The PlaidScape

Books I've Read

Meme-riffic!

From Nikki...

Bold those you've read, and italicize those you've started but didn't finish, or have read excerpts from.

(Many of these I have read, but don't remember. And many more I started but never finished.)

1. Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen (I've read most of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies...)
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 (The Golden Compass and The Subtle Knife, but not the last one)
10. Great Expectations – Charles Dickens (I think I read this one for English class in high school)
11. Little Women – Louisa M Alcott
12. Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
13. Catch 22 – Joseph Heller
14. Complete Works of Shakespeare (Has anyone read the complete works?)
15. Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier
16. The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien (I also have the adapted audio play from Audible!)
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 (I read this for school, still don't remember if I finished it)
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 (And Through the Looking Glass!)
30. The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame
31. Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy (I think I only read the first chapter...)
32. David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
33. Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis (I'm not positive we got through all of them, but I know my mother read most of these aloud to me when I was little)
34. Emma – Jane Austen
35. Persuasion – Jane Austen
36. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – CS Lewis (Hmmm... This is already part of #33)
37. The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
38. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis De Berniere
39. Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden (Nope, but I saw the movie)
40. Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne
41. Animal Farm – George Orwell
42. The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown (Nope, but I saw the movie)
43. One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez (I even read a couple chapters in Spanish...)
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 (We had a book club in high school, and I think we only read one book.)
52. Dune – Frank Herbert (Daniel would kill me if I hadn't)
53. Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons
54. Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen (Perhaps I should pick up the Sea Monsters version)
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 (Nope, but I read the plot summary on wikipedia :P)
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 (I've also read some excellent stories based on Sherlock Holmes - such as "A Study in Emerald" by Neil Gaiman)
90. The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton
91. Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad (Nope, but I saw the movie)
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 (And I've seen the nerd-version of Hamlet with Tennant and Stewart)
99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl
100. Les Miserables – Victor Hugo

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