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I stole this from yanagiken . ^___^
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) Italicize those you intend to read
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Strike the books you've given up on ever finishing.
5) 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. The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien
2. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
3. His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman
4. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
5. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling
6. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
7. Winnie-the-Pooh by A. A. Milne
8. Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell (Looks like I'm going to overshoot the average reckoning, bahaha.)
9. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis
10. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
11. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller (I saw this a couple of times at the library, but always always after I selected my four books, so I never borrowed it. :X)
12. Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë (I picked it up, read the first few pages, and gave up, oh so many long years ago. xD)
13. Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
14. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
15. The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger (I'm preeeetty sure I borrowed this home a couple of times, but I have no idea if I ever read it.)
16. The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
17. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
18. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
19. Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernières
20. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
21. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
22. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J. K. Rowling
23. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J. K. Rowling
24. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J. K. Rowling (who hasn't. >.> The average person will get by simply because of JK Rowling (There are seven HP books, right?), therefore this list is not a very good litmus test, is it. >O But hey, at least it starts off with LoTR. xD)
25. The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien
26. Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
27. Middlemarch by George Eliot
28. A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
29. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
30. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
31. The Story of Tracy Beaker by Jacqueline Wilson
32. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
33. The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
34. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
35. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
36. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
37. A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute
38. Persuasion by Jane Austen
39. Dune by Frank Herbert
40. Emma by Jane Austen
41. Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery
42. Watership Down by Richard Adams
43. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
44. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
45. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
46. Animal Farm by George Orwell
47. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
48. Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
49. Goodnight Mister Tom by Michelle Magorian
50. The Shell Seekers by Rosamunde Pilcher
51. The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
52. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
53. The Stand by Stephen King
54. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
55. A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth
56. The BFG by Roald Dahl
57. Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome
58. Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
59. Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer
60. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
61. Noughts & Crosses by Malorie Blackman
62. Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
63. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
64. The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough
65. Mort by Terry Pratchett (Damnnit, there needs to be a way to triple underline. >O)
66. The Magic Faraway Tree by Enid Blyton (I read nearly all her books when I was at the suitable age to do so. xD)
67. The Magus by John Fowles
68. Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett (I have it in my harddrive right now, in fact. :D)
69. Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett
70. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
71. Perfume by Patrick Süskind (This one is waaay freaky, but I liked it. :X)
72. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell
73. Night Watch by Terry Pratchett (It's someone's favourite TP book, eh? *nudgenudge* I remember reading to bits your copy when you lent it to me, haha)
74. Matilda by Roald Dahl
75. Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding
76. The Secret History by Donna Tartt
77. The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
78. Ulysses by James Joyce
79. Bleak House by Charles Dickens
80. Double Act by Jacqueline Wilson
81. The Twits by Roald Dahl
82. I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith (I think I've read this. I think. I mean, I remember a book of this title, but I don't remember if it's this. And no, I'm not recalling King of the Castle. >.>)
83. Holes by Louis Sachar
84. Gormenghast by Mervyn Peake
85. The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
86. Vicky Angel by Jacqueline Wilson
87. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
88. Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
89. Magician by Raymond E. Feist (I've read his 'Servant of the Empire' at NYGH, and am heartbroken to be unable to find the rest of the 'Mistress of the Empire' series. >.>)
90. On the Road by Jack Kerouac
91. The Godfather by Mario Puzo (Lol, since Zel read it, I'm curious about it now. ^^)
92. The Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean M. Auel
93. The Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett
94. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
95. Katherine by Anya Seton
96. Kane and Abel by Jeffrey Archer
97. Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez
98. Girls in Love by Jacqueline Wilson
99. The Princess Diaries by Meg Cabot (I can never comprehend its popularity.)
100. Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie [I distinctly remember reading the beginning! >(]
101. Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome
102. Small Gods by Terry Pratchett (It's in my haaarddrive~)
103. The Beach by Alex Garland
104. Dracula by Bram Stoker
105. Point Blanc by Anthony Horowitz
106. The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens
107. Stormbreaker by Anthony Horowitz
108. The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks (Whoa. I wouldn't have remembered that I read this book until I went back up the list and I wikipedia'd it. But now I remember. Gawd, another freaky book, just like Perfume, but.. weird in a different way. It wasn't super interesting at first, but I kept at it until I hit the good parts. I distinctly remember a kid getting strangled by a kite, and a person with paper-thin skin that was filled with wasps. Hm. No more spoilers, eh? Hooray for random pick-ups at the library.)
