Book Meme, just because ...
Book Meme
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) Italicise those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Reprint this list in your own LJ (if you are that bored!)
** 5) Add a star on either side if you saw the film! (where possible)**
(I added the last one!!)
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1 ** Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen **
2 ** The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien ** (Not seen the 3rd film yet)
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 ** Harry Potter series - JK Rowling **
5 ** To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee **
6 ** The Bible - Why is this eveb on here? Guess it's thick. I'm not a fan of translations! **
7 ** Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte (unfortunately!) **
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 (also a biggie - I have read most!)
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 ** (Um ... wasn't this just listed in # 33?)
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 ** (well, Simon Birch, but I _loved_ The Cider House Rules- and the film!!)
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 [Required high school reading.]?? For some! **
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 ** (and this was my first, big, on stage show!!)
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 ** (for a book club they are not too precise - this is more than one book!)
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 ** The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupéry **
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 ** (see above - what, no Macbeth??)
99 ** Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl **
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
I guess I read a lot. I think it's interesting that this is such a Capital C Cannon list of Big L Literature! I think there is some room for a few more. But reading is good no matter what!
I also suggest you read The Horn of a Lamb by Robert Sedlack ... a very good read, and Canadian!!
EDIT: I forgot to end the bold properly so this is the correct list, rather than just the whole half of the list. Still a lot of reading tho!
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) Italicise those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Reprint this list in your own LJ (if you are that bored!)
** 5) Add a star on either side if you saw the film! (where possible)**
(I added the last one!!)
========================================================================
1 ** Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen **
2 ** The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien ** (Not seen the 3rd film yet)
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 ** Harry Potter series - JK Rowling **
5 ** To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee **
6 ** The Bible - Why is this eveb on here? Guess it's thick. I'm not a fan of translations! **
7 ** Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte (unfortunately!) **
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 (also a biggie - I have read most!)
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 ** (Um ... wasn't this just listed in # 33?)
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 ** (well, Simon Birch, but I _loved_ The Cider House Rules- and the film!!)
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 [Required high school reading.]?? For some! **
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 ** (and this was my first, big, on stage show!!)
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 ** (for a book club they are not too precise - this is more than one book!)
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 ** The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupéry **
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 ** (see above - what, no Macbeth??)
99 ** Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl **
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
I guess I read a lot. I think it's interesting that this is such a Capital C Cannon list of Big L Literature! I think there is some room for a few more. But reading is good no matter what!
I also suggest you read The Horn of a Lamb by Robert Sedlack ... a very good read, and Canadian!!
EDIT: I forgot to end the bold properly so this is the correct list, rather than just the whole half of the list. Still a lot of reading tho!