{"id":1887,"date":"2008-07-01T12:55:55","date_gmt":"2008-07-01T17:55:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=1887"},"modified":"2008-07-01T12:55:55","modified_gmt":"2008-07-01T17:55:55","slug":"on-100-books-some-read-some-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=1887","title":{"rendered":"On 100 Books, Some Read & Some Not"},"content":{"rendered":"

A books meme! Too many people I know have done this in the past twenty-four hours for me to cite any one particular influence. This is a list of 100 of the top books of all time. The average person has read 6. The rules:<\/p>\n

1) Look at the list and bold<\/b> those you have read.
\n2) Italicize<\/i> those you intend to read.
\n3) Underline<\/u> the books you LOVE.
\n4) Reprint this list in your own blog so we can try and track down these people who’ve read six and force books upon them.<\/p>\n

Tally-ho!<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. Pride and Prejudice<\/b> \u0096 Jane Austen<\/li>\n
  2. The Lord of the Rings<\/u><\/b> \u0096 J.R.R. Tolkien<\/li>\n
  3. Jane Eyre \u0096 Charlotte Bronte<\/li>\n
  4. Harry Potter<\/b> series \u0096 J.K. Rowling (the first one, only, and part of the second)\n
  5. To Kill a Mockingbird \u0096 Harper Lee<\/li>\n
  6. The Bible<\/b><\/li>\n
  7. Wuthering Heights \u0096 Emily Bronte<\/li>\n
  8. Nineteen Eighty-Four<\/b> \u0096 George Orwell<\/li>\n
  9. His Dark Materials<\/b> \u0096 Philip Pullman<\/li>\n
  10. Great Expectations<\/b> \u0096 Charles Dickens<\/li>\n
  11. Little Women \u0096 Louisa M Alcott<\/li>\n
  12. Tess of the D’Urbervilles \u0096 Thomas Hardy<\/li>\n
  13. Catch 22 \u0096 Joseph Heller<\/li>\n
  14. Complete Works of Shakespeare<\/b> (actually, I don’t think I’ve read Pericles<\/i>)<\/li>\n
  15. Rebecca \u0096 Daphne Du Maurier<\/li>\n
  16. The Hobbit<\/b> \u0096 J.R.R. Tolkien<\/li>\n
  17. Birdsong \u0096 Sebastian Faulks<\/li>\n
  18. Catcher in the Rye<\/b> \u0096 J.D. Salinger<\/li>\n
  19. The Time Traveler’s Wife<\/b> \u0096 Audrey Niffenegger (I keep meaning to blog about this one)<\/li>\n
  20. Middlemarch \u0096 George Eliot<\/li>\n
  21. Gone With the Wind \u0096 Margaret Mitchell<\/li>\n
  22. The Great Gatsby<\/u><\/b> \u0096 F. Scott Fitzgerald<\/li>\n
  23. Bleak House \u0096 Charles Dickens<\/li>\n
  24. War and Peace<\/b> \u0096 Leo Tolstoy<\/li>\n
  25. The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy<\/u><\/b> \u0096 Douglas Adams<\/li>\n
  26. Brideshead Revisited \u0096 Evelyn Waugh<\/li>\n
  27. Crime and Punishment \u0096 Fyodor Dostoyevsky<\/li>\n
  28. Grapes of Wrath \u0096 John Steinbeck<\/li>\n
  29. Alice in Wonderland<\/b> \u0096 Lewis Carroll<\/li>\n
  30. The Wind in the Willows<\/b> \u0096 Kenneth Grahame<\/li>\n
  31. Anna Karenina \u0096 Leo Tolstoy<\/li>\n
  32. David Copperfield \u0096 Charles Dickens<\/li>\n
  33. Chronicles of Narnia<\/b> \u0096 C.S. Lewis<\/li>\n
  34. Emma \u0096 Jane Austen<\/li>\n
  35. Persuasion \u0096 Jane Austen<\/li>\n
  36. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe<\/b> \u0096 C.S. Lewis (I wonder why this one needs a separate entry :\/)<\/li>\n
  37. The Kite Runner \u0096 Khaled Hosseini<\/li>\n
  38. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin \u0096 Louis de Bernieres<\/li>\n
  39. Memoirs of a Geisha \u0096 Arthur Golden<\/li>\n
  40. Winnie the Pooh<\/u><\/b> \u0096 A.A. Milne<\/li>\n
  41. Animal Farm<\/u><\/b> \u0096 George Orwell<\/li>\n
  42. The Da Vinci Code \u0096 Dan Brown<\/li>\n
  43. One Hundred Years of Solitude \u0096 Gabriel Garcia Marquez<\/li>\n
  44. A Prayer for Owen Meaney \u0096 John Irving<\/li>\n
  45. The Woman in White \u0096 Wilkie Collins<\/li>\n
  46. Anne of Green Gables \u0096 L.M. Montgomery<\/li>\n
  47. Far From the Madding Crowd \u0096 Thomas Hardy<\/li>\n
  48. The Handmaid’s Tale \u0096 Margaret Atwood<\/li>\n
  49. Lord of the Flies<\/b> \u0096 William Golding<\/li>\n
  50. Atonement \u0096 Ian McEwan<\/li>\n
  51. Life of Pi \u0096 Yann Martel (I have, however, read The History of Pi<\/i>, but that’s a completely different book, by a completely different author.)<\/li>\n
  52. Dune<\/b> \u0096 Frank Herbert<\/li>\n
  53. Cold Comfort Farm \u0096 Stella Gibbons<\/li>\n
  54. Sense and Sensibility \u0096 Jane Austen<\/li>\n
  55. A Suitable Boy \u0096 Vikram Seth<\/li>\n
  56. The Shadow of the Wind \u0096 Carlos Ruiz Zafon<\/li>\n
  57. A Tale of Two Cities<\/u><\/b> \u0096 Charles Dickens<\/li>\n
  58. Brave New World<\/b> \u0096 Aldous Huxley<\/li>\n
  59. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time \u0096 Mark Haddon<\/li>\n
  60. Love in the Time of Cholera \u0096 Gabriel Garcia Marquez<\/li>\n
  61. Of Mice and Men<\/b> \u0096 John Steinbeck<\/li>\n
  62. Lolita \u0096 Vladimir Nabokov<\/li>\n
  63. The Secret History \u0096 Donna Tartt<\/li>\n
  64. The Lovely Bones \u0096 Alice Sebold<\/li>\n
  65. Count of Monte Cristo \u0096 Alexandre Dumas<\/li>\n
  66. On The Road<\/u><\/b> \u0096 Jack Kerouac<\/li>\n
  67. Jude the Obscure \u0096 Thomas Hardy<\/li>\n
  68. Bridget Jones’s Diary \u0096 Helen Fielding<\/li>\n
  69. Midnight’s Children \u0096 Salman Rushdie<\/li>\n
  70. Moby-Dick<\/b> \u0096 Herman Melville (Melville needed an editor, methinks.)<\/li>\n
  71. Oliver Twist \u0096 Charles Dickens<\/li>\n
  72. Dracula<\/b> \u0096 Bram Stoker<\/li>\n
  73. The Secret Garden \u0096 Frances Hodgson Burnett<\/li>\n
  74. Notes From a Small Island \u0096 Bill Bryson<\/li>\n
  75. Ulysses \u0096 James Joyce<\/li>\n
  76. The Bell Jar \u0096 Sylvia Plath<\/li>\n
  77. Swallows and Amazons \u0096 Arthur Ransome<\/li>\n
  78. Germinal \u0096 Emile Zola<\/li>\n
  79. Vanity Fair \u0096 William Makepeace Thackeray<\/li>\n
  80. Possession \u0096 A.S. Byatt<\/li>\n
  81. A Christmas Carol<\/b> \u0096 Charles Dickens<\/li>\n
  82. Cloud Atlas \u0096 David Mitchell<\/li>\n
  83. The Color Purple \u0096 Alice Walker<\/li>\n
  84. The Remains of the Day \u0096 Kazuo Ishiguro<\/li>\n
  85. Madame Bovary \u0096 Gustave Flaubert<\/li>\n
  86. A Fine Balance \u0096 Rohinton Mistry<\/li>\n
  87. Charlotte’s Web<\/b> \u0096 E.B. White<\/li>\n
  88. The Five People You Meet in Heaven \u0096 Mitch Albom<\/li>\n
  89. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes<\/u><\/b> \u0096 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle<\/li>\n
  90. The Faraway Tree Collection \u0096 Enid Blyton<\/li>\n
  91. Heart of Darkness \u0096 Joseph Conrad<\/li>\n
  92. The Little Prince<\/b> \u0096 Antoine De Saint-Exupery<\/li>\n
  93. The Wasp Factory \u0096 Iain Banks<\/li>\n
  94. Watership Down \u0096 Richard Adams<\/li>\n
  95. A Confederacy of Dunces \u0096 John Kennedy Toole<\/li>\n
  96. A Town Like Alice \u0096 Nevil Shute<\/li>\n
  97. The Three Musketeers<\/b> \u0096 Alexandre Dumas<\/li>\n
  98. Hamlet<\/b> \u0096 William Shakespeare<\/li>\n
  99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory<\/b> – Roald Dahl<\/li>\n
  100. Les Miserables \u0096 Victor Hugo<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    I really wonder who picked these books. Why the hell does something like The Five People You Meet In Heaven<\/i> merit inclusion in a list of the 100 top books of all time? And no Hemingway?<\/p>\n

    And some, frankly, I’ve never even heard<\/i> of.<\/p>\n

    I didn’t underline a whole lot.<\/p>\n

    There. It’s done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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