100 books

[regshoe]

I'm finding this a fun game with other people's lists, so I decided to make my own!

https://www.listchallenges.com/regshoes-100-books

The rules I used to make the list:

• Memoirs, diaries and letter collections count, but not other non-fiction.
• Maximum of three books per author, so the list isn't 41% Discworld.
• Novellas and standalone short stories count. Plays count if I've read them as a book, not if I've only seen them on stage/as a film.

In choosing the books I've tried to strike a balance between 'I like this a lot', 'I think this is very good' and 'this has been a major influence on my tastes/values/opinions/id', and pick a range of things from different times of my life, though I think it's ended up biassed towards the last few years.

Observations:

I'm gratified by how few books I had to add manually, but displeased that all the Hornungs were among them.

I do not have a second favourite Robert Louis Stevenson book! I've included a couple I like, but they rank a long way below Kidnapped in my mind. Eager to see whether this changes when I've read Treasure Island and/or re-read The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, which I decided I didn't remember well enough to include now.

Highly entertained by the editions of A Month in the Country and South Riding having the same cover image. I don't know exactly where that is but I'm pretty sure it's not the right part of Yorkshire for either of them.

Comments

[black_bentley]

I've only read 15 of those _@

Treasure Island was the first RLS I read as a kid, and I really enjoyed it (although I haven't re-read it for a long time).

[regshoe]

It does sound like a good adventure novel, and I'm looking forward to it :D

[edwardianspinsteraunt]

27/100! :D And ha, I hadn't noticed that about the cover images for A Month in the Country and South Riding being the same, although those are also the editions I read them in. I agree that it doesn't feel quite like the right part of Yorkshire for either of them - more what someone would stereotypically think Yorkshire looks like.

[regshoe]

After a bit of searching, the original picture seems to be an old British Railways advertisement for the Yorkshire Dales—exact location not specified, I suppose somewhere along the Settle-Carlisle line?, but yep, wrong side of the county for both. I think 'more what someone would stereotypically think Yorkshire looks like' is about it!

[theseatheseatheopensea]

39/100! \o/ Great choices there, and it made me so happy to see Imre and White Cockades next to each other! <3

[regshoe]

Yay! Aww, I'm happy that you introduced me to them :)

[osprey_archer]

57! And a good reminder that I've been meaning to read Mapp and Lucia for ages now.

I've got A Month in the Country on my nightstand as I type. Soon, perhaps...

[regshoe]

I think that's the most anyone's got :D And I can recommend both of those, especially A Month in the Country.

[littlerhymes]

44! What a great selection.

[regshoe]

Thank you :D

[pretty_plant]

Lol 23 out of 100. So pretty average result I feel like. You have a nice list.

[regshoe]

Hee, thank you :D

[skygiants]

32 for me, and many more I've been meaning to get around to! My friend keeps talking to me about Yonge in particular.

[regshoe]

Reading Yonge is an... interesting experience, but I can definitely recommend The Heir of Redclyffe as a fun, dramatic, kinda OTT, kinda slashy time of a Victorian brick :D

[scintilla10]

Maximum of three books per author, so the list isn't 41% Discworld. hahaha, relateable!

I got 21! For a number of them I've read other books by the author but not that particular one ... I loved seeing The Once and Future King on your list! That was a very formative book for me.

[regshoe]

The Once and Future King was definitely an important influence on my taste in fantasy, and White's Lancelot still sticks in my head.

[sovay]

I'm finding this a fun game with other people's lists, so I decided to make my own!

Looks like 62 of 100 for me, but my nineteenth-century literature has huge gaps in it. Several of the others, I read specifically because we talked about them.

Highly entertained by the editions of A Month in the Country and South Riding having the same cover image. I don't know exactly where that is but I'm pretty sure it's not the right part of Yorkshire for either of them.

I love both of those novels and I definitely do not think of them as happening in the same place.

[regshoe]

Looks like you've got the highest score so far, well done :D

I love both of those novels and I definitely do not think of them as happening in the same place.

They don't! Oxgodby is more than fifty miles from Kiplington and further from Kingsport, if I've got my fictional geography approximately right.

[sovay]

Looks like you've got the highest score so far, well done

I read a lot!

They don't! Oxgodby is more than fifty miles from Kiplington and further from Kingsport, if I've got my fictional geography approximately right.

I love that you worked out the fictional geography. Also, that is really funny.