Eomer posted a list of books that someone thinks everyone should read. The blog game is to mark each title as follows:
-Bold the ones I have read
-Italicize the ones I intend to read.
-Underline the books I love.
-(*) the books I hated.
-(+) the books I have seen the movie of. (My own personal variant of the list. I only count reputable/"definitive" adaptations of the books.)
1 +Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen (I really ought to read at least something from Jane Austen)
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 (I've seen The Ten Commandments, the Jesus film, and Super Book, does that count as seeing the movie?)
7 +Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman (I started reading Golden Compass and couldn't get into it)
10 +Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy (didn't get all the way through)
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare (I've seen The Complete Works of Shakespeare (Abridged))
15 +Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 +The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger (I've read The Time Machine, does that count?)
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 +Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 *+The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 +The Hitchhiker’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
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 +The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 +Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 +Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
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
49 +Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 +Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 +Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
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 (I intend to see the movie)
65 +Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas (I did read a selection from it, but not the whole thing)
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 (I was even bored by the abridged version)
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 think I've read enough Holmes to count, though I don't know if I've read all the stories in this volume)
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad (I don't think seeing Apocalypse Now counts as seeing 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
99 +Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
I'm a little surprised Mark Twain and H.G. Wells both failed to make the list, especially since Jane Austen and Charles Dickens combined for 10 of the entries.
I've read 33 of the books, and have seen the movie based on 31 of the books (and even more if you count duplicates like all four versions -counting Nosferatu - of Dracula I've seen and all three versions - counting the MST3K episode - of Hamlet I've seen).
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