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"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) Strike out the books you have no intention of ever reading, or were forced to read at school and hated.
5) 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 MR DARCY. *swoon*
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 The Harry Potter Series - JK Rowling All except the last book. I just... keep finding other books to read?
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 Me and Dickens, man. I want to love him. But. The love, it does not happen.
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott (and all the others, yes.)
12 Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare ... Italicized because there's still some I haven't read yet. 'Cause. There's a lot. But the best is totally 'Much Ado About Nothing'. ... Or 'Taming of the Shrew'.
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien And if the movie doesn't have a kickass Thranduil, there's gonna be hate mail for a certain film producer.
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger THE BEST. FOR SERIOUS. READ THIS.
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens More of the me and Dickens theme.
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 ... Almost striked out, because OMG DEPRESSING, but... it is well written. JUST WAY DEPRESSING HI STEINBECK PLZ BE HAVING PROZAC.
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens Me. Dickens. Covered above. Sorry Doctor, I'm trying to be a fan.
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis :D
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis Um. *points at 33* ... Um.
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 How do people get out of childhood without reading this? It's adormidable.
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 Annnnd all the others. :D
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 This one is good. The sequels? Not nearly so cohesive.
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 I did manage to read and like this one!
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon This one? Also fantastic.
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 BWAHAHAH IF YOU CAN READ THE UNABRIDGED VERSION, DO SO. OF AWESOME, PEOPLE.
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 Aka 'Persistence sometimes really doesn't pay off'.
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens Me, Dickens, still trying.
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker Bwahahaha LOVE.
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 *Siiiigh* This one in particular. It's a CHRISTMAS GHOST STORY. How awesome is that? Except for the fact I've never made it past the first chapter?
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 Heee. Read it until the book fell apart. Fine Pig.
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Favorites = Three Gerridebs, and the one about the lady on the bike. :D
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad UGH.
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams 'The Plague Dogs' is good too.
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas I love Dumas. So much. :D Oh noes, we need to have a 100% private meeting, how should we do it? Oh, I know, let's get a picnic lunch and take a stroll over to that castle the English want to take over today. We'll just put up some scarecrows along the ramparts, that'll keep them away, right? *snickers*
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare ... Um. *points way above to the complete works of Shakespeare* Um?
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl Dahl is also made of win. 'The BFG', people.
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo I have a copy in French, even. Problem being I don't speak French. It's slow going. >.>
32 Titles. Huh. 30 if you count the doubled-up entries.
rowanberries"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) Strike out the books you have no intention of ever reading, or were forced to read at school and hated.
5) 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 MR DARCY. *swoon*
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 The Harry Potter Series - JK Rowling All except the last book. I just... keep finding other books to read?
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 Me and Dickens, man. I want to love him. But. The love, it does not happen.
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott (and all the others, yes.)
12 Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare ... Italicized because there's still some I haven't read yet. 'Cause. There's a lot. But the best is totally 'Much Ado About Nothing'. ... Or 'Taming of the Shrew'.
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien And if the movie doesn't have a kickass Thranduil, there's gonna be hate mail for a certain film producer.
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger THE BEST. FOR SERIOUS. READ THIS.
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens More of the me and Dickens theme.
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 ... Almost striked out, because OMG DEPRESSING, but... it is well written. JUST WAY DEPRESSING HI STEINBECK PLZ BE HAVING PROZAC.
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens Me. Dickens. Covered above. Sorry Doctor, I'm trying to be a fan.
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis :D
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis Um. *points at 33* ... Um.
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 How do people get out of childhood without reading this? It's adormidable.
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 Annnnd all the others. :D
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 This one is good. The sequels? Not nearly so cohesive.
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 I did manage to read and like this one!
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon This one? Also fantastic.
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 BWAHAHAH IF YOU CAN READ THE UNABRIDGED VERSION, DO SO. OF AWESOME, PEOPLE.
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 Aka 'Persistence sometimes really doesn't pay off'.
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens Me, Dickens, still trying.
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker Bwahahaha LOVE.
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 *Siiiigh* This one in particular. It's a CHRISTMAS GHOST STORY. How awesome is that? Except for the fact I've never made it past the first chapter?
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 Heee. Read it until the book fell apart. Fine Pig.
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Favorites = Three Gerridebs, and the one about the lady on the bike. :D
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
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92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams 'The Plague Dogs' is good too.
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas I love Dumas. So much. :D Oh noes, we need to have a 100% private meeting, how should we do it? Oh, I know, let's get a picnic lunch and take a stroll over to that castle the English want to take over today. We'll just put up some scarecrows along the ramparts, that'll keep them away, right? *snickers*
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare ... Um. *points way above to the complete works of Shakespeare* Um?
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl Dahl is also made of win. 'The BFG', people.
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo I have a copy in French, even. Problem being I don't speak French. It's slow going. >.>
32 Titles. Huh. 30 if you count the doubled-up entries.
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Date: 2008-06-26 12:36 pm (UTC)