03.29.07

A book meme to share with your kids

Posted in Books at 4:23 pm by Meg

This is a slightly different book meme. Fill it out for both yourself and your kids, and see how you compare. I didn’t try to delineate between what either child had read.

• Mark in italics any books that you have read.
• Mark in bold any books that your kids have read.
• Underline any books that you have on your shelves.
• Cross out any books that you (or your kids) didn’t like.

1. The Best Christmas Pageant Ever (Robinson, Barbara)
2. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Dahl, Roald)
3. Charlotte’s Web (White, E.B.)
4. Freckle Juice (Blume, Judy)
5. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler (Konigsburg, E. L.) I always remembered this book fondly, but the kids didn’t like it.
6. Misty of Chincoteague (Henry, Marguerite)
7. Pippi Longstocking (Lindgren, Astrid)
8. Ramona (Cleary, Beverly)
9. Shiloh (Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds)
10. Sounder (Armstrong, William)
11. Velveteen Rabbit (Williams, Margery)
12. The Whipping Boy (Fleischman, Sid)
13. Little House series (Wilder, Laura Ingalls)
14. Sadako and the 1000 Paper Cranes (Coerr, Eleanor)
15. Sarah, Plain and Tall (MacLachlan, Patricia)
16. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (Verne, Jules)
17. Alice in Wonderland (Carroll, Lewis)
18. The Cricket in Times Square (Seldon, George)
19. The Secret Garden (Burnett, Frances)
20. Wizard of Oz (Baum, L. Frank)
21. The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood (Pyle, Howard)
22. Tales of Uncle Remus (Lester, Julian)
23. The New Kid on the Block (Prelutsky, Jack)
24. The Magic School Bus series (Cole, Joanna)
25. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Twain, Mark)
26. Anne of Green Gables (Montgomery, Lucy Maud) Another one that I liked that Girl didn’t.
27. A Christmas Carol (Dickens, Charles)
28. Flowers for Algernon (Keyes, Daniel)
29. Holes (Sacher, Louis)
30. Island of the Blue Dolphins (O’Dell, Scott) I don’t remember any strong feelings about it, but the kids both found it boring.
31. The Little Prince (De Saint-Exupery, Antoine)
32. Little Women (Alcott, Louisa May)
33. My Side of the Mountain (George, Jean Craighead)
34. The Pearl (Steinbeck, John)
35. Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (Taylor, Mildred D.)
36. Summer of My German Soldier (Greene, Bette)
37. The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle (Avi)
38. The Yearling (Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan)
39. Across Five Aprils (Hunt, Irene)
40. Catherine, Called Birdy (Cushman, Karen)
41. Johnny Tremain (Forbes, Ester)
42. Out of the Dust (Hesse, Karen)
43. The Watsons Go to Birmingham (Curtis, Christopher Paul)
44. The Witch of Blackbird Pond (Speare, Elizabeth George)
45. The Hobbit (Tolkien, J.R.R.)
46. I, Robot (Asimov, Isaac)
47. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (Lewis, C.S.) I know there are so many that love these stories, we found them dry and predicatable
48. Peter Pan (Barrie, James)
49. Phantom Tollbooth (Juster, Norton)
50. Swifly Tilting Planet (L’Engle, Madeleine) I remember really enjoying these books, but the kids haven’t
51. The Time Machine (Wells, H.G.)
52. A Wizard of Earthsea (Le Guin, Ursula)
53. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Doyle, Arthur Conan)
54. And Then There Were None (Christie, Agatha)
55. Call of the Wild (London, Jack)
56. Hatchet (Paulsen, Gary)
57. Motel of the Mysteries (Macauley, David)
58. Treasure Island (Stevenson, Robert Louis)
59. Aesop’s Fables (Aesop)
60. The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere (Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth)
61. Song of Myself (Whitman, Walt)
62. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (Irving, Washington)
63. The Night the Bed Fell (Thurber, James)
64. The Tell-Tale Heart (Poe, Edgar Allan)
65. Thank You Ma’am (Hughes, Langston)
66. Hiroshima (Hersey, John)
67. The Diary of a Young Girl (Frank, Anne)
68. All Creatures Great and Small (Herriot, James)
69. Animal Farm (Orwell, George)
70. Catcher in the Rye (Salinger, J.D.)
71. Crime and Punishment (Dostoyevsky, Fyodor)
72. Frankenstein (Shelley, Mary)
73. A Girl fo the Limberlost (Stratton-Porter, Gene)
74. The Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald, F. Scott) I read a biography about Fitzgerald and loved it, then was so disappointed by this book.
75. Heart of Darkness (Conrad, Joseph)
76. House on Mango Street (Cisneros, Sandra)
77. Jane Eyre (Bronte, Charlotte)
78. The Joy Luck Club (Tan, Amy)
79. The Metamorphosis (Kafka, Franz)
80. Of Mice and Men (Steinbeck, John)
81. The Old Man and the Sea (Hemingway, Ernest)
82. Pride and Prejudice (Austen, Jane)
83. The Scarlet Letter (Hawthorne, Nathaniel)
84. To Kill a Mockingbird (Lee, Harper)
85. All Quiet of the Western Front (Remarque, Erich Maria)
86. The Jungle (Sinclair, Upton)
87. The Red Badge of Courage (Crane, Stephan)
88. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Clarke, Arthur C.)
89. Brave New World (Huxley, Aldus)
90. Fahrenheit 451 (Bradbury, Ray)
91. Iliad (Homer)
92. The Once and Future King (White, T.H.)
93. The Canterbury Tales (Chaucer, Geoffrey)
94. “I Hear America Singing” (Whitman, Walt)
95. “The Tiger” (Blake, William)
96. “The Lottery” (Jackson, Shirley)
97. “Gift of the Magi” (Henry, O.)
98. The Crucible (Miller, Arthur)
99. Death of a Salesman (Miller, Arthur)
100. A Doll’s House (Ibsen, Henrik)
101. The Glass Menagerie (Williams, Tennessee)
102. “Declaration of Independence” (Jefferson, Thomas)
103. “The Gettysburg Address” (Lincoln, Abraham)
104. “I Have a Dream” (King, Martin Luther, Jr.)
105. “I Will Fight No More Forever” (Chief Joseph)
106. A Brief History of Time (Hawking, Stephen)
107. Democracy in America (de Tocqueville, Alexis)
108. Roots (Haley, Alex)
109. Walden (Thoreau, Henry David)
110. Night (Wiesel, Elie)

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