Vive Le Livre

Here's how it works:

1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.

2) Italicize those you intend to read. (Or just put comments next to them)

3) Underline (or mark in a different color) the books you LOVE - mine are in red. I bolded the books I have read, that were, ahem, unremarkable!

4) Reprint this list in your blog so we can try and track down these people who’ve read 6 and force books upon them ;-)





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 - Stunning, I learned about black humour from this book!

6 The Bible - Yeah I've read all of it, including the really boring bits in Numbers.

7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte - I didn't love it, but it was ok. I never got into Heathcliff the way my classmates did.

8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell

9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman - On my list. Anything that gets the Christian Right that upset is probably worth a read.

10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens - Can I just say, I'm not a huge fan of Dickens. The stories are just, so, bleak!

11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott

12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy - I read it years ago. Can't remember anything about it. I remember something about a dog?

13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller

14 Complete Works of Shakespeare

15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier

16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien

17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks

18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger

19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger

20 Middlemarch - George Eliot - Oh, no. I still have nightmares when I think about the essay I wrote about Silas Marner on the remedial influence of pure, natural human relations. Ugh.

21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell

22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald - I've read it. I just couldn't get into it. Maybe it needs a book group to go with it?

23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens

24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy -- I have read the whole thing. It got confusing. . .

25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams

26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh - On my list.

27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky - I don't know if I loved it, but it was powerful and profound.

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

35 Persuasion - Jane Austen

36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis

37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini - A friend recommended it. I'm going to buy it one of these days.

38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres

39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden - On my list.

40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne

41 Animal Farm - George Orwell

42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown - As a Christian, the theology was VERY suspect (and the church history was just plain wrong.) It was a great read, enjoyable, fast paced, but reading it for content would be like watching James Bond movies to see how MI-5 works.

43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

44 A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving

45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins

46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery - Oh yes! You lose your Canadian citizenship if you don't read this. And I love all of her books. Every last one.

47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy

48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood

49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding - read it, didn't love it.

50 Atonement - Ian McEwan

51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel - eh, it was ok. . .

52 Dune - Frank Herbert

53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons - on my list.

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

58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley

59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon - Also on my list.

60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez - Eh, it was ok. I didn't love it. (And for some reason I thought Isabelle Allende wrote it, but moving on)

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 - Love it! Reading it again, as we speak.

66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac

67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy

68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding - Cause Celeb is also really good!

69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie - On my list.

70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville - I'll give you a hint. It's about a whale.

71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens

72 Dracula - Bram Stoker - I don't know if I loved it. . . .

73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett

74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson

75 Ulysses - James Joyce

76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath

77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome - Fabulous! And "We didn't mean to go to sea" is even better. . . .

78 Germinal - Emile Zola

79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray - It's on my bookshelf!

80 Possession - AS Byatt

81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens

82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell

83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker - One of the few movies based on a book that I have really liked. Who knew Oprah acted so well!

84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro

85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert

86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry - I don't like him. Any of his stuff. Don't know why, but I don't like him.

87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White

88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom

89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - I've read some of them.

90 The Faraway Tree Collection

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 - It's about bunnies. Way too many bunnies for me.

95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole

96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute

97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas

98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare - I think Hamlet's a whiny jerk. I really hated this play.

99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl

100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo