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Book meme, taken from [livejournal.com profile] angelita26



1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Reprint this list in your own LJ so we can try and track down these people who've read 6 and force books upon them



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
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
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 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
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitchhiker'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
34 Emma - Jane Austen
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 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
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
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 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
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
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
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

Guess I read a lot of classic books. There are so many I have read which aren't in this list.

I'd add, among the others, Smilla's Sense of Snow (Peter Hoegg), some King's'book, Jeffrey Deaver's thrillers, Marcela Serrano's books on women and friendship during the military dictatorship in Chile, William Trevor's Felicia's Journey and Fools of Fortune.


Date: 2008-06-25 10:39 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] blackbirdj2.livejournal.com
That's a cool book meme, maybe I'll snag it ! ;)

Date: 2008-06-25 10:42 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] x5vale.livejournal.com
Enjoy :)

Date: 2008-06-25 10:47 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] willoweese.livejournal.com
You love Wuthering Heights? I'm even more convinced we share a brain, now :)

*hugs you*

Date: 2008-06-25 10:56 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] x5vale.livejournal.com
I adored Hitcliff and Katie :)))

We do then :)

Date: 2008-06-25 12:07 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] willoweese.livejournal.com
So did I :D

Hee. Yep :)

Date: 2008-06-25 10:57 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bitterbird.livejournal.com
DEAN!!! I miss Dean!! nice meme love :)

Date: 2008-06-25 11:01 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] x5vale.livejournal.com
The Dean girl in you sometimes comes out :)

Date: 2008-06-25 04:53 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] pinkphoenix1985.livejournal.com
DEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I miss him! :(

you've read ALOT!!

Date: 2008-06-25 05:02 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] pinkphoenix1985.livejournal.com
COOL!!! I love it TOO!!!

(HUGS)

Date: 2008-06-25 06:04 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] yoyo365.livejournal.com
Thanks so much sweetie, sorry I haven't been around here much and haven't been checking here so often! *hugs*

Thanks for all the Dean love!

Date: 2008-06-25 06:08 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] x5vale.livejournal.com
So happy you have seen this!

Love you :)

Date: 2008-06-25 07:04 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] yoyo365.livejournal.com
Yep I love the butt shot and the tummy peek shot! :)

Date: 2008-06-25 07:26 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] x5vale.livejournal.com
JEnsen effect!

Date: 2008-06-25 08:26 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] apieceofcake.livejournal.com
Mmmm...skin :-)

Before kids I was always reading books..nowadays I do all my reading on-line..LOL!

Pick up a book and little hands take it off me because it hasn't got pictures in!

Date: 2008-06-26 09:25 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] x5vale.livejournal.com
eheheheheh...

*hugs you*

Date: 2008-06-26 02:33 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] a-phoenixdragon.livejournal.com
MmmmHmmm - as always! I can always, always depend on you for the yummy lift to my day!

Damn...I've read to many of one type and not enough of another in this, lol!

*hugs*

Date: 2008-06-26 09:12 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] x5vale.livejournal.com
I am here for this :)

Date: 2008-06-26 08:08 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] galain-7.livejournal.com
Cool meme!

Might snag it.

And how's War and Peace? Always wanted to read it, but my teacher suggested it and me, being a teen at the time, refused.

Date: 2008-06-27 07:59 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] x5vale.livejournal.com
It's awesome :)

Date: 2008-06-28 09:42 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jade-kadir.livejournal.com
Thanks for the pictuers. I don't know if I'll do the meme though as I'm sadly lacking in my classic literature. *Shrug*

Date: 2008-06-28 12:32 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] x5vale.livejournal.com
No problem :)

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