Friday, June 27, 2008

#30

I stole this from Toi.

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.
4) Reprint this list in your own blog 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 (I bought the first one, got really bored with it, but someday)
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 (This is another one sitting on my bookshelf staring at me)
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 (doesn't this fall under #33? do I get to count it twice)
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 (I got halfway through this in France and stopped)
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 (We bought this from the nuns but I didn't read past Chap. 1)
63
The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64
The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas (Toi~remember how obsessed Mrs. Manwell was with this?)
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

*=reading at the moment

I've got 22. I feel all competitive now. So watch your backs!!!!

Where are all the books Deb made us read? Native Son? The Good Earth? The Awakening? If I HAD to read those, they should be on the list.

1 comments:

Toi said...

I COULDN'T BELIEVE that Native Son wasn't on that list. Remember how she went ON and ON about how it was a classic? Stupid.

And of course, I remember Mrs. Manwell and her obsession. hahaha.

I feel really motivated when I look at this list and then...... I roll over and keep reading "Remember Me".