Friday, October 5, 2007

106 Books Meme

Ok so I saw this over at Harp and Sword and since I love to read and was curious about how many of the books on this list I had actually read I am posting this meme here. The original is from Evolving Thoughts through Science Blogs. You take the list of 106 books, bold the ones that you have read, italicize the ones you have partially read.

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Anna Karenina
Crime and Punishment
Catch-22
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Wuthering Heights
The Silmarillion
Life of Pi : a novel
The Name of the Rose
Don Quixote
Moby Dick
Ulysses
Madame Bovary
The Odyssey
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Eyre
The Tale of Two Cities
The Brothers Karamazov
Guns, Germs, and Steel: the fates of human societies ( I really want to read this one just haven't yet)
War and Peace
Vanity Fair
The Time Traveler’s Wife
The Iliad
Emma
The Blind Assassin
The Kite Runner
Mrs. Dalloway
Great Expectations
American Gods
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Atlas Shrugged
Reading Lolita in Tehran : a memoir in books
Memoirs of a Geisha
Middlesex
Quicksilver
Wicked : the life and times of the wicked witch of the West
The Canterbury tales
The Historian : a novel
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Love in the Time of Cholera
Brave New World
The Fountainhead
Foucault’s Pendulum
Middlemarch
Frankenstein
The Count of Monte Cristo
Dracula
A Clockwork Orange
Anansi Boys
The Once and Future King
The Grapes of Wrath
The Poisonwood Bible : a novel
1984
Angels & Demons
The Inferno
The Satanic Verses
Sense and Sensibility
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Mansfield Park
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
To the Lighthouse
Tess of the D’Urbervilles
Oliver Twist
Gulliver’s Travels
Les Misérables
The Corrections
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Dune
The Prince
The Sound and the Fury
Angela’s Ashes : a memoir
The God of Small Things
A People’s History of the United States : 1492-present
Cryptonomicon
Neverwhere
A Confederacy of Dunces
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Dubliners
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Beloved
Slaughterhouse-five
The Scarlet Letter
Eats, Shoots & Leaves
The Mists of Avalon
Oryx and Crake : a novel
Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed
Cloud Atlas
The Confusion
Lolita
Persuasion
Northanger Abbey
The Catcher in the Rye
On the Road
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Freakonomics : a rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance : an inquiry into values
The Aeneid
Watership Down
Gravity’s Rainbow
The Hobbit
In Cold Blood : a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences
White Teeth
Treasure Island
David Copperfield
The Three Musketeers

So my final tally was 20 that I have totally read and 8 that I have partially read. the interesting this is that I could use this as a reading list for me because a majority of them I want to read. No you do not need to tally them up, but since part of why I did this was to ee how many I had read I decided to.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Wow. This list reminds me of the many books I want to read.

Now I just need to find the time....

Distributorcap said...

Here is what i have read

Catch-22
The Odyssey
The Tale of Two Cities
The Iliad
Atlas Shrugged (worst book ever)
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Brave New World
The Fountainhead (second worst book ever)
Dracula
A Clockwork Orange
The Grapes of Wrath
1984
Angels & Demons
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Tess of the D’Urbervilles
Oliver Twist
Gulliver’s Travels
A Confederacy of Dunces
Slaughterhouse-five
The Catcher in the Rye
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Freakonomics : a rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything
Watership Down
The Hobbit
In Cold Blood : a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences
David Copperfield
The Three Musketeers


The Silmarillion maybe the most unreadable book ever written

GourmetGoddess said...

oh fun fun!

I have read 37 and partially read 7 of them. And I would agree, Silmarillion is probably one of the most unreadable books ever, but I feel that way about much of his writing. C.S. Lewis may have been a major Christian apologist, but the man could write!