Showing posts with label books. Show all posts
Showing posts with label books. Show all posts

Thursday, June 11, 2009

200th Blog

For my 200th blog I have 200 book titles. The list includes some repeats, but I'm going to leave the list as is. It's a good list.

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen

2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien

3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte

4 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee

5 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte

6 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell

7 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens

8 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott

9 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy

10 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller

11 Complete Works of Shakespeare

12 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier

13 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien

14 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger

15 Middlemarch - George Eliot

16 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell

17 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald

18 Bleak House - Charles Dickens

19War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy

20 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh

21 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

22 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck

23 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll

24 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame

25Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy

26 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens

27 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis

28 Emma - Jane Austen

29 Persuasion - Jane Austen

30 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne

31 Animal Farm - George Orwell

32 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving


33 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery

34 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy

35Lord of the Flies - William Golding

36 Dune - Frank Herbert

37Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen

38 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens

39 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley

40 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck

41Count of Monte Cristo - Aleandre Dumas

42 On The Road - Jack Kerouac

43 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy

44 Moby Dick - Herman Melville

45 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens

46 Dracula - Bram Stoker

47 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett

48 Ulysses - James Joyce

49 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray

50A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens

51The Color Purple - Alice Walker

52 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert

53 Charlotte’s Web - EB White

54 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

55Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad

56 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Eupery

57Watership Down - Richard Adams

58The Three Musketeers - Aleandre Dumas

59Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl

60Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

61Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain

62The Æneid - Virgil


63Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain

64Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll


65Through the Looking Glass - Lewis Carroll


66All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque


67The American - Henry James

68Animal Farm - George Orwell

69Anna Karenina - Tolstoy

Arrowsmith - Sinclair Lewis

70Babbit - Sinclair Lewis

71Beowulf

72The Bible - God

73Billy Budd - Herman Meville

74Brave New World - Aldous Huxley

75Brothers Karamozov - Fyodor Dostoyevski

76Caine Mutiny - Herman Wouk

77Call of the Wild - Jack London

78Canterbury Tales - Geoffrey Chaucer

79Complete Stories of Edgar Allen Poe - E.A. Poe

80 Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court - Mark Twain

81Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas

82Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevski

83Cry, the Beloved Country - Alan Paton

84Daisy Miller - Henry James

85David Copperfield - Charles Dickens

86Death Comes for the Archbishop - Willa Cather

87Don Quiote de la Mancha - Miguel de Cervantes

88Dune - Frank Herbert


89Emma - Jane Austen

90Ethan Frome - Edith Wharton

91Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury

92A Farewell to Arms - Ernest Hemmingway

93For Whom the Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway

94Giant - Edna Ferber

95Gone with the Wind - Margaret Mitchell

96Good Earth - Pearl S. Buck

97Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck

98Great Expectations - Charles Dickens

99Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald

100Great Short Works of Joseph Conrad - Joseph Conrad

101Gulliver's Travels - Johnathon Swift

102The Hobbit -J.R.R. Tolkien

103House of Seven Gables - Nathaniel Hawthorne

104Hunchback of Notre Dame- Victor Hugo

105The Iliad - Homer

106Ivanhoe - Sir Walter Scott

105Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte

