As you long time readers know i hate memes. I have never swiped a meme nor have i ever let a meme i've been slapped with go by unscathed from my particular brand of fuckitupedness. Until now. Time being nonexistent i realized this one would take me all of five minutes to do plus i ADORE books. LURV them. Collect them. Sometimes even drool on them. So I stole this from Gaddy who is also suffering through an nth level of work purgatory.
1) Bold those books you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE. (since i can't fucking find an underline feature in blogger - i guess i AM changing the meme a bit and making the books i love RED)
4) Reprint this list in your own blog. (ummm - DUHHHH!!! geez rules are soooo moronic)
okay - i can't resist... books i hated... they'z in blue
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 Hardy1
13
Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14
Complete Works of Shakespeare15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16
The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
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 Hitchhiker'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 - CS Lewis
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
hmmm... there's a whole truckload of incredible books not listed here that were damn spectacular - like hello, where the hell is Vonnegut in this list? And Heinlein? And E.L. Doctrow? And Joyce Carol Oates? And D.H. Lawrence? And Louise Eldrich? And Joseph Campbell? And Neil Gaiman...and... well, it does go on and on doesn't it?
