Another Book Meme
I have previously done a Children's Fantasy Meme, but this one looked like fun too. And as usual, I got it from Meg over at Get In, Hang on.
The Rules
1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read (as in the book is bought and sitting on my shelf).
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
I will add my own rule of putting an asterisk next to the ones that I plan to read (but have not bought yet). I also found it kind of fun to remember when I read the book...as a kid, in school, on my own or with the boys.
There are 98 books on the list.
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen - just discovered Jane Austin 3 years ago and LOVE this book. The audio book is my "comfort book".
The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien - read this on my own in jr. high or high school. Looking forward to sharing it with the boys.
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte - read this on my own a few years ago (I was on a kick to read "classics" that I had not read in high school)
Harry Potter series - JK Rowling - read it with Jason and LOVED it
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee - one of my all time favorites. Just finished re-reading it last week.
The Bible
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte - read it on my own several years ago
Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell - read it in high school
His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman - read it with the boys and love Pullman's mastery of the language - a gifted writer
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
Little Women - Louisa M Alcott - read it on my own as a kid
Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy - might have read this but can't remember
Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
Complete Works of Shakespeare - probably not all of them. Took a Shakespeare elective in college and loved it.
Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien - read as a kid and enjoyed it with the boys
Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
Middlemarch - George Eliot
Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell - read this on my own in high school and loved it.
The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald - listened to this several years ago and recently bought the audio book
Bleak House - Charles Dickens
War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck - read in high school
Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll - read with Jason
The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame - read this with Jason and was amazed that someone could make one sentence that said it was morning last about 4 or 5 lines. Jason loved it, but I kept getting lost in the descriptions
Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis - read these on my own as a kid and with Jason.
Emma - Jane Austen
Persuasion - Jane Austen
The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne - My mom used to read these to me and I read them to the boys
Animal Farm - George Orwell - read in high school
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 - read after I discovered Pride and Prejudice
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 - read this several years ago and found it depressing
Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
The Secret History - Donna Tartt
The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas - read this on my own in college
On The Road - Jack Kerouac *
Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
Bridget Jones’ Diary - Helen Fielding - read this after seeing the movie...which led me to Pride and Prejudice
* Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie *
Moby Dick - Herman Melville - think I read this in high school. Have read an abridged version with Jason
Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
Dracula - Bram Stoker
The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett - read this with the boys
Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
Ulysses - James Joyce
The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome - read this with the boys
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 - read in school as well as with the boys. Kyle especially enjoyed it.
The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - read some of them, not all
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
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl - read with Jason
Les Miserables - Victor Hugo -should get extra points for reading the unabridged version on my own in college - the one where he spends tons of time going off on tangents about the money and other uninteresting things. Can't remember how many volumes there were, but I read them all.
