[bksvol-discuss] Re: Research task for a motivated volunteer
- From: "Kim Friedman" <kimfri11@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2010 17:56:25 -0800
Hi, I was looking at the BBC booklist and I can say I've read about
thirty-five of them. With regard to others, I read part of Madame Bovary
and gave up on it, I have read a few books in the Narnia series as well
as the Harry Potter series, I heard a BBC production of Woman In White
on the radio and ditto for Dracula. I can't say I've read all of
Shakespeare's plays but I've read some of them. I had no desire to read
Kerouac, Heller, Salinger, or some others. I had to read Heart of
Darkness for a college course and I found it depressing. Regards, Kim
Friedman.
-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Shelley L.
Rhodes
Sent: Saturday, November 20, 2010 6:23 AM
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Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Research task for a motivated volunteer
I guess I am doing good, have read about twenty of these, smile. Is a
good
list and I have a feeling we have several of these books in the
collection,
smile.
Good list.
Shelley L. Rhodes, VRT
and Ludden Black Labrador Guide Dog
The artist brings something into the world that didn't exist before, and
he
does it without destroying something else. -John Updike, writer
(1932-2009)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Scott Rains" <scottr@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, November 20, 2010 7:05 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Research task for a motivated volunteer
> The BBC has posted a list of 100 noteworthy books - and predicts that
> most
> people will have only read 6 of them.
>
> Bookshare would like to be sure that all our members have the chance
> to
> find all 100 of them in our collection. To do that we need someone to
> check the catalog for each title.
>
> Any takers?
>
> Ideally the list would give the URL for each book that we already
> have.
>
> Here's the BBC list:
>
>
> The BBC apparently believes most people will have only read 6 of the
> 100
> books here:
>
> 1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
> 2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
> 3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
> 4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
> 5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
> 6 The Bible
> 7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
> 8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
> 9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
> 10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
> 11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
> 12 Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
> 13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
> 14 Complete Works of Shakespeare - read some, but not others... 15
> Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier 16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
> 17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
> 18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
> 19 The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
> 20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
> 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
> 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
> 34 Emma - Jane Austen
> 35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
> 36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe
> 37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
> 38 Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
> 39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
> 40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
> 41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
> 42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
> 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
> 51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
> 52 Dune - Frank Herbert
> 53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
> 54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
> 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
> 62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
> 63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
> 64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
> 65 Count of Monte Cristo - 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 Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
> 77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
> 78 Germinal - Emile Zola
> 79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
> 80 Possession - AS Byatt.
> 81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
> 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
> 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
> 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
> 98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
> 99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
> 100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
>
>
> Scott Rains
> Benetech Fellow, Bookshare Volunteer Department
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