Yey books!

[hurrysundown]

The Big Read thinks the average adult has only read six of the top 100 books they've printed below. (I suspect this list is geared towards US-based readers.)

1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read.

Comments

[desolation_no]

1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2. The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien
3. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4. The Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6. The Bible
7. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8. Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
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. The Complete Works of Shakespeare
16. The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien
17. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18. A 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. The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29. Alice in Wonderland

[desolation_no]

Yeah, hooray for a dad who was determined to give me a foundation in the classics. We kept reading books aloud at bedtime till I was maybe 12 or 13.

Also, this is a really good booklist because there are a zillion books on here that I want to read by never remember when I'm looking for a book to read.

Also, read Watership Down, damnit. It's excellent. I'll lend you my copy.

[hurrysundown]

Ahh, I love me some nerdy friends ;.) I figured you'd have a good shot at this list, too. I got 21, Jarad got twelve - which is still twice the "average". Watership Down is a very scary movie, I hope the book is not quite so bizarre?

[desolation_no]

The book is awesome. The only thing that makes the movie weird is the trippy 60's montage of fighting rabbits with a Simon and Garfunkle song or something like that. The book is way better anyhow, as is standard.

[abyssmorphasis]

I got 14 but I'm too lazy to do the bolding and such. Actually can I get 14.3? I have the complete works of Shakespeare and have read about 1/3 or so of them =P. I want to read Dracula. Pretty much everything I read on the list was from school except Pooh, Hamlet and The Hobbit.

[abyssmorphasis]

Also Watership Down gave me nightmares for years as a child.

[talbeans]

For starters, this list is completely ridiculous. How can you throw something like Bridget Jones Diary in with Tolstoy? Also, why is Hamlet listed apart from the complete work of Shakespeare? I laughed when I got to A Woman in White, which was thought of as smut when it came out, and is now on some highly esteemed list. However, when I saw some of the other so called books I was not surprised. Not to mention it clearly says 'books' and several of these are not books.
Anyway, I have read 47 of them, but can't seem to figure out how to post them correctly. Shows how much good a lot of reading does :P

[talbeans]

Make that 51...apparently I can't count either :(

[hurrysundown]

That's almost exactly what I thought, too - About Hamlet/The Complete Works, and about The Lion, The Witch, And The Wardrobe/The Chronicles of Narnia. I do wonder who came up with this list and why they're the "top" or whatever 100.