One of my friends sent me this list of classic books. You're supposed to follow the instructions below and show the online blogging community what a little bookworm you are.
Well, why the heck not?
Below is a list of classic books and you are supposed to look at the list and:
1. Bold those you have read.
2. Italicise those you intend to read.
3. [Bracket] the books you LOVE.
4. Underline those you HATE.
Or surround with asterisks if blogger won't underline stuff.
5. Reprint this list on your own blog.
[Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen]
The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
The Bible (Bits of it. That counts right?)
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
[Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell]
His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
Complete Works of Shakespeare (Again, most of it!)
Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
Middlemarch - George Eliot
Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell (I read the sequel. Does that count?)
The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
Bleak House - Charles Dickens
War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
[The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams]
Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
[Emma - Jane Austen] [Persuasion - Jane Austen]
The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
[Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden]
[Winnie-the-Pooh - AA Milne]
Animal Farm - George Orwell
The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
[The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood]
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
Atonement - Ian McEwan
Fire and Hemlock - Dianna Wynne-Jones
Dune - Frank Herbert
Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
[Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen]
A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
[Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez]
Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
The Secret History - Donna Tartt
The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
On The Road - Jack Kerouac
Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
[Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding]
Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
Moby-Dick - Herman Melville
*Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens* (Had to do it in school. Bah!)
Dracula - Bram Stoker
The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
Ulysses - James Joyce
The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
Germinal - Emile Zola
Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
Possession - A. S. Byatt
A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
The Color Purple - Alice Walker
The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
Charlotte’s Web - EB White
The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
*The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks* (I got SO bored)
Watership Down - Richard Adams
A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
Hamlet - William Shakespeare
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
4 comments:
Most of The Complete Works of Shakespeare? Aye right, how many is most of?
Ok, you called me. Here is the full list of all of Shakespeare's plays and the ones that I've either read or seen performed are asterisked.
Fine. It's not all of them (I'm woefully lagging behind on the histories) but I bet it's a damn sight more than most. So there!
All's Well That Ends Well*
As You Like It*
Comedy of Errors*
Love's Labour's Lost*
Measure for Measure*
Merchant of Venice*
Merry Wives of Windsor
Midsummer Night's Dream*
Much Ado about Nothing*
Taming of the Shrew*
Tempest*
Twelfth Night*
Two Gentlemen of Verona*
Winter's Tale*
Antony and Cleopatra
Coriolanus
Hamlet*
Julius Caesar*
King Lear*
Macbeth*
Othello
Romeo and Juliet*
Timon of Athens
Titus Andronicus*
Troilus and Cressida
Cymbeline
Henry IV, Part I
Henry IV, Part II
Henry V
Henry VI, Part I
Henry VI, Part II
Henry VI, Part III
Henry VIII
King John
Pericles
Richard II
Richard III
19 out of 37 (just over half) to be precise and pedantic.
ah thanks to living at Graeme's I managed to read most of the classic's on my "100 books to read before you die" But it was published in 2005 so misses out some wicked ones.
The Handmaids tale or the fingersmith? lol... know which one i'd rather :o) canny beat a good bit o 1800 lesbo erotica
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