Citizen of the World

With thanks to holy13nation

Have you read more than 6 of these books? The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books listed here. Instructions: Copy this list; bold those books you've read in their entirety. Italicize the ones you started but didn't finish or read only an excerpt.

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen

2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien (actually 3 books) - don't forget The Hobbit (below) (& saw the movies)

3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte

4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling (This is 7 books!!!) (saw the movies)

5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee (& saw the movie)

6 The Bible (& saw the movie)

7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte

8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell

9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman (This is 3 books!!!)

10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens

11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott (& saw the movie)

12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy

13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller (& saw the movie)

14 Complete Works of Shakespeare (read many, but how's it count as "1"? Odd...)

15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier

16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien (& saw the movie)

17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk

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 (saw the movie)

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 (& saw the movie)

26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh

27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck (& saw the movie)

29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll (& saw the movies)

30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame

31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy

32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens

33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis (Also 7 books!) (& saw the movies)

34 Emma - Jane Austen

35 Persuasion - Jane Austen

36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis (Already covered in #33?) (& saw the movie)

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 (& saw the movie)

41 Animal Farm - George Orwell (& saw the movie)

42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown (& saw the movie)

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 (& saw the movie)

50 Atonement - Ian McEwan

51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel

52 Dune - Frank Herbert (& saw the movie)

53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons

54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen (& saw 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 (& saw the movie)

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 (& saw the movie)

62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov

63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt

64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold (saw the movie)

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 (saw the movie)

69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie

70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville

71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens (& saw the movie)

72 Dracula - Bram Stoker (& saw the movies)

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 (& saw the movies)

82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell

83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker (saw the movie)

84 The Remains of the Day - Kazu Ishiguro

85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert

86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry

87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White (& saw the movie)

88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom

89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (& saw the movie & shows)

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 - LOVE IT!!

96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute

97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas (saw the movie)

98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare (wasn't this covered in #14??)

99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl (& saw the movie)

100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo (& saw the movie)

Not bad timing for my first book in a while. I finished reading Krakauer's Into the Wild last night on the way home. To have read the book only on my trips into and out of the city for work - not bad timing at all.I averaged about 25+ pages per hour or so (because I sometimes fell asleep or blogged or IM'd a buddy.

Book reaction: Granted, because this book starts out with the end and you know the anti-hero guy dies - hence the fact-gathering and the postulations of events throughout - in much of the book, I was wondering what the reasons were behind the author's need to pen the story. By the last two chapters, I discovered it and it kinda pissed me off: Krakauer was trying to equate himself with the anti-hero of the book and draw similarities between the anti-hero and other eccentrics who'd died in the wilderness. Blech. It was an interesting read. I learned some history (the story was in essence a biography of a dead GenXer who died on a quest "to find himself" and the last frontier in the early 90s). I learned some new things about Alaska and its folk (both imported and indigenous) and some things about the West and southwest of America. Glad I read it, but it made me at times too introspective. Time for something more specifically introspective: The Presence Process - a self-awareness book by Michael Brown. Oooooo...