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The Big Read thinks 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 so we can try and track down these people who've only read 6 and force books upon them ;-)
1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2. The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien
3. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4. Harry Potter series - J. K. Rowling (thanks emma!)
5. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6. The Bible
7. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8. Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell (was OBSESSED with this book)
9. 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 (and i don't even know what it's about...)
14. Complete Works of Shakespeare (okay, that's contradictory -- i've read the complete POEMS of shakespeare, and i intend to read/see the rest later. love shakespeare, but it takes a lot of time and effort to read, which i don't often have.)
15. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16. The Hobbit - J. R. R. Tolkien (EPIC!)
17. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18. Catcher in the Rye - J. D. Salinger (LOVELOVELOVELOVELOVE!!!!)
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 (wheeeee, absolutely delightful.)
26. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky (awesome. disturbing. twisted. ewww, cliche one word sentences. =P not too impressed with his other works i've read since, however. of course, i've only finished one other one.... soo. yeh. =P )
28. The 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. The Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis (this series was my life for a few years.)
34. Emma - Jane Austen
35. Persuasion - Jane Austen
36. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - C. S. Lewis
37. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini (afghanistan, like the rest of the world, intrigues me.)
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 (really unimpressed. too much of a cut and dried manifesto, like l'étranger)
42. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown (movie was enough for me. but emma's comment on this same line reminds me of what i thot of chuck palaniuhk's works.)
43. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez (and in spanish, bitch.)
44. A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46. Anne of Green Gables - Lucy Maud Montgomery
47. Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48. The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
49. Lord of the Flies - William Golding (hated. damn school.)
50. Atonement - Ian McEwan (i trust emma's taste.)
51. Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52. Dune - Frank Herbert (seems to be an epic series, and i can't ignore the recommedations and allusions of so many people.)
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 (yes, emma, you should read it. you'd like it a lot more than either animal farm or 1984, and it's much, much better. also more realistic and similiar to the way our world's going. the giver and ishmael also come to mind in relation to this.
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 (the beginning of my hate for english as a school subject.)
62. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63. The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65. The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66. On The Road - Jack Kerouac (in the middle of now!)
67. Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68. Bridget Jones' Diary - Helen Fielding (The movies will do me just fine, thanks.)
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 (did not like.)
77. Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78. Germinal - Emile Zola (it's french.)
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 (SO tragically human. emma, you MUST read it. I have a copy waiting for you. i think. =P )
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'll read it to you in multiple languages, if you want? i like reading to peoples. especially things like this. but you're better at it than i am. =P)
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 (oui, mais en français)
98. Hamlet - William Shakespeare (ah love me some bardness.)
99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo (i've finished the movie, and read nearly three quarters of it. but then i lost place and myeh it's so long, but i intend to finish it. i WILL finish it. it's so, so, so, so amazing.)
19, and three were kinda cheating. emma so has me beat. to be fair, however, most of the books i read are a touch more obscure than is included in the list, so it's no sign that i'm not well read, i'm just a proper elitist asshole. =P
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 only read 6 and force books upon them ;-)
1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2. The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien
3. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4. Harry Potter series - J. K. Rowling (thanks emma!)
5. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6. The Bible
7. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8. Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell (was OBSESSED with this book)
9. 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 (and i don't even know what it's about...)
14. Complete Works of Shakespeare (okay, that's contradictory -- i've read the complete POEMS of shakespeare, and i intend to read/see the rest later. love shakespeare, but it takes a lot of time and effort to read, which i don't often have.)
15. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16. The Hobbit - J. R. R. Tolkien (EPIC!)
17. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18. Catcher in the Rye - J. D. Salinger (LOVELOVELOVELOVELOVE!!!!)
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 (wheeeee, absolutely delightful.)
26. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky (awesome. disturbing. twisted. ewww, cliche one word sentences. =P not too impressed with his other works i've read since, however. of course, i've only finished one other one.... soo. yeh. =P )
28. The 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. The Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis (this series was my life for a few years.)
34. Emma - Jane Austen
35. Persuasion - Jane Austen
36. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - C. S. Lewis
37. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini (afghanistan, like the rest of the world, intrigues me.)
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 (really unimpressed. too much of a cut and dried manifesto, like l'étranger)
42. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown (movie was enough for me. but emma's comment on this same line reminds me of what i thot of chuck palaniuhk's works.)
43. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez (and in spanish, bitch.)
44. A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46. Anne of Green Gables - Lucy Maud Montgomery
47. Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48. The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
49. Lord of the Flies - William Golding (hated. damn school.)
50. Atonement - Ian McEwan (i trust emma's taste.)
51. Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52. Dune - Frank Herbert (seems to be an epic series, and i can't ignore the recommedations and allusions of so many people.)
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 (yes, emma, you should read it. you'd like it a lot more than either animal farm or 1984, and it's much, much better. also more realistic and similiar to the way our world's going. the giver and ishmael also come to mind in relation to this.
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 (the beginning of my hate for english as a school subject.)
62. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63. The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65. The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66. On The Road - Jack Kerouac (in the middle of now!)
67. Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68. Bridget Jones' Diary - Helen Fielding (The movies will do me just fine, thanks.)
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 (did not like.)
77. Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78. Germinal - Emile Zola (it's french.)
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 (SO tragically human. emma, you MUST read it. I have a copy waiting for you. i think. =P )
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'll read it to you in multiple languages, if you want? i like reading to peoples. especially things like this. but you're better at it than i am. =P)
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 (oui, mais en français)
98. Hamlet - William Shakespeare (ah love me some bardness.)
99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo (i've finished the movie, and read nearly three quarters of it. but then i lost place and myeh it's so long, but i intend to finish it. i WILL finish it. it's so, so, so, so amazing.)
19, and three were kinda cheating. emma so has me beat. to be fair, however, most of the books i read are a touch more obscure than is included in the list, so it's no sign that i'm not well read, i'm just a proper elitist asshole. =P