That 100 Books Meme ...
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rose_catThis meme seems to be all over the place, but I found it at this post on Wendymr's LJ. I'm going to comment there and link to this post, if I can make it work, that is ... Done.
This list of 100 books was published by the National Endowment for the Arts for the "Big Read" program. Copy it (I'd suggest into a Word or other text file first) and post it at your LJ, marked as follows:
Ones you’ve read in bold.
Ones you intend to read in italics.
Ones you loved underlined.
Ones for which you’ve seen one or more movie or TV adaptations in [brackets]. (Some sites include this. I’m not sure how it’s relevant, but what the heck.)
[1 Pride and Prejudice - 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
[7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte]
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
[10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens]
[11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott]
[12 Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy]
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
[14 Complete Works of Shakespeare]
(well, some of them)
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
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 Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams]
(I've seen the TV adaptation, and heard the original form, the radio show, which is better than all other adaptations.)
[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
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
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]
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
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]
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
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
Additional Comments:
*I read these for a book discussion group: 1 and 31.
*These were assigned in high school or college classes: 5, 10, 22, 28, 43, 57, 70, and 81.
*I read these over a summer vacation from school. One each. 2 and 52.
Totals: Read 31. Intend to read 4. Loved 7. Seen adaptations of 30.
(A lot more books that I've read, etc. are not on this list! They aren't supposed to be the best, are they?)
By the way, is anyone else finding it impossible to get the Rich Text Editor to work for posting? Did I miss something? It's getting tedious writing everything out in Hypertext. *grumble*
Edited 9-5-12, to add: I've come to prefer html. The Rich Text Editor changes html it doesn't need to, which makes it really difficult to change it for good reasons, and is constantly developing bugs. There are plenty of sites to learn various html codes, and you can get used to the simple ones very quickly.
This list of 100 books was published by the National Endowment for the Arts for the "Big Read" program. Copy it (I'd suggest into a Word or other text file first) and post it at your LJ, marked as follows:
Ones you’ve read in bold.
Ones you intend to read in italics.
Ones you loved underlined.
Ones for which you’ve seen one or more movie or TV adaptations in [brackets]. (Some sites include this. I’m not sure how it’s relevant, but what the heck.)
[1 Pride and Prejudice - 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
[7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte]
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
[10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens]
[11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott]
[12 Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy]
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
[14 Complete Works of Shakespeare]
(well, some of them)
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
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 Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams]
(I've seen the TV adaptation, and heard the original form, the radio show, which is better than all other adaptations.)
[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
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
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]
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
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]
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
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
Additional Comments:
*I read these for a book discussion group: 1 and 31.
*These were assigned in high school or college classes: 5, 10, 22, 28, 43, 57, 70, and 81.
*I read these over a summer vacation from school. One each. 2 and 52.
Totals: Read 31. Intend to read 4. Loved 7. Seen adaptations of 30.
(A lot more books that I've read, etc. are not on this list! They aren't supposed to be the best, are they?)
By the way, is anyone else finding it impossible to get the Rich Text Editor to work for posting? Did I miss something? It's getting tedious writing everything out in Hypertext. *grumble*
Edited 9-5-12, to add: I've come to prefer html. The Rich Text Editor changes html it doesn't need to, which makes it really difficult to change it for good reasons, and is constantly developing bugs. There are plenty of sites to learn various html codes, and you can get used to the simple ones very quickly.
