Feathers

I spent 30 years working in Social Services and ALL the forms used were written at a 6th grade level...

Incidentally, I've read 31 of the listed classics but there was a time in my life when we had no TV and I WASN'T into quilting or sewing so I had a book in my hand all the time. My favorite books are autobiographies, mysteries and animals. My most recent books are "The Shack", "HEAVEN" and a darling book about the real life of an abandoned frozen footed Orange kitten in the book depository at a library. The book is "Dewey" and it's WONDERFUL." There are many more that I've read and re-read and loved.

Ninnie

Thank you :lol: :lol: I don't consider myself a snob, but do enjoy reading , I speed read, so read fast. At least 1 a week. Sometimes a deep book and sometimes something silly, depending on the mood I'm in. All books have their place, and I collect old books!




Ninnie

Quiltin'Lady

(X ) 1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen

(X ) 2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien

(X ) 3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte

(X ) 4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling

(X ) 5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee

( ) 6 The Bible

(X ) 7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte

(X ) 8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell

( ) 9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman

(X ) 10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens

(X ) 11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott

(X ) 12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy

(X ) 13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller

(X ) 14 Complete Works of Shakespeare

(X ) 15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier

(X ) 16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien

( ) 17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk

(X ) 18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger

(X ) 19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger

(X ) 20 Middlemarch - George Eliot

(X ) 21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell

(X ) 22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald

( ) 23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens

( ) 24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy

(X ) 25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams

(X ) 26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh

( ) 27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

(X ) 28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck

(X ) 29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll

(X ) 30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame

( ) 31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy

(X ) 32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens

(X ) 33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis

(X ) 34 Emma - Jane Austen

(X ) 35 Persuasion - Jane Austen

(X ) 36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis

(X ) 37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini

( ) 38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres

(X ) 39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden

(X ) 40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne

(X ) 41 Animal Farm - George Orwell

(X ) 42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown

( ) 43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

(X ) 44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving

(X ) 45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins

(X ) 46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery

(X ) 47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy

(X ) 48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood

(X ) 49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding

( ) 50 Atonement - Ian McEwan

(X ) 51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel

(X ) 52 Dune - Frank Herbert

(X ) 53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons [Oh, I loved this one!]

(X ) 54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen

( ) 55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth

(X ) 56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon

(X ) 57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens

(X ) 58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley

(X ) 59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon

(X ) 60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

(X ) 61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck

(X ) 62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov [Only got 1/2-way through]

( ) 63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt

(X ) 64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold

(X ) 65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas

( ) 66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac

( ) 67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy

(X ) 68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding

( ) 69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie

( ) 70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville

(X ) 71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens

( ) 72 Dracula - Bram Stoker

(X ) 73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett

(X ) 74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson

( ) 75 Ulysses - James Joyce [are you nuts??]

(X ) 76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath

( ) 77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome

( ) 78 Germinal - Emile Zola

(X ) 79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray

(X ) 80 Possession - A.S. Byatt

(X ) 81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens

(X) 82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell [fabulous!]

(X ) 83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker

(X ) 84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro

( ) 85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert

( ) 86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry

(X ) 87 Charlotte’s Web - E.B. White

( ) 88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom

(X ) 89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

(X ) 90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton

(X ) 91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad

(X ) 92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery

( ) 93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks

(X ) 94 Watership Down - Richard Adams

(X ) 95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole

(X ) 96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute

( ) 97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas

(X ) 98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare

(X ) 99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

( ) 100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

TOTAL READ: 75

Man, there's a lot of wonderful memories here! :lol:

adrianlee

Hi! I read Dewey, the library cat. My sister got it for me for birthday. Recently one of my quilting buddies loan me several books by Jennifer Chiaverini. Anyone read her?

sandpat

About 30 of these....I'm not sure how this list should make one feel "well read"....after all...how does reading the Harry Potter series make me more "well read"? If GWTW qualifies to be on the list, why doesn't Scarlet? The classics..yes, I can see that, but a lot on the list are/were just popular fiction of a given time. If I haven't read those, well it doesn't make me any less intelligent :roll: (or more for that matter )

Overlander

I've read 35 of these books. Doesn't touch the number of books I've read though. Both dh and I are avid readers - we both love sci-fi, but I will read almost anything. A book, quiet corner and a warm drink is my idea of a fabulous day off (that is when I'm not quilting) :)

patchythepirate

Only 26 for me although I have read about a bazillion books that are NOT on this list. My favorite author is Stephen King, and while thoroughly entertaining, I doubt he would ever make a list of "important" fiction. I do believe his book "The Stand" deserves a spot on the list!

Currently I am reading, "How Do You Defend Those People?" by Mickey Sherman and I have 5 other books waiting in my Kindle: "Little Bee", "The Road", "Master Your Metabolism", "Cosa Nostra: A History of the Sicilian Mafia", and "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies".....Yes, you read that right. No need to do a double take. You should see the cover on that one!

I usually read two books at a time one being fiction and the other non-fiction. I love the Kindle because I can take all my books with me when I travel or have to sit and wait somewhere.

adrianlee

Book clubs have reading lists and then it depends on the genre of the club. I think if a person wants to think of themselves as well read, then lists from other countries would also be on the "menu". Sorta help "rotund" the old think-tank to a perception of academia. I retired from libraries and I met some interesting folks in the well-read area. Most are lots of fun to talk to, learn something new everyday.

sandpat

I totally agree with that! I always have several books going but not all ..well, not many, well maybe a few of them might qualify for a list to make me more "well read"

Tippy

OK.. of your list I have read about 41... how do you get "about"? Well, I've read part of Shakespeare and half of Watership Down. I LOATHED Watership Down.. Tried to wade through it in Jr. High, I think it was and just couldn't make it.. I have however read almost all of Brian Jacques books and while some say they are more for youngsters, there's a lot of symbolism there. I don't think just reading those books necessarily should merit any particular laud... heck I read Origin of Species when I was in the 6th grade. It really doesn't speak to intellect.. it was just the only book in our small school library I hadn't read and there was no local public library.. and I was a super bookworm.. I read EVERYTHING I laid my eyes on.