I saw this on Naida's blog and I don't often play this kind of game because I always feel inadequate, but this time, with nothing else to really blog about, I thought I'd give it a shot. These are the top 100 books on LibraryThing and since I love LibraryThing best of all the online book catalogue sites - here goes. The idea is to bold the ones you've read.
(as you can see right off the bat I'm starting to feel inadequate - I haven't read any of the Harry Potter books)
1. Harry Potter and the sorcerer's stone by J.K. Rowling
2. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Book 6) by J.K. Rowling
3. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Book 5) by J.K. Rowling
4. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Book 2) by J.K. Rowling
5. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Book 3) by J.K. Rowling
6. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Book 4) by J.K. Rowling
7. The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
8. The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
9. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Book 7) by J.K. Rowling
10. 1984 by George Orwell
11. Pride and Prejudice (Bantam Classics) by Jane Austen
12. The catcher in the rye by J.D. Salinger
13. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
14. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
15. The lord of the rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
16. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
17. Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics) by Charlotte Bronte
18. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
19. Life of Pi by Yann Martel
20. Animal Farm by George Orwell
21. Angels & demons by Dan Brown
22. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
23. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
24. One Hundred Years of Solitude (Oprah's Book Club) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
25. The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, Part 1) by J.R.R. Tolkien
26. Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
27. The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
28. The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings, Part 2) by J.R.R. Tolkien
29. The Odyssey by Homer
30. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
31. Slaughterhouse-five by Kurt Vonnegut
32. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
33. The return of the king : being the third part of The lord of the rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
34. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
35. American Gods: A Novel by Neil Gaiman
36. The chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis
37. The hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy by Douglas Adams
38. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
39. The lovely bones: a novel by Alice Sebold
40. Ender's Game (Ender, Book 1) by Orson Scott Card
41. The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials, Book 1) by Philip Pullman
42. Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch by Neil Gaiman
43. Dune by Frank Herbert
44. Emma by Jane Austen
45. Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
46. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Bantam Classics) by Mark Twain
47. Anna Karenina (Oprah's Book Club) by Leo Tolstoy
48. Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
49. Middlesex: A Novel by Jeffrey Eugenides
50. Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire
51. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
52. The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien
53. The Iliad by Homer
54. The Stranger by Albert Camus
55. Sense and Sensibility (Penguin Classics) by Jane Austen
56. Great Expectations (Penguin Classics) by Charles Dickens
57. The Handmaid's Tale: A Novel by Margaret Atwood
58. On the Road by Jack Kerouac
59. Freakonomics [Revised and Expanded]: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt
60. The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint Exupery
61. The lion, the witch and the wardrobe by C. S. Lewis
62. A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
63. Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
64. The Grapes of Wrath (Centennial Edition) by John Steinbeck
65. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
66. The Name of the Rose: including Postscript to the Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
67. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
68. Moby Dick by Herman Melville
69. The complete works by William Shakespeare (quite a few - but not the complete works)
70. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond
71. Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
72. The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
73. Hamlet (Folger Shakespeare Library) by William Shakespeare
74. Of Mice and Men (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century) by John Steinbeck
75. A Tale of Two Cities (Penguin Classics) by Charles Dickens
76. The Alchemist (Plus) by Paulo Coelho (7,710)
77. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath (7,648)
78. The Picture of Dorian Gray (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (Barnes & Noble Classics) by Oscar Wilde
79. The Elements of Style, Fourth Edition by William Strunk
80. Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
81. The Subtle Knife (His Dark Materials, Book 2) by Philip Pullman
82. Atonement: A Novel by Ian McEwan
83. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
84. The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
85. Dracula by Bram Stoker
86. Heart of Darkness (Dover Thrift Editions) by Joseph Conrad
87. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
88. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
89. The amber spyglass by Philip Pullman
90. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Penguin Classics) by James Joyce
91. The Unbearable Lightness of Being: A Novel (Perennial Classics) by Milan Kundera
92. Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
93. Neuromancer by William Gibson
94. The Canterbury Tales (Penguin Classics) by Geoffrey Chaucer
95. Persuasion (Penguin Classics) by Jane Austen
96. Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman
97. The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
98. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir by Frank McCourt
99. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
100. The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
OK - that did it. Now I feel inadequate
17 comments:
Oh Please. YOU feel inadequate? I've read the 2 C.S. Lewis Chronicles of Narnia books, The Tale of Two Cities and Little Women. All very wonderful of course.
ROTFL - but I'm taking a guess here and saying I'm a tad older. Plus English was always my best subject in school. I could have upped my count if I read JK Rowling though :)
And as you can see, I still haven't read Jane Austen yet - I keep meaning too. I have her books but......
Oh man. I'm going to post this, too. But maybe I'll highlight the books I actually own... maybe that will make me feel less inadequate if my intention is there?
Huh. 41. That's WAAAAAY better than I thought I'd do.
I still feel like a philistine most of the time!
Wow this is so sad on my part! I've only read three. Both of the Dan Brown's and the Scarlet Letter.
I'm going to go embarrass myself and post this on my blog.
36. Not bad. Of course, 75% of those I read translated in French, not original English, because at the time I was still reading literature I wasn't good enough in English. Now I would be, but I think I overdosed on "serious" books in school so all I can read is romance :-D. The prospect of reading Austen or Shakespeare in English still makes me sweat.
I am stunned. I can not believe I actually read 53 of the books on the list : 0
Oooh! Ana, you get the smartie britches award! ;o)
So at least I have read the HP books and that's about it.
You know Jane Austen's calling for you. Reeeaaaddddd it. ;)
It's a high count, k? And age has nothing to do with it. You young. *poke poke*
Oh, dont feel inadequate! You've read plenty.
http://thebookworm07.blogspot.com/
I don't even want to see what I haven't read. LOL
51. But I do read Harry Potter & Jane Austen.
(Anyway, don't bother reading them, just watch Colin Firth. Nearly as good as Richard Armitage...)
I score well on some lists & horrendously on others. I think I've only read about 60 of the '1001 books to read before you die' - I do better on the lists that include tons of children's books.
READ harry potter!!! It's good. Really good. I read a lot of classics for school (double yuck). Now that I'm free I stay the hell away from them. LOL. I hated english class. No wonder kids these days don't read much - schools should be picking good books to make them read in class.
All things considered, I didn't do too bad.
Wait, it doesn't matter that I read Spanish translations, right?
I am inadequate. *hangs head in shame* I've read 26 I think. However, if you include movies my total goes up near 60. ;-)
I join the chorus of "you must read the Harry Potter books" - you'll be so glad you did!
Happy Canada Day, too!
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