Today's · memoirs

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.
5) Place a * next to the books you hate..the books you regret having spent hours of your life reading.
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1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
*2. The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien. ...   I know it's terribly unpopular to say so, but I can't bear the sticky mythology of Tolkien. I didn't spend hours on this; it was easy to tell within moments that this would be thrown across the room.
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 (1 out of 3.)
10. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
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11. Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12. Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14. Complete Works of Shakespeare  I see no need to plow through every single play. Some of them are seldom performed and there's a reason for that. But I've read what I want and that's enough for me.
15. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
* 16. The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien  See #2
17. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18. Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19. The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20. Middlemarch - George Eliot
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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        But I sat next to a guy on a plane who was calmly reading it as we approached San Francisco in the midst of high winds. He was very calm.
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
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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 - C.S. 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
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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
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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
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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*   Assigned in college, with the caveat from the professor that most of us wouldn't finish it. He was right. The first chapter was fine. After that... blarrghhhh
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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      Every female in college who thought herself deep and morose read this. I was no exception.
77. Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78. Germinal - Emile Zola
79. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80. Possession - AS Byatt
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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  I sat through the movie, though, and feel that was enough tedium for one book.
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 -This caused me to write in lengthy sentences full of semi-colons for years.
90. The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
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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  If you've read #14, you've read this. I remember a year in high school where it seemed like the entire year was spend reading Hamlet, watching assorted productions of Hamlet, or dissecting Hamlet.
99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
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My additions:
The Canterbury Tales - Geoffrey Chaucer
Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner- Alan Sillitoe
The Portrait of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde   Probably the best book I ever read.
* And Ladies of the Club - Helen Hooven Santmyer      This was enormously popular some years ago and everyone said I should read it, I'd love it. Good God. What a waste of time.
*****Clan of the Cave Bear - Jean Auel.          I can't describe how much I loathed this. I can't imagine why it was a best seller. Maybe it was useful for propping doors open.
The Feminine Mystique - Betty Friedan.  My mother bought this when it was published. I still have her copy and may geta round to it. Some day.
****Under the Tuscan Sun - Frances May.        See Clan of the Cave Bear.
*The Dollmaker - Harriette Arnow.     God, was this depressing.
Ship of Fools - Katherine Anne Porter. Bought this several years ago. Maybe I'll get around to reading it. I made several attempts and never got anywhere.