joost5:

blissandzen:

therodentqueen:

abaldwin360:

witchtanic:

Multiple times!

I’ve read it at least three times.

Once, but it’s on my list to read again along with the Lord of the Rings Trilogy and the Silmarilion.

Every five years since I was 17.

Read the Hobbit last month to my kids, now reading Fellowship of the Rings at bedtime.

Actually, maybe my mom read it to me. I know she read the Lord of the Rings to us, but not only did I sneak those books away and read ahead — I latter read the whole thing on my own. I am not a 100% certain I read the whole Hobbit on my own, but I did read large chunks of it.

classymissmolassy:

“Shh… I’m reading!” ($ e-pattern)

Italics mean I think I read it bold means i did read it

theliterarysnob:

Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
    The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
    Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
    Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
    To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
    The Bible
    Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
    Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
    His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
    Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
    Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
    Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
    Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
    Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
    The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
    Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
    Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
    The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
    Middlemarch - George Eliot
    Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
    The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
    Bleak House - Charles Dickens
    War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
    The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
    Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
    Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
    Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
    Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
    The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
   Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
    David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
    Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
    Emma - Jane Austen
    Persuasion - Jane Austen
    The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
    The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
    Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
    Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
    Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
    Animal Farm - George Orwell
    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
    Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
    Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
    The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
    Lord of the Flies - William Golding
    Atonement - Ian McEwan
    Life of Pi - Yann Martel
    Dune - Frank Herbert
    Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
    Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
    A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
    The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
    A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
    Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
    The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
    Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
    Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
    Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
    The Secret History - Donna Tartt
    The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
    Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
    On The Road - Jack Kerouac
    Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
    Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
    Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
    Moby Dick - Herman Melville
    Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
    Dracula - Bram Stoker
    The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
    Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
    Ulysses - James Joyce
    The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
    Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
    Germinal - Emile Zola
    Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
    Possession - AS Byatt
    A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
    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
    Charlotte’s Web - EB White
    The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
    Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
    The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
    Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
    The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
    The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
    Watership Down - Richard Adams
    A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
    A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
    The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
    Hamlet - William Shakespeare
    Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
    Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

I am curious about how this list was devised  There is a lot of Dickens on it — I was mad for Dickens as a kid so …

I think I count 45

aquaticwonder:

Read More Books

The American Library Association’s annual count of the books that people most frequently tried to get removed from school libraries and classrooms is out, and of 326 reported challenges, these were the books that raised hackles most frequently:

1) ttyl; ttfn; l8r, g8r (series), by Lauren Myracle
Offensive language; religious viewpoint; sexually explicit; unsuited to age group

2) The Color of Earth (series), by Kim Dong Hwa

3) The Hunger Games trilogy, by Suzanne Collins

4) My Mom’s Having A Baby! A Kid’s Month-by-Month Guide to Pregnancy, by Dori Hillestad Butler

5) The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, by Sherman Alexie

6) Alice (series), by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

7) Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley

8) What My Mother Doesn’t Know, by Sonya Sones

9) Gossip Girl (series), by Cecily Von Ziegesar

10) To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee

the3booknerds:

iminlovewithbooks:

Not Better Super!! & Intelligence & Funny & Crazy & Awesome! Aww Reading! :) 

Agreed by every booknerd

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We think of Queen Elizabeth I as ‘Gloriana’: the most powerful English woman in history. We think of her reign (1558-1603) as a golden age of maritime heroes, like Sir Walter Raleigh, Sir Richard Grenville and Sir Francis Drake, and of great writers, such as Edmund Spenser, Christopher Marlowe, Ben Jonson and William Shakespeare. But what was it actually like to live in Elizabethan England? If you could travel to the past and walk the streets of London in the 1590s, where would you stay? What would you eat? What would you wear? Would you really have a sense of it being a glorious age? And if so, how would that glory sit alongside the vagrants, diseases, violence, sexism and famine of the time? In this book Ian Mortimer answers the key questions that a prospective traveller to late sixteenth-century England would ask. Applying the groundbreaking approach he pioneered in his bestselling “Time Traveller’s Guide to Medieval England, the Elizabethan” world unfolds around the reader.