Book meme

[heathershaped]

Stolen from cloverdew.

The Big Read thinks the average adult has only read six of the top 100 books they've printed below.

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.

I've read 41. Not bad. :D

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
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
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 - C.S. Lewis
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
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
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones' 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

Comments

[inell.livejournal.com]

*does count* Looks like I've read about 53, and, sadly, almost all those were read back in high school when I used to be more literate and clever. A good dozen, at least, were from honors English classes. LOL.

[heather11483.livejournal.com]

Yeah, a good chunk of those I read were in high school lit, too. LOL.

♥

[inell.livejournal.com]

♥

[heather11483.livejournal.com]

DANNY!!!!!! *flail*

*cough*

[inell.livejournal.com]

*giggle* Why are you here commenting instead of driving home?

[heather11483.livejournal.com]

I'm going, I'm going. :P

OMG ANOTHER ONE. GUH. Where did you get these? You're making me want to make a set.

[inell.livejournal.com]

Hee! I was bored earlier and found a SYTYCD comm on LJ. Someone had posted icons, and I found those two pretty ones. Hee! ♥

[idea-of-sarcasm.livejournal.com]

Did the people who've only read six....I don't know, not attend any type of schooling at all?? That's the only way I could see having such a low number - a fair number were required reading.

[heather11483.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'd say almost a quarter of these would have been required at some point. Of course, not everyone did their required readings... lol. Spark or Cliff's notes had to've made money from somewhere. :P

[toffeeliz.livejournal.com]

wow.....5. In my defