Oddly, I've never done one of these memes

[la_marquise]

It's one of the book ones. Details behind the

• Bold those books you've read in their entirety.
• Italicize the ones you started but didn't finish or read only an excerpt.

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 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell -- but I've read quite a lot of his others.
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
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare I've read all of them except the histories.
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot I bounced off this twice, because I just loathed Dorothea so much.
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
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 -- agsain, I've read a fair amount of other 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 -- I can't remember if I've read this or not.
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe - CS Lewis - Repetition!
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden -- no, because I tend to avoid books where men channel women, especially women from very different cultures. I have read books by Japanese women who have been geisha, though.
40 Winnie the Pooh - A.A. 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 Anne is my role-model :-)
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding -- this is one of two on this this that I've deliberately avoided as simply too gruesome and distressing for me.
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan -- I read most of his early books, but have rather lost track.
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen -
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens -- I really dislike Dickens, so I've only read a handful. I know this isn't one of the latter.
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 - this is on my 'one day' list.
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
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
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie -- I've read others, but somehow never this one.
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker - sad but true. I must get round to it.
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Inferno - Dante -- not sure about this. I may have, in my teens.
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola -- I read Therese Raquin and that was enough. He's too gritty for me.
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 Must finish this, one day.
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry -- another one on the 'must read' list.
87 Charlotte’s Web - E.B. White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom -- I haven't heard of this at all. Oh, dear.
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle -- yes, I know. Embarrassing, isn't it?
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton I read one of the books, but not all of the,
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks -- this is the other one that I know is above my security clearance
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas Well, d'oh.
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

Mostly this goes to show that I don't read a lot of modern literary fiction.

Comments

[aliettedb.livejournal.com]

I hadn't heard of The Five People You Met in Heaven, either: I had to google it... Not up to speed on the modern literary fiction thing either.
A Suitable Boy is definitely on my list of things to read, but I don't think I could stomach the Wasp Factory either...

[aliettedb.livejournal.com]

Oh, and I preferred One Hundred Years of Solitude than Love in the Time of Cholera (I think it had to do with not liking the main characters in the latter one).

[http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/]

Thank you. I'll start that way round, in that case.

[chilperic.livejournal.com]

Yes,please do! One Hundred Years of Solitude is a totally amazing book!

[http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/]

I really enjoyed A Suitable Boy.

[athenais.livejournal.com]

I could not stand One Hundred Years of Solitude and never read anything else labeled magic realism because of it.

Our bolds and italics overlap at almost every point.

[http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/]

Somehow I'm not surprised by that overlap!

[birdsedge.livejournal.com]

You read the Bible from cover to cover? Systematically or piecemeal? I didn't find it much of a page-turner.

I'm not even going to embarrass myself by attempting this meme. I read so little literary fiction (ancient or modern) that my list would look very sad.

You've certainly read more than me, though I can fill in a few of your gaps with Lord of the Flies, Germinal, David Copperfield, Moby Dick,Far from the Madding Crowd, A Tale of Two Cities, A Town like Alice and 1984, but I'm hopeless on the modern stuff. I just don't have the time (or inclination). I'm especially lacking in the transatlantic department. No Gatsby, Mockingbird or any amount of Steinbeck. I've read the science fictiony ones such as Dune, but not (shudder) The Wasp Factory and I loved The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time... But I confess I haven't even heard of some of the titles.

[http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/]

It's a very skewed list -- literary fiction and male classics. I suspect it's based on some odd stats or beliefs. The Steinbeck was mostly read at school, as was Mockingbird (which I loved, and which I think you'd also love - it has much in common with The Curious Incident). Gatsby I think I read because I was curious about Fitzgerald. But Moby Dick has never appealed.

[anna-wing.livejournal.com]

We have some overlaps, though I have always preferred Isabel Allende among the magical realists, perhaps because the first book of hers that I read wasn't fiction at all, but "Aphrodite", a cookbook of aphrodisiac recipes (real food, not weird stuff involving baboons' toenails) with charming illustrations of a fat little nymph and satyr having fun. This predisposed me in her favour, as someone with a simpatica attitude.

[http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/]

Yes, Allende appeals more to me, too.

[cianthecat.livejournal.com]

I'm ashamed to say my list looks pretty bleak. Not hardly as well read as I would have liked to think!

I have a Charles Dickens Quote you might like (not actually sure where it is from) - 'What greater gift than love of a cat?'.

[http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/]

That's an excellent quote: thank you!

[glass-mountain.livejournal.com]

That's funny - I did the same meme on Facebook! Also haven't read much modern lit fic, and feel similar about 'Lord of the Flies'.
Nor had I heard of 'The Five People...'