Olivia Sutton's Fanfic Journal

I've read 17.

Have you read more than 6 of these books?

Instructions: Copy this into your Journal. Bold those books you've read in their entirety, italicize the ones you started but didn't finish or read an excerpt. Tag other book nerds. Tag me as well so I can see your responses!  (This one came from a friend on Facebook).

 

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 

6 The Bible

 (What the ENTIRE thing?  And which version?)

8 Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell

 (AND Animal Farm, which I liked better.)

9 His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman

 (I've read two of  the three - does that count?  I got bored with book 3 and never finished it.) 

10 Great Expectations – Charles Dickens

11 Little Women – Louisa M Alcott 

12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy 

13 Catch 22 – Joseph Heller 

14 Complete Works of Shakespeare

 (Some, but not all, not by a long shot!)

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

 (Does seeing the movie count?  No? Awww.) 

20 Middlemarch – George Eliot 

21 Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell

(Does seeing the movie count?  No? Awww.)

22 The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald

 (Yes, but ages ago, in school).

 23 Bleak House – Charles Dickens

24 War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy 

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

 (YES!  And all 4 sequels.  One of my favorite books ever!)

26 Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh 

 (Started it, got bored, didn't finish).

27 Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky 

28 Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck 

29 Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll

 (Seen the Johhny Depp movie, does that count?)

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  

 (Uh, this is PART of the Chronicles of Narnia - Why is it listed separately?)

 

37 The Kite Runner – Khaled Hossein

38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis De Berniere 

39 Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden 

40 Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne

41 Animal Farm – George Orwell 

42 The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown 

 (Nope and I never will.  It's Anti-Catholic and Anti-Semetic.  Forget it.)

43 One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez

44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney – John Irving  

45 The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins 

No -- but I have read "The Moonstone". 

46 Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery

47 Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy 

48 The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood 

(Seen the movie.  Been meaning to find a copy of the book since.  I'm going to have to try to get it on my e-reader.  The movie was FANTASTIC!)

49 Lord of the Flies – William Golding

50 Atonement – Ian McEwan 

51 Life of Pi – Yann Martel

52 Dune – Frank Herbert 

 (Seen the movie of this one too.)

 53 Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons 

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

 (YES - finally a Dickens novel, I've read.)

 58 Brave New World – Aldous Huxley 

59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon

60 Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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 

66 On The Road – Jack Kerouac 

 (Yes, had to read it in high school.  HATED it!  Made about as much sense as "The Stranger").

67 Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy  

68 Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helen Fielding 

 (Another Saw the Movie.  Movie was only so-so.)

 69 Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie 

70 Moby Dick – Herman Melville  

 (Another Never gonna' read it!  I feel sorry for the whale.) 

71 Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens 

 (And my favorite Dickens novel!)

72 Dracula – Bram Stoker 

(Seen the 1930s movie)

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 

78 Germinal – Emile Zola 

79 Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray 

80 Possession – AS Byatt

81 A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens 

 (Y'know -- I don't think I've ever read the original story?  Seen a zillion version of it, but haven't read the original).

82 Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell 8 

83 The Color Purple – Alice Walker

 (Seen the movie). 

84 The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro 

85 Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert  

86 A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry

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 the ENTIRE Holmes canon!  Took me years, but I did it.  And I do love Holmes.)

90 The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton 

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

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
(probably seen the play too)

99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl 

100 Les Miserables – Victor Hugo

(Seen the play -- twice.  But no, haven't read the book).

Read 17, seen another 8 movies, and 1 possibly 2 plays.