Reading Project

According to the BBC (BBC Big Read top 100 - this list has been passed around a bit, and can apparently be found on facebook...) the average person has only read 6 of these books, today i printed it off and counted and i am that person (i have also started 13 and had another 5 read to me) but still, bad form. Compared with the mother and she has read about 26. we have each selected five we want to read by christmas.

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series
5 To Kill a Mockingbird
6 The Bible -
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy (seen the bbc addaption - looks far too depressing)
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare - (MsNDream, parts of macbeth + romeo&juliet, sonnets)
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien (mum read to me)
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald X
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy -
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis (lion witch & wardrobe and magician's nephew)
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
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
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
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
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 -
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
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
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker (03/03/10)
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 - HATEDHATEDHATEEDHATED So very much!
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - X (I think so)
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
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

Blue = own
Green = mums read to me
italics = started (generally mean to continue, just got distracted...) includes series read part of
bold = finished/read all of
Purple bold = read and own

Mum and I have each selected five we wish to read by christmas

Mum:
Far from the Madding Crowd
Tale of Two Cities
The Da Vinci Code (not sure if she'll like this, being religeous)
Catch 22
The Three Muscateeres

Me:
Pride and Predudice (Finished 18th September 2009)
Animal Farm (Finished 24th September 2009)
The Handmaid's Tale (Finished 23rd September 2009)
Bridget Jones' Diary - Helen Fielding (Finished 4th October 2009)
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee (Finished 23rd November 2009)

Of course i would like to read more than that, but hopefully there will be other years and i can chip away gradually, reading the woman in white and grapes of wrath and all the others that look tempting (but which im probably not going to stick to if i try now).

5 To read by end of easter hols...
Emma - Jane Austin
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
The Hitch-hiker's guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
Atonement - Ian McEwan
Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad

Summer Holiday Reviews

Reviews to books i read over the summer hols that are not directly linked to the main challenges im doing can be found on my other blog, however, links to these reviews can be found on the 'Read this year:' section on the left, or within my 100+ challenge. I am trying to write reviews for most of the books i'm reading this summer (who knows, it might make me a little better at it :S) but i shall probably still skip out on books i read that i dont think other people would want to know about (i read a lot of fiction that is rather light-hearted and is unlikely to interest a great many people). Just so you know where they are, in the off chance anyone actually cares :P :) have a nice summer :) :)