Well-Read Book Meme
Scooped from Solo Mom:
Take the list below, paste it into your own blog, and mark them as follows:
READ for those you’ve read;
WANT TO next to those you are interested in;
AGAIN & AGAIN next to those you’ve read and loved, over and over;
REPEAT for those you’ve read more than once, without necessarily loving them;
MEH for stuff you read and weren’t impressed by;
STARTED for those that just never got finished;
and leave blank those you don’t care to read.
| Title | Rating |
|---|---|
| 1. The Da Vinci Code (Dan Brown) | One huge MEH. (Did I even finish? Sooo boring.) |
| 2. Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen) | Again & Again |
| 3. To Kill A Mockingbird (Harper Lee) | Repeat |
| 4. Gone With The Wind (Margaret Mitchell) | Read |
| 5. The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (Tolkien) | Read |
| 6. The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring (Tolkien) | Read |
| 7. The Lord of the Rings: Two Towers (Tolkien) | Read |
| 8. Anne of Green Gables (L.M. Montgomery) | Read |
| 9. Outlander (Diana Gabaldon) | |
| 10. A Fine Balance (Rohinton Mistry) | Read |
| 11. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Rowling) | Read |
| 12. Angels and Demons (Dan Brown) | Read |
| 13. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Rowling) | Read |
| 14. A Prayer for Owen Meany (John Irving) | Read |
| 15. Memoirs of a Geisha (Arthur Golden) | Read |
| 16. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (Rowling) | Read |
| 17. Fall on Your Knees (Ann-Marie MacDonald) | |
| 18. The Stand (Stephen King) | |
| 19. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Rowling) | Read |
| 20. Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte) | Read |
| 21. The Hobbit (Tolkien) | Again & Again |
| 22. The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger) | Read |
| 23. Little Women (Louisa May Alcott) | Repeat |
| 24. The Lovely Bones (Alice Sebold) | Read |
| 25. Life of Pi (Yann Martel) | Meh |
| 26. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams) | Read |
| 27. Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte) | Repeat |
| 28. The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe (C. S. Lewis) | Again & Again |
| 29. East of Eden (John Steinbeck) | Meh |
| 30. Tuesdays with Morrie (Mitch Albom) | Started |
| 31. Dune (Frank Herbert) | Meh |
| 32. The Notebook (Nicholas Sparks) | |
| 33. Atlas Shrugged (Ayn Rand) | Started. Made maybe 5 pages. Yawn. |
| 34. 1984 (Orwell) | Again and again |
| 35. The Mists of Avalon (Marion Zimmer Bradley) | Read |
| 36. The Pillars of the Earth (Ken Follett) | |
| 37. The Power of One (Bryce Courtenay) | |
| 38. I Know This Much is True (Wally Lamb) | |
| 39. The Red Tent (Anita Diamant) | Read |
| 40. The Alchemist (Paulo Coelho) | |
| 41. The Clan of the Cave Bear (Jean M. Auel) | Meh |
| 42. The Kite Runner (Khaled Hosseini) | Read |
| 43. Confessions of a Shopaholic (Sophie Kinsella) | |
| 44. The Five People You Meet In Heaven (Mitch Albom) | Read |
| 45. The Bible | Repeat |
| 46. Anna Karenina (Tolstoy) | Read |
| 47. The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas) | Started |
| 48. Angela’s Ashes (Frank McCourt) | Read |
| 49. The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck) | Read |
| 50. She’s Come Undone (Wally Lamb) | Meh |
| 51. The Poisonwood Bible (Barbara Kingsolver) | Meh |
| 52. A Tale of Two Cities (Dickens) | Read |
| 53. Ender’s Game (Orson Scott Card) | Read |
| 54. Great Expectations (Dickens) | Read |
| 55. The Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald) | Meh |
| 56. The Stone Angel (Margaret Laurence) | Repeat |
| 57. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Rowling) | Read |
| 58. The Thorn Birds (Colleen McCullough) | Meh |
| 59. The Handmaid’s Tale (Margaret Atwood) | Repeat |
| 60. The Time Traveller’s Wife (Audrey Niffenegger) | Again and again |
| 61. Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoyevsky) | Started |
| 62. The Fountainhead (Ayn Rand) | Started |
| 63. War and Peace (Tolsoy) | |
| 64. Interview With The Vampire (Anne Rice) | Meh |
| 65. Fifth Business (Robertson Davis) | Again and Again |
| 66. One Hundred Years Of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez) | |
| 67. The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants (Ann Brashares) | Meh |
| 68. Catch-22 (Joseph Heller) | Started |
| 69. Les Miserables (Hugo) | Want to |
| 70. The Little Prince (Antoine de Saint-Exupery) | Read |
| 71. Bridget Jones’ Diary (Fielding) | Read |
| 72. Love in the Time of Cholera (Marquez) | |
| 73. Shogun (James Clavell) | Started |
| 74. The English Patient (Michael Ondaatje) | Started |
| 75. The Secret Garden (Frances Hodgson Burnett) | Repeat |
| 76. Tigana (Guy Gavriel Kay) | |
| 77. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Betty Smith) | Read |
| 78. The World According To Garp (John Irving) | Read |
| 79. The Diviners (Margaret Laurence) | Read |
| 80. Charlotte’s Web (E.B. White) | Repeat |
| 81. Not Wanted On The Voyage (Timothy Findley) | Read |
| 82. Of Mice And Men (Steinbeck) | Read |
| 83. Rebecca (Daphne DuMaurier) | Read |
| 84. Wizard’s First Rule (Terry Goodkind) | |
| 85. Emma (Jane Austen) | Again and Again |
| 86. Watership Down (Richard Adams) | Again and Again |
| 87. Brave New World (Aldous Huxley) | Again and Again |
| 88. The Stone Diaries (Carol Shields) | Repeat |
| 89. Blindness (Jose Saramago) | |
| 90. Kane and Abel (Jeffrey Archer) | |
| 91. In The Skin Of A Lion (Ondaatje) | |
| 92. Lord of the Flies (Golding) | Read |
| 93. The Good Earth (Pearl S. Buck) | Started |
| 94. The Secret Life of Bees (Sue Monk Kidd) | Want to |
| 95. The Bourne Identity (Robert Ludlum) | |
| 96. The Outsiders (S.E. Hinton) | Read |
| 97. White Oleander (Janet Fitch) | |
| 98. A Woman of Substance (Barbara Taylor Bradford) | |
| 99. The Celestine Prophecy (James Redfield) | |
| 100. Ulysses (James Joyce) |
Wow. I’ve tackled 78 of those hundred books. (Read 69, started 9 more.) Decent achievement, that. Some weeks I read five to seven books; others, only one or two. It’s a rare week that I don’t finish a single book.
