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[Allegedly] The Big Read thinks the average adult has only read six of the top 100 books they've printed below.
1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Reprint this list in your own LJ so we can try and track down these people who've read 6 and force books upon them.
1. Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
2. The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien (from now till underverse come, just about. sheesh)
3. Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte - is there a way to quadruple underline? as matter of fact, i'm due for another read-through
4. Harry Potter series – JK Rowling
5. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee - with all my heart
6. The Bible
7. Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
8. Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell - read this the same year i did Animal Farm. i was on a roll ;)
9. His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman
10. Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
11. Little Women – Louisa M Alcott - i only have the vaguest memory of reading this
12. Tess of the D'Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy - hello 18th Century English Lit
13. Catch 22 – Joseph Heller - most of it
14. Complete Works of Shakespeare - many of them. haven't read the histories i think
16. The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien - that underverse disclaimer again
17. Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks
18. Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger
19. The Time Traveller's Wife – Audrey Niffenegger
20. Middlemarch – George Eliot - shoot me and shoot me dead if e'er i have to read this again. although there is a fantastic line about the noise on the other side of silence that i love her for.
21. Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell (only if reading the "sequel" counts)
22. The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald - oh Gatsby...
23. Bleak House – Charles Dickens - same class w/Tess I believe
24. War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
25. The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
26. Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
27. Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky - i think i would have liked this better if i'd gotten my hands on a better translation
28. Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
29. Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll - and Through the Looking Glass. hello!
30. The Wind in the Willows– Kenneth Grahame - i think...
31. Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy - could have done w/a better translation of this, too. mum loves it, though, and that's why it gets the underline
32. David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
33. Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis - read, saw the BBC version, seen the movies, listened to the books on cassette tape!!!!
34. Emma – Jane Austen
35. Persuasion – Jane Austen
36. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – C.S. Lewis - see notes in 33
37. The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
38. Captain Corelli's Mandolin – Louis De Bernieres
39. Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden (started, never got past chapter 1)
40. Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne
41. Animal Farm – George Orwell - ah, there you are :D
42. The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown
43. One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez - So. Good.
44. A Prayer for Owen Meaney – John Irving - read for school. the memory of this is highly vague
45. The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins - did this in the same class with Tess and Bleak House
46. Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery - with all my heart i loved Anne. we even had a semi-spooky stretch of sidewalk we renamed the Haunted Forest (more like overgrown garden)
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 (i tried, really i did)
53. Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons
54. Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen - this may be my fave
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-time – Mark Haddon (i've started listening to it. does that count?)
60. Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61. Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck - made me bawl. bawl i tell you. but i was in 6th grade at the time
62. Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov (never got very far)
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 - this was apparently a very productive class or series thereof, cuz i did this with Bleak House and Woman in White and Tess
68. Bridget Jones' Diary – Helen Fielding
69. Midnight's Children – Salman Rushdie
70. Moby Dick – Herman Melville
71. Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
72. Dracula – Bram Stoker
73. The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett - no lie, i was thinking about the secret garden while doing dishes a couple of hours ago. took me forever to finally read this, tho I'd owned it for a while, but once i had i was in love
74. Notes From A SmallIsland – Bill Bryson
75. Ulysses – James Joyce - why is low-comprehensity considered genius when you're an established author but an inability to write when you're in school?
76. The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
77. Swallows and Amazons – Arthur Ransome
78. Germinal – Emile
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 - also made me cry
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 - it's been forever
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 - gag me with a spoon!
92. The Little Prince (Le Petit Prince) – Antoine De Saint-Exupery - this book got me in trouble the way only geeks can get into trouble for reading when they're not supposed to. *sighs*
93. The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks - 'nother book i read for class (and thus own). strange lil thing, but i think as a class we liked
94. Watership Down – Richard Adams
95. A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole (been meaning to read this one)
96. A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute
97. The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
98. Hamlet – William Shakespeare - i've done Hamlet no less than 3 times, and have seen every single filmed version there is, from Branagh, to Olivier, to a strange version done by Soviet Russia
99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl
100. Les Miserables – Victor Hugo
krool1280 [Allegedly] The Big Read thinks the average adult has only read six of the top 100 books they've printed below.
