Summer Reading

I thought I would get a ton of reading done this summer and I have done almost none. :(

I found this list on a blog I stumbled on. I thought it would be fun, especially considering the number of book lovers in the family. The is a list of books put out by the NEA (National Endowment for the Arts), who say that supposedly most adults have only read 6 out of 100 of these books. Let's see how I do.

1. Bold all the books you've read.


1. Pride and Prejudice-Jane Austen (I've seen the Wishbone version on PBS countless times, does that count for anything?)
2 The Lord of the Rings-JRR Toilken
3. Jane Eyre-Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird- Harper Lee
6 The Bible (I admit to skipping over a lot of so and so beget so and so, but other than that I have read most of it and actually studied parts)
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
13 Catch 22- Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
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 (This book stuck with me for a long time, I would love to read it again)
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
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
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia- CS Lewis
34 Jane Austen
35 Emma-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
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 (I read the alternative in high school Siddartha. I LOVED it. Now I should go back and read this one. I'm not even sure why I picked the alternative, other than it was offered.)
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
52 Dune- Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen (Love the movie!)
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 Nighttime- 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
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
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness- Joseph Conrad (I read this in high school and really liked it, I'm not sure why, it probably deserves a reread)
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

19, more than triple the "average" Not bad, but I want to add so many of these books to my library que.

Grandma, how did you do? I bet you beat us all.