The Book Meme

[la_samtyr]

1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
Look for the *
2) Italicize those you intend to read.
Look for the #
3) Underline the books you LOVE
I'm using the ***** rating system (and maybe some commentary as well)

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen *
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien ***** (It's all about the slash, yo! XD)
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte *
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling (Not damn likely though I love to watch Dan Rad in the movies)
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee ***** (I read this when I was in jr. high and loved it. Still do)
6 The Bible * (You would not *believe* how much trouble I get into over this one. Then again, you probably would)
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte *
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell *
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman *
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens *
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott * (This is one of the most corruptive books to be forced on girls *ever*. Jo starts out as a writer, goes to NYC and is "punished" by her aunt for showing signs of independent thinking by being denied the European trip she's dreamed about for years and then ends up getting married to and giving up her writing. This is the heroine we're supposed to admire? No wonder we are so f'd up.)
12 Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy *
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller *
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare ***** (Oh yeah, one way or another I've read everything. And there happens to be a really cool movie adaptation of 'The Taming of the Shrew' called "10 Things I Hate About You" -- you may remember I have talked about this before?)
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier *
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien ***** (Again, it's all about teh slash! XD)
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 * (I had to read this to my aunt who was stuck in the hospital years ago. Yikes.)
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 ***** (Loved this!)
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 ***** (I read all of the books one winter when I was sick in bed with a mega-nasty cold.)
34 Emma - Jane Austen *
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen *
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - C.S. Lewis * (See number 33)
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 # (I have yet to *read* the damn thing but my auntie gave it to me as a gift, and I need to tell her *something, ok?)
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 #
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 # (Recc'ed by someone on my f-list, so I should check it out more seriously.)
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 Kerouac #
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy *
68 Bridget Jones' Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie #
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville *
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens *
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker ***** (Lovely erotica. No, really. It's just that when you write about blood, the censors *believe* that's what you're writing about! XD)
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 ***** (I *love* the 1951 movie version of this)
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 # (He's a sportscaster so I really should check it out at least)
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 ***** (I had this read to me in the original French by a great-aunt when I was three? four? and I have loved it ever since.)
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams *
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole # (This was recc'ed by "the urchin" so I'll check it out)
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas *
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare ***** (Oh yeah! Lots of intrigue and weirdness and best of all, a sword fight!)
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo *