Wednesday, March 11, 2009

The BBC 100 Books List

Okay, so I passed on the 25 things about me. If you're really hard up for that, check out my last 25 entries. But a list of books? That's too good to pass up.

I don't know how the list got modified, but this apparently is the original.

"BBC believes most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here. How do your reading habits stack up?"

If I'm able to count at this late hour, then my tally is 55.

Which is my favorite? I think "Dune" is the greatest book ever written (that I've read). That doesn't mean I leave the house without a towel...

Copy, edit and paste into a note of your own.

1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen - No
2. The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien - Yes
3. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte - Yes
4. Harry Potter series - JK Rowling - No
5. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee - Yes
6. The Bible - No
7. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte - Yes
8. Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell - Yes
9. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman - No
10. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens - Yes
11. Little Women - Louisa M Alcott - No
12. Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy - Yes
13. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller - Yes
14. Complete Works of Shakespeare - No
15. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier - No
16. The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien - Yes
17. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk - No
18. Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger - Yes
19. The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger - No
20. Middlemarch - George Eliot -No
21. Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell - No
22. The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald - Yes
23. Bleak House - Charles Dickens - No
24. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy - Yes
25. The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams - Yes
26. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh - No
27. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Yes
28. Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck - Yes
29. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll - Yes
30. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame - No
31. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy - Yes
32. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens - Yes
33. Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis - Yes
34. Emma - Jane Austen - Yes
35. Persuasion - Jane Austen - Yes
36. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis - Yes
37. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini - No
38. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres - No
39. Memoirs of a Geisha - Yes
40. Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne - No
41. Animal Farm - George Orwell - Yes
42. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown - Yes
43. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez - Yes
44. A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving - Yes
45. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins - No
46. Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery - Yes
47. Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy - Yes
48. The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood - Yes
49. Lord of the Flies - William Golding - Yes
50. Atonement - Ian McEwan - Yes
51. Life of Pi - Yann Martel - No
52. Dune - Frank Herbert - Yes
53. Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons - No
54. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen - Yes
55. A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth - No
56. The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon - No
57. A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens - Yes
58. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley - Yes
59. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon - Yes
60. Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez - No
61. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck - Yes
62. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov - Yes
63. The Secret History - Donna Tartt - No
64. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold - No
65. Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas - Yes
66. On The Road - Jack Kerouac - No
67. Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy - Yes
68. Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding - No
69. Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie - No
70. Moby Dick - Herman Melville - Yes
71. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens - Yes
72. Dracula - Bram Stoker - Yes
73. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett - Yes
74. Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson - Yes
75. Ulysses - James Joyce - No
76. The Inferno - Dante - No
77. Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome - No
78. Germinal - Emile Zola - No
79. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray - No
80. Possession - AS Byatt - No
81. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens - Yes
82. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell - No
83. The Color Purple - Alice Walker - No
84. The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro - No
85. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert - No
86. A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry - No
87. Charlotte’s Web - EB White - Yes
88. The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom - No
89. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Yes
90. The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton - No
91. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad - No
92. The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery - Yes
93. The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks - No
94. Watership Down - Richard Adams - Yes
95. A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole - Yes
96. A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute - No
97. The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas - Yes
98. Hamlet - William Shakespeare - No
99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl - Yes
100. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo - Yes

"It is by will alone I set my mind in motion..."

For HE has returned!

Praise be to the radiant warm sunshine that has returned Deloitte Walking Man (DWM) to South Boulevard and my ocular vision! He was spotted at approximately 8:46 heading south on the sidewalk near the Whitton intersection. According to my notes, he was last spotted December 10th. Perhaps accounting season has also brought him out of his slumber.