100 Book Meme

I got this meme from Mildly Melancholy
"The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they've printed."
1) Bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE (I'll use asterisks)
4) Reprint this list in your own blog.

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--only read it once for school.
6 The Bible--read as historical text.
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell--read several times***
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman ***
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens--didn't really like it, but read it.
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott--read once a year. ***
12 Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy--read it, got the strawberry scene, sigh.
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller--started, not finished.
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare--love Hamlet and Midsummer Night's Dream best.
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier--not read
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien--love, love
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger--
19 The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot. I really, really like this book. I have no excuse. ****
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell--read once.
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald--ruined by a high school teacher, saved by a college professor
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens. Love, love.
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy--yes, see "Bleak House" and "Middlemarch"
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-I hated, hated, hated this book when I had to read it for high school. Same teacher that ruined "Gatsby" though, so maybe I should try again.
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll--good.
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy--one of my favorite books. Yes, I am odd.
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis--wonderful.
34 Emma - Jane Austen--love, love love.
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen--the letter is this makes my heart race.
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini--Did not love it.
38 Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres--okay.
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. Meh the first time, really boring the second.
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez--excellent.
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving For some reason, I have avoided this book.
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins--really enjoyed this book.
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery--I love the last book in this series--and the ones about Anne's children.
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood--love this book.
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding--Read it in high school--had to read in 8th, 9th, and 10th. (switched schools)
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel--Couldn't get past the first forty pages.
52 Dune - Frank Herbert--Very good, rest of series? very bad.
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--maybe?
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens--
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley--I infinitely prefer 1984.
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--same teacher as "Grapes" same reaction.
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov: read for senior thesis. liked it.
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt--
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold--Creepy.
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy--I actually liked that book.
68 Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding--cackled uncontrollably the entire plane ride while reading this.
69 Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie--really like his stuff
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville--very much enjoyed this book
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker--liked it.
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett--Childhood classic.
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson--
75 Ulysses - James Joyce--
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath--Very tragic.
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola--yes, but my favorite is "The Ladies Paradise"
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray--liked
80 Possession - AS Byatt--liked
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens--fun for class stuff too!
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker--
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert--***also, try "Flaubert's Parrot" by Barnes.
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte's Web - EB White--best quote about writers ever.
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom--Ick.
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle--really like them!.
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad--I picked up and put down this book for years before finishing it. I actually liked it.
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery--also in French!.
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--I will read anything this man wrote. It is all good.
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo--like it, love the musical. :) .

How many of these books have you read?