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The Big Read List
Meme fromjesspallas . The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they've printed.
1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicise 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 And the Silmarillion, and a bunch of extra materials. ***
3. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte **
4. Harry Potter series - JK Rowling The seventh book annoys me, and my favorite is the fifth. ***
5. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee ** Same book club as Wuthering Heights.
6. The Bible
7. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte This was assigned for a book club, but I didn't finish it in time.
8. Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell **I read half of it beforehand.
9. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman ***
10. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11. Little Women - Louisa M Alcott The abridged version, in elementary school, but I did costumes for the musical, too.
12. Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14. Complete Works of Shakespeare *Not nearly half of them have been assigned in school, so I didn't bold anything. I read Henry V on my own, though.
15. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16. The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18. Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19. The Time Traveller'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
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 Why do they have both this and 33?
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
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 And I was in the play. I had two lines.
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 have actually read through God Emperor of Dune, and didn't really like any of them but the first. (I kept reading because someone gave me God Emperor, and everyone talks so much about them they fell into the "literary heritage" category.)
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-time - 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 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' Diary - Helen Fielding
69. Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
70. Moby Dick - Herman Melville * sort of. We read pieces of it in school, and my teacher gave us a big speech about how we didn't get to say we'd read it, because we hadn't read all of it, and I thought, "Hey, I did all this work on Moby Dick, I want some freaking credit for it!" So I checked the book out of the library and read the rest of it over the summer. And may I take the opportunity to say here that WHALES ARE NOT FISH?
71. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens Again, abridged in elementary school.
72. Dracula - Bram Stoker I think I might own this, but I have no idea where it is.
73.The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74. Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75. Ulysses - James Joyce
76. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77. Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome And the rest of the series, too. My grandmother has a really pretty set that travels around all the cousins.
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 Flaubert
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 I'm not sure whether this means you have to have read all of them, but I've read at least two books' worth.
90. The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92. The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery In English and French*, ha!
93. The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94. Watership Down - Richard Adams I can't actually remember whether I finished this or not. It was confusing.
95. A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96. A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97. The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas Again, elementary school. It was the weirdest-looking book, too, about four inches square and two inches thick. I have no idea why I remember that.
98. Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo In English and slightly abridged. *** for the musical more than the book, but I liked the book too.
* For school.
** I read it on my own first and was assigned in school later.
*** I used to love it/them, but not so much anymore. I have a lot of these, because I tend to obsess over one thing and then get over it when the next one arrives.
Woo! Forty counting the ones I've read part of, thirty-five not counting those!
Meme from
jesspallas . The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they've printed. 1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicise 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 And the Silmarillion, and a bunch of extra materials. ***
3. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte **
4. Harry Potter series - JK Rowling The seventh book annoys me, and my favorite is the fifth. ***
5. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee ** Same book club as Wuthering Heights.
6. The Bible
7. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte This was assigned for a book club, but I didn't finish it in time.
8. Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell **I read half of it beforehand.
9. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman ***
10. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11. Little Women - Louisa M Alcott The abridged version, in elementary school, but I did costumes for the musical, too.
12. Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14. Complete Works of Shakespeare *Not nearly half of them have been assigned in school, so I didn't bold anything. I read Henry V on my own, though.
15. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16. The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18. Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19. The Time Traveller'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
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 Why do they have both this and 33?
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
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 And I was in the play. I had two lines.
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 have actually read through God Emperor of Dune, and didn't really like any of them but the first. (I kept reading because someone gave me God Emperor, and everyone talks so much about them they fell into the "literary heritage" category.)
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-time - 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 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' Diary - Helen Fielding
69. Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
70. Moby Dick - Herman Melville * sort of. We read pieces of it in school, and my teacher gave us a big speech about how we didn't get to say we'd read it, because we hadn't read all of it, and I thought, "Hey, I did all this work on Moby Dick, I want some freaking credit for it!" So I checked the book out of the library and read the rest of it over the summer. And may I take the opportunity to say here that WHALES ARE NOT FISH?
71. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens Again, abridged in elementary school.
72. Dracula - Bram Stoker I think I might own this, but I have no idea where it is.
73.The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74. Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75. Ulysses - James Joyce
76. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77. Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome And the rest of the series, too. My grandmother has a really pretty set that travels around all the cousins.
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 Flaubert
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 I'm not sure whether this means you have to have read all of them, but I've read at least two books' worth.
90. The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92. The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery In English and French*, ha!
93. The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94. Watership Down - Richard Adams I can't actually remember whether I finished this or not. It was confusing.
95. A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96. A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97. The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas Again, elementary school. It was the weirdest-looking book, too, about four inches square and two inches thick. I have no idea why I remember that.
98. Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo In English and slightly abridged. *** for the musical more than the book, but I liked the book too.
* For school.
** I read it on my own first and was assigned in school later.
*** I used to love it/them, but not so much anymore. I have a lot of these, because I tend to obsess over one thing and then get over it when the next one arrives.
Woo! Forty counting the ones I've read part of, thirty-five not counting those!
