Books! Books! Books!

I still exist. Does anybody care? I really abandoned my blog for a while.

This quiz has been all over Facebook lately and I've been dying to fill it out but, for some reason, feel like Facebook isn't the appropriate venue. I'm acting like a Facebook snob, but I am neurotic and contradictory because I am on Facebook reading other people's quizzes all the time. Whatev!

The BBC says most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here.

Book List:

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen (x...despite my love/hate relationship with Jane Austen, I've read a lot of her books)
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 (x)
6 The Bible (x)
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte (x)
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell (x)
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens (*)
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott (x+ and Little Men! and Jo's Boys!)
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy (x)
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller (x)
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare (*)
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier (? Who can remember something like that?)
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien (I'm not even marking this as "to-read." Scandal!)
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger (x+++)
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger (*)
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot (*)
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell (x+)
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald (x+)
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 (x--number one source of unintentional sleeping spring of my senior year of high school.)
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 (x)
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens (*)
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis (*--some, not all...I should get back to these)
34 Emma - Jane Austen (x)
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis (x)
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini (x)
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres (Bella Bambina, 2 o'clock! Have not read!)
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden (x)
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne (x)
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell (*--why didn't I have to read this in high school? Didn't everybody else?)
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown (x)
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 (x+...I have the Anne of Green Gables complete boxed set in my basement. I have read all eight books multiple times. I have a Word document I once created indicating the full name and birth year of each of Anne's seven children--and the age she was when each one was born. Nerd alert! Slash awesome??)
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy (x)
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood (*)
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding (x)
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan (*)
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel (x)
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen (x)
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon (x)
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens (x)
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley (x)
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon (x+)
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez (*)
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck (x)
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
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding (x)
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville (x...I wrote my senior thesis on this book)
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens (*--does Oliver and Company count? Then xxxxxxxxxxxx)
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 (x)
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White (x)
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albot
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad (x)
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint (*)
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams (x)
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 - Roald Dahl (x)
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo (x)

I've read 43 -- and I want to read a lot more. I have read Bridget Jones's Diary but hardly any Dickens. I'm awesome.

Share your list -- Instructions:
1) Look at the list and put an 'x' after those you have read.
2) Add a '+' to the ones you LOVE.
3) Star (*) those you plan on reading.
4) Tally your total at the bottom.
5) Put in a note with your total in the title line.