Nothing like a list to finish off the year…

31Dec13

It’s New Year’s Eve, and we are off later to a party, curries, bubbles and dancing. So a quick post while I relax.

Can’t begin really to recount the year – I need to look through posts and images and reflect on 2013 some more.

But in the meantime, ta da…a list…and a book list- this from Book Riot – Go from zero to well-read in 100 books – and a list that I didn’t see when originally posted in June this year.

This list attempts to define ‘well read” – “…‘Well-read’ for this person then has a number of connotations: a familiarity with the monuments of Western literature, an at least passing interest in the high-points of world literature, a willingness to experience a breadth of genres, a special interest in the work of one’s immediate culture, a desire to share in the same reading experiences of many other readers, and an emphasis on the writing of the current day”.

 

The list, in alphabetical order: with a big yes at the end of those I have read, and some comments on some of the others…

1. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, do I confess to never having read MT? Never read.
2. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle, yes – well some of them
3. The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton, I do have this
4. All Quiet on the Western Front by Eric Maria Remarque, great movie, reckon I probably should
5. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay  by Michael Chabon
6. American Pastoral by Philip Roth
7. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy yes, great book!
8. Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery
9. Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand well sort of yes, in my youth
10. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath yes
11. Beloved by Toni Morrison should have, read at book group but away/absent…
12. Beowulf
13. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak yes, another great book and looking forward to the movie
14. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley yes
15. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz another book group one, but I didn’t finish…
16. Call of the Wild  by Jack London yes
17. Candide by Voltaire yes
18. The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer yes, some at uni years ago and really enjoyed
19. Casino Royale by Ian Fleming, no but Carl has all Ian Fleming titles so probably should sometime
20. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller, another bookgroup one I didn’t get to..again, was I away for this?
21. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger yes!
22. Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White yes
23. Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
24. The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson
25. The Complete Stories of Edgar Allan Poe
26. The Complete Stories of Flannery O’Connor 
27. The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen – I do own and have yet tor ead
28. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky yes
29. The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown yes
30. Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller yes
31. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
32. Dream of Red Chamber by Cao Xueqin
33. Dune by Frank Herbert
34. Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer yes, love JSF
35. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury have I, if not, I should, we have copies of this
36. The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
37. Faust by Goethe
38. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley yes
39. A Game of Thrones by George RR Martin, no, but have seen the series…
40. The Golden Bowl by Henry James, no, but have read other HJ
41. The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing, again, not this one, but am reading Doris Lessing now!
42. Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
43. The Gospels, yes- not cover to cover nor chapter to chapter…
44. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck yes, loved
45. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, yes
46. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, yes loved
47. Hamlet by William Shakespeare, yes
48. The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood, yes
49. Harry Potter & The Sorceror’s Stone by J.K. Rowling, yes
50. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
51. The Help by Kathryn Stockett, yes
52. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
53. The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien, yes
54. House Made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday
55. Howl by Allen Ginsberg
56. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
57. if on a winter’s night a traveler by Italo Calvino
58. The Iliad by Homer
59. Inferno by Dante
60. Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
61. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
62. Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman, I should read, the snippets of WW I have read are just lovely
63. Life of Pi by Yann Martel, yes
64. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis, yes
65. The Little Prince by Antoine  de Saint-Exepury, put off by this, as an ex manager loved this! Not the best of reasons I know but I didn’t like their management style…
66. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov, yes
67. Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
68. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
69. Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie, I won a copy, and yet to read
70. Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
71. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf, not this particular VW
72. Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie, yes
73. The Odyssey by Homer
74. Oedipus the King by Sophocles
75. On the Road by Jack Kerouac, ye!
76. A Passage to India by E.M. Forster, yes!
77. The Pentateuch
78. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, yes!
79. Rabbit, Run by John Updike
80. The Road by Cormac McCarthy, yes!
81. Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, yes
82. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
83. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
84. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner, no WF…
85. The Stand by Stephen King
86. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway, yes
87. Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust
88. Their Eyes Were Watching by Zora Neale Hurston
89. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
90. The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien
91. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, yes!!
92. Ulysses by James Joyce
93. The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera, yes
94. A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
95. Waiting for the Barbarians by J.M. Coetzee
96. Watchmen by Alan Moore
97. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
98. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte, yes!
99. 1984 by George Orwell, and yes
100. Fifty Shades of Grey by E.L. James

Not going to count these up, but an interesting, US centric list.

Lists…they are never going away.

And are huge at this time of the year!

Happy new Year to each and every one of you xx

Peace and love and big, big hugs xx

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