{"id":2767,"date":"2008-07-23T20:39:06","date_gmt":"2008-07-23T20:39:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2008\/07\/23\/books-books-books\/"},"modified":"2008-07-23T20:39:06","modified_gmt":"2008-07-23T20:39:06","slug":"books-books-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2008\/07\/23\/books-books-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Books, Books, Books"},"content":{"rendered":"

Via Tom<\/a>, a big long list of books with which to showcase either my broad cultural background or pathetic cultural ignorance. As Tom’s original source<\/a> notes, the claim that most Americans have only read six of these is kind of hard to credit, given that I was assigned more than six of them by the time I finished high school.<\/p>\n

As always with Top N lists, I have to wonder where this mess came from. I mean, I like Bill Bryson, but Notes From a Small Island<\/cite> doesn’t fit in this. And The Wasp Factory<\/cite>?<\/p>\n

It’d probably be more fun to get hundreds of people to go through this list and mark which books they liked, and which ones they thought were a complete waste of time. Maybe I’ll do that some other time– for now, the list below the fold has books I’ve read in bold, and books I started but didn’t finish in italics.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

1 Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
\n2 The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien<\/b>
\n3 Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
\n4 Harry Potter series – JK Rowling<\/b>
\n5 To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee<\/b>
\n6 The Bible
\n7 Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte<\/b>
\n8 Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell<\/b>
\n9 His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman<\/b>
\n10 Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
\n11 Little Women – Louisa M Alcott
\n12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
\n13 Catch 22 – Joseph Heller<\/b>
\n14 Complete Works of Shakespeare<\/i>
\n15 Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier
\n16 The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien<\/b>
\n17 Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks
\n18 Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger<\/b>
\n19 The Time Traveller’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger
\n20 Middlemarch – George Eliot
\n21 Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell
\n22 The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald<\/b>
\n23 Bleak House – Charles Dickens
\n24 War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
\n25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams<\/b>
\n26 Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
\n27 Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky<\/b>
\n28 Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck<\/b>
\n29 Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll<\/b>
\n30 The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame<\/b>
\n31 Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
\n32 David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
\n33 Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis<\/b>
\n34 Emma – Jane Austen
\n35 Persuasion – Jane Austen
\n36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – CS Lewis<\/b>
\n37 The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
\n38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis De Bernieres
\n39 Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
\n40 Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne<\/b>
\n41 Animal Farm – George Orwell<\/b>
\n42 The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown
\n43 One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
\n44 A Prayer for Owen Meany – John Irving
\n45 The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins
\n46 Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery
\n47 Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy
\n48 The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
\n49 Lord of the Flies – William Golding<\/b>
\n50 Atonement – Ian McEwan
\n51 Life of Pi – Yann Martel
\n52 Dune – Frank Herbert<\/b>
\n53 Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons
\n54 Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
\n55 A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth
\n56 The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon
\n57 A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens<\/b>
\n58 Brave New World – Aldous Huxley<\/i>
\n59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon
\n60 Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
\n61 Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck<\/b>
\n62 Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
\n63 The Secret History – Donna Tartt
\n64 The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold
\n65 Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
\n66 On The Road – Jack Kerouac<\/i>
\n67 Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy
\n68 Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helen Fielding
\n69 Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
\n70 Moby Dick – Herman Melville
\n71 Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
\n72 Dracula – Bram Stoker
\n73 The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett
\n74 Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson<\/b>
\n75 Ulysses – James Joyce
\n76 The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
\n77 Swallows and Amazons – Arthur Ransome
\n78 Germinal – Emile Zola
\n79 Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
\n80 Possession – AS Byatt
\n81 A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens<\/i>
\n82 Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
\n83 The Color Purple – Alice Walker
\n84 The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
\n85 Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
\n86 A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
\n87 Charlotte’s Web – EB White<\/b>
\n88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom
\n89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle<\/i>
\n90 The Faraway Tree Collection
\n91 Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
\n92 The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery<\/b>
\n93 The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks<\/b>
\n94 Watership Down – Richard Adams<\/b>
\n95 A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
\n96 A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute
\n97 The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
\n98 Hamlet – William Shakespeare<\/b>
\n99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl<\/b>
\n100 Les Miserables – Victor Hugo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Via Tom, a big long list of books with which to showcase either my broad cultural background or pathetic cultural ignorance. As Tom’s original source notes, the claim that most Americans have only read six of these is kind of hard to credit, given that I was assigned more than six of them by the… Continue reading Books, Books, Books<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2767\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}