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According to The Big Read, the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books on their list.
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) 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. Harry Potter series - JK Rowling .
5. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee .
6. The Bible . (Not read so much as had read to by years and years of attending church--I think it counts.)
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 . (Getting there.)
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 Elliot .
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 . (This and the one above as a really young child.)
31. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy .
32. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens .
33. Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis . (Again, not since I was tiny.)
34. Emma - Jane Austen .
35. Persuasion - Jane Austen .
36. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis . (Is this not part of the Chronicles of Narnia?)
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' Diary - Helen Fielding .
69. Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie .
70. Moby Dick - Herman Melville. (Started, couldn't get through it.)
71. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens .
72. Exupery 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
90. The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton .
91. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92. The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint .
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
babydykecate According to The Big Read, the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books on their list.
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) 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. Harry Potter series - JK Rowling .
5. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee .
6. The Bible . (Not read so much as had read to by years and years of attending church--I think it counts.)
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 . (Getting there.)
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 Elliot .
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 . (This and the one above as a really young child.)
31. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy .
32. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens .
33. Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis . (Again, not since I was tiny.)
34. Emma - Jane Austen .
35. Persuasion - Jane Austen .
36. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis . (Is this not part of the Chronicles of Narnia?)
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' Diary - Helen Fielding .
69. Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie .
70. Moby Dick - Herman Melville. (Started, couldn't get through it.)
71. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens .
72. Exupery 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
90. The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton .
91. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92. The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint .
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
