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One of the highlights of my list (" My 10 year-end good intentions") relates to the reading ...

I've never been a fierce reader and the last time I read a book was "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" (which I devoured with the rest of the series) last year ... That's right, it's almost a year since I thrust my nose between the pages of a book and I'm beginning to feel ashamed!

It 's a little that on Facebook (the leading cause of lost time in the world) run lists and strips on the books that are deemed significant, or that should be read sooner or later. There

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" you read more than six of these books? The BBC says that most people only read 6 of the 100 books in the list below.

Instructions: Copy this message into your notes. Put in bold the books you read in full and in italics the ones you started but not finished.

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen

2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien 3

The Prophet - Kahlil Gibran

4 Harry Potter - JK Rowling

5 If this is a man - Primo Levi

6 The Bible

7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte 8

1984 - George Orwell 9

The Betrothed - Alessandro Manzoni

10 The Divine Comedy - Dante Alighieri

11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott 12

language of the family - Natalia Ginzburg

13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller

14. The complete works of Shakespeare

15 The Garden of the Finzi Contini - Giorgio Bassani

16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien

17 The Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco

18 The Leopard - Tommasi di Lampedusa

19 The Trial - Franz Kafka

20 Elective Affinities - Goethe

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

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams 26

Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh

27 Crime and Punishment-Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Odyssey 28 - Homer

29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll 30

The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera

31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy

32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens 33

The Chronicles of Narnia -

CS Lewis 34 Emma - Jane Austen

Heart 35 - Edmondo de Amicis

36 The Zeno's Conscience - Italo Svevo

37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini

38 Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernie

39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden (although this is planned)

40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne

41 Animal Farm - George Orwell

42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown 43

Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

44 The Baron in the Trees - Italo Calvino The Indifferent

45 - Alberto Moravia

46 Memoirs of Hadrian - Marguerite Yourcenar

I Malavoglia 47 - Giovanni Verga

48 The Late Mattia Pascal - Luigi Pirandello

49 The Lord of the Flies - William Golding 50

Christ Stopped at Eboli - Carlo Levi

51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel

52 The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway

53 Don Quixote - Cervantes

54 The Sorrows of Young Werther - JW Goethe

55 The Adventures of Pinocchio - Collodi

56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon

57 Siddharta - Hermann Hesse

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 Marquez

61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck 62

Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov 63 The Commissioner Maigret

- George Simenon

64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold

65 The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas

66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac 67

The Moon and the Bonfires - Cesare Pavese

68 Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding

69 Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie

70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville 71 Oliver Twist

- Charles Dickens

72 Dracula - Bram Stoker 73

Three Men in a Boat - Jerome K. Jerome

74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson

75 Ulysses - James Joyce 76 The

Buddenbroock - Thomas Mann

77 The Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee

78 Germinal - Emile Zola 79 Vanity Fair

- William Makepeace Thackeray

80 Possession - AS Byatt 81

A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens

82 The Portrait of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde

83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker

84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro

85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert

86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry

87 Charlotte's Web - EB White

88 The Red and the Black - Stendhal

89 The 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 All Quiet on the Western Front - Remarque

95 The Man - Oriana Fallaci

96 The Catcher in the Rye - Salinger 97 The Three Musketeers

- Alexandre Dumas 98 Hamlet

-William Shakespeare

99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dah

100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo "

Those in bold are my answers ... vegognoso, eh?

Of these books there are some who would like to read ... but let's face it, I did not want to read them all. Reading should be fun, if you begin to read with the exclusive aim to please someone else and / or to appear intellectual, it fails to start!

Above all, let's face it, it's a bit pathetic attempt to sound intellectual if you have not, no? It applies to anything else ...

Anyway ... back to my list (which is very Earl), point # 2 says "Make a list of books not yet read and begin a"

Here is my personal list of books by year-end

1 - Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden

2 - Cosplay Culture - Luca Vanzella

3 - The Sword of Truth - Terry Goodkind

4 - A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini

5 - Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams

6 - Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll

7 - Why can not we be a Christian (let alone Catholic) - Piergiorgio Odifreddi

8 - New Moon, Eclipse and Breaking Dawn - Stephenie Meyer

9 - Interview with Vampire - Anne Rice

10 - point, line, surface - Vasily Kandinsky

Many of these books stand out already on my bookshelves and waiting too long to be read. Some even I had even started but never finished ... Now is the time:)

ps: The first book in the Twilight series was given to me for Christmas and I finished very quickly. Are not a lover of vampire stories (and I still maintain that vampires do not sparkle in the sun) but I liked it, I can not deny it. I'm sure that if I read to 15/16 years I would have liked more ... but this does not mean anything and I would like to conclude the saga.