According to the
Big Read, the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they've chosen. Those books are seemingliy considered MUST-READS... so I was really curious to see how well I would fare...
Instructions:
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 so we can try and track down these people who've read six and force books upon them.
1 Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien3 Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series – J.K. Rowling5 To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee6 The Bible7 Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte8 Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman10 Great Expectations – Charles Dickens11 Little Women – Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D'Urbervilles– Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 – Joseph Heller14 Complete
Works of Shakespeare15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier16 The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien17 Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger19 The Time Traveler's Wife – Audrey Niffenegger20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With the Wind – Margaret Mitchell22 The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy25 The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams26 Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll30 The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame31 Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia – C.S. Lewis34 Emma – Jane Austen
35 Persuasion – Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – C.S. Lewis37 The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini38 Captain Corelli's Mandolin – Louis de Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh – A.A. Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell42 The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel García Márquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney – John Irving45 The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables – L.M. Montgomery47 Far From the Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid's Tale – Margaret Atwood49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement – Ian McEwan51 Life of Pi – Yann Martel52 Dune - Frank Herbert53 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 Zafón57 A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon60
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 Tartt64 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 Fielding69 Midnight's Children – Salman Rushdie70 Moby-Dick – Herman Melville71 Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens72 Dracula - Bram Stoker73 The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett74 Notes From a Small Island – Bill Bryson75 Ulysses – James Joyce76 The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons – Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal – Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession – A.S. 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 Ishiguro85 Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte's Web – E.B. White
88 The Five People You Meet in Heaven – Mitch Albom89
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad92 The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down – Richard Adams95 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
So I haven't read Jane Austen and some other classics... Some of the books I even
started to read (13, 14 (has anyone read ALL of Shakespeares works?), 60, 65, 89, 98). Still a lot to read and so little time. Excuse me, I have to start
NOW.