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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 out the books you have no intention of ever reading, or were forced to read at school and hated.
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 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR 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 Complete Works of Shakespeare ( I've read alot of it...)
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
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
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
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's 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
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've read a bunch...)
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
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
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
And the revised version, for the thespians present, by shutterbug_12 (I got from earlwyn) : The Big Read Drama Edition.
1 The Oresteia - Aeschylus
2 Lysistrata - Aristophanes
3 The Bacchae - Euripides
4 Medea - Euripides
5 Antigone - Sophocles
6 Oedipus Rex - Sophocles
7 The Menaechmi - Plautus
8 Everyman - Anon.
9 The Second Shepherd’s Play - Anon.
10 Any play from the York cycle - Anon.
11 Dulcitius - Hrotsvit
12 The Mandrake - Machiavelli
13 The Marriage of Figaro - Beaumarchais
14 Sakuntala & the Ring of Recollection - Kalidasa
15 The Alchemist - Jonson
16 Volpone - Jonson
17 Doctor Faustus - Marlowe
18 Hamlet - Shakespeare
19 Macbeth - Shakespeare
20 Othello - Shakespeare
21 Richard III - Shakespeare
22 Tempest - Shakespeare
23 A Midsummer Night’s Dream - Shakespeare
24 Twelfth Night - Shakespeare
25 The Duchess of Malfi - Webster
26 Tartuffe - Moliere
27 Phédre - Racine
28 The Rover - Behn
29 The Busy Body - Centlivre
30 Way of the World - Congreve
31 She Stoops to Conquer - Goldsmith
32 The Man of Mode - Etherege
33 The Beggar's Opera - Gay
34 The Country Wife - Wycherly
35 The School for Scandal - Sheridan
36 Woyzeck - Büchner
37 Faust - Goethe
38 Maria Stuart - Schiller
39 The Girl of the Golden West - Belasco
40 A Leap to Freedom - Brown
41 The Cherry Orchard - Chekhov
42 The Seagull - Chekhov
43 House of Bernarda Alba - Lorca
44 A Doll's House - Ibsen
45 Caste - Robertson
46 Miss Julie - Strindberg
47 Playboy of the Western World - Synge
48 The Importance of Being Earnest - Wilde
49 Blithe Spirit - Coward
50 Spurt of Blood - Artaud
51 Waiting for Godot - Beckett
52 Mother Courage - Brecht
53 Caucasian Chalk Circle - Brecht
54 Six Characters in Search of an Author - Pirandello
55 Major Barbara - Shaw
56 Cloud Nine - Churchill
57 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead - Stoppard
58 The Zoo Story - Albee
59 Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf - Albee
60 Trifles - Glaspell
61 From Morn to Midnight - Kaiser
62 The House of Blue Leaves - Guare
63 A Raisin in the Sun - Hansberry
64 Emperor of Haiti - Hughes
65 Translations - Friel
66 Machinal - Treadwell
67 Angels in America - Kushner
68 Death of a Salesman - Miller
69 Long Day's Journey into Night - O'Neill
70 A Streetcar Named Desire - Williams
71 The Glass Menagerie - Williams
72 Our Town - Wilder
73 Dutchman - Baraka
74 Fefu and Her Friends - Fornes
75 Master Harold and the Boys - Fugard
76 The Balcony - Genet
77 No Place to be Somebody - Gordone
78 M. Butterfly - Hwang
79 The White Haired Girl - Jingzhi, He
80 The Bald Soprano - Ionesco
81 Glengarry Glen Ross - Mamet
82 Love! Valor! Compassion! - McNally
83 Look Back in Anger - Osborne
84 Topdog/ Underdog - Parks
85 The Homecoming - Pinter
86 No Exit - Sartre
87 Equus - Shaffer
88 True West - Shepard
89 Death and the King’s Horseman - Soyinka
90 The Heidi Chronicles - Wasserstein
91 Fences - Wilson, A.
92 Fifth of July - Wilson, L.
93 How I Learned to Drive - Vogel
94 And the Soul Shall Dance - Yamauchi
95 The Vision of Vasavadatta - Bhasa
96 The Love Suicides at Sonezaki - Chikamatsu
97 Narukami - Danjuro
98 The West Chamber - Wang Shifu
99 The Cid - Cornielle
100 The Sheepwell (Fuente Ovejuna) - Lope de Vega
I'm surprised I've read more plays than books on these lists.