109. The Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth
110. The Illustrated Mum by Jacqueline Wilson
111. Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
112. The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾ by Sue Townsend
113. The Cruel Sea by Nicholas Monsarrat
114. Les Misérables by Victor Hugo (I borrowed this from the RJC library. T WAS SO THICK, OMG. I simply couldn't finish it, but I did get up till halfway, and then skipped all the way to the back, harhar.)
115. The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
116. The Dare Game by Jacqueline Wilson
117. Bad Girls by Jacqueline Wilson
118. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
119. Shōgun by James Clavell
120. The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham
121. Lola Rose by Jacqueline Wilson
122. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
123. The Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy
124. House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
125. The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
126. Reaper Man by Terry Pratchett
127. Angus, Thongs, and Full-Frontal Snogging by Louise Rennison
128. The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
129. Possession: A Romance by A. S. Byatt
130. The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
131. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
132. Danny, the Champion of the World by Roald Dahl
133. East of Eden by John Steinbeck
134. George's Marvellous Medicine by Roald Dahl
135. Wyrd Sisters by Terry Pratchett
136. The Color Purple by Alice Walker
137. Hogfather by Terry Pratchett
138. The Thirty-nine Steps by John Buchan
139. Girls in Tears by Jacqueline Wilson
140. Sleepovers by Jacqueline Wilson
141. All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
142. Behind the Scenes at the Museum by Kate Atkinson
143. High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
144. It by Stephen King
145. James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
146. The Green Mile by Stephen King ( T_T I actually found nearly the entire series of books at the Library Book Sale, was missing No. 1 or 2, if I am not mistaken, and so I decided not to buy. :/ It was really interesting too, whatever that I read of it! T___T)
147. Papillon by Henri Charrière
148. Men at Arms by Terry Pratchett
149. Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian
150. Skeleton Key by Anthony Horowitz
151. Soul Music by Terry Pratchett
152. Thief of Time by Terry Pratchett
153. The Fifth Elephant by Terry Pratchett
154. Atonement by Ian McEwan
155. Secrets by Jacqueline Wilson
156. The Silver Sword by Ian Serraillier
157. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
158. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
159. Kim by Rudyard Kipling
160. Cross Stitch by Diana Gabaldon
161. Moby-Dick by Herman Melville (We all know the story, I can't be bothered to read it. :X)
162. River God by Wilbur Smith
163. Sunset Song by Lewis Grassic Gibbon
164. The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx
165. The World According to Garp by John Irving
166. Lorna Doone by R. D. Blackmore
167. Girls Out Late by Jacqueline Wilson
168. The Far Pavilions by M. M. Kaye
169. The Witches by Roald Dahl
170. Charlotte's Web by E. B. White
171. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
172. They Used to Play on Grass by Terry Venables and Gordon Williams
173. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
174. The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
175. Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder
176. Dustbin Baby by Jacqueline Wilson
177. Fantastic Mr. Fox by Roald Dahl
178. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (In fact, I already know the ending. I just haven't read the whole thing yet.)
179. Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach (One of the most readeable, and touching books, ever. I cried reading it. :X I even spent a Core Reading Programme question on the book, about writing a diary as from the point of a character in the book. I really want to OWN this book. :/)
180. The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
181. The Suitcase Kid by Jacqueline Wilson
182. Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
183. The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay
184. Silas Marner by George Eliot
185. American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
186. Diary of a Nobody by George and Weedon Grossmith
187. Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh
188. Goosebumps by R. L. Stine (LOL. Remember this, people? It's like, back in the primary school days, together with Animorphs, I believe.)
