30 - read the classical pieces of French literature

I left work with a shitty mood.
Enough with those who are playing with me, I posted an angry message few hours ago... Sorry about that.

Since, I read some blogs, and, I don't know, I feel better.

Blog after blog, I read a new one, and this list made me realize that I really have to accomplish the number 30 of my Bucket List... and maybe I should extend it to THE literature, not just french one !

Ok, so :
Red : read it from the first page to the last one
Blue : read from the first page to.... oopsy, I turned 20 pages in just one time.... (read but cheat...)
Green : read, but stopped it
Black : I think (or I know) that this book is in my bookcase !!!

1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen : yes. I began this book and stopped.... But I loved the movie !
2. The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien : I love Tolkien !
3. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte 
4. Harry Potter series - JK Rowling : and I cried !
5. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee : never heard about this book...
6. The Bible (Old Testament, New Testament) : Not entirely. In fact, I studied a lot of parts.
7. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte : beautiful !
8. Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell : this book was the book in Junior High / High School for those who choose English as first foreign language. I choose German, and so, never read 1984 !
9. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11. Little Women - Louisa May Alcott : yep ! Loved it, and loved the anime, and the movie !
12. Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14. Complete Works of Shakespeare : complete no, but a lot !
15. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16. The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien : just before reading the Lord of the Ring
17. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
18. Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19. The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20. Middlemarch - George Eliot
21. Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell : nope, but saw the movie...
22. The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald : not yet...
23. Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams : not yet
26. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28. Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33. Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis : I tried to read the first one after seeing the movie, and well... even if the first book is not the first movie, I was guessing things before reading it. I stopped...
34. Emma -Jane Austen : nope, but saw the movie, and liked it...
35. Persuasion - Jane Austen :same
36. The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe - CS Lewis : see above...
37. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden : saw the movie. Really good movie !
40. Winnie the Pooh - A.A. Milne : N.E.V.E.R !!
41. Animal Farm - George Orwell : not yet !
42. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown : NOOOOO !!! I REFUSE TO READ IT !!!
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 
47. Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48. The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
49. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50. Atonement - Ian McEwan : I saw the movie and loved it, so I don't know if I'm gonna read it or not... I prefer read the book before seeing the movie...
51. Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52. Dune - Frank Herbert
53. Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen : same as other Jane Austen's book
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 : I wanted to see the movie, my parents told me "read the book", I read the book, saw the movie, and loved both (and cried for both !)
62. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63. The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65. Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas : Oh my God ! This is why France is a terrible country : in Junior High and High School you study books that you don't understand. Thank God, teachers forget a little bit Alexandre Dumas !
66. On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67. Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
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
74. Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75. Ulysses - James Joyce
76. The Inferno - Dante : I read it in Italian, please ! (ok, I have a bilingual version ! But it was to prepare my italian viva for A-Level !)
77. Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78. Germinal - Emile Zola : everytime I had to read Zola, I was cheating... except for Au Bonheur des Dames (The Ladies' Delight or The Ladies' Paradise) because it's about the first parisian malls...
79. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray : nope, but loved the movie (I love Reese Witherspoon !)
80. Possession - AS Byatt
81. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83. The Colour Purple - Alice Walker
84. The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert : NEVER HAD TO READ IT !! YIPI !! (sorry ! High School memories !)
86. A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87. Charlotte’s Web - E.B. 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 - Enid Blyton
91. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92. The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery : never read it.... Ashamed ? A little bit !
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 : NO ! NO ! NO !!
98. Hamlet - William Shakespeare : few months ago, my parents made me watch the old movie, the one with Laurence Olivier ! "Bad Mistake !!" I saw Last Action Hero just before... and so... I was like Dany Madigan, seeing Jack Slater everywhere...
99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100.  Les Miserables - Victor Hugo : hum... NO !

11 books from the list of the BBC...

The BBC posted that list saying that they were sure that most people will have read only 6 of them ! Sorry BBC, I won !

But 11/100 is ... well... not a very good score. I'll try to read some of them during this year ! And, even if French literature is my N°30, I won't give a second chance to Alexandre Dumas ! Maybe Victor Hugo or Emile Zola, but... I'm not sure ! ;-)

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