I am a giant book nerd

[ebonlock]

via tersa who got it from seachanges:

The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books here. How do your reading habits stack up?

Instructions: Copy this into your journal. Look at the list and put an 'x' after those you have read. Tag other book nerds.

1 Pride and Prejudice - x
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien - x
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte - x
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling - x
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee - x
6 The Bible - x
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte x
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell - x
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman - x
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens - x



11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott - x
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare (by the time I was about 10) - x
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier - x
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien - x
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger -x
19 The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot - x
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell - x
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 - x
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll - x
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy -x
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens - x
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis - x
34 Emma - Jane Austen -x
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen - x (arguably my fave, actually)
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis - x
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden - x
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne - x
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell - x
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown - (FUCK NO!)
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 - x
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding - x
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert - x
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen -x
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens - x
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez - x
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov - x
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas - x
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding - x
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville - x
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens - x (I really love Dickens, btw)
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker - x (one of the most effective horror stories ever written)
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett - x
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Inferno – Dante - x
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 - x
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert - x
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White - x
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - x (can we have multiple x's if we've read it lots of times? Probably not)
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery - x
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams - x
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas -x
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare - x
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - x
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo - x

Hmm, 51 if my count is correct. A wee bit higher than the BBC thought :)

Also, before I forget a coworker caught "In the Loop" this weekend and told me I must see it. It's apparently a modern British comedy reminiscent of Dr. Strangelove. Also it is apparently on On Demand. Yay!

Comments

[missjones.livejournal.com]

Wow... I've actually read quite a few of these myself... not as many as you, but still, I was suitably impressed with myself....

Tierney is finally reading the Harry Potter books... she had read the first one a few years ago and then stopped and now she is devouring the second one... it's so nice to see her reading... for a while there I was beginning to fear she really was an alien child... or at least not mine since books were holding no interest for her... now with Twilight and the Harry Potter series she seems to be awakening her own inner book nerd... mama is so proud!!!!

Tell Angie I am starting her on the Valdemaar books as soon as she's done with Harry Potter! :)

[ebonlock.livejournal.com]

Tell Tierney she can call me after she makes it through Book 7 and we'll have a nice long bitch fest about it ;)

Also, you live, yay! I'd begun to wonder :D

Not so much

[(Anonymous)]

Well I got 3, 5 if you count LOR as 3 books, not much of a reader I guess although I haven't even seen the movies of most them, oh well. John