Look! Things to read!
Yep, this thing's making the rounds again! I saw it on beckyh2112's journal and thought "Oh, why not?" I'm surprised by how many of these I've read, honestly.
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 those you LOVE.
4) Put two plus signs next to the ones that you've tried to read and then gave up on.
5) Put an asterisk next to the books you'd rather die than read (or read again).
01. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen(I go through a periodic Jane Austen phase and I happen to love the hell outta Emma.)
02. The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
03. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
04. Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
05. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
06. The Bible(A childhood of church camp every summer insures this, really.)
07. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte(Just because it does sound delightfully melodramatic. Also, Kate Beaton of Hark! a vagrant fame created a series of insanely funny cartoons based on it.)
08. Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
09. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11. Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
12. Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14. Complete Works of Shakespeare(Hey, once you've read "Titus Andronicus", Shakespeare can't get anymore hokey.)
15. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier(I've read "The Birds" and I've heard that this one's even creepier.)
16. The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18. ++Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger(Holden Caufield is such a whiny little dick.)
19. Both nineteen and the cake are a lie.
20. Middlemarch - George Eliot
21. Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell(I really should. I am Southern girl, after all.)
22. The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
23. Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25. The Hitchhiker'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 - C.S. Lewis
34. Emma - Jane Austen
35. Persuasion - Jane Austen
36. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis(Redundant entry is redundant!)
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 - A.A. Milne
41. Animal Farm - George Orwell
42. *The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez(I loved Chronicle of a Death Foretold. I've always meant to read more of his work.)
44. A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
45. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46. Anne of Green Gables - L.M. Montgomery
47. Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48. The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood(Great book, stupid ending.)
49. *Lord of the Flies - William Golding(SO MUCH HATE for this book.)
50. Atonement - Ian McEwan
51. Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52. ++Dune - Frank Herbert(People tell me it's brilliant, but I just can't get into it.)
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(It just didn't work for me.)
65. The 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("Dense, symbolist tome" doesn't even BEGIN to cover it.)
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 - A.S. 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 - E.B. White
88. *The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90. The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92. The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupery(I totally agreed with the narrator's frustration about people not getting that his picture was of a snake having eaten an elephant.)
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(I've not read the COMPLETE WORKS, mind, but I've gotten a good way into them.)
99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
Seriously, no love for James Thurber or Ursula LeGuin? What's up with that?
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 those you LOVE.
4) Put two plus signs next to the ones that you've tried to read and then gave up on.
5) Put an asterisk next to the books you'd rather die than read (or read again).
01. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen(I go through a periodic Jane Austen phase and I happen to love the hell outta Emma.)
02. The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
03. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
04. Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
05. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
06. The Bible(A childhood of church camp every summer insures this, really.)
07. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte(Just because it does sound delightfully melodramatic. Also, Kate Beaton of Hark! a vagrant fame created a series of insanely funny cartoons based on it.)
08. Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
09. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11. Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
12. Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14. Complete Works of Shakespeare(Hey, once you've read "Titus Andronicus", Shakespeare can't get anymore hokey.)
15. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier(I've read "The Birds" and I've heard that this one's even creepier.)
16. The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18. ++Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger(Holden Caufield is such a whiny little dick.)
19. Both nineteen and the cake are a lie.
20. Middlemarch - George Eliot
21. Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell(I really should. I am Southern girl, after all.)
22. The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
23. Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25. The Hitchhiker'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 - C.S. Lewis
34. Emma - Jane Austen
35. Persuasion - Jane Austen
36. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis(Redundant entry is redundant!)
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 - A.A. Milne
41. Animal Farm - George Orwell
42. *The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez(I loved Chronicle of a Death Foretold. I've always meant to read more of his work.)
44. A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
45. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46. Anne of Green Gables - L.M. Montgomery
47. Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48. The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood(Great book, stupid ending.)
49. *Lord of the Flies - William Golding(SO MUCH HATE for this book.)
50. Atonement - Ian McEwan
51. Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52. ++Dune - Frank Herbert(People tell me it's brilliant, but I just can't get into it.)
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(It just didn't work for me.)
65. The 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("Dense, symbolist tome" doesn't even BEGIN to cover it.)
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 - A.S. 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 - E.B. White
88. *The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90. The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92. The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupery(I totally agreed with the narrator's frustration about people not getting that his picture was of a snake having eaten an elephant.)
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(I've not read the COMPLETE WORKS, mind, but I've gotten a good way into them.)
99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
Seriously, no love for James Thurber or Ursula LeGuin? What's up with that?