Wrybread's Cavalcade of Whimsy - Yet Another Book Meme...

1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien  (Liked it, but can't say I loved it just because five pages of lavish description of a fucking mountain/tree/rock/leaf, followed by five pages of Hobbits singing songs about what they're doing punctuated by nonsense syllables bored me to the point of nausea.  I'm reasonably sure that the only reason the books sold as well as they did had to do with the vast amounts of weed and hallucinogens being consumed by the 60s hippies that made them such a hit.  I'm glad they did, though, since I loved the movies.) 
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling (Have read 2 out of 7, wasn't impressed enough to read the others)
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee (I am looking out for her other books though, if anyone knows where I can find copies of them.)
6 The Bible (Is there anyone who's actually read that thing cover-to-cover, outside of maybe some crazy 100-year old Fundamentalist lady somewhere?  Seriously.  Of course I, like most Westerners, have quite a bit of knowledge of the Bible thanks to cultural osmosis/being dragged to Sunday School as kids/Noah's Ark picture books that focused on the "neat pictures of animals on a boat" and downplayed the "thousands of people drowned for their sins", so I'm tempted to Bold this one and call it a day)     
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  (Well...not cover-to-cover again, although I now have my summer reading project!  I have read about 25 plays and most of the sonnets, so I'm getting there)
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
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 (Just this week in fact, was almost beaten to death by co-workers when they found out I'd reached the age of 25 without having read the series)
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh (I always wanted to write a book about Canadian beer and call it Moosehead Revisited, I think it'd sell)
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky (Best book I've read in the past few years, find a good translation and READ IT!)
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame (I was a fucking Wind in the Willows fanboy as a kid, read the book, watched the kickass TV series, used to run around the playground pretending to be Toad beating up Weasels, those were the days.  It's a minor miracle I didn't end up as a Furry.)
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens (I also resisted the urge to make some lame joke about having watched him make the Statue of Liberty disappear...just about)
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis (Have read parts of them, loved Prince Caspian, am disgusted to no end by The Last Battle's
"Good Christian Children Are Too Good For This Sinful World Ending."  That leaves such a bad taste in my mouth that I find it hard to go back to the series. 
34 Emma - Jane Austen  
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - C.S. Lewis (I did love this one as a kid, apart from the rest of the series)
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 Meany - 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 (Not until she gets off her bloody high horse and admits that it's a sci-fi book.)
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 (So much more chillingly prophetic than Orwell's 1984 as far as I'm concerned)
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 (I should just read nothing but Hardy this summer, come to think of it.  I'll either achieve great wisdom or kill myself by September)
68 Bridget Jones' 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 (Oh God, I love this book.  Such a great chronicle of the loveable insanity of the English)
75 Ulysses - James Joyce (I did the bugger!  Few years ago now, haven't yet gotten up the courage to go on to Finnegans Wake)
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath (Since you, dear reader, are already on LJ, don't bother reading this book.  Just find an LJ belonging to some babbling crazy self-absorbed girl and read a few entries, it's pretty much the same thing.)
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 (Cried like a baby when that spider died)
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom (Preemptively hated, I loathe that whole genre.  Just hand me a bag of sugar, a spoon, and get it over with.)
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Never actually read these)
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad (I also really want to read his Victory)
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 (True Story: I had a customer buying this book the other day, and in chatting with him he mentioned that he was from Washington, D.C.  I glanced at the book and commented "appropriate book."  Luckily he was amused and laughed like a fool)
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare (Also King Lear, Macbeth, Othello, Richard III, Much Ado About Nothing, etc.)
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo