Borrowed from
jperceval "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 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.
Started, never finished.
3
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4
Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
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
Well, I used to love it, not so much anymore.12 Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
Haven't read all of them.15
Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16
The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18
Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
Overrated 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
Never finished
25
The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Never finished28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
Never finished29 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
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
Unfinished.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's Diary - Helen Fielding
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
Started, never finished.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
Started, never finished.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
This is a classic of some kind? Maybe of junk.89
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91
Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
Read it in high school and again in college twice, once for a lit class and once for a textual analysis class in conjunction with Apocalypse Now. Hate this book. Afterthought: one of the characters of Alex Carr's The Prince of Bagram Prison was Kurtz -- reference to this book? I think so.
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
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
Read 37 books. Attempted to read 7 more. Have 10 or more TBR.