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:
One correction: You read "Of Mice and Men" in junior English with me!
Becky R
Oh so many of these are wonderful. Definitely read Anne of Green Gables! She will set you free!!!! xo
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