Kevin's Watch

Yeah, the list was poorly constructed. Chronicles of Narnia as one book and then a separate line for Lion/witch/wardrobe

my number is 23 and growing...

Doc

Lord Zombiac wrote:

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
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
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
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
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
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
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
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
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

Problem is, half of the books I've read on this list I don't remember a thing about... Want to reread those. And read Hardy. and Lawhead. Lots of books to read.

Cagliostro wrote: as there is so little humor in Victorian novels.

Then you haven't read Trollope's Barchester books? Superb, particularly the first two, The Warden and Barchester Towers. The Bishop's wife, the Archdeacon and Mr Slope (who will always be Alan Rickman to me as he played him in the BBC series years ago) are very funny characters.
Set in the 1850s and 60s.

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
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
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
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

I make that 37. I've read all Thomas Hardy's books and all Jane Austin's. Ashamed to say that I haven't read much Dickens, but I have read more than are listed here. Must get to the Oxfam book shop and get some more. I have read almost all the Bible, but didn't read Leviticus! As for Shakespeare, I did The Merchant of Venice at school but haven't read any others. Bought The Faraway Tree from the Oxfam BS the other week to read to my grandchildren. We devoured Enid Blyton as children.

Anyone read the Alan Garner books? Wierdstone of Brisingamen etc.?

I only have like 14 or 15 of these.

I posted it on Facebook a year or so ago back when I only had 13, and found out my little sis could whoop me - she'd read 41 of 'em!

Iolanthe wrote:I have read almost all the Bible, but didn't read Leviticus!

LOL, Iolanthe! How on EARTH could anyone have trouble finishing that one? j/k!!
Hmm, it does seem the important parts of books can sometimes so tough to get through...

I myself have never read all of 1 Chronicles and 2 Chronicles, so I've not read the whole Bible either!
And that's REALLY embarrassing for me!

Or all of The Hobbit! Which is pretty silly for me to not have finished, too!

Linna Heartlistener wrote: Hmm, it does seem the important parts of books can sometimes so tough to get through...

I myself have never read all of 1 Chronicles and 2 Chronicles, so I've not read the whole Bible either!
And that's REALLY embarrassing for me!

Or all of The Hobbit! Which is pretty silly for me to not have finished, too!

I've read both

1 Chronicles and Psalms were by far the hardest for me to get through. The best/easiest way to read the Bible is to jump around. It's a lot easier that way (I should know, I've read it from cover to cover... argh, Psalms almost killed that project. The good thing about jumping around is that the repetition of portions of the Old Testament is much less noticeable).

Hahahaha, my first thought was that she meant the chrons...you know...of TC.

--A

Revisiting this, I'm disappointed they didn't list Powell's Dance to the Music of Time books, but I guess I can understand since that series is like 12 books.

Orlion- cool. Yeah, I can't imagine reading Psalms all the way straight through in order; but one a day along with other stuff? Mmm, I like that.

I'm curious if anything struck you as especially interesting / surprising / odd, but maybe that would belong in a totally different thread...

Avatar wrote:Hahahaha, my first thought was that she meant the chrons...you know...of TC.

LOL! Same name, right? And yet I didn't even think of that..

But yeah, actually I was just reading selected excerpts from that Thomas Covenant series and just got on this forum to mess with you guys!

I've read 42! Maybe a couple more, but I wasn't sure because it was a long time ago.

Several, admittedly, I was forced to read in HS. But some I went back and re-read for pleasure or curiosity. The Bible and LoTR both I have read through at least seven times each.

Here's my list:
1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
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
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
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
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34 Emma - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
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
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazu Ishiguro
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl

I've read 19 of them. I have never been very good at reading classics. And I know I am going to get booed....but I wish I had only read 18. Conrad's Heart of Darkness was painful.

Boo! Lady Revel. Heart of Darkness is harrowing but brilliant (and the inspiration for the superb 'Apocalypse Now'). Double boo!


My score is 20 and at least another 10 that I've started and not finished.


7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
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


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You'll NEVER convince me about Heart of Darkness, lol! NEVER!!!!!

Lady Revel wrote:Conrad's Heart of Darkness was painful.

It's meant to be.

--A