Gretch-a-sketch (old)

(50 cool points to me for referencing Belle & Sebastian in the title. Also, sorry for the font size issues. Blogger won't let me fix it and needs 15 minutes in time-out. At least Twitter will be there to keep it company.)

The Big Read 100

1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.

2) Italicize those you intend to read.

1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen (Confession: The only Austen I've ever read. I want to read the others, I just...haven't.)
2. The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien (I'm kind of a LOTR geek.)
3. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte (Liked it, didn't love it.)
4. The Harry Potter Series - JK Rowling (On a fanatical level. Seriously.)
5. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee (In my top five.)
6. The Bible (I got an award in Seminary for reading ALL of the standard works.)
7. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8. Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman (I read these and I still have my faith! Wow!)
10. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11. Little Women - Louisa M Alcott (This is my forever Number One book.)
12. Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14. Complete Works of Shakespeare (The entire works? No way. But I have read a fair amount, so I'm counting it.)
15. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16. The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien (Fun fact: Gandalf and I both have INTJ personalities.)
17. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18. Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger (I wanted to move to NY desperately after reading this.)
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 (I don't feel strongly about this book one way or the other.)
23. Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams (DON'T PANIC.)
26. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28. Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll (This book is psycho.)
30. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33. Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis (Not all, but most.)
34. Emma - Jane Austen (Actually, Jane Austen had an INTJ personality as well. Cool, no?)
35. Persuasion - Jane Austen
36. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis (I will always have an age-inappropriate crush on Peter.)
37. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres (All I know about this is that it looked like a really crappy Nicolas Cage movie.)
39. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40. Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne (Adorable!)
41. Animal Farm - George Orwell (This is just a cool book.)
42. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown (It's poorly written and sensationalized, but it's still a fun read.)
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 (Oh, Gil!)
47. Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48. The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
49. Lord of the Flies - William Golding (I was the ONLY girl in my 12th grade English class to like this book.)
50. Atonement - Ian McEwan (This is actually first on my list of things to read after I graduate.)
51. Life of Pi - Yann Martel (I need to re-read this.)
52. Dune - Frank Herbert (I tried reading a few of the sequels, but they just didn't work for me.)
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 (Ugh.)
58. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon (Awesome, awesome book.)
60. Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck (Danged depressing, that's what.)
62. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov Nabokov (I'm currently working on Reading Lolita in Tehran.)
63. The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65. Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas (Edmund is a totally hot book character. He should have been on my list.)
66. On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67. Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68. Bridget Jones’ Diary - Helen Fielding
69. Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
70. Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens (I was going to mark this as a to-read, but I really don't like Dickens. Not gonna bother.)
72. Dracula - Bram Stoker
73. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett (Great book, good movie, not that crazy about the musical.)
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 (Maybe the only Dickens I can tolerate.)
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 (I'm currently working on a list of my favorite kid's books. This is on there.)
88. The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom (Eh. Frankly, I thought it was a tad trite.)
89. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90. The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad (If you want to almost ruin reading for high school kids, make them read this.)
92. The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery (Love it.)
93. The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94. Watership Down - Richard Adams (Because women love that sensitive nautical.)
95. A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96. A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97. The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98. Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl (Roald Dahl is mostly responsible for my weird sense of humor.)
100. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

(What, no Huck Finn? I'm sure there are many others left out, but that's the first that came to mind.)

Read count: 31--which is decent, but I can do better. (I guess the average adult has only read 6 or something, so in that regard I'm doing great.)

To be read: 28--I've got my work cut out for me. The prospect of so many books to read makes me happy and tingly.