. A Chrstmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82. Cloud Atlas - Davis 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
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 - Antione De Saint-Exupery
93. The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94. Watership Down - Richard Adams
95. A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96. A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97. The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98. Hamlet - Willaim Shakespear
99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
Wow, it’s sad to see I don’t read a lot of books after all. Or rather, a wide range of books. -amused- I’m always comfortable in my favorite genre and with new authors (their language style appeals to me then much older English – classic sometime feels like its from a different age – can’t really connect to it) that sometimes moving beyond that, beyond what I’m comfortable reading, makes me squeamish. Nevertheless, I guess I shouldn’t close my mind like this. These listed books are classics for a reason. -admits reluctantly- and probably have to offer me something. -grins-
I shall take up the challenge of reading all the listed books then. ‘cept for the Bible.
:D A goal! At last! A book a week? Yes…hmm…yes, I can find this working for me. Anddddd –whines- I need to start with my extra language study soon. I’m wasting to much valuable time on reading and writing fanfiction. And get back in shape! @_@ I feel like I’m 30. Annnd -grumbles- Studying on my Vocabulary and Grammar. Hard as it for me to admit, my tenses are screwed. It all comes naturally to me and I can’t tell you why the bloody hell it is in past tense, I just know. It’s not going to be an ideal condition for me if I were to pursue in my line of profession. I’ll draw up a timetable now to get more organized. –nods vigorously-
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