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2nittnut
Starting to toss around some categories...
I am going to do this pyramid style (thanks Morphy!).
1.
2. Sport/Health
3. Non-fiction Set Outside the USA
4. Economics
5. Biography/Autobiography
6. Next in a series
7. Recommended by LT friends
8. Mystery
9. History/Politics
10. Classics I "should have read" but haven't
11. YA Literature
12. Award Winners (Newbery, Pulitzer, Orange, etc.)
13. Off the Shelf oldies (been on the shelf more than 2 years)
I am going to do this pyramid style (thanks Morphy!).
1.
2. Sport/Health
3. Non-fiction Set Outside the USA
4. Economics
5. Biography/Autobiography
6. Next in a series
7. Recommended by LT friends
8. Mystery
9. History/Politics
10. Classics I "should have read" but haven't
11. YA Literature
12. Award Winners (Newbery, Pulitzer, Orange, etc.)
13. Off the Shelf oldies (been on the shelf more than 2 years)
3nittnut
Following is my list of books - I will put a line through when I've read them. Current list is based on books on my shelves that I want to get to and books from the library that need to be read. List will definitely change over time due to commitment issues. :)
You can find reviews of the books over here: http://www.librarything.com/topic/147106#
I'd love some suggestions for Category 1. So far I am thinking I'll just call it the "Hard to Get Into" category and put Cloud Atlas there...
Category: Hard to Get Into
1.Cloud Atlas
Category: Sport/Health
1.Fat Resistance Diet
2. Born to Run
Category: Non-fiction Set Outside the USA
1. Heaven Cracks Earth Shakes
2. Bringing up Bebe
3. Wave
Category: Economics
1. Whatever Happened to Penny Candy
2. Economics in One Lesson
3. Basic Economics
4.
Category: Biography/Autobiography
1. My Reading Life (AMQS)
2. Growing Up True: Lessons From a Western Boyhood (AMQS)
3.Indian Creek Chronicles (phebj)
4.Call the Midwife: Shadows of the Workhouse
5.
Category: Next in a Series
1. Double Comfort Safari Club
2. The Mark of Athena
3. The House of Hades
4. Allegiant
5. Goliath
6. Speaker for the Dead
You can find reviews of the books over here: http://www.librarything.com/topic/147106#
I'd love some suggestions for Category 1. So far I am thinking I'll just call it the "Hard to Get Into" category and put Cloud Atlas there...
Category: Hard to Get Into
1.
Category: Sport/Health
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2.
Category: Non-fiction Set Outside the USA
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2.
3.
Category: Economics
1.
2. Economics in One Lesson
3. Basic Economics
4.
Category: Biography/Autobiography
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2.
3.
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5.
Category: Next in a Series
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2.
3.
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6.
4nittnut
Category: Recommended by LT friends
1.An Abundance of Katherines (
2. The Night Circus (drachenbraut)
3. The 100 Year Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared (cameling)
4.Regeneration (phebj)
5.Wonder (AMQS)
6. The Thirteen Clocks (AMQS)
7. Soulless (lkernagh)
Category: Mystery
1. Deadly Stakes
2. Don't Look Back
3. Dead Even
4. He Who Fears the Wolf
5. When the Devil Holds the Candle
6.The Beautiful Mystery
7.How the Light Gets In
8.
Category: History/Politics, including Historical Fiction
1. Slow Democracy
2. The Time of the Wolf
3.Original Intent
4.Dumbing Us Down
5.Someone Knows My Name
6. Coolidge - currently reading
7. Intellectuals and Race
8.Faith of America's First Ladies
9.
Category: Classics I "should have read" but haven't
1. Barchester Towers
2. The Buccaneers
3. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
4.Candide
5.Things Fall Apart
6. Dr. Thorne
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8.
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7.
Category: Mystery
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8.
Category: History/Politics, including Historical Fiction
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6. Coolidge - currently reading
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9.
Category: Classics I "should have read" but haven't
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6. Dr. Thorne
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5nittnut
Category: YA Literature
1. Wildwood
2. Reckless
3.The Name of This Book is Secret
4. The Dark is Rising
5. The Grey King
6. Behemoth
7. Insurgent
8. Legend
9. Prodigy
10.The Mark of Athena
11.Starry River of the Sky
Category: Award Winners (Newbery, Orange, Pulitzer, etc.)
1. When You Reach Me - Newbery
2.Dead End in Norvelt - Newbery
3.A House for Mr. Biswas - Nobel
4. The Forsyte Saga - Nobel
5. Leviathan - Aurealis
6.The Emperor of All Maladies - Pulitzer
7.Penguin History of New Zealand - Montana NZ Book Award (Readers Choice)
8. The Luminaries - Man Booker 2013
9. The Emperor's Soul - Hugo
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11.
12.
Category: Off the Shelf Oldies - but has to have been on the shelf more than 2 years
1. Anna Karenina
2. Across the Nightingale Floor
3.Call it Courage
4.The Big Year
5.Great Russian Short Stories
6. Ender's Game
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Category: Award Winners (Newbery, Orange, Pulitzer, etc.)
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4. The Forsyte Saga - Nobel
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8. The Luminaries - Man Booker 2013
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Category: Off the Shelf Oldies - but has to have been on the shelf more than 2 years
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6cameling
Great categories, Jenn. I was toying with the idea of a pyramid myself until I started putting my categories down ..and realized that while I could easily read 13 crime fiction and 12 books on short stories, I wasn't sure if I could 11 and 10 of some other categories I had in mind. Maybe I'll see how this year goes with my 13 challenge and if I actually make it, I'll try the pyramid next year.
7-Eva-
Welcome!! I think "Hard to Get Into" is a great category - I know at least I have some books on Mt. TBR that I could use a nudge to get through!
8mamzel
I found Born to Run surprisingly interesting (if you meant the one written by McDougall).
9nittnut
Hi Caro. I know what you mean. I do know that I definitely cannot read 13 in each category. LOL. Or, I could, but don't like my reading to be totally proscribed...
Hi Eva! Just took a moment to acquaint myself with your profile - don't believe we've met before. :) I see you are a Swedish transplant and live in Long Beach. I hail from Ventura, CA myself, but it's been years since I've lived there. About 25 years ago, I had the pleasure of visiting Sweden. I thought it was wonderful. Some girlfriends and I got lost in the Old part of Stockholm and people were very kind to us and helped us get back to our hotel. I think that day was the best part of my trip. Finally seeing places not on the "itinerary". I'd love to visit again sometime.
Hi Mamzel. I do mean the McDougall. I am looking forward to it. It's been on my bedside table for about 6 months... time to bump it up to the top of the pile.
Hi Eva! Just took a moment to acquaint myself with your profile - don't believe we've met before. :) I see you are a Swedish transplant and live in Long Beach. I hail from Ventura, CA myself, but it's been years since I've lived there. About 25 years ago, I had the pleasure of visiting Sweden. I thought it was wonderful. Some girlfriends and I got lost in the Old part of Stockholm and people were very kind to us and helped us get back to our hotel. I think that day was the best part of my trip. Finally seeing places not on the "itinerary". I'd love to visit again sometime.
Hi Mamzel. I do mean the McDougall. I am looking forward to it. It's been on my bedside table for about 6 months... time to bump it up to the top of the pile.
11PawsforThought
Old Town in Stockholm is pretty small, though, and since it's completely surrounded by water, I must admit I find the idea of getting lost there quite fascinating.
12nittnut
It was a beautiful stroll Eva.
Take it easy on me PawsforThought. I was only 17 and it was my first time there. :) I truly hope I would manage not to get lost now. :P
Take it easy on me PawsforThought. I was only 17 and it was my first time there. :) I truly hope I would manage not to get lost now. :P
13thornton37814
Glad you are back, Jenn.
14lkernagh
Welcome to the group, Jenn! Have fun with your challenge and I look forward to seeing what books you read to fill your categories!
