The MOUTHWATERING Dream...

It's been my dream for only... hmm... FOREVER to have a library to myself. Although, my at-home collection is impressive, I can't WAIT for the day I reach THIS capacity. As most bookies can attest to, the best books are the one's that cover your walls and lend a comfy atmosphere to that cup of tea. :)

Yeah.

This one---->



A long-standing book list to help rate where you are on a list of greats! I've marked in which one's I've read already but, please feel free to copy this list and see where YOU'RE at!

(x) Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
(x) The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
(x) Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
(x) Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
(x) To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
(x) The Bible
(x) Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
( ) Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
( ) His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
(x) Great Expectations - Charles Dickens

Total: 8

(x) Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
(x) Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
(x) Complete Works of Shakespeare
(x) The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
( ) Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
(x) Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
( ) The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
( ) Middlemarch - George Eliot
(x) Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell

Total: 6

(x) The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
(x) Bleak House - Charles Dickens
( ) War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
(x) The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
( ) Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
(x) Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
(x) Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
(x) Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
( ) The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
(x) Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy

Total: 7

(x) David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
(x) Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
(x) Emma - Jane Austen
(x) Persuasion - Jane Austen
(x) The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
(x) The Kite Runner - Khaled Hossein
( ) Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
(x) Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
(x) Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
(x) Animal Farm - George Orwell

Total: 9

(x) The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
( ) One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
( ) A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
( ) The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
(x) Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
(x) Portrait of Dorian Gray- Oscar Wilde
(x) The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
(x) Lord of the Flies - William Golding
( ) Atonement - Ian McEwan
( ) Life of Pi - Yann Martel

Total: 5

(x) Dune - Frank Herbert
( ) Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
(x) Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
( ) A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
( ) The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
(x) A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
(x) Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
(x) The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night - Mark Haddon
(x) Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
(x) Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck

Total: 7

(x) Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
( ) The Secret History - Donna Tartt
(x) The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
(x) Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
(x) On The Road - Jack Kerouac
( ) Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
(x) Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
( ) Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
(x) Moby Dick - Herman Melville
(x) Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens

Total: 7

(x) Dracula - Bram Stoker
(x) The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
( ) Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
( ) Ulysses - James Joyce
(x) The Inferno – Dante
( ) Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
( ) Germinal - Emile Zola
( ) Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
( ) Possession - AS Byatt
(x) A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens

Total: 4

( ) Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
( ) The Color Purple - Alice Walker
( ) The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
( ) Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
( ) A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
(x) Charlotte’s Web - EB White
(x) The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
(x) Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
( ) The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
(x) Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad

Total: 4

(x) The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
( ) The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
(x) Watership Down - Richard Adams
( ) A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
( ) A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
(x) The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
(x) Hamlet - William Shakespeare
(x) Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
(x) Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

Total: 6

Grand Total: 55 out of 100

More than half! Not bad for a slacker. At least, in recent years... Either way, as classics, I haven't even heard of half the one's I haven't read yet! Either way, good luck with your reading endeavors, if you choose to accept this challenge.

Song of the evening---> "Hey Leonardo" -Blessid Union of Souls