When
I got the information that @ilola had tagged me in this post, I began thinking
hard. I was thinking; will this BBC booklist now serve as a yardstick to
measuring how much books I have read; will this open up a new frustration at
the numbers of books I had been shoving away on my hard drive; will there ever
be enough time to catch up on all these books even if I had them now? All these
questions almost ruffled me and set me on edge.
In
the meantime, I have only come to have a fresh understanding about it all. If
BBC’s booklist underrepresents my versed reading, that’s BBC’s. Other lists may
shine off my little deepness with books too. One thing is sure nonetheless,
these classics list does not contain African Lit and that’s a pity. Maybe, if
there had been few African books on the list, I’d have had more to put in bold
font, more to have boasted of reading.
Enjoy
the post.
Instructions:
Copy and do a blog post on it. Bold those books you've read in their entirety,
italicize the ones you started but didn't finish or read an excerpt. Asterisks
mean I've read the book over and over again. Tag 25 (book loving)
bloggers, and inform them on their blog about the tag.
I
am not tagging anybody, or I should say most of those I had in mind had been
tagged already, leaving me with less than 25 book loving bloggers to tag. You
are totally at liberty to tag yourself now.
1. The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien (this counts
are three books, as it is a trilogy)
2.
Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
3.
His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman (also counts as three books, as it is a
trilogy)
4.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
5. Harry Potter and
the Goblet of Fire, JK Rowling
6.
To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
7.
Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne
8.
Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell*
9. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, CS
Lewis
10. Jane
Eyre, Charlotte Brontë
11.
Catch-22, Joseph Heller
12.
Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë
13.
Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks
14.
Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier
15.
The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger
16.
The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame
17.
Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
18. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
19.
Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres
20.
War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
21.
Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
22. Harry Potter And
The Sorcerer's Stone, JK Rowling
23. Harry Potter And
The Chamber Of Secrets, JK Rowling
24. Harry Potter And
The Prisoner Of Azkaban, JK Rowling
25. The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien
26.
Tess Of The D'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy
27.
Middlemarch, George Eliot
28.
A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving
29. The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck
30. Alice's Adventures In
Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
31.
The Story Of Tracy Beaker, Jacqueline Wilson
32. One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel GarcÃa
Márquez
33.
The Pillars Of The Earth, Ken Follett
34.
David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
35.
Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl
36. Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
37. A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute
38. Persuasion, Jane Austen
39.
Dune, Frank Herbert
40. Emma, Jane Austen
41.
Anne Of Green Gables, LM Montgomery
42.
Watership Down, Richard Adams
43.
The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald
44.
The Count Of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
45.
Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
46.
Animal Farm, George Orwell
47.
A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
48.
Far From The Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy
49.
Goodnight Mister Tom, Michelle Magorian
50.
The Shell Seekers, Rosamunde Pilcher
51. The
Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett
52. Of
Mice And Men, John Steinbeck
53.
The Stand, Stephen King
54.
Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
55.
A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth
56.
The BFG, Roald Dahl
57.
Swallows And Amazons, Arthur Ransome
58.
Black Beauty, Anna Sewell
59.
Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer
60. Crime
And Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
61.
Noughts And Crosses, Malorie Blackman
62. Memoirs
Of A Geisha, Arthur Golden
63. A Tale Of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
64.
The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCollough
65.
Mort, Terry Pratchett
66.
The Magic Faraway Tree, Enid Blyton
67.
The Magus, John Fowles
68.
Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
69.
Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett
70.
Lord Of The Flies, William Golding
71.
Perfume, Patrick Süskind
72.
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Robert Tressell
73.
Night Watch, Terry Pratchett
74.
Matilda, Roald Dahl
75.
Bridget Jones's Diary, Helen Fielding
76.
The Secret History, Donna Tartt
77.
The Woman In White, Wilkie Collins
78. Ulysses, James Joyce
79.
Bleak House, Charles Dickens
80.
Double Act, Jacqueline Wilson
81.
The Twits, Roald Dahl
82.
I Capture The Castle, Dodie Smith
83.
Holes, Louis Sachar
84.
Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake
85. The God Of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
86.
Vicky Angel, Jacqueline Wilson
87.
Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
88.
Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons
89.
Magician, Raymond E Feist
90.
On The Road, Jack Kerouac
91. The
Godfather, Mario Puzo
92.
The Clan Of The Cave Bear, Jean M Auel
93.
The Colour Of Magic, Terry Pratchett
94. The
Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
95.
Katherine, Anya Seton
96.
Kane And Abel, Jeffrey Archer
97. Love In The Time Of Cholera, Gabriel GarcÃa
Márquez
98.
Girls In Love, Jacqueline Wilson
99.
The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot
100. Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie
At least you've read above the average 6. BBC book list def under-represents my versed reading too.
ReplyDelete@Toinlicious. Yeah, it really does. I was thinking I was the only one the thing under-represent o. Imagine. But Toin-Toin, be specific, like how many you don read?
ReplyDeleteThanks for doing the tag
ReplyDelete@ilola, you are most welcome. And thanks for honoring me by tagging me in the first place. Thank you.
ReplyDeleteI think I have read just about 4 of them... You have tried self.
ReplyDelete@'Lara. Tried ke? You too have only read 4 of them? Seriously, this BBC booklist really dey under-represent person. Thank you for commenting, 'Lara. I appreciate it.
ReplyDeleteRead about 15, mainly because there's a lot of fantasy there meaning I got all the Harry Potters, Dune, Lord of the Rings, Chronicles of Narnia and also Kane and Abel by Archer.
ReplyDeleteNot many of the greatest books ever written there.
@Moyo. You don try abeg. Read 15? You've read small. Thanks for commenting, bro.
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