Well, I won't be able to read 20 books, I might give it one last attempt when I get back from my mission, but in the meantime, I wanted to check out this list, and see how much I have read :) so... the ones in italics are books I haven't finished, the bold are the ones I've completely read :) The plan I think will be to finish the italicized ones in those 20... *I didn't italicize the ones that I started reading in a library and then just didn't take out... but there's a few of those too :/ :p
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte *this book was a little too weird to want to finish... I rented the movie, just to see what I had given up, and I decided Emily Bronte is just... really weird! so is Charlotte Bronte... but not as weird... and they have another sister! Anne... I kinda wanna see where on the Bronte scale of lunacy she sits... :p (judged on their writings)
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman *The Subtle Knife was read in french! my first french novel read by choice ;p **random fact - the translation for the title is actually The Tower of the Angels
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveler’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 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 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 *ok... call it blasphemy, but I think I've tried reading every single one, and never made it more than half way... if I even get by more than 3 chapters... :/ mind you... it was the same kinda deal for The Hobbit, but I eventually made it through that one too! so...
34 Emma -Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe - CS Lewis *... why is this on here twice?
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 - A.A. 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 for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery *ditto Chronicles of Narnia
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 *ok! I would have finished this if it wasn't for a book club, and thus having to return the book... so don't tell me how it ends!
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
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’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
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Inferno - Dante *had to read some for English 20IB... or something... don't think I'll finish that one...
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola *oh man! don't read this!!! haha! we read exerpts of/ the sparks notes kinda version of it in FLA 20IB, and then we watched the movie... weird!!! and by the sounds of the other books described to us that year by him... he could be put on the scale of lunacy too
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 - E.B. 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 - Antoine De Saint-Exupery *aka - Le Petit Prince, I think I've read it twice and parts of it over and over again! and I went to the play ;p My kids might not like this one cuz I might just read it to them a lot :p
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 - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
... also... there's a bunch on here I can't believe I haven't read... I think I might get to do some more reading before I leave! :p plus... there's some on here I wish I hadn't read ;p and some I know I never will ;p
Does it have to be 20 books from this list? Because if it doesn't, I know a way you can finish WHILE on your mission! Umm, books of scripture--of course!! There's 14 books just in the BOM and if you read the Old Testament at the same time and start with the small books first... ta dum!
ReplyDeleteOkay, maybe that's cheating. But I would let it count!
I haven't looked at my 101 in a while. I gave up on a few things and decided to get married instead. Heh. Way to stick with it!!
No it doesn't! and I was thinking of that too... but I thought it was cheating, but I think it's the only option I have :) so I think that'll be it! :D
ReplyDeleteAlso, I think there's still plenty you can do on your 101 list while married, though I think it would be awesome to have a 101 as a couple ^_^