For someone who reads so much it must seem odd that there are only a couple on this list I express a desire to read. This is not because they don’t interest me, but because my reading is rarely planned in advance. But in the library, where I go almost every week, I am a kid in a candy store, pulling first one then the other off the shelves.
Anyone else who decides to tackle this meme, leave a note in the comments, and I’ll come have a look!
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phew, that took a while! tackled it though 🙂 (Oh, you know me as Victoria, but I’ve moved and am now here: http://bluebunny.wordpress.com/) Interesting exercise! I consider myself a voracious reader but can’t even say I made it all the way through half of the books on this list! Maybe we should make our own list? lol!
Don’t bother with the Secret Life of Bees. My best friend loved it. I thought it was incredibly trite. Or read it, but I warned you.
I did this one yesterday, except I didn’t have a nice little spreadsheet and clear instructions. Mine sort of looks like a train wreck, but I did do it according to the directions I had. 🙂
Oh, and you should read Outlander. SO GOOD.
Wow. I have some reading to do… but then I knew that. I hate that a) I am a bloody slow reader; b)There is not enough hours in the day to do a lot of it; and c)I could live infinitely and never red everything that interests me! Gah! I’ve said it before – it depresses me at times.
68 out of 100 not bad for a guy that reads more fact than fiction.
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I’ve also read quite a number of these, but my reading is also more haphazard: I tend to get lost in the next bookshop (or amazone website) and simply get/order and that way acquire my bedtime/holiday/and train reading.. Never enough time in the day though and I’m impressed by the number of books you get through in the week!
PS I will put you on my blogroll – I like the suggestions
Bluebunny: Yeah. I’ve probably read a good fifty books so far this year… I used to keep track, when I was a teen, when I had tonnes of time and way more self-absorption…
Kate: At first I’d ticked that one off, confusing it with A Recipe for Bees, then realized it wasn’t the same. A Recipe for Bees is a good one, but I enjoyed her* other two much less. (*Gail Anderson-Dargatz) Now I’ll have to read it, and see who I agree with – you or your friend!
Kelli: I made the chart – and a persnickety business it was, too!! Glad you appreciate it. And I admit, I customized the instructions a bit, too.
Kittenpie: I read very quickly, and I feel the same way. There will never be enough time to read all the good books out there! And I confess I do not restrict myself solely to good books…
Bill: Not bad, indeed.
Seachanges: Hello! You must have been posting your comment while I was writing mine. The number of books? I have what might well be termed an addiction. I go for more than a day or two without a book, I get restless, irritable, and just plain ornery. At least they’re not fattening!
I used to try & keep track of what I read too … got waaaaaay too onerous a task for me! and really, who cared? lol! Most of my reading this year has been “fluff” so far – I’d guess I’m about half of your number though!
I did this one a little while ago but I like your spreadsheet way better.
I’m definitely a bibliophile but I had only read 49 of these although I had a lot more on my “want to read” list.
I think I’ve at about 48. A long way to go to match your impressive 78! It’s a good thing books keep forever, because I like this to-do list.
Fifth Business! I am such a geek I think I read that 5 times when I turned 20.
I finally did it. Interesting exercise. It was a nice walk down memory lane, though it surprised me for how many I had to think awhile before I could remember one way or another whether or not I’d read it. Also surprised me how opinionated I am about books (though why should that surprise me?) It also reminded me why I only buy books as gifts for people I know really, really well, and often even then it’s always a risk–people’s taste in books is highly individual.
I didn’t do as well as I thought I would, considering I’ve worked in the book business for 13+ years!
I have some secret vices. I’m a Stephen King fan (at least of his earlier stuff) and I’ve read The Stand at least half a dozen times.
Lately not much reading time though.
I think I need to read more – but I filled this out!
Did it. Interesting mix of stuff. Rather shameful that I haven’t read more, considering I’m getting a PhD in literature – but (waaah) most of it is OUT OF MY PERIOD! 😉
I got the same list from another blog but not as many categories! I should have found yours first–my list is up on my blog but only with read, want-to-read and not interested. There are certainly a few I’ve read more than once!
Thanks for sharing yours!
My results were pretty dismal, but I blame that on the scarcity of happy endings on the list!