108Jungle Books - Rudyard Kipling

109Kidnapped - Robert Lewis Stevenson

110Last of the Mohicans - James Fenimore Cooper

111Little Women - Louisa May Alcott

112Look Homeward Angel - Thomas Wolfe

113Lord Jim - Joseph Conrad

114Lord of the Flies - William Golding

115Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien

116Main Street - Sinclair Lewis

117Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

118Moby Dick - Herman Melville

119Moll Flanders - Daniel Defoe

120The Morte D'Arthur - Thomas Malory

121Mutiny on the Bounty - Charles Nordhoff

122My Antonia - Willa Cather

123 1984 - George Orwell

124The Odyssey - Homer

125Of Human Bondage - W. Somerset Maugham

126Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway

127Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens

128The Once and Future King - T.H. White

129Pearl - John Steinbeck

130The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde

131Pilgrim's Progress - John Bunyon

132The Plague - Albert Camus

133Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austin

134Quo Vadis - Henryk Sienkiewicz

135Rebecca - Daphne Dumaurier

136Red Badge of Courage - Stephen Crane

137Red Pony - John Steinbeck

138Return of the Native - Thomas Hardy

139Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe

140Sherlock Holmes, the Complete Stories - A. Conan Doyle

141Silas Marner - George Eliot

142Slaughterhouse-five - Kurt Vonnegut

143Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner

144Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway

145Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens

146Three Musketeers - Alexander Dumas

147Time Machine - H.G. Wells

148To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee

149Treasure Island - Robert Lewis Stevenson

150A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - Betty Smith

151Turn of the Screw - Henry James

152 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea - Jules Verne

153Uncle Tom's Cabin - Harriet Beecher Stowe


154Vanity Fair - William Thackeray

155War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy

156Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte


157The Yearling - Marjory K. Rawlings

158You Can't Go Home Again - Thomas Wolfe

159Aesop's Fables - William Caxton

160Arabian Nights or One Thousand and One Nights

161Black Beauty - Anna Sewell

162The Call of the Wild - Jack London

163Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift

164Hans Brinker and the Silver Skates - Mary Mapes Dodge

165The Happy Prince and Other Tales - Oscar Wilde

166Heidi - Johanna Spyri

167Ivanhoe - Walter Scott

168Just So Stories - Rudyard Kipling

169The Legend of Sleepy Hollow - Washington Irving

170A Little Princess - Frances Hodgson Burnett

171Little Lord Fauntleroy - Frances Hodgson Burnett

172The Lost World - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

173Peter pan - J.M. Barrie

174Pilgrim's Progress - John Bunyan

175Pinocchio - Carlo Collodi

176Pollyanna - Eleanor H. Porter

177Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm - Kate Douglas Wiggin

178Rip Van Winkle - Washington Irving

179The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett

180The Swiss Family Robinson - Johann Rudolf Wyss

181Tales of Mother Goose - Charles Perrault

182The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Duras

183Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea - Jules Verne

184The Water Babies - Charles Kingsley

185White Fang - jack London

186The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame

187Where the Sidewalk Ends - Shel Silverstein

188The Hiding Place - Corrie Ten Boom

189Charlotte's Web - E.B. White

190Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl

190The Indian in the Cupboard - Lynne Reid Banks

191James and the Giant Peach - Roald Dahl

192Little House on the Prairie Books - Laura Ingalls Wilder

193How to Eat Fried Worms - Thomas Rockwell

194Pippe Longstocking - Astrid Lindgren

195Stuart Little - E.B. White

196Sideway School is Falling Down

197The Black Stallion - Walter Farley

198The Cat in the Hat - Dr. Seuss

199Green Eggs and Ham - Dr. Seuss

200The Little Engine that Could

Monday, September 8, 2008

1066 and All That

1066 and All That is a book title that strikes me as being interesting. I think I would like to have this book. Here is what the intro says:

'1066 and All That: A Memorable History of England, comprising all the parts you can remember, including 103 Good Things, 5 Bad Kings and 2 Genuine Dates is a tongue-in-cheek reworking of the history of England. Written by W. C. Sellar and R. J. Yeatman and illustrated by John Reynolds, it first appeared serially in Punch magazine, and was published in book form by Methuen & Co. Ltd. in 1930.

The book is a parody of the Whiggish style of history teaching in English schools at the time, in particular of Our Island Story. It purports to contain "all the history you can remember", and, in fifty two chapters, covers the history of England from Roman times through 1066 "and all that", up to the end of World War I, at which time "America was thus clearly Top Nation, and history came to a ." (this, last, chapter is titled "A Bad Thing"). It is based on the idea that history is what you can remember and is full of examples of half-remembered facts.'

Jen, you may need this book. So do I.