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janetlinApparently The Big Read thinks that the average adult has only read six of the top 100 books on their list.
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
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible haven't read the whole thing but maybe someday
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman ... Really only The Golden Compass, not the entire trilogy, though I'm working on The Subtle Knife at the moment
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare Totally not fair to lump these all together! I feel that I've read enough to be considered pretty well-versed, though.
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks (never heard of this one)
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 Yes, I've actually read this. What else was I going to do while I was nursing Morgan?
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 (never heard of it)
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky in two different translations (one was horrible but the other was fantastic)
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 Both have and haven't read it as I listened to it on audio tape.
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis Again with the bunching things up. Have now read all but one, though.
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen People need to take love-letter lessons from Captain Wentworth.
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis Why does this one get singled out?
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini (another I've never heard of)
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 Mom read this one and at the time I was too young, but it's always intrigued me.
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving (never heard of this)
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins (I might try this one because The Moonstone was quite good)
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
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
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 (I would say I intend to read this but I've discovered I really really don't like Dickens)
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon a(nother I've never heard of)
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
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
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 (one more I've never heard of)
78 Germinal - Emile Zola (srsly where do they come up with some of these?)
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've read a handful of these but would like to someday read them all.
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad Ick. Akin to Dickens and Hemingway sort of ick.
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery back in elementary school
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas I've read and seen a stage adaptation, though, and read a children's version/edition in elementary school.
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
... What, no Mark Twain? I'm really not sure about this list...
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
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible haven't read the whole thing but maybe someday
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman ... Really only The Golden Compass, not the entire trilogy, though I'm working on The Subtle Knife at the moment
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare Totally not fair to lump these all together! I feel that I've read enough to be considered pretty well-versed, though.
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks (never heard of this one)
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 Yes, I've actually read this. What else was I going to do while I was nursing Morgan?
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 (never heard of it)
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky in two different translations (one was horrible but the other was fantastic)
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 Both have and haven't read it as I listened to it on audio tape.
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis Again with the bunching things up. Have now read all but one, though.
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen People need to take love-letter lessons from Captain Wentworth.
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis Why does this one get singled out?
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini (another I've never heard of)
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 Mom read this one and at the time I was too young, but it's always intrigued me.
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving (never heard of this)
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins (I might try this one because The Moonstone was quite good)
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
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
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 (I would say I intend to read this but I've discovered I really really don't like Dickens)
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon a(nother I've never heard of)
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
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
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 (one more I've never heard of)
78 Germinal - Emile Zola (srsly where do they come up with some of these?)
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've read a handful of these but would like to someday read them all.
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad Ick. Akin to Dickens and Hemingway sort of ick.
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery back in elementary school
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas I've read and seen a stage adaptation, though, and read a children's version/edition in elementary school.
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
... What, no Mark Twain? I'm really not sure about this list...
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Date: 2008-07-11 04:26 am (UTC)I noticed a lack of Twain too. There are a number of books and authors I was surprised were not on the list.
I have read Gone with the Wind two or three times and I always cry because I just want to smack Scarlett upside the head with a plank from her lumber mill for not having a clue about how much Rhett adores her.
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Date: 2008-07-11 04:43 am (UTC)havehad an Ashley in my life. But she's really just pretty reprehensible and doesn't at _all_ deserve Rhett.no subject
Date: 2008-07-16 03:49 pm (UTC)Please, let's not start this debate.
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Date: 2008-07-16 04:10 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-07-16 06:35 pm (UTC)Oh the Horror! The Horror!
Date: 2008-07-11 10:46 am (UTC)Anyway, I've gone and made my list over at archaeogoddess (http://archaeogoddess.blogspot.com/). I feel like I have a summer reading list now.... except I am NEVER reading Dickens again.
Re: Oh the Horror! The Horror!
Date: 2008-07-11 03:10 pm (UTC)"except I am NEVER reading Dickens again."
Hear, hear! I've still got three semesters left, though, so I may not be able to avoid him.