CarrieAnne

I've read 10 thru, and started a few and put them away, LOL! I do like to read, but some stuff I just cant read...I know some love Shakespear, I never could get into stuff like that. Even the Bible is hard for me, unless I am taking a Bible class or study!

amandasgramma

I'm well read -- just not the books you've listed!!!!!!!

Chrys

I've read 23 of those books and there's at least 10 or so books that I have on my shelf to read at some point. You know when there's extra time. :)

sueisallaboutquilts

I've read about 75% of the list and you got me thinking about some I haven't read yet. I didn't see Chekhov on there- he's great. I've only read parts of the Bible- it's just not my thing. At one point in my life I gave up fiction and only read non-fiction but I'm back- nothing like a good story. And what about John Steinbeck?? He was amazing!!! To Kill a Mockingbird is by far one of my fav books. I also like to re-read books. People think I'm crazy but some books are THAT good. One of my favorite contemporary writers is Pat Conroy. He is soooooo deep. I get completely lost in his work. And when William Styron wrote Sophie's Choice I don't think I ate or slept until I finished it :D Thanks for the great post!!

redkimba

From this list, I have read 30.5. I haven't read the complete works of Shakespeare, but I have read a lot of them. I've read Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo (which is not on this list and should be). Terry Pratchett should be on this list, but he's not.

There are way too many books on this list that I haven't read, but don't really care to read. I'm more into science fiction - and not the "yet another vampire book".

People are more well read than "experts" are willing to give credit for. I may not read The Classics, but I don't read the National Enquirer either...

(off my soapbox & seeking out another cup of tea now)

redkimba

I feel that way about Lord of the Flies. I was forced to read that in high school and then again in college. If I never saw that book again, I would be so happy.

[quote=Tippy]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

sueisallaboutquilts

That's a very good point. There is so much out there. The classics have their place but there's room for so much more than this list.
Still, a very fun thread!!!

Butterflyblue

I've read 46. Some of the series (like Harry Potter) I've read one or two of, but not the whole thing, so I didn't count them. Some of the books, I wondered why they were on the list (DaVinci code? Really?)

Gave me some good ideas for books I've wanted to read but forgot about. I may write down a list to take to the library.

Butterflyblue

I know. I have tried and tried to appreciate Jane Austen, but her books bore me to tears. I can't remember them after I'm done.

FunkyMonkey

1) Look at the list and put an 'x' before those you have read.
2) Tally your total at the bottom.


(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

() 8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell

( ) 9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman

( ) 10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens

(X ) 11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott

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

( ) 13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller

( ) 14 Complete Works of Shakespeare

(X) 15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier

(X ) 16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien

( ) 17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk

() 18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger

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

( ) 20 Middlemarch - George Eliot

(X ) 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

(X ) 29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll

() 30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame

( ) 31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy

( ) 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

( ) 37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini

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

(x ) 39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden

() 40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne

() 41 Animal Farm - George Orwell

(X) 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

(X ) 46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery

( ) 47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy

(X ) 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

(X ) 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

( 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

( ) 71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens

( X) 72 Dracula - Bram Stoker

() 73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett

( ) 74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson

( ) 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 - A.S. Byatt (One of my all time favourites - I have read this many times)

() 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

(X ) 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

( ) 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

(X ) 99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

( ) 100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo


I think that is 24.. but this is contingent on who says they are "classics". I have read a few that I think should be on the classics list...