189. Heidi by Johanna Spyri (One of my favourite books when I was young; I read it so often just because I found it one of the more readable classics that I owned at that age. Hell, I even got this book confiscated back when I was in CHIJ, cause I read it under the table during lessons. xD)
190. Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence
191. The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera (I've read his 'Farewell Waltz' and it wasn't bad.)
192. Man and Boy by Tony Parsons
193. The Truth by Terry Pratchett (Aaand I'm going to read it again~~)
194. The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells
195. The Horse Whisperer by Nicholas Evans (Wasn't there a movie about this? O_o)
196. A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
197. Witches Abroad by Terry Pratchett
198. The Once and Future King by T. H. White (Hey, I've read the first part of this. The Sword in the Stone. It was damn funny, and there was also a Disney cartoon about it, remember? XD Didn't know there were three other parts. o_o No wonder I found the author familiar. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Once_and_Future_King)
199. The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle (OH LOL. THIS IS A TOP BOOK TOO? XD Good grief, I must have been able to recite the foods the caterpillar ate back then. =.=)
200. Flowers in the Attic by V. C. Andrews
I'm surprised (and very pleased) at the number of times Terry Pratchett turns up on that list, also surprised that Clockwork Orange isn't there, as well as Life of Pi, The Time-traveller's Wife etc.etc. and the lack of Neil Gaiman. Seriously. They even have The Very Hungry Caterpillar, where's Neil Gaiman? And Madeline L'engle? >O Andand, Brian Jacques?! And Agatha Christie? WHERE ARE THESE PEOPLE.
BAD BOOK LIST. Thou art only redeemed with thy mentions of the cool books that I liked and the awsmness of Terry Pratchett. Bahah.
(Or has it something to do with the publisher... ^^; )
And OI, where's Gulliver's Travels! It was in the same set of classics with my Heidi and Alice in Wonderland! It was purple, and Heidi was orange, and Alice was... blue! Or something. I didn't really like Alice. >.> But I liked Heidi and Gulliver's! >O!
I am pretty amused at how many of the books there that I've read is due to CRP or ERP back in primary school and secondary school, heh. The books from Literature classes that are missing are A Wrinkle in Time, Friedrich, King of the Castle, excluding Shakespeare. I don't think there's anymore I missed..?
Sigh. I WANT TO READ VOCARIOUSLY AGAIN. T___T
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) Italicize those you intend to read
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Strike the books you've given up on ever finishing.
5) 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. The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien
2. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
3. His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman
4. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
5. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling
6. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
7. Winnie-the-Pooh by A. A. Milne
8. Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell (Looks like I'm going to overshoot the average reckoning, bahaha.)
9. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis
10. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
11. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller (I saw this a couple of times at the library, but always always after I selected my four books, so I never borrowed it. :X)
12. Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë (I picked it up, read the first few pages, and gave up, oh so many long years ago. xD)
13. Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
14. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
15. The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger (I'm preeeetty sure I borrowed this home a couple of times, but I have no idea if I ever read it.)
16. The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
17. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
18. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
19. Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernières
20. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
21. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
22. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J. K. Rowling
23. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J. K. Rowling
24. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J. K. Rowling (who hasn't. >.> The average person will get by simply because of JK Rowling (There are seven HP books, right?), therefore this list is not a very good litmus test, is it. >O But hey, at least it starts off with LoTR. xD)
25. The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien
26. Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
27. Middlemarch by George Eliot
28. A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
29. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
30. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
31. The Story of Tracy Beaker by Jacqueline Wilson
32. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
33. The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
34. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
35. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
36. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
37. A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute
38. Persuasion by Jane Austen
39. Dune by Frank Herbert
40. Emma by Jane Austen
41. Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery
42. Watership Down by Richard Adams
43. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
44. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
45. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
46. Animal Farm by George Orwell
47. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
48. Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
49. Goodnight Mister Tom by Michelle Magorian
50. The Shell Seekers by Rosamunde Pilcher
51. The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
52. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
53. The Stand by Stephen King
54. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
55. A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth
56. The BFG by Roald Dahl
57. Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome
58. Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
59. Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer
60. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
61. Noughts & Crosses by Malorie Blackman
62. Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
63. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
64. The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough
65. Mort by Terry Pratchett (Damnnit, there needs to be a way to triple underline. >O)
66. The Magic Faraway Tree by Enid Blyton (I read nearly all her books when I was at the suitable age to do so. xD)
67. The Magus by John Fowles
68. Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett (I have it in my harddrive right now, in fact. :D)
69. Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett
70. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
71. Perfume by Patrick Süskind (This one is waaay freaky, but I liked it. :X)
72. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell
73. Night Watch by Terry Pratchett (It's someone's favourite TP book, eh? *nudgenudge* I remember reading to bits your copy when you lent it to me, haha)
74. Matilda by Roald Dahl
75. Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding
76. The Secret History by Donna Tartt
77. The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
78. Ulysses by James Joyce
79. Bleak House by Charles Dickens
80. Double Act by Jacqueline Wilson
81. The Twits by Roald Dahl
82. I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith (I think I've read this. I think. I mean, I remember a book of this title, but I don't remember if it's this. And no, I'm not recalling King of the Castle. >.>)
83. Holes by Louis Sachar
84. Gormenghast by Mervyn Peake
85. The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
86. Vicky Angel by Jacqueline Wilson
87. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
88. Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
89. Magician by Raymond E. Feist (I've read his 'Servant of the Empire' at NYGH, and am heartbroken to be unable to find the rest of the 'Mistress of the Empire' series. >.>)
90. On the Road by Jack Kerouac
91. The Godfather by Mario Puzo (Lol, since Zel read it, I'm curious about it now. ^^)
92. The Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean M. Auel
93. The Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett
94. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
95. Katherine by Anya Seton
96. Kane and Abel by Jeffrey Archer
97. Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez
98. Girls in Love by Jacqueline Wilson
99. The Princess Diaries by Meg Cabot (I can never comprehend its popularity.)
100. Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie [I distinctly remember reading the beginning! >(]
101. Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome
102. Small Gods by Terry Pratchett (It's in my haaarddrive~)
103. The Beach by Alex Garland
104. Dracula by Bram Stoker
105. Point Blanc by Anthony Horowitz
106. The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens
107. Stormbreaker by Anthony Horowitz
108. The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks (Whoa. I wouldn't have remembered that I read this book until I went back up the list and I wikipedia'd it. But now I remember. Gawd, another freaky book, just like Perfume, but.. weird in a different way. It wasn't super interesting at first, but I kept at it until I hit the good parts. I distinctly remember a kid getting strangled by a kite, and a person with paper-thin skin that was filled with wasps. Hm. No more spoilers, eh? Hooray for random pick-ups at the library.)
109. The Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth
110. The Illustrated Mum by Jacqueline Wilson
111. Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
112. The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾ by Sue Townsend
113. The Cruel Sea by Nicholas Monsarrat
114. Les Misérables by Victor Hugo (I borrowed this from the RJC library. T WAS SO THICK, OMG. I simply couldn't finish it, but I did get up till halfway, and then skipped all the way to the back, harhar.)
115. The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
116. The Dare Game by Jacqueline Wilson
117. Bad Girls by Jacqueline Wilson
118. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
119. Shōgun by James Clavell
120. The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham
121. Lola Rose by Jacqueline Wilson
122. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
123. The Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy
124. House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
125. The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
126. Reaper Man by Terry Pratchett
127. Angus, Thongs, and Full-Frontal Snogging by Louise Rennison
128. The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
129. Possession: A Romance by A. S. Byatt
130. The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
131. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
132. Danny, the Champion of the World by Roald Dahl
133. East of Eden by John Steinbeck
