This meme is making the blog rounds, I got it from
The English Geek who got it from someone else's blog, who got it from yet another blog......
(
meme: an idea, behavior, style, or usage that spreads from person to person within a culture).
It's the
Top 100 list of books from The Big Read, which claims that most people have read, on average, six or fewer books from the list. After going through the list myself it is clear that I read a LOT and I'm a fan of George Orwell, Charles Dickens, and other classic writers.
(At the end of this post I will list a few things that you may not know about me with regard to books and reading.)So, want to play along?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.
Ready? OK!
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.
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'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.
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 Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini.
37. Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
38.
Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
39.
Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne.
40.
Animal Farm - George Orwell
41.
The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown.
42. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
43.
A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving.
44. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
45.
Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery.
46.
Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
47.
The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood.
48
. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
49.
Atonement - Ian McEwan
50.
Life of Pi - Yann Martel
51. Dune - Frank Herbert
52. Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
53.
Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
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.
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.
61.
Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
62. The Secret History - Donna Tartt
63.
The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold.
64. Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas.
65. On The Road - Jack Kerouac.
66. Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy.
67.
Bridget Jones' Diary - Helen Fielding
68. Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie.
69.
Moby Dick - Herman Melville.
70.
Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
71. Dracula - Bram Stoker
72.
The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett.
73. Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
74.
Ulysses - James Joyce.
75.
The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath.
76. Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
77. Germinal - Emile Zola
78.
Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
79. Possession - AS Byatt.
80.
A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens.
81. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
82.
The Color Purple - Alice Walker.
83. The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
84. Madame Bovary - Gustave
85.
A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
86.
Charlotte's Web - EB White
87.
The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
88. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
89. The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
90.
Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad.
91.
The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
92. The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
93.
Watership Down - Richard Adams.
94. A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
95.
A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
96. The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
97.
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
98. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo.
(99 and 100 were not included in The English Geek’s blog….if I find out what they are, I’ll add them.)
Let me know if you play along on your own blog!Now, here are 5 things about me, with regard to books and reading:
1.) I have a little notebook in which I write down the book titles and authors of every book I read.
2.) I know my library card number by heart.
3.) The first thing I do when I move to a new place is get a library card.
4.) My favorite thing to do on the second Saturday of every month is go to the Benicia Library book sale.
5.) I have way more books in my walk-in closet than I do clothes, shoes, and jewelry combined!
Benicia, California. On Main Street, looking toward the Carquinez Strait. One of the views that explain why I love living here. I often say that I won't leave here unless it's in a pine box. Look at that delish Benicia breeze bending the palm fronds. That breeze allows many of us to live here without A/C in our homes, which works out great....except when there's a heat wave, like right now! At the moment I would adore A/C but, in a few days, when the weather cools, I will again enjoy being able to live closer to the seasons. And greener, 'cuz we can use less electricity.
This photo looks out on the entrance to the Benicia Marina. We always include the marina on our walks or bike rides downtown. Mike loves boats and water, and I love water and seabirds, and we get treated to all three here. Many times we've watched boats coming in or out of this waterway. We brought the Mirage here, from her berth in Alameda, a couple of times. Now we no longer own her, and her new owners berth her in Richmond. It's weird, not owning a sailboat anymore, even for me. Mike is the one who has always been the avid sailor. But I miss her, too.
Something else I love about my little town. The architecture of the old buildings. This one is on the corner of 1st and West J. I mean, you just don't see windows like this on anything being built today. If I could afford to, I'd have a little office in one of these old buildings, for my little digital scrapbooker-for-hire business. What a boost to creativity. My favorite quilt shop, the Patchwork Cat, is housed in one of the old industrial buildings near the docks. Old, scarred-up wooden floors, high ceilings with exposed pipes, windows overlooking the Carquinez Strait - what could be more inspiring?
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