Blog meme:
Look at the list and bold those you have read.
Italicize those you intend to read.
Underline the books you love.
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen- The Lord of the Rings – J.R.R Tolkien
- Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
The Harry Potter Series - JK Rowling- To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
- The Bible (Some of it – for college!)
- Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
- Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
- His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
- Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
Little Women - Louisa M Alcott- Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
- Catch 22 – Joseph Heller
- Complete Works of Shakespeare
- Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
- The Hobbit - J.R.R Tolkien
- Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger(Read it for high school English. Hated it.)- The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
- Middlemarch - George Eliot
Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell- The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Bleak House - Charles Dickens
- War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
- The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
- Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
- Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
- Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
- The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
- Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
- David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
Chronicles of Narnia - C.S. LewisEmma - Jane AustenPersuasion - Jane AustenThe Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - C.S. Lewis- The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De BernieresMemoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden- Winnie the Pooh - A.A. Milne
- Animal Farm - George Orwell
The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown(WTF is this doing here???)- One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
- The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
- Anne of Green Gables - L.M. Montgomery
- Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
- The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
- Lord of the Flies - William Golding
- Atonement - Ian McEwan
- Life of Pi - Yann Martel
- Dune - Frank Herbert
- Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen- A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
- The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
- A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
- Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
- Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
- Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
- The Secret History - Donna Tartt
- The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
- Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
- On The Road - Jack Kerouac
- Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
- Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding (And this??? Who the hell made this list?)
- Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
- Moby Dick - Herman Melville
- Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens (Saw the play.)
- Dracula - Bram Stoker
- The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
- Ulysses - James Joyce
- The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
- Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
- Germinal - Emile Zola
- Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
- Possession - A.S. Byatt
- A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
- Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
- The Color Purple - Alice Walker
- The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
- Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
- A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
- Charlotte’s Web - E.B. White
- The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle- The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
- Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
- The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
- The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
- Watership Down - Richard Adams
- A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
- A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
- The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
- Hamlet - William Shakespeare
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Ronald Dahl(Had it read TO me in elementary school.)- Les Miserables - Victor Hugo (Saw the movie with Liam Nelson and Claire Danes.)
Honestly though, I think this list sucks. Yes, yes, I know it's a "best-loved books" compilation determined by voters, but still! WAY too many modern bestsellers, INCLUDING The Da Vinci Code and Bridget Jones's Diary (hey, why not add the Shopaholic series too?). Also: why did they list The Complete Works of Shakespeare and Hamlet separately? Do we really need the same author multiple times? Why not just say, "Jane Austen – any book"?
Now where the heck were:
- The Bacchae – Euripides
- The Aeneid – Virgil
- The Divine Comedy – Dante
- The Decameron - Giovanni Boccaccio
- Gulliver's Travels – Jonathan Swift
- Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe
- The Awakening – Kate Chopin
- The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde
- The 42nd Parallel – John Dos Passos
- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn – Betty Smith
- Johnny Got His Gun – Dalton Trumbo
- ANYTHING by Faulkner???
- ANYTHING by Hemingway???
- ANYTHING by Woolf???
- The Sheltering Sky – Paul Bowles
- The Chosen – Chaim Potok
- Invisible Cities – Italo Calvino
- Interview with the Vampire – Anne Rice (If they can list vapid bestsellers. . .)
- White Noise – Don DeLillo
- Beloved – Toni Morrision
- Austerlitz – W.G. Sebald
1 comments:
Hi, E. Go on back over to my page for a full(er) discussion on Comedy as a form now that my babes had compketed their test...let me know if you see stuff you hadn't considered before. I tell students that tragedy as an authentic form is dead; only after "getting" comedy can they begin to see how that might be true...
Yeah, for a second time I am posting beneath a post I have not yet had the opp to read, but this is a good one, I can tell--maybe before the crack of dawn tomorrow I'll be able to skip-to-my-Lou through it (I always approach text I enjoy at full-on skip speed!).
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