That Stupid Book Meme
Everyone and their mother has been posting this thing, so I figured I'd use it as a break from writing (it was this or start a new video game, and I figured this would be done in time to let me get The Skinny up in a timely manner).
The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they've printed. Personally, I don't think that's too bad of a number. And I suppose it depends on whether you count reading a book for school as having "read" it, and vice-versa.
1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicise 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 --> ((I used to be a huge dork of this series. I'd even tried learning Quenya. Needless to say, because of the lack of information about the language, as well as my absolute lack of skill with languages, I failed miserably.))
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling --> ((Dude, this can't be a shock to people who know me.))
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee --> ((I got halfway through this for school, but ran out of time and bullshitted the ending for a paper. Woot for cliffnotes!))
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 (though I'm sure there are some arbitrary pieces I've missed)
15 Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien --> ((I actually liked this one better than LotR, but shh, don't tell.))
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 --> ((My old copy was flipped through so frequently that its hardcover spine broke, and I had to get a new one.))
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 --> ((Though I'll admit, I liked the first half of the book better than the last bit.))
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne --> ((Oh c'mon, it's POOH BEAR!))
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez --> ((Possibly, because I loved Marquez's style with Chronicle of a Death Foretold.))
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 --> ((Possibly. People keep reccing it to me, but it's not exactly my type of content.))
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert --> ((I have it on my shelves -- my dad's copy, given to me in good trust. I watched the Sting version once, and I found a lot of the concepts interesting. Don't know if I'll have the patience for the book, however.))
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 --> ((Possibly, because I loved Marquez's style with Chronicle of a Death Foretold.))
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck --> ((I sobbed. Seriously.))
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov --> ((I started this one once, and was both shocked and disturbed.))
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 --> ((This is another one that my dad insists I read. My grandpa agrees. But I dunno, the old movie was enough for me.))
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker --> ((I'll never forget that one of the first times I read the book all the way through was when I had been living at home with my sister. The cover art was too scary for her, so in order to read it when I babysat, I had to fashion a book cover for it. ^^;;))
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 Alborn
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle --> ((I'm always re-amazed that I haven't read these. The Holmes stories seem like something right up my alley.))
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 --> ((Though I liked Dahl's The Witches better.))
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
Stolen from novelog.
The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they've printed. Personally, I don't think that's too bad of a number. And I suppose it depends on whether you count reading a book for school as having "read" it, and vice-versa.
1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicise 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 --> ((I used to be a huge dork of this series. I'd even tried learning Quenya. Needless to say, because of the lack of information about the language, as well as my absolute lack of skill with languages, I failed miserably.))
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling --> ((Dude, this can't be a shock to people who know me.))
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee --> ((I got halfway through this for school, but ran out of time and bullshitted the ending for a paper. Woot for cliffnotes!))
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 (though I'm sure there are some arbitrary pieces I've missed)
15 Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien --> ((I actually liked this one better than LotR, but shh, don't tell.))
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 --> ((My old copy was flipped through so frequently that its hardcover spine broke, and I had to get a new one.))
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 --> ((Though I'll admit, I liked the first half of the book better than the last bit.))
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne --> ((Oh c'mon, it's POOH BEAR!))
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez --> ((Possibly, because I loved Marquez's style with Chronicle of a Death Foretold.))
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 --> ((Possibly. People keep reccing it to me, but it's not exactly my type of content.))
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert --> ((I have it on my shelves -- my dad's copy, given to me in good trust. I watched the Sting version once, and I found a lot of the concepts interesting. Don't know if I'll have the patience for the book, however.))
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 --> ((Possibly, because I loved Marquez's style with Chronicle of a Death Foretold.))
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck --> ((I sobbed. Seriously.))
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov --> ((I started this one once, and was both shocked and disturbed.))
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 --> ((This is another one that my dad insists I read. My grandpa agrees. But I dunno, the old movie was enough for me.))
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker --> ((I'll never forget that one of the first times I read the book all the way through was when I had been living at home with my sister. The cover art was too scary for her, so in order to read it when I babysat, I had to fashion a book cover for it. ^^;;))
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 Alborn
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle --> ((I'm always re-amazed that I haven't read these. The Holmes stories seem like something right up my alley.))
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 --> ((Though I liked Dahl's The Witches better.))
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
Stolen from novelog.