Kevin's Watch

That's a cool idea. If you wanna compile the lists...

--A

3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
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
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
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
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl

Which I count as 40, which I guess isn't bad going. Plus 2 halves, since I read the first 4 Harry Potters and probably somewhere around half of Shakespeare. Well maybe a third.

The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
The Bible
Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
Dune - Frank Herbert
A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
On The Road - Jack Kerouac
Moby Dick - Herman Melville
Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
Dracula - Bram Stoker
The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
The Color Purple - Alice Walker
Charlotte’s Web - EB White
The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Watership Down - Richard Adams
The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
Hamlet - William Shakespeare
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

40? Pretty sad...

seen the movie:
Pride and Prejudice
The Lord of the Rings
Jane Eyre
To Kill a Mockingbird
His Dark Materials (Golden Compass)
Little Women
Rebecca
The Hobbit (animation)
Gone With The Wind
War and Peace
The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Crime and Punishment
Grapes of Wrath
Alice in Wonderland (animation)
Emma
The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe & Prince Caspian
Captain Corelli’s Mandolin
Memoirs of a Geisha
Winnie the Pooh (animation)
The Da Vinci Code
Anne of Green Gables
The Handmaid’s Tale
Lord of the Flies
Atonement
Life of Pi
Dune
Sense and Sensibility
Of Mice and Men
Lolita
The Lovely Bones
Count of Monte Cristo
Bridget Jones’s Diary
Moby Dick
Oliver Twist
Dracula
The Secret Garden
A Christmas Carol
The Color Purple
The Remains of the Day
Madame Bovary
Charlotte’s Web (animation)
The Five People You Meet In Heaven
The Little Prince (animation)
Watership Down (animation)
The Three Musketeers
Hamlet
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Les Miserables

2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas

Only 17 (altho double LW&W). I didn't count any read during HS, as I'm sure I don't remember anything.

I also noticed that 4 of the books I've read b/c of the book club I'm in at work, and I've just finished 'Prayer for Owen Meany', which we'll be discussing next week. Great book BTW. The others were '1984' (great), 'On the Road' (boring) and 'The Lovely Bones' (boring).

EDIT: I missed 'Moby Dick' and 'The Kite Runner', so actually 19. So close to 20%.

Have read 34 of those though some were read as part of my university course. Doasnt mean i didnt enjoy reading them though

Am a little confused though arent chornicles of narnia and the lion the witch and the wardrobe the same series? And they have a lot of Austen and Dickens books on that list and many of the books are ones most commmonly studied at school. Is it really a fair test?

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 The Bible
6 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
7 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
8 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
9 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
10 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
11 Complete Works of Shakespeare
12 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
13 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
14 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
15 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
16 Emma - Jane Austen
17 Persuasion - Jane Austen
18 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
19 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
20 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
21 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
22 Dune - Frank Herbert
23 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
24 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
25 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
26 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
27 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
28 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
29 Dracula - Bram Stoker
30 Charlotte’s Web - EB White
31 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
32 Watership Down - Richard Adams
33 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
34 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl

38 is my current total.

12. Stupid list.

--A

28

Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
Dune - Frank Herbert
The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
On The Road - Jack Kerouac
Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
Dracula - Bram Stoker
The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
Charlotte’s Web - EB White
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl

All of them pretty damn good

22 for me:

2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare


And may I say once again that 'A Confederacy of Dunces' is time I will unfortunately never get back. Just horrible. Craptastic.

2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
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
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

Wow...36. That surprises me. Some I am not 100% certain about, particularly the Dickens books I have listed, as I dislike Dickens, but took the oddly titled class "Victorian Humor and Satire" as there is so little humor in Victorian novels. Most of what we did was Dickens, but thank Frith for Edward Lear in that class.

And I read A Confederacy of Dunces around that time, and while it felt like a Dickens book to me, it was much more satisfying.

I'm quite certain my count may be the lowest of anyone on the Watch. In fact I couldn't be bothered to read the entire list.

I think I had counted 4 and was about 3/4 the way through the list before I began to yawn so violently that I was forced to suspend my efforts.

2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman (only read the first one, does it still count?)
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare (90% or so, anyway)
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis (isn't that redundant?)
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare (isn't that also redundant?)
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl

Looks like...36. Couple of others on the list that I *think* I read years ago, but couldn't swear to.

i just deleted the ones i hadn't read or read only part of.
looks like 65 if i counted correctly.

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 (only read the first one)
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare (wellll not the comPLETE works of)
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
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
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
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
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
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
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazu Ishiguro
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare

so many of these are some of my favorites.
what i learned: i have sadly overlooked Thomas Hardy. will get right on that!! does anyone have any hardy favs or recommedations? tess? jude? far from the maddening crowd?

Holy cow, Luci.

yeah and the likelihood that i've read more than just the book listed by many of the given authors is very great. i are a reader. (btw i just edited 2 off the list that i missed the first time)

lucimay wrote:i just deleted the ones i hadn't read or read only part of.

SNIP

Luci wrote: so many of these are some of my favorites.
what i learned: i have sadly overlooked Thomas Hardy. will get right on that!! does anyone have any hardy favs or recommedations? tess? jude? far from the maddening crowd?

Read Tess long long ago...thought it was a bit dull, then, but things change.
Jude, OTOH, I've read 3x over the years...I think it is absolutely stellar.
None of the rest of his long works, but a fair sampling of his short stories...pretty good overall, some more dated than others.

What's this, an opportunity to be a braggart? Count me in!

Meh. 33, I've been slacking. Some of you are quite impressively read. I would say the best book I've ever read is still Les Miserables.

2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
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
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

40/100. I thank the classics phase I had during my late teens.


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
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
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
6 The Bible
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville


My score was 9.