{"id":13193,"date":"2008-06-26T07:59:12","date_gmt":"2008-06-26T14:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2008\/06\/26\/yet-another-booky-meme.html"},"modified":"2014-06-13T17:07:18","modified_gmt":"2014-06-13T23:07:18","slug":"yet_another_booky_meme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/06\/26\/yet_another_booky_meme.html","title":{"rendered":"Yet another Booky Meme"},"content":{"rendered":"

To go with several others<\/a> I’ve<\/a> done<\/a>. Quoth De<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\n

The Big Read<\/a>, an initiative by the National Endowment for the Arts, has estimated that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they\u2019ve printed. How do you do?<\/p>\n

1) Look at the list and bold <\/strong>those you have read.
2) Italicize <\/em>those you intend to read.
3) Underline<\/u> the books you LOVE.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

 <\/p>\n

1 Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings<\/u> <\/strong>– JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series<\/u> <\/strong>– JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
6 The Bible<\/strong>
7 Wuthering Heights <\/strong>– Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four<\/u> <\/strong>– George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials <\/strong>– Philip Pullman — Well, the first one (so far), anyway.<\/em>
10 Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
11 Little Women – Louisa M Alcott — I acted in a stage adaptation of it, if that counts.<\/em>
12 Tess of the D\u2019Urbervilles <\/strong>– Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 – Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare<\/strong> — Well, several of them.<\/em>
15 Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit<\/u> <\/strong>– JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger — Tried it, hated it.<\/em>
19 The Time Traveller\u2019s 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\u2019s Guide to the Galaxy<\/u> <\/strong>– Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath <\/strong>– John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland <\/strong>– Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows <\/em>– Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia<\/u> <\/strong>– CS Lewis
34 Emma – Jane Austen
35 Persuasion – Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe<\/u> <\/strong>– CS Lewis — Um, isn’t that one of #33?<\/em>
37 The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli\u2019s Mandolin – Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh<\/u> <\/strong>– AA Milne
41 Animal Farm<\/u> <\/strong>– George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
45 The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables<\/u> <\/strong>– LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid\u2019s Tale – Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies <\/strong>– William Golding
50 Atonement – Ian McEwan
52 Dune <\/strong>– 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 <\/strong>– 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 <\/strong>– Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road – Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure <\/strong>– Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones\u2019s Diary – Helen Fielding
69 Midnight\u2019s 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
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 <\/strong>– 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\u2019s Web<\/u> <\/strong>– 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 <\/strong>– Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince- Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks
94 Watership Down<\/u> <\/strong>– 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 <\/strong>– William Shakespeare — Isn’t that part of #14?<\/em>
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory<\/u> <\/strong>– Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables – Victor Hugo — No, but I’ve seen the show in London and listened to several soundtracks eleventy-dozen times …<\/em> <\/p>\n

What a very odd list. Famous, obscure, series, novellas … Not many that I intend to read that I haven’t already. I’ll note that LOVE<\/u> is probably a bit of hyperbole here. How about, “liked enough to read multiple times”?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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