{"id":233,"date":"2008-07-29T02:03:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-29T02:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/2008\/07\/29\/another-book-meme\/"},"modified":"2008-07-29T02:03:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-29T02:03:00","slug":"another-book-meme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/2008\/07\/29\/another-book-meme\/","title":{"rendered":"Another book meme"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tagged by Mad Hatter<\/a>!<\/p>\n

I’ll steal her colour scheme too: Books I’ve read are in bold<\/strong>, books I started but never quite finished are in blue<\/strong><\/span>, and books I have read multiple times are in red<\/strong><\/span>. I’ll also steal EcoGeoFemme’s trick <\/a>of adding an asterisk if I’ve seen the movie or TV adaptation (including cartoons).<\/p>\n

1 <\/span>Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen*<\/span><\/strong>
2 The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien*<\/span><\/strong>
3 Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte<\/strong>
4 Harry Potter series – JK Rowling*<\/span><\/strong>
5 To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee*<\/strong>
6 The Bible<\/span><\/strong>
7 Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte<\/strong>
8 Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell<\/span><\/strong>
9 His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations – Charles Dickens<\/strong>
11 Little Women – Louisa M Alcott<\/span><\/strong>
12 Tess of the D\u2019Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy <\/strong>and I HATED it.
13 Catch 22 – Joseph Heller<\/strong><\/span>
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare<\/strong><\/span> I wonder how many people in the world have really read the whole thing?! I have read a few complete plays though.
15 Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien<\/span><\/strong>
17 Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks<\/strong>
18 Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger<\/strong>
19 The Time Traveller\u2019s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger<\/strong>
20 Middlemarch – George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell*
22 The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald<\/strong>
23 Bleak House – Charles Dickens <\/strong>
24 War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker\u2019s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams* <\/strong><\/span>Hmm, anyone surprised by this one?!<\/span>
26 Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck<\/span><\/strong>
29 Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll*<\/strong>
30 The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame*<\/strong>
31 Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis*<\/strong><\/span>
34 Emma – Jane Austen*<\/strong>
35 Persuasion – Jane Austen*<\/strong>
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – CS Lewis*<\/span><\/strong>
37 The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini<\/strong>
38 Captain Corelli\u2019s Mandolin – Louis De Bernieres<\/strong>
39 Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden<\/strong>
40 Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne*<\/strong>
41 Animal Farm – George Orwell*<\/strong>
42 The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown*<\/strong>
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meany – John Irving<\/strong> <\/span>Love it!<\/span>
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\u2019s Tale – Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies – William Golding*<\/strong>
50 Atonement – Ian McEwan<\/strong>
51 Life of Pi – Yann Martel
52 Dune – Frank Herbert*<\/strong>
53 Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons*
54 Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen*<\/span><\/strong>
55 A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth<\/strong>
56 The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens<\/strong>
58 Brave New World – Aldous Huxley <\/strong>
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon<\/strong>
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck*<\/strong> <\/span>If you haven’t seen the movie version with Gary Sinise and John Malkovich, rent it NOW! Sinise directed too. This movie started my love affair with Steinbeck. I’ve since read everything he ever wrote, including a collection of letters etc.<\/span>
62 Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History – Donna Tartt<\/strong>
64 The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road – Jack Kerouac<\/span><\/strong>
67 Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones\u2019s Diary – Helen Fielding*<\/strong> <\/span>OMG I LOLed! Literally! On a train! The second book is even better.<\/span>
69 Midnight\u2019s Children – Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick – Herman Melville<\/strong>
71 Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens*<\/strong>
72 Dracula – Bram Stoker*<\/span><\/strong>
73 The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett*<\/strong>
74 Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson<\/span><\/strong>
75 Ulysses – James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons – Arthur Ransome<\/span><\/strong>
78 Germinal – Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray<\/strong>
80 Possession – AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens*<\/span><\/strong>
82 Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple – Alice Walker*
84 The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro*
85 Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte\u2019s Web – EB White<\/span><\/strong>
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection
91 Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks<\/strong>
94 Watership Down – Richard Adams*<\/span><\/strong>
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*<\/span><\/strong>
100 Les Miserables – Victor Hugo*<\/strong>
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What this list says about me<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. I read a lot.<\/li>\n
  2. If I really like something, I’ll read it over and over again. Same with movies.<\/li>\n
  3. I usually finish everything I read.<\/li>\n
  4. The only thing more boring than On The Road is the Bible.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    I tag… anyone who reads books and blogs who hasn’t already done a book meme this year. On a purely voluntary basis of course.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Tagged by Mad Hatter! I’ll steal her colour scheme too: Books I’ve read are in bold, books I started but never quite finished are in blue, and books I have read multiple times are in red. I’ll also steal EcoGeoFemme’s … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-review","category-meme"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}