134. George's Marvellous Medicine by Roald Dahl
135. Wyrd Sisters by Terry Pratchett
136. The Color Purple by Alice Walker
137. Hogfather by Terry Pratchett
138. The Thirty-nine Steps by John Buchan
139. Girls in Tears by Jacqueline Wilson
140. Sleepovers by Jacqueline Wilson
141. All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
142. Behind the Scenes at the Museum by Kate Atkinson
143. High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
144. It by Stephen King
145. James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
146. The Green Mile by Stephen King ( T_T I actually found nearly the entire series of books at the Library Book Sale, was missing No. 1 or 2, if I am not mistaken, and so I decided not to buy. :/ It was really interesting too, whatever that I read of it! T___T)
147. Papillon by Henri Charrière
148. Men at Arms by Terry Pratchett
149. Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian
150. Skeleton Key by Anthony Horowitz
151. Soul Music by Terry Pratchett
152. Thief of Time by Terry Pratchett
153. The Fifth Elephant by Terry Pratchett
154. Atonement by Ian McEwan
155. Secrets by Jacqueline Wilson
156. The Silver Sword by Ian Serraillier
157. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
158. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
159. Kim by Rudyard Kipling
160. Cross Stitch by Diana Gabaldon
161. Moby-Dick by Herman Melville (We all know the story, I can't be bothered to read it. :X)
162. River God by Wilbur Smith
163. Sunset Song by Lewis Grassic Gibbon
164. The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx
165. The World According to Garp by John Irving
166. Lorna Doone by R. D. Blackmore
167. Girls Out Late by Jacqueline Wilson
168. The Far Pavilions by M. M. Kaye
169. The Witches by Roald Dahl
170. Charlotte's Web by E. B. White
171. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
172. They Used to Play on Grass by Terry Venables and Gordon Williams
173. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
174. The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
175. Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder
176. Dustbin Baby by Jacqueline Wilson
177. Fantastic Mr. Fox by Roald Dahl
178. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (In fact, I already know the ending. I just haven't read the whole thing yet.)
179. Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach (One of the most readeable, and touching books, ever. I cried reading it. :X I even spent a Core Reading Programme question on the book, about writing a diary as from the point of a character in the book. I really want to OWN this book. :/)
180. The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
181. The Suitcase Kid by Jacqueline Wilson
182. Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
183. The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay
184. Silas Marner by George Eliot
185. American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
186. Diary of a Nobody by George and Weedon Grossmith
187. Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh
188. Goosebumps by R. L. Stine (LOL. Remember this, people? It's like, back in the primary school days, together with Animorphs, I believe.)
189. Heidi by Johanna Spyri (One of my favourite books when I was young; I read it so often just because I found it one of the more readable classics that I owned at that age. Hell, I even got this book confiscated back when I was in CHIJ, cause I read it under the table during lessons. xD)
190. Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence
191. The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera (I've read his 'Farewell Waltz' and it wasn't bad.)
192. Man and Boy by Tony Parsons
193. The Truth by Terry Pratchett (Aaand I'm going to read it again~~)
194. The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells
195. The Horse Whisperer by Nicholas Evans (Wasn't there a movie about this? O_o)
196. A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
197. Witches Abroad by Terry Pratchett
198. The Once and Future King by T. H. White (Hey, I've read the first part of this. The Sword in the Stone. It was damn funny, and there was also a Disney cartoon about it, remember? XD Didn't know there were three other parts. o_o No wonder I found the author familiar. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Once_and_Future_King)
199. The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle (OH LOL. THIS IS A TOP BOOK TOO? XD Good grief, I must have been able to recite the foods the caterpillar ate back then. =.=)
200. Flowers in the Attic by V. C. Andrews
I'm surprised (and very pleased) at the number of times Terry Pratchett turns up on that list, also surprised that Clockwork Orange isn't there, as well as Life of Pi, The Time-traveller's Wife etc.etc. and the lack of Neil Gaiman. Seriously. They even have The Very Hungry Caterpillar, where's Neil Gaiman? And Madeline L'engle? >O Andand, Brian Jacques?! And Agatha Christie? WHERE ARE THESE PEOPLE.
BAD BOOK LIST. Thou art only redeemed with thy mentions of the cool books that I liked and the awsmness of Terry Pratchett. Bahah.
(Or has it something to do with the publisher... ^^; )
And OI, where's Gulliver's Travels! It was in the same set of classics with my Heidi and Alice in Wonderland! It was purple, and Heidi was orange, and Alice was... blue! Or something. I didn't really like Alice. >.> But I liked Heidi and Gulliver's! >O!
I am pretty amused at how many of the books there that I've read is due to CRP or ERP back in primary school and secondary school, heh. The books from Literature classes that are missing are A Wrinkle in Time, Friedrich, King of the Castle, excluding Shakespeare. I don't think there's anymore I missed..?
Sigh. I WANT TO READ VOCARIOUSLY AGAIN. T___T