Big Read Meme
Saw this over at Doodles and have nicked it. It's getting towards the end of the year and I always make my blog into a book (curtosy of the ingenius software that basically does it for you at Blurb) and I'm thinking that there's not much for 2008 so I'm going to have to bulk it up some how. So it's meme city from now on. Maybe.
The Big Read meme
This meme is originally from the Big Read. Apparently they reckon most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here.
Instructions:
Look at the list and bold those you have read.
Underline those you intend to read. (I had to make them a different colour instead - no underline on Blogger)
Italicise the books you LOVE.
Post your list so we can try and track down these people who’ve only read 6 and force books upon them.
Heather marked with an S the books she started and couldn't finish so I did that too.
Because I am a child of the 80s I've also asterixed (is that a word) the ones I haven't read but have seen a film or tv adaptation of. Hell, it's practically the same thing. Maybe.
I have put multiple question marks - ??? - by the ones I've never even heard of. Because I am ignorant.
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen **
The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien **
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte **
Harry Potter series - JK Rowling - Awful bilge.
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
The Bible Bits of it.
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 S
Complete Works of Shakespeare Bits of.
Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
Catcher in the Rye - J D Salinger S
The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
Middlemarch - George Eliot
Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell **
The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
Bleak House - Charles Dickens **
War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh S
Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
David Copperfield - Charles Dickens **
Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis About 3 books of the set.
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
A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
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
Life of Pi - Yann Martel
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’ Diary - Helen Fielding **
Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
Moby Dick - Herman Melville S
Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens **
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 - AS 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
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 **
Notes from a Small Island and Bridget Jones are essential reads nowadays? Wow. And the Da Vinci Code? Now I am sure somewhere along the line this list has been tampered with. Possibly by Dan Brown. So what does this tell us? My list I mean, not Dan Brown's moral code... Mainly that I seem to have watched a lot of bad tv. Feel free to steal for your own blog...
Ha! Just realised...I've read more than 6. Eat that Big Readers.