I seem to be copying everything that the Sian-from diary of tiny holder does nowadays but who can resist a little list or 2- besides I have so many half sewn projects to finish..........
so to buy me a little time, I have to confess-
so to buy me a little time, I have to confess-
Books I have read..........
Bold-read
Italics-Like to read
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen -
2.The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - J.K. Rowling -
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible - strangely fascinating (did you know the bible stated the world was round hundreds of years before we worked it out?)
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 - Maybe halfway there....
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - J.R.R. 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 Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky- I got 5 pages in and my baby son ripped about 20 pages out!
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll - I was given a beautifully illustrated version of this that I plan to read with my children
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(great film though!)
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
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 -
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
Yes, I know I'm getting all moviefied on you but blockbuser or not- Ang Lee made a crackin Sense and Sensibility- though I do cringe when I think I'm supposed to be marianne!
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 - I started to read this and couldn't get into it
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro ( am I going crazy I thought this was by E m Forster-or am I just on Merchant- Ivory overload?)
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
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
Wow-less than fifty per cent- and quite shocking to realise most of them were back when I studied English literature at college- so all the classics are there and all the classic English children's stories too, the most recently written book I have read from the list is the Harry Potter books- I wanted to see if they were suitable for bedtime stories. I confess many of these I haven't even heard of- Basically anything written this century is a mystery to me! Though I suppose this could be having better things to do (4 children-3 careers-4 houses etc) it's really secretly due to the fact I'm not convinced that modern writers can weave magic into their stories the same as Thomas Hardy or Shakespeare- and the desperate midnight page turning by lamplight is just not going to happen for something really is better summed up by a 2 hour blockbuster! I also find my edwardian morality horrified by the fact all the books my local bookshops recommend seem to based on child abuse and torture....... so if you are a modern reader tell me what you would suggest for this over-romantic, living in the past, read the whole story without sleeping, type of reader..... (remember less sex, more soul rendering emotion!) Tell me what you love from this list or elsewhere and why I should read it............
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4 comments:
I think you'd really like 'The shadow of the Wind' - it's like an old-fashioned mystery novel. It's set in the 1930s so doesn't feel too modern.
Hi there! That's one impressive list :-)
Having studied English lit at the university myself, too, your list looks a lot like mine would. Of the books you mentioned, I'd say that my top three probably consists of The Secret History, Rebecca and The Great Gatsby. The first two because I genuinely found them brilliant (Donna Tartt, what were you thinking when you wrtote The Little Friend?!?) and Gatsby because it brings forth fond memories of a dusty university classroom and one particularly brilliant lecturer.
Books are the best there is. I couldn't have survived a difficult illness without them. They're friends, companions, antagonists to my sometimes boring existence, constant and everlasting sources for thought, emotion and reverie. Sometimes my raison d'etre, at other times mere entertainment.
Again, what a wonderful list!!!
Take care!
Marja (frantically swooshing sunshine over to you)
What a brilliant list - I did Eng lit too so a lot of your read lassics are in my list too. V impressed that you have read the Bible.
I'd recommend 'The boy in striped pyjamas' by John Boyne. Set in WW2, it's fairly short but you just can't put it down. I read it in 2 or 3 hours without putting it down so don't have loads of things to do before you start it. It's very simply written but very thought provoking. Boyne has now written a book based on the Mutiny on the Bounty but it's rather brutal and I just don't have the stomach for that!
I'm reading Nuala O'Faolain's 'Are you somebody?' at the moment and it's okay. Looking forward to starting 'Redemption Falls' by Joseph O'Connor next.
Wow thats quite a list! - I notice 'I capture the Castle' isn't on there - I read it last month after hearing so many good reviews about it in Blogland and I have to say, it really was very good. At the moment I'm reading 'Treasure Island' with my boys. Natalie x
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