100 books I’ve read/loved/remembered/whatever

[lucymonster]

I’m behind on comments and replies because No Brain, but osprey_archer has reliably informed me that we’re all making book lists to compare with each other. So here’s mine. Come tell me how many we have in common! Then make one of your own and tell me so I have more clicky boxes to occupy my brain-free skull cavity!

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[snickfic]

21 out of 100! Which is good for putting me at #4 out of 16, haha. Proud of myself.

I'm fascinated by the range of CS Lewis books I've seen on people's lists. Almost every list I've looked at has had at least one, and almost all of them different ones...

[lucymonster]

Oh nice! I saw you made a movie list and I scored better than a cool 0% of other people who’ve done it, lol. I’m actually proud of myself for getting as many as I did. I’m hopeless with movies.

I tried to limit myself to one book per author, but I cheated with CS Lewis because I feel like having read Narnia and having read his apologetics are two very different things. So I let myself pick my favourite of each. But honestly, all his works could easily go on there.

[verdande_mi]

I have only read a few of these: The Silmarillion, The hunger games, The first murderbot book and many of the Rivers of London book. I have a copy of Gilgamesh but have not gotten around to it and The little prince and The picture of Dorian Gray are on my radar.

[rhoda_rants]

Yessss, give me ticky boxes!! I have read 26 of these. I . . . just don't read much non-fiction. Even the ones I clicked on, in most cases I skimmed a few chapters and got bored. Biographies, yes, but that's it.

I have been thinking about making one of these, not for my books, but for my DVD shelf. There's easily more than a hundred on there, and I'm curious to see what other people have seen.

ETA: Done! List!

[osprey_archer]

Thank you for making a list! Clicky clicky clicky! I got 36, and I feel that a lot of these were either books you recced to me (Blinky Bill and The Silver Brumby to widen my knowledge of Australian classics) or books we both read to explore our mutual interest in Awful Places Humans Create (The Gulag Archipelago, Stalingrad Achilles in Vietnam, Sebastian Junger, although actually I think I haven't read War, only Tribes? But maybe I did read War too?) and a few other things we were all passing around back in the day in Captain America fandom.

So many people have put the Silmarillion on their lists that I feel like maybe I should finally read it. And Carthage Must Be Destroyed looks enticing, too. Is it mostly about the war with Rome, or something about what Carthage was like before it was razed?

[cosmicjellyfish]

40/100! The horsey books in particular made me SO nostalgic - I loved The Silver Brumby so much (for some reason, I was especially obsessed with Silver Brumby Kingdom). And the Saddle Club, of course, though I’d forgotten what the first book was called!

[delphi]

14 for me - mostly through the capital-C Classics! But oh man, Beatrix Potter takes me back. We didn't have a bookstore or library in my hometown, but there was a period where you could trade in points at the gas station for miniature copies of children's books, and my parents got me and my sister the entire set of the Beatrix Potter ones. I loved those so much.