15nittnut
Hello Lori and Lori. :)
I am glad to be back. I didn't do the 12 in 12 challenge, and I kind of missed it. I am looking forward to this year.
I am glad to be back. I didn't do the 12 in 12 challenge, and I kind of missed it. I am looking forward to this year.
16drachenbraut23
Hi Jenn, found and starred you. Great categories to look forward to.
18nittnut
Good progress so far! 5 of the 91 down. :)
I figure about 7 books a month (7.58 to be more exact) to get this done this year.
I figure about 7 books a month (7.58 to be more exact) to get this done this year.
20lkernagh
Nice progress! When You Reach Me is a goodie. I did enjoy reading that one!
22DeltaQueen50
Congratulations, it must be both rewarding and a relief to have that one done with!
24nittnut
Finished Slow Democracy - review here - http://www.librarything.com/topic/147106#3913521
A very worthwhile read.
A very worthwhile read.
26nittnut
A couple more down...
My favorite so far is probably Someone Knows My Name.
I am currently reading Born To Run, Original Intent and I am checking out a new-to-me YA author, Brian Wood. He is coming to
Tattered Cover tomorrow to promote the third book in his Chronicles of Trayvian James trilogy. I am reading book 1 - Dream World. It's a pretty clever idea, but I'm underwhelmed by the writing so far. There are no touchstones for him, apparently?
My favorite so far is probably Someone Knows My Name.
I am currently reading Born To Run, Original Intent and I am checking out a new-to-me YA author, Brian Wood. He is coming to
Tattered Cover tomorrow to promote the third book in his Chronicles of Trayvian James trilogy. I am reading book 1 - Dream World. It's a pretty clever idea, but I'm underwhelmed by the writing so far. There are no touchstones for him, apparently?
27nittnut
Finished Born to Run which was excellent. I also finished up Candide for the classics category and Across the Nightingale Floor for OTS oldies. I feel like I'm making pretty good progress in most categories. Probably a little optimistic. :)
28LittleTaiko
I read Candide a few weeks ago and really liked it - what did you think?
30LittleTaiko
It was definitely confusing but highly entertaining in a morbid sort of way.
31nittnut
I just finished Indian Creek Chronicles - recommended by Pat (phebj) of the 75ers group. LOVED it!
33nittnut
Realized I am a bit behind on the mystery category. I am working on some Karin Fossum books now to make up for it...
34lkernagh
This time of the year is usually when I see which categories I have fixated on and which ones I have been neglecting, so you are in good company!
36thornton37814
I need to get back to the Inspector Sejer series. My problem is that I have too many series in progress.
39nittnut
>38 AHS-Wolfy: Haha - so true.
I haven't been here for a long time! I have a few books to add, I am sure. Since June we have sold our house in Denver and moved, temporarily, in with my parents in Oregon. We are en route to Wellington, NZ. It's been crazy, and may be crazier still. :)
I haven't been here for a long time! I have a few books to add, I am sure. Since June we have sold our house in Denver and moved, temporarily, in with my parents in Oregon. We are en route to Wellington, NZ. It's been crazy, and may be crazier still. :)
40DeltaQueen50
Wow, that's quite the move! Hope all goes smoothly.
41nittnut
I am sure most of you have seen this before, and the BBC estimated that on average, most people will have read 6 of the books on this list. Definitely can't be true for this crowd. I just went through the list with my 14 year old son. He's read more than 6 of them... How many have you read?
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 - read some, but not others...
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
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
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 Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
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
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy.
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
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
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight’s 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 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 - AS Byatt.
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
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte’s Web - 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 - 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
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
Here's our list - I bolded the ones I've read, italicized the ones I started but didn't finish and JD by the ones my son has read.
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien JD
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling JD
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee JD
6 The Bible JD (not sure I buy it, but he says he did)
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman JD
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 JD - some but not all
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien JD
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller’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 JD
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll JD
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis JD
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe JD
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne JD
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell JD
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez 50 years was enough for me.
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy.
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel JD
52 Dune - 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 - 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 - Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville JD
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens JD
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker JD
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 - AS Byatt.
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens JD
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’s Web - EB White JD
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle JD
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 JD
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas JD
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare JD
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl JD
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
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 - read some, but not others...
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
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
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 Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
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
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy.
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
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
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight’s 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 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 - AS Byatt.
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
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte’s Web - 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 - 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
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
Here's our list - I bolded the ones I've read, italicized the ones I started but didn't finish and JD by the ones my son has read.
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien JD
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling JD
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee JD
6 The Bible JD (not sure I buy it, but he says he did)
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman JD
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 JD - some but not all
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien JD
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller’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 JD
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll JD
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis JD
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe JD
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne JD
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell JD
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez 50 years was enough for me.
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy.
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel JD
52 Dune - 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 - 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 - Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville JD
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens JD
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker JD
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 - AS Byatt.
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens JD
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’s Web - EB White JD
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle JD
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 JD
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas JD
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare JD
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl JD
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
42mamzel
I counted 39 that I've read. There's still time. I'm puzzled by some of the items on the list.
43lkernagh
I counted 22 that I have read.... not a great number but better than the BBC estimated average of 6!
44DeltaQueen50
I come in at 43, but like Mamzel, I am puzzled by some of the items listed. Are these the top 100 books picked by a reader's poll?
45kiwiflowa
I come in at 55 read, 5 attempted, 2 in progress - and will be forever (The Bible and Shakespeare).
I think it might have been part of the "BBC Big Read" in which the British public voted on the books, the full list was 200 books. However the list that you have was circulated on Facebook and the person who made it switched books out so the BBC original list and this one is different, the list circulated does continue to change over time. I don't think BBC made the claim that the average person would have only read 6 of the books. It may be a hook to get people to check the list?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/bigread/top100.shtml
edited to add: I only know this because I have this list myself saved in a file, knew it was the BBC Big Read yet the two lists weren't the same so I wanted to know why.
I think it might have been part of the "BBC Big Read" in which the British public voted on the books, the full list was 200 books. However the list that you have was circulated on Facebook and the person who made it switched books out so the BBC original list and this one is different, the list circulated does continue to change over time. I don't think BBC made the claim that the average person would have only read 6 of the books. It may be a hook to get people to check the list?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/bigread/top100.shtml
edited to add: I only know this because I have this list myself saved in a file, knew it was the BBC Big Read yet the two lists weren't the same so I wanted to know why.
47LittleTaiko
I'm at 28, I think...
48nittnut
Kind of fun, anyway. I too was a little mystified by some of the books listed. Several I wouldn't consider a must read by any stretch...
Thanks for the link Lisa, I am curious to compare the two lists. :)
Thanks for the link Lisa, I am curious to compare the two lists. :)
49nittnut
33 books to go. I doubt I will make it, but you never know. :)
I need some good (short) classics that I haven't read already...
The Economics books won't happen. They got packed. I suppose they could make good Christmas reading if we're unpacked by then, but I won't count on it. LOL
I need some good (short) classics that I haven't read already...
The Economics books won't happen. They got packed. I suppose they could make good Christmas reading if we're unpacked by then, but I won't count on it. LOL
51christina_reads
@ 49 -- Are you OK with classic plays? They're usually super short! I'd suggest The Glass Menagerie, Our Town, and Waiting for Godot, but there are a ton that would work!
53nittnut
I have 24 books to read by the end of the year to complete my pyramid. Not sure that will happen, LOL. I did manage to finish up a couple of categories though. "Next in a series" is complete, as is "YA Lit." and "LT friend recommendations". I have one more mystery to read and I'll have that category done too. I am going to tackle a couple of plays, I think. :)
54LittleTaiko
You can do it - all you have to do is not do anything else but read for the rest of the year! lol Good luck completing the categories that you can.
