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Saturday, January 8, 2011

Reading List

I saw someone post this list on their blog and count up the # of books they'd read from the list... I guess the average # of books read is 6 (according to BBC). My # was 20 (I think...), but I own some of the books on the list that I either having started reading or haven't finished reading, but have waiting on the shelf
  • These are the books I've read:
  • Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austin
  • Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
  • Harry Potter Series (except I'm still on book 5!)
  • To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (with Mrs. E)
  • Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
  • 1984 by George Orwell (still in progress... uhhh... since college!)
  • Little Women by Louisa M. Alcott (still in progress - presently)
  • The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
  • Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
  • The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame (My all-time FAVORITE fable - Cannot wait to read this to my future babes!)
  • Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis (another still in progress - Seth bought these for Christmas one year when we were in college)
  • The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
  • Winnie the Pooh by AA Milne (Brilliant children’s author!)
  • Animal Farm by George Orwell
  • The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
  • Life of Pi by Yann Martel
  • Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck (CORRECTION ;) This was Junior English!!...It's all coming back... the technical writing, this book, our small class that hour of English...!)
  • Watership Down by Richard Adams
  • Hamlet by William Shakespeare
These are all the books I still want to read from the list
  • The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien
  • Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
  • Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
  • Complete Works of Shakespeare
  • Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger
  • Gone With The Wind by Margaret Mitchell
  • The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald
  • War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
  • The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
  • Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  • Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
  • Emma by Jane Austen (on my shelf waiting)
  • Persuasion by Jane Austen
  • The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (on my shelf waiting)
  • Anne of Green Gables by LM Montgomery
  • Lord of the Flies by William Golding
  • Atonement by Ian McEwan
  • Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
  • A Tale Of Two Cities by Charles Dickens (on my shelf waiting)
  • The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night by Mark Haddon
  • Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
  • The Secret History by Donna Tartt
  • The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
  • Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
  • Bridget Jones’s Diary by Helen Fielding (on my shelf waiting)
  • Moby Dick by Herman Melville
  • Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
  • Dracula by Bram Stoker
  • The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
  • The Inferno by Dante (started in college)
  • A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
  • The Color Purple by Alice Walker (on my shelf waiting)
  • Charlotte’s Web by EB White (on my shelf waiting)
  • Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
  • A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute
  • Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl (on my shelf waiting)
  • Les Miserables by Victor Hugo

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

One correction: You read "Of Mice and Men" in junior English with me!

Becky R

Emily said...

Oh so many of these are wonderful. Definitely read Anne of Green Gables! She will set you free!!!! xo