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bearshortyI might have done this one before but its been a while:
"The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they've printed. Well let's see.
1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE."
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien I read it before the third movie came out.
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible - I read the Children's Bible and I read the five books of Torah, so I'm going to count that.
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte I read it by myself in 11th grade, hated it and discovered that I had to read again for school a few months later. Argh. I can't stand the whiny characters.
8 1984 - George Orwell I want to reread it since I last read it in high school
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 - I read a lot but I'm sure not all of it!
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger meh
19 The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell in Russian as a teenager and I probably didn't get a a lot of it. I saw the movie when I was 10
22 The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald I hated this book
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy I read it at 17 in Russian and it slowed down my reading speed after that in both languages.
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 - I think I might have read it as a kid but I don't remember.
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 - saw the movie
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne read it in Russian as a child and in English when my girls were younger
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 - I read World According to Garp and I attended an author talk with Rowling, Stephen King and John Irving once.
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 I loved this book so much that I can't bring myself to watch the movie.
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert I disliked this book a lot.
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen I read all six Austen books. Persuasion is my favorite but I like this one too.
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 read as a kid, should probably re-read it
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac read it in a college class
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy - there was a period when I was obsessed by Hardy
68 Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding - I might have read it. Don't remember.
69 Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville Maybe one day I will try it
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 - one of my favorite books
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 I heard enough about it and I probably should read it.
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas And all the sequels
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo - I tried several times but never got to the end. Maybe 3/4. One day I will read the whole thing
"The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they've printed. Well let's see.
1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE."
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien I read it before the third movie came out.
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible - I read the Children's Bible and I read the five books of Torah, so I'm going to count that.
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte I read it by myself in 11th grade, hated it and discovered that I had to read again for school a few months later. Argh. I can't stand the whiny characters.
8 1984 - George Orwell I want to reread it since I last read it in high school
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 - I read a lot but I'm sure not all of it!
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger meh
19 The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell in Russian as a teenager and I probably didn't get a a lot of it. I saw the movie when I was 10
22 The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald I hated this book
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy I read it at 17 in Russian and it slowed down my reading speed after that in both languages.
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 - I think I might have read it as a kid but I don't remember.
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 - saw the movie
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne read it in Russian as a child and in English when my girls were younger
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 - I read World According to Garp and I attended an author talk with Rowling, Stephen King and John Irving once.
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 I loved this book so much that I can't bring myself to watch the movie.
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert I disliked this book a lot.
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen I read all six Austen books. Persuasion is my favorite but I like this one too.
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 read as a kid, should probably re-read it
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac read it in a college class
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy - there was a period when I was obsessed by Hardy
68 Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding - I might have read it. Don't remember.
69 Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville Maybe one day I will try it
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 - one of my favorite books
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 I heard enough about it and I probably should read it.
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas And all the sequels
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo - I tried several times but never got to the end. Maybe 3/4. One day I will read the whole thing