1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Reprint this list in your own LJ so we can try and track down these people who've read 6 and force books upon them.
1. Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
2. The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien (from now till underverse come, just about. sheesh)
3. Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte - is there a way to quadruple underline? as matter of fact, i'm due for another read-through
4. Harry Potter series – JK Rowling
5. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee - with all my heart
6. The Bible
7. Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
8. Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell - read this the same year i did Animal Farm. i was on a roll ;)
9. His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman
10. Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
11. Little Women – Louisa M Alcott - i only have the vaguest memory of reading this
12. Tess of the D'Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy - hello 18th Century English Lit
13. Catch 22 – Joseph Heller - most of it
14. Complete Works of Shakespeare - many of them. haven't read the histories i think
16. The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien - that underverse disclaimer again
17. Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks
18. Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger
19. The Time Traveller's Wife – Audrey Niffenegger
20. Middlemarch – George Eliot - shoot me and shoot me dead if e'er i have to read this again. although there is a fantastic line about the noise on the other side of silence that i love her for.
21. Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell (only if reading the "sequel" counts)
22. The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald - oh Gatsby...
23. Bleak House – Charles Dickens - same class w/Tess I believe
24. War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
25. The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
26. Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
27. Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky - i think i would have liked this better if i'd gotten my hands on a better translation
28. Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
29. Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll - and Through the Looking Glass. hello!
30. The Wind in the Willows– Kenneth Grahame - i think...
31. Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy - could have done w/a better translation of this, too. mum loves it, though, and that's why it gets the underline
32. David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
33. Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis - read, saw the BBC version, seen the movies, listened to the books on cassette tape!!!!
34. Emma – Jane Austen
35. Persuasion – Jane Austen
36. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – C.S. Lewis - see notes in 33
37. The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
38. Captain Corelli's Mandolin – Louis De Bernieres
39. Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden (started, never got past chapter 1)
40. Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne
41. Animal Farm – George Orwell - ah, there you are :D
42. The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown
43. One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez - So. Good.
44. A Prayer for Owen Meaney – John Irving - read for school. the memory of this is highly vague
45. The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins - did this in the same class with Tess and Bleak House
46. Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery - with all my heart i loved Anne. we even had a semi-spooky stretch of sidewalk we renamed the Haunted Forest (more like overgrown garden)
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 (i tried, really i did)
53. Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons
54. Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen - this may be my fave
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-time – Mark Haddon (i've started listening to it. does that count?)
60. Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61. Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck - made me bawl. bawl i tell you. but i was in 6th grade at the time
62. Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov (never got very far)
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 - this was apparently a very productive class or series thereof, cuz i did this with Bleak House and Woman in White and Tess
68. Bridget Jones' Diary – Helen Fielding
69. Midnight's Children – Salman Rushdie
70. Moby Dick – Herman Melville
71. Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
72. Dracula – Bram Stoker
73. The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett - no lie, i was thinking about the secret garden while doing dishes a couple of hours ago. took me forever to finally read this, tho I'd owned it for a while, but once i had i was in love
74. Notes From A SmallIsland – Bill Bryson
75. Ulysses – James Joyce - why is low-comprehensity considered genius when you're an established author but an inability to write when you're in school?
76. The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
77. Swallows and Amazons – Arthur Ransome
78. Germinal – Emile
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 - also made me cry
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 - it's been forever
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 - gag me with a spoon!
92. The Little Prince (Le Petit Prince) – Antoine De Saint-Exupery - this book got me in trouble the way only geeks can get into trouble for reading when they're not supposed to. *sighs*
93. The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks - 'nother book i read for class (and thus own). strange lil thing, but i think as a class we liked
94. Watership Down – Richard Adams
95. A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole (been meaning to read this one)
96. A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute
97. The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
98. Hamlet – William Shakespeare - i've done Hamlet no less than 3 times, and have seen every single filmed version there is, from Branagh, to Olivier, to a strange version done by Soviet Russia
99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl
100. Les Miserables – Victor Hugo
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Date: 2009-01-28 06:53 pm (UTC)But I'm also surprised that you haven't read him more, I guess, in your free time.
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