Look how literate I am!?!?!?

I found this off my friend Abby's blog. (Who is a librarian and therefore awesome.) I've attempted many times to read those "100 books to read before you die" type lists but I'm still working on it. I want to read everything, so I'm only going to italicize the ones I REALLY want to read and actually mean it.

1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read.
3) Underline (or mark in a different color) the books you LOVE
4) Reprint this list in your blog so we can try and track down these people who’ve read 6 and force books upon them ;-)

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien (I got about 60 pages into it....does that count? I want to read them but I have a feeling that the movies did such a good job, there's no need to for anyone to read them ever again.)
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte (The new Masterpiece Theatre adaption of this book is sooo good.)
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens (Okay....so maybe I never did finish the whole book, but I was *this* close!)
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare (Everything? Seriously?)
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier (I've seen the movie...)
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
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
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck (Steinbeck happens to rock. East of Eden is my favorite though.)
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy (Do I get extra points for at least owning this book?)
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood (I read the Edible Woman. Does it count that I've read ONE of her books?!?!? It totally should.)
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan (My mom says this is really good....)
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
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
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy (Tess of the D'Ubervilles was hard enough....thank you very much...)
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett (I LOVED this book as a child.)
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 (Saw the movie. It did not inspire me to read the book.)
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
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
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
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
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

Okay, first why does it say "The complete works of William Shakespeare" on #14 and then list Hamlet as #98? Shouldn't Hamlet be covered under that? Same to the fact that Lion, Witch and the Wardobe is part of the Chronicles of Narnia. And what's with all the love Charles Dickens is getting on this list? Aren't all his books the same? I mean, c'mon...

But really, this makes me realize that I've read more than I realized but that I still have a long way to go until I can really be proud of myself. (Though I think my English teacher mother, who has probably read every single one of these books--no joke--would be quite proud of me.) It's a good thing I just got my Hawaii Public Library card two days ago. (I won't even mention how ridiculous they were about giving me one either.) Sadly, their collection is quite pitiful (but then again, I've spent the last 7 years around the BYU library and the Library of Congress which tends to give you a superiority complex when it comes to well-stocked libraries) but they've got to have some of these books. (And I won't even discuss how aghast I was to discover that no library on this blasted island as Elizabeth Gaskell's Wives and Daughters.) Of course, I quickly picked up several books to read, but most were either cookbooks or historical non-fiction. I've got 400 pages left (of 700ish) of Team of Rivals, and then I've got Founding Mothers and Theodore Rex to breeze through before I can get to some fiction. Yay for books! They make me so happy.