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[laurus_nobilis]

1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE, add an strikeout the books you read but didn't like.
4) Reprint this list in your own LJ so we can try and track down these people who've read only 6 or less and force books upon them ;-)

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
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 (... uh, I don't know if "complete" but I inted to read a lot more)
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier (read it abridged for English class)
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
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
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 NIGHTMARE FUEL, PEOPLE. TONS AND TONS OF NIGHTMARE FUEL.
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 (... why is it listed separately?)
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 (It was only so I could know what I was criticizing, okay? DDD:)
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 (read it abridged)
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
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 (... WHY SEPARATE?)
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

I like seeing that these lists keep getting less and less Anglo-centric, but I'd still like to see more variety. Where are all the Germans, for example? How does Hermann Hesse never make it to these memes? I'm not annoyed, just... confused. You get Hamlet and LWW technically listed twice, you get several books by the same authors (and not just English-speaking authors; García Márquez is up there twice) and you get no Demian or Steppenwolf or Siddharta? How?

(Also... am I the only person in Latin America who doesn't like García Márquez? I mean, I know he's good and I understand his importance but he puts me to sleep.)

Comments

[rainmage.livejournal.com]

They made us read FOUR García Márquez novels on school during all of high school. I was left not wanting to touch a book of that man for the rest of my life. It's not that I hated them with a passion (it's more of indifference), but I'm fed up.

[laurus-nobilis.livejournal.com]

I've read Crónica de una muerte anunciada and several short stories, and that was enough to decide I don't want to touch the ones on the list. :/ I understand why he's famous and important, I think he deserves it, I just don't want to read anything else by him.

[rainmage.livejournal.com]

Oh, that one is a bore. They made us read it for the same reason than El Túnel by Ernesto Sabato: because it was OMG SO TRENDY that the ending was told at the beginning or something. I was all "whatever" and unimpressed by it.

Also stay away from Del Amor y Otros Demonios. Cien Años, to me, started well but by half of it I was so confused and the bullshit went downhill especially during the ending. And I swore that if I ever had children, I WOULDN'T give them any name already used by any relative of mine. It was overkill with the circular generational plot, honestly.

[ayasugi-san.livejournal.com]

*has poor Spanish skillz*

Chronicle of a Death Foretold? Is that the one with the bride who wasn't a virgin so her brothers killed the man she said was responsible? I read that for Oral Communications, and like much of the things relating to that course, I tend to block it out of my memory.

[solesakuma]

Exactly.

[lady-kikyou.livejournal.com]

Oh, how appropriate~ I was looking for book suggestions to read on my vacation, so yay~! ♥ In fact, my friend recommended Atonement and I ordered The Shadow of the Wind a few days ago. Good to see they're on the list~~

[laurus-nobilis.livejournal.com]

Oooh, The Shadow of the Wind is great. :)

[elihice.livejournal.com]

I don't particularly like García Márquez, even if I've read some of his books. I rather read Allende.

[laurus-nobilis.livejournal.com]

I need to read more Allende. I've only read La casa de los espíritus so far.

[mon-starling.livejournal.com]

Yo lei Cronica... (lo odie, pero bueno, tenia 14, supongo que diez años despues mi apreciacion sera un poco distinta) Del Amor y Otros Demonios (a los 17, y me encanto)... y hasta ahi llegue. Tengo Cien Años... en casa, deberia leerlo, realmente.

[solesakuma]

Cien Años es... algo difícil. A mí me gustó mucho porque García Marquéz me gusta bastante y es como "OMG! CADA KINK NARRATIVO MÍO EN UN SÓLO PAQUETE." pero es un libro complicado.

[laurus-nobilis.livejournal.com]

Yo ya era más grande cuando leí Crónica y me pareció bueno pero no para mí. ;P O sea, García Márquez no es uno de esos autores que me hacen preguntarme por qué es famoso; mi relación con él es más bien "sí, ya sé que es bueno, pero dejen de tratar de convencerme de que me tiene que gustar".

[solesakuma]

Cien Años it's quite good... but I love books that force me to write down the family tree so I'm not really one to talk. XP

And yeah, no German, no Italian and very few Spanish-speaking authors. And a lot of 'not really well-known outside anglo countries' books.

[laurus-nobilis.livejournal.com]

We need to come up with our own list one of these days. :O All the ones going around come from publishers or surveys from English-speaking countries.

[solesakuma]

¡Totalmente!
Por ejemplo, falta Borges.

[caro-bunny.livejournal.com]

Cien años de soledad me re gustó, pero ¿por qué no están Borges o Cortázar? posta... Secret Garden me encantaaa y Anne of Green Gables!! lo leí hace mil... ya me había olvidado de que existía, jajaa. Faltan muchos títulos, ¡¡como El Principito!!

[laurus-nobilis.livejournal.com]

Esta lista en particular creo que la hizo una editorial estadounidense... Pero en serio, son todas parecidas y falta más variedad.

[caro-bunny.livejournal.com]

Sí, la verdad. Deberían investigar más...

[rainmage.livejournal.com]

Faltan muchos títulos, ¡¡como El Principito!!

Uh, #92?