The BBC says that most people have only read 6 of these 100 books.

I am also planning on reading these novels as a to-do- read list!

= read

= currently reading

Instructions:
Copy this into your NOTES. Look at the list and put an ‘x’ after those you have read. Tag other” Book Nerds”. In my case I’ll be putting a , because I’m cool like that.

1 Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien ,
3Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series – JK Rowling ,
5 To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee ,
6 The Bible , - but thats on going
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 — FEW
15 Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien ,
17 Birdsong – Sebastian Faulk
18 Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger ,
19 The Time Traveler’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 – Currently Reading
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 – CS Lewis ,
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 – read some but put it down
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 – Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquezx

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 x

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 Inferno -  Dante
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 Flaubertx
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 Adamson
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

s0ulistic i can’t believe the impact of twilight on wuthering heights. I have my moms copy lmao. http://twitpic.com/cuy1i

by the way thank you to this site: (Brontë BLOG) that has referenced me in their great ARTICLE.

I saw this and well… I couldn’t help but remember after I read one of the books long time ago…that I wanted to tackled Wuthering Heights. So I got my  Mom’s copy. There isn’t a doubt that Emily Bronte’s book surpasses the knowledge and beautiful literature that Meyer can never achieve. Sorry. But, tis true.

Wuthering Heights / Breaking Dawn

Wuthering Heights By: Emily Bronte

PLOT:

Mr. Lockwood rents Thrushcross Grange from Mr. Heathcliffe who lives in Wuthering Heights.  He takes a trip to see him, and it starts to snow.  Lockwood is forced to spend the night there and sleeps horribly.  On his walk home the next day he gets sick and is confined to bed for several months.  During this time, he asks Nelly Dean, his housekeeper, to tell him the story of the tenants of Wuthering Heights.

Mr. Earnshaw had a son named Hindly and a daughter named Cathrine whom he loved.  One day when he was out at the nearby town he found a little gypsy boy and brought him home to raise as his son.  Cathrine and Heathcliffe became fast friends, but Edgar did not like him at all.

Mr. Earnshaw dies and now his wishes that Heathcliffe is treated nicely are ignored.

One day when Heathcliffe and Cathy were playing, spying on their neighbors, the Lintons, Cathrine was attacked by the Linton’s dog and had to stay at there home until her foot healed.

When she returned to Wuthering Heights she was a very different girl.  Even thought she was still friends with Heathcliffe she was much more lady like.  When her two new friends came over she would speak down to Heathcliffe.  She started to fancy her friend Edgar Linton who did not care for Heathcliffe at all.

Hindly, Cathy’s brother, marries a lady named Francis, and together they abuse Heathcliffe and make his life miserable.  Francis has a son named Hareton and dies.

They grow up and one night after a particularly bitter fight between Linton and Heathcliffe, Linton and Cathy fight and eventually Linton proposes.

Cathy confides in her nurse, Nelly, that she loves Heathcliffe.  But Heathcliffe only hears Cathrine tell her that it would degrade her to marry him.  Heathcliffe runs away and isn’t heard from for a very long time.

Cathrine is very sad at her friends absence and eventually marries Edgar Linton.  They are very happy together and move to Thrushcross Grange.  Linton gives her pretty much everything she wants and Cathrine and Isabella, Linton’s sister, are very close friends.

When Heathcliffe returns some thirteen years later, Cathrine is ecstatic.  She invites him in, and even though her husband, Edgar Linton, is upset, he tries to hide it the best he can to keep her happy.

Isabella falls in love with Heathcliffe, and Cathrine, feeling spiteful tells Heathcliffe.  Heathcliffe is still mad at Edgar for marrying his beloved Cathy and runs of and elopes with his sister Isabella even though he does not love her.  They live at Wuthering Heights together along with Hareton, Cathrine’s nephew, and Hindly, Cathrine’s brother.

He treats her horribly and eventually Isabella leaves Heathcliffe, but not before she is pregnant with his son.

Cathy becomes pregnant with Linton’s daughter as well.

After not speaking for ages, Heathcliffe decides he needs to see Cathrine.  He sneaks into her house while Edgar is away.  She’s completely happy and tells him that if he leaves, she will die.  Edgar walks in on them, and is furious and causes Heathcliffe to run away again.

Cathrine dies giving birth to Edgar’s daughter, whom he names Cathrine.

Thirteen years later, Isabella dies and Heathcliffe finds out about his son, whom Isabella named Linton.

So then, Edgar goes and adopts his nephew, who is always really sick and whiney and little Cathrine decides to make him her pet, but then Heathcliffe comes and kidnaps him because he’s his son.  Nelly tells Cathrine that his dad came and got him, but didn’t tell her that Linton was really just a couple miles away at Wuthering Heights.

Back at Wuthering Heights, Heathcliffe manages to kill Hindly and now he has the whole place to himself.

Cathrine and Edgar are really close and then Edgar gets sick.  Cathrine discovers that her cousin Linton lives really close by and goes to nurse him all the time at night.  When Nelly finds out she gets really mad, and then Linton and Cathrine start writing notes to each other, through the dairy boy, and fall in love.  (BTW, Cathrine is totally appalled that she has a nasty cousin like Hareton, ew gross, he’s totally rude and obnoxious.)

Edgar’s really sick, and wants to leave Cathrine provided for, so he lets her go see Linton whenever she wants pretty much, under Nelly’s supervision.  One day, when Edgar is about to die, and Cathy and Nelly are visiting Linton, Heathcliffe kidnaps them both and spreads rumors that they drowned in a bog.

He tells Cathrine that she can go home as soon as she marries Linton the next morning.  She says she’d do it that night just so long as she could go home to her dying father right afterward.  Nelly is all locked up by herself.

So the next morning Linton and Cathrine are married, but Heathcliffe tells Linton that Cathrine hates him, and stupid Linton believes her, so Linton locks her up in their room.

Nelly is released from her prison and runs home to see her master, but stops to scold Linton for being such a douche bag on the way.

Nelly rounds up a team of armed men and a lawyer to go free Cathrine and protect all of her stuff she’s going to get once her father dies.  The lawyer never comes because he’s bought off by Heathcliffe and the armed men return without Cathrine because they are stupid and trust Heathcliffe who tells them that she’s too sick to leave right then.

Linton feels bad and helps Cathrine escape home.  Once she gets home her father dies in her arms.  =(  He’s buried next to his wife, the first Cathrine, the one Heathcliffe is still totally in love with.  Heathcliffe talks the sexton, after the funeral, into opening up Cathrine’s grave and instructs him to burry her next to Cathrine once he dies.

Heathcliffe steals all of her stuff because he says it belongs to Linton who belongs to him and the lawyer, Mr. Green, doesn’t say otherwise.  (Heathcliffe also has all of Hareton’s stuff because Hareton didn’t know it was his.)

Then since Linton’s sick all the time, he dies, and Heathcliffe makes Cathrine his slave, which she doesn’t like very much.  Since the Grange is open he rents it out, and that’s where Mr. Lockwood (the sick guy in the beginning) comes into the story.  He’s like totally freaked out and moves to London because he doesn’t want to be a part of Heathcliffe’s evil scheme.

Half a year later, he finds himself near the Grange and decides to settle things with Mr. Heathcliffe about rent and stuff.  He travels to Wuthering Heights and finds Nelly.  She fills him in on the rest of the story.

Heathcliffe goes crazy over dead Cathrine and thinks that he sees her ghost.  Eventually he starves himself to death and is buried next to Cathrine like he always wanted to be.  Now people always are saying that they see Heathcliffe and Cathrine’s ghosts together.

Young Cathrine decides that Hareton is not so bad.  She civilizes him and teaches him how to read and they get engaged and are going to be married on New Year’s Eve.  Nelly is totally happy for them!

Lockwood walks back to the Grange and stops at Heathcliffe’s, Edgar’s, and Cathrine’s graves.

THE END

CHARACTERS:

Mr. Lockwood: rents the grange from Heathcliffe.  He’s a wealthy gentleman.

Cathrine Earnshaw: a lovely lady, childhood friends with Heathcliffe, loved Heathcliffe, married Mr. Linton instead, died giving birth

Edgar Linton: married Cathrine, didn’t like Heathcliffe at all, raised young Cathrine well

Cathrine Linton: Cathrine Earnshaw and Edgar Linton’s daughter, she’s nice and sweet and falls in love really easily, she is really strong-willed and kind of obstinate too

Heathcliffe: was treated poorly as a child and retaliates against anyone whoever harmed him, he’s hopelessly in love with Cathrine Earnshaw, even after she dies

Hareton Earnshaw: Hindly Earnshaw’s son, he’s illiterate and raised by Heathcliffe as a field-hand, he’s really stubborn, and gets embarrassed easily

Linton Heathcliffe: Heathcliffe’s son, he’s sickly, and stupid.  He does whatever anyone tells him too

Hindly Earnshaw: Cathrine Earnshaw’s brother, he’s a horrible violent drunk who’s obsessed with gambling

Nelly Dean: housekeeper/nurse, she narrates the whole story

THEMES:

It’s situations that make people.

Revenge doesn’t really pay because you’ll still be miserable in the end.

Once you love, you love forever.

SYMBOLS:

Can’t think of any really….

QUOTATIONS:

“It would degrade me to marry Heathcliffe now, that’s why he can never know I love him, and not only because he is handsome, but because he is more myself than I, whatever our souls our made of, his and mine are the same, and Linton’s is different.”  -Cathrine Earnshaw.  (I picked this because, one, I had it memorized already, and two, its like the turning point of the whole book, this is when Heathcliffe overhears and disappears.  From this point on he is a total jerk.)

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