Book Meme

I just found this on Antonia’s blog and since I got interviewed as a reader a few weeks back, I thought I’d give this a go. It’s a list of the ‘Greatest Ever Novels’ and you’re meant to:Look at the list and:1) Bold those you have read.2) Italicise those you intend to read.3) [Bracket] the books you LOVE.4) Reprint this list on your own blog.1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen2.The Lord of The Rings - JRR Tolkein3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte4 [Harry Potter series - JK Rowling]5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee6 The Bible (well, bits of it)7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott (I’ve read part of it and intend to finish it at some point) 12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy13 Catch-22 - Joseph Heller14 Complete Works of Shakespeare15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger20 Middlemarch - George Eliot21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell22 [The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald]23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy25 The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck29 Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis34 Emma - Jane Austen35 Persuasion - Jane Austen36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis (is that not just the Chronicles of Narnia?)37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden40 Winnie-the-Pooh - AA Milne41 Animal Farm - George Orwell42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez44 MISSING45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding50 Atonement - Ian McEwan51 MISSING52 Dune - Frank Herbert53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley59 [The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon]60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy68 [Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding]69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie70 Moby-Dick - Herman Melville71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens72 Dracula - Bram Stoker73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett74 [Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson]75 Ulysses - James Joyce76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome78 Germinal - Emile Zola79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray80 Possession - A. S. Byatt81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle90 [The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton]91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks94 Watership Down - Richard Adams95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare – I saw the play, does that count?99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

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