June 22, 2009

Can't Resist a Good Book Meme

Got this from Gadfly :

What books have you read?

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen - Yes

2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien - No

3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte - Yes

4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling – Yes

5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee – Yes (2 or 3 times)

6 The Bible – Some

7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte - Yes

8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell – I might have in highschool but I can't remember

9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman – No

10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens – No, but I have the book at home.

11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott - Yes

12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy – No

13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller – No

14 Complete Works of Shakespeare – ehhhh… mostly… ish?

15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier - Yes, several times

16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien – No

17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk – No

18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger – yes

19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger – No

20 Middlemarch - George Eliot – no

21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchel – yes, my favorite novel..several times

22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald – yes

23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens – No

24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy – no

25 The HitchHiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams – No

26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh – No

27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky – no

28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck – yes

29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll – yes

30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame – no

31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy – yes

32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens – No

33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis – No

34 Emma - Jane Austen - No

35 Persuasion - Jane Austen – No but I have the book at home.

36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – no

37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini – Yes

38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres – No

39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden – Yes, twice

40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne – Yes

41 Animal Farm - George Orwell – Yes, I think I read this in highschool

42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown – yes

43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez – Yes

44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving – no

45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins – no

46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery – no

47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy – no

48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood – Yes

49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding – Yes, I think I read this in highschool

50 Atonement - Ian McEwan – I started it but never finished.

51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel - Yes

52 Dune - Frank Herbert – No

53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons – No

54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen – No

55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth – No

56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon – no

57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens – No

58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley – No

59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon – No, but I own a copy

60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez – Yes

61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck – yes

62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov – No

63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt – no

64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold – no

65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas – Yes-ish...I'm still working on it.

66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac – no

67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy – no

68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding – Yes

69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie – No

70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville – Yes, I think I read it in highschool

71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens – no

72 Dracula - Bram Stoker – No

73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett – No

74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson – no

75 Ulysses - James Joyce - no

76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath – Yes, many times

77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome – no

78 Germinal - Emile Zola – no

79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray – no

80 Possession - AS Byatt – no

81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens – no

82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell – No, but I own a copy

83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker – Yes

84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro – Yes

85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert – no

86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry – no

87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White – yes

88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom – no

89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle – No

90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton – no

91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad – No

92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery – no

93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Ban – no

94 Watership Down - Richard Adams – No

95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole – yes

96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute – no

97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas – no

98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare – yes

99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl – no

100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo – no


Kota Bonus Books:
101. The Beet Queen - Louise Eldrich – no

102. Clockwork Orange - Stuart Y. McDougal – No

103. Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert Heinlein – No

104. Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut – No

105. Uncle Tom's Cabin - Harriet Beecher Stowe – no


Gadfly bonus books:

Foucault’s Pendulum – Umberto Eco - No, but I own a copy
A Winter’s Tale – by Mark Helprin - No
Strange Matters – Tom Seigfried - No
The Monkey Wrench Gang by Edward Abbey - No
The Lecturer’s Tale – by James Hynes - No
Raise High the Roof Beam Carpenters - by J.D. Salinger - No

De Bonus Books:

Of Human Bondage - W. Somerset Maugham
The Thornbirds - Colleen McCollough
Outlander Series - Diana Gabaldon
Twilight Series - Stephenie Meyer
Giovanni's Room - James Baldwin
Suite Francaise - Irène Némirovsky
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius - Dave Eggers

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