I saw this on Phil's page and thought I'd do it.
"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) Post/pass othe list on your site. (This can also remind you of some great books to read.)
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
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
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
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
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
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-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
WOW! I've never felt so UNEDUCATED!!! I'd better get reading, though I didn't like it when I was a kid and only read what I had to for school!
ReplyDeleteLeann, some of these were required reading in high school or college. Some were stories I'd read to the kids when they were little ... others, well ... I spent a lot of free time as a kid reading!
ReplyDeleteI only read what I absolutely HAD TO when I was a kid! Just recently I've started reading for pleasure....at least, when I have the ENERGY!
ReplyDeleteI have hundreds of books here that I cant part with and only came up with 20+ taht I've read on this list LOL.
ReplyDelete1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
3 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
4 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
5 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
6 Complete Works of Shakespeare (nahh just a few were req for english lit)
7 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
8 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien( I tried )
9 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
10 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell(loved it!)
11 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
12 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
13 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
14 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
15 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
16 Animal Farm - George Orwell
17 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown(Tried couldnt do it)
18 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
19 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
20 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
21 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
22 Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding
23 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
24 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
25 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
26 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
27 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
29 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
Leann, I find I read more when my energy is low ... turning pages isn't as draining as say ... scrubbing the bathroom! LOL!
ReplyDeleteHelen, I'm the same way ... I've read a ton of books that aren't on that list. And I refuse to part with a single one of them, too!
ReplyDeleteI started collecting hard covers when I was in my early twenties, now it's hard to get them so I dont mind anymore LOL
ReplyDeletehave 33 on the list -- a lot of my reading lately has been sci-fi, so haven't read most of the newer ones on the list
ReplyDeletewell, you've just confirmed I read too much...and have too many books!!
ReplyDeleteWell I've read 20 of those, some bring back memories of my childhood and some I've read because my children had them. I've read three books in the past week while it's been too hot to do anything else!
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