Reading

Sorry for blog silence, busy weekend then got sick. So to kick things back, a book meme via Alyson

How "well-read" are you?

Instructions:
1) Look at the list and put an 'x' after those you have read.
2) Add a '+' to the ones you LOVE.
3) Star (*) those you plan on reading.
4) put a # by those you've started but not finished.
5) Tally your total at the bottom.
6) Add five books you think should be on the list

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen 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+ (I love parts of it)
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 x
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare #*
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier x
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien x+
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger x
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger *
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell x++
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald x
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams x+
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh x
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck x
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll x
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame x+
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy # (me and the russians don't get along when it comes to literature)
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens *
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis x+
34 Emma - Jane Austen x++
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen x
36 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini *
37 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres *
38 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden x
39 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne x+
40 Animal Farm - George Orwell x
41 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown x
42 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
43 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving x
44 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
45 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery x++
46 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
47 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood x
48 Lord of the Flies - William Golding x
49 Atonement - Ian McEwan (would not read after seeing that movie)
50 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
51 Dune - Frank Herbert x+
52 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons X
53 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen x+
54 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
55 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
56 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens #
57 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley x
58 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon #
59 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez *
60 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck x
61 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
62 The Secret History - Donna Tartt x
63 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold x
64 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas #? (I may have read it all, would've been when I was young though)
65 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
66 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
67 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding x
68 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
69 Moby Dick - Herman Melville x
70 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens x
71 Dracula - Bram Stoker x
72 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett x
73 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson x++
74 Ulysses - James Joyce #
75 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
76 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome x
77 Germinal - Emile Zola
78 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray *
79 Possession - AS Byatt *
80 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens x
81 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell # (still in the TBR pile somewhere)
82 The Color Purple - Alice Walker x
83 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro x
84 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
85 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
86 Charlotte’s Web - EB White x+
87 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom x
88 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle x
89 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton x+
90 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
91 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery x
92 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
93 Watership Down - Richard Adams x+
94 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
95 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute x
96 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas x
97 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl x
98 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo # (or if I did finish it was skimmed)
99 A Little Princess - Frances Hodgson Burnett x
100 Twilight series - Stephenie Meyer # (have read the first two, liked the first one, got bored in number two, not sure if I'll read the others).

X (read) = 60-ish (counted twice and got two different numbers) Yay for parents and grandparents who gave me classic kids books lol
# (not finished) = 7-ish
* (plan to read) = 8-ish (but anything's possible. apart from no-Atonement)

Five books I'd add to the list: Well that's just mean but Sunshine by Robin McKinley, Welcome to Temptation by Jennifer Crusie, the Discworld series by Terry Pratchett, the Vorkosigan series by Lois McMaster Bujold and in the realm of beloved kids books either the Billabong books (Mary Grant Bruce) or the Silver Brumby series (Elaine Mitchell).