Well Nav, since you asked...
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themadpokerThe 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) Italicise 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 (Someday? I read the first one and got a start on the second but I couldn't keep going. Excessive description Tolkien, seriously)
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte (I have to read this one for Grade 12 English)
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 1984 - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman (That underlining applies to The Golden Compass, not so much the other two. Though they were pretty great too)
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott (I haven't read this in a really long time but I thought it was epically awesome when I was kid so... =) )
12 Tess of the D'Urbervilles -
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 (ugh Holden Caulfield, never darken my mind's doorway again)
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 (added bonus of inspiring other awesome books! Such as The Looking Glass Wars by Frank Beddor. Or that one short story that song The Girl That's Never Been is based on)
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis (!!! If I knew how to make lj do multiple underlinings this series would merit it)
34 Emma - Jane Austen (I started it, never got to finishing it. I did quite like Emma though)
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis (you realize this is part of the series, right Big Read? 0_o)
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden (started, don't think I'm ever going to bother to go back and finish it)
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 (another grade 12 English book! I await with fearful apprehension)
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 (what's the opposite of underline? Because if I'd read this when I got to the point of giving up my near religious determination to never not finish a book I would probably have thrown it across my room at some point. It sucked really badly)
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen (Also I have a secret to confess. Part of the reason I want to read Jane Austen is so I can read Austenland by Shannon Hale. Because Shannon Hale's pretty awesome and I'll likely appreciate the book more once I've read Austen. xD)
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 (What's up with the face Nav? This book wasn't bad, particularly considering its competition)
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 [I can't remember if I've actually read this or just seen the Wishbone episode (whatever happened to that show? It was awesome!) So unbolded it shall remain]
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac (Cory Doctorow mentioned it in Little Brother! Which is an amazing book. Just so you all know. Little Brother guys, buy it.)
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 [D=<)
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 (Matilda should be on this list! It could replace Life of Pi!)
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
List seems pretty biased to classics and "bestsellers" (I honestly do not know what kind of weird criteria they use for bestseller lists because alot of them suck and I cannot understand why numerous people would read them. I also have difficulty finding said numerous people who've read them but w/e). I can see someone having read only 6 or less of these despite being an avid reader.
1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicise 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 (Someday? I read the first one and got a start on the second but I couldn't keep going. Excessive description Tolkien, seriously)
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte (I have to read this one for Grade 12 English)
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 1984 - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman (That underlining applies to The Golden Compass, not so much the other two. Though they were pretty great too)
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott (I haven't read this in a really long time but I thought it was epically awesome when I was kid so... =) )
12 Tess of the D'Urbervilles -
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 (ugh Holden Caulfield, never darken my mind's doorway again)
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 (added bonus of inspiring other awesome books! Such as The Looking Glass Wars by Frank Beddor. Or that one short story that song The Girl That's Never Been is based on)
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis (!!! If I knew how to make lj do multiple underlinings this series would merit it)
34 Emma - Jane Austen (I started it, never got to finishing it. I did quite like Emma though)
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis (you realize this is part of the series, right Big Read? 0_o)
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden (started, don't think I'm ever going to bother to go back and finish it)
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 (another grade 12 English book! I await with fearful apprehension)
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 (what's the opposite of underline? Because if I'd read this when I got to the point of giving up my near religious determination to never not finish a book I would probably have thrown it across my room at some point. It sucked really badly)
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen (Also I have a secret to confess. Part of the reason I want to read Jane Austen is so I can read Austenland by Shannon Hale. Because Shannon Hale's pretty awesome and I'll likely appreciate the book more once I've read Austen. xD)
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 (What's up with the face Nav? This book wasn't bad, particularly considering its competition)
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 [I can't remember if I've actually read this or just seen the Wishbone episode (whatever happened to that show? It was awesome!) So unbolded it shall remain]
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac (Cory Doctorow mentioned it in Little Brother! Which is an amazing book. Just so you all know. Little Brother guys, buy it.)
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 [D=<)
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 (Matilda should be on this list! It could replace Life of Pi!)
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
List seems pretty biased to classics and "bestsellers" (I honestly do not know what kind of weird criteria they use for bestseller lists because alot of them suck and I cannot understand why numerous people would read them. I also have difficulty finding said numerous people who've read them but w/e). I can see someone having read only 6 or less of these despite being an avid reader.
