Instructions (if you want to play): Look at the list and put an 'X' after those you have read once. Enter a number for the number of times you read something. (Make sure you delete my X's!) When you've finished put your total at the bottom.
- Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen, (only watched in movie form, haven't read, yet)
- The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien, parts of it (watched the movies a few times)
- Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
- Harry Potter series - JK Rowling, X yep, twice (and watched tons of times in movie form)
- To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee, X yep, a few times; too many to remember (watched the movie, too)
- The Bible, yep
- Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte, parts of it
- Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell, X yep, a few times
- His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
- Great Expectations - Charles Dickens, X yep, a few times (watched a few versions of it in movie form)
- Little Women - Louisa M Alcott, X a few times (and watched movie of it a few times)
- Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
- Catch 22 - Joseph Heller, parts of it
- Complete Works of Shakespeare, X yep, a lot of times
- Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
- The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien, X yep, (watched the movie too)
- Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
- Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger, part of it
- The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
- Middlemarch - George Eliot
- Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell, (nope, but watched the movie tons of times)
- The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald, (nope, saw the movie)
- Bleak House - Charles Dickens
- War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy, (parts of it)
- The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams, X (a few times)
- Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
- Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck, X (a few times; it is about the part of California where I grew up. I knew all the places they talked about in the book and watched the movie)
- Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll, X (a few times, and the movie tons of times)
- The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame, X yep, (the movie tons of times)
- Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
- David Copperfield - Charles Dickens, X yep (the movie a few times)
- Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis, X yep, (re-reading right now) (watched both British and American versions of most of these books, too)
- Emma - Jane Austen
- Persuasion - Jane Austen
- The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis, X yep, a few times and watched the movies, too (this is stupid, it is part of no. 33!)
- The Kite Runner - Khaled Hossein
- Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
- Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden, (nope, but saw the movie)
- Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne, X (yep, have an old edition of it)(and have a ton of Disney movies on it, too)
- Animal Farm - George Orwell, X Yep, a few times
- The Da Vinci Code
- One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
- The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
- Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery, X Yep, a few times (and the movies, too, over a doz times)
- Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
- The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
- Lord of the Flies - William Golding, X Yep (the movie a few of times)
- Atonement - Ian McEwan
- Life of Pi - Yann Martel
- Dune - Frank Herbert, X yep (and saw the movie)
- Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
- Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
- A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
- The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zifon
- A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens, X yep
- Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
- Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck, X yep
- Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
- The Secret History - Donna Tartt
- The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
- Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas, parts of it
- On The Road - Jack Kerouac
- Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
- Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
- Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
- Moby Dick - Herman Melville, X yep
- Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens, X yep
- Dracula - Bram Stoker, X yep (love vampire stories; read it, watched it) (the movies tons of times)
- The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett, X yep
- Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
- Ulysses - James Joyce
- The Inferno - Dante, X yes, a few times
- Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
- Germinal - Emile Zola
- Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
- Possession - AS Byatt
- A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens, X yep (and own about 7 versions of it in movie form)
- Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
- The Color Purple - Alice Walker, no but watched it three times
- The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
- Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
- A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
- Charlotte’s Web - EB White, X yep, a few times (and watched it tons of times)
- The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
- Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, X yep
- The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
- Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
- The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery, X yep
- The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
- Watership Down - Richard Adams, X yep, a few times and watched the movie a few times, too
- A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
- A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
- The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas, X yep, and watched many a movie based on it
- Hamlet - William Shakespeare, X yep, a few times (the movie a few times)
- Charlie and the Chocolate Factoy - Roald Dahl, X yep (and have both versions of it in movie form )
- Les Miserables - Victor Hugo, X yep, love the movies, too
My tallies are
read: 34
read parts of only: 6
read all or part of and watched in movie form: 23
only seen in movie form:5
So, I guess I have read more than I have watched. they didn't want to know the movie part; I was just curious.
Currently I am reading the Cronicals of Narnia and the Ink Heart series, all three books. I want to read them all before I watch the movie (Inkheart) because the movie looks to be parts of book 1 and 2 so far, and I am curious about that.
The list is a little bit heavy with British novels. There is so much Jane Austin, but no Mark Twain? or Frederick Douglass? Also, I don't think there are very many people at all who have read all of Ulysses by James Joyce. I think I read that it is very hard to get through.
ReplyDeleteThis is great! I read quite a few of these (granted some in grade school, but that counts, right?), Thanks for posting the list. I've been on a Jane Austin kick, so I've just finished reading all but Persuasion. There are some books that I would question--onees that I did read, and did not feel were all that good. Anyway, I am going to keep your list on hand for when I feel I need a book! Thanks!
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