Plus Loni over at Eye of Loni's Storm and Sarah over at Sarah Says Read both posted their lists and I want to play along.
Bolded are the books I've read. Let's see how well-read I am
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
All Quiet on the Western Front by Eric Maria Remarque
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Klay by Michael Chabon
American Pastoral by Philip Roth
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Beowulf
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Brave New World by Alduos Huxley
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
The Call of the Wild by Jack London
Candide by Voltaire
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer I've read a few of the stories (in Middle English, so be impressed) but never managed the whole thing
Casino Royale by Ian Fleming
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson complete? No, but I've read a number of them
The Complete Stories of Edgar Allan Poe
The Complete Stories of Flannery O’Connor Well, I have this one and I should really read it. But the book is so big (complete stories and whatnot)
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen Yeah I'll get to this. One day
Crime & Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
Dream of Red Chamber by Cao Xueqin
Dune by Frank Herbert
Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
Faust by Goethe
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Game of Thrones by George RR Martin
The Golden Bowl by Henry James
The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
The Gospels
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Hamlet by William Shakespeare
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
Harry Potter & The Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling Oh perhaps you noticed I read this series
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
House Made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday
Howl by Allen Ginsberg
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
if on a winter’s night a traveler by Italo Calvino
The Iliad by Homer
The Inferno by Dante
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
The Life of Pi by Yann Martel
The Lion, the Witch, and The Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exepury In French, no less! I get bonus points for that, even if it took the better part of a school year to make it through
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
The Odyssey by Homer
Oedipus, King by Sophocles
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
The Pentateuch
Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen
Rabbit, Run by John Updike
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Romeo & Juliet by William Shakespeare
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Slaughterhouse-5 by Kurt Vonnegut
The Sound and The Fury by William Faulkner
The Stand by Stephen King
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Ulysses by James Joyce
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
Waiting for the Barbarians by J.M. Coetzee
Watchmen by Alan Moore
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
1984 by George Orwell
50 Shades of Grey by E.L. James
45 which is surprising. I didn't expect to have so many read. I am going to go ahead and give a lot of credit to being made to read a number of these in various English classes. There are others on here I would like to get to (Invisible Man has been sitting in my pile of books for awhile now. And of course Franzen...) and then those that I'm not exactly clamoring for (50 Shades just...I already read Twilight so that should count).
So there you go. How'd you do?
Logging you in...
Riv · 611 weeks ago
readingrambo 112p · 611 weeks ago
HOW HAVE YOU NOT READ CHRONICLES OF NARNIA
And how did you get out of reading Gone Girl? WE ALL READ IT ALLEY.
Loni · 611 weeks ago
I didn't think about including notes, because I did read some of The Canterbury Tales and I've read a bunch of Dickinson's poems, but not all.
Also, your 45 kicks my 26's ass.
Laura · 611 weeks ago
2. Is If On A Winter's Night A Traveller good? Because I keep seeing it on all kinds of lists and I'm like 'hmmm. Hmmmmm.'
3. I didn't know you hadn't read The Stand! That is very important Stephen King reading that I don't think I've ever even tried to force you to read! READ IT!
4. The Corrections. Let's do this. Soon. Ish.
libereadingrayna 58p · 611 weeks ago
Also HELLO FELLOW MIDDLE ENGLISHER! I read Canterbury tales for a college course, and even though we didn't read quite the whole thing, we read every single tale except the Parson's Tale, because my professor said he remembered suffering through that one himself in school and didn't want to punish us. But I count it as having read the whole thing just the same.
I just noticed on looking at the list again that Jeff totally messed with the alphabetical order -- shouldn't numbers be at the top? -- so that 50 shades would be at the bottom... I guess he was worried people would click away once they saw that as #2?
Kayleigh vW · 611 weeks ago
I still haven't read Romeo and Juliet! How could that have happened?
Paul 37p · 611 weeks ago
I've got 48, somehow. (And I'm in the middle of Cavalier & Clay). Which is ridiculous, because I'm not as well-read as you.
Of course, that includes double credit for having read the bible (but none for reading the qu'ran or the tao te ching).
I couldn't get through Book Thief, Lion/Witch/Wardrobe, or Lolita. I found the narrator of Book Thief annoying, LWW just didn't grab me (that was probably 20 years ago, though) and Lolita was too well-written. I couldn't stomach it. Nothing against any of them, but they weren't for me.
Kayleigh_M 92p · 611 weeks ago