Stolen from Howard Kleinman BBC Book LIst: Katy Stenta, almost half

BBC Book ListShare, nabbed from someone’s sister, Beth Fleischer
by Howard Kleinman (Notes) on Sunday, April 21, 2013 at 6:13am
BBC Book ListShare
See how you do!The BBC believes most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here. How do your reading habits stack up?Instructions: Copy the list into a Note and put an ‘x’ after those you have read, count ’em up, compare tallies. This should be easy. Strutting and preening is optional, but encouragedResults –> 49/100

1 Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen X

2 The Lord of the Ringsx

3 Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte X

4 Harry Potter series – JK Rowling x

5 To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee x

6 The Bible x (although this is  at tricky one, I’m a pastor and I’d hesitate to say I’ve read every word in the Bible)

7 Wuthering Heights x

8 Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell x

9 His Dark Materials – Philip Pullmanx

10 Great Expectations – Charles Dickens

11 Little Women – Louisa M Alcott x

12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy

13 Catch 22 – Joseph Heller

14 Complete Works of Shakespeare (um seen/read most, if not all, so I’m going to rule it an…) X

15 Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier

16 The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien x

17 Birdsong – Sebastian Faulk

18 Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger x

19 The Time Traveller’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger X

20 Middlemarch – George Eliot X

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 x

26 Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh

27 Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky x

28 Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck

29 Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll x

30 The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame

31 Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy

32 David Copperfield – Charles Dickens

33 Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis x

34 Emma – Jane Austen X

35 Persuasion – Jane Austen X

36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – CS Lewis x

37 The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini

38 Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis De Bernieres

39 Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Goldenx

40 Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne x

41 Animal Farm – George Orwell x

42 The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown x

43 One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquezx

44 A Prayer for Owen Meany – John Irving

45 The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins

46 Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery x

47 Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy

48 The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood x

49 Lord of the Flies – William Golding x

50 Atonement – Ian McEwan

51 Life of Pi – Yann Martel

52 Dune – Frank Herbertx

53 Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons

54 Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen x

55 A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth

56 The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon

57 A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens x

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 x

63 The Secret History – Donna Tartt

64 The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold (BK)

65 Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumasx

66 On The Road – Jack Kerouac

67 Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy

68 Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helen Fielding x

69 Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdiex

70 Moby Dick – Herman Melville

71 Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens x

72 Dracula – Bram Stoker x

73 The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett x

74 Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson

75 Ulysses – James Joycex

76 The Inferno – Dante

77 Swallows and Amazons – Arthur Ransome

78 Germinal – Emile Zola

79 Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray

80 Possession – AS Byat

81 A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens x

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 x

88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom

89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle x

90 The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton

91 Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad x

92 The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery x

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 x

98 Hamlet – William Shakespeare x

99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl x

100 Les Miserables – Victor Hugox

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Pastor Katy has enjoyed ministry at New Covenant since 2010, where the church has solidified its community focus. She now works at Capital CFO plus as the Non Profit Director. All opinions expressed on this blog are her own and do not reflect those of Capital CFO plus. Prior to that she studied both Theology and Christian Formation at Princeton Theological Seminary. She also served as an Assistant Chaplain at Trenton Psychiatric Hospital and as the Christian Educational Coordinator at Bethany Presbyterian at Bloomfield, NJ. She is an writer and is published in Enfleshed, Sermonsuite, Presbyterian's today and Outlook. She writes prayers, liturgy, poems and public theology and is pursuing her doctorate in ministry in Creative Write and Pittsburgh Theological Seminary. She enjoys working within and connecting to the community, is known to laugh a lot during service, and tells as many stories as possible. Pastor Katy loves reading Science Fiction and Fantasy, theater, arts and crafts, music, playing with children and sunshine, and continues to try to be as (w)holistically Christian as possible. "Publisher after publisher turned down A Wrinkle in Time," L'Engle wrote, "because it deals overtly with the problem of evil, and it was too difficult for children, and was it a children's or an adult's book, anyhow?" The next year it won the prestigious John Newbery Medal. Tolkien states in the foreword to The Lord of the Rings that he disliked allegories and that the story was not one.[66] Instead he preferred what he termed "applicability", the freedom of the reader to interpret the work in the light of his or her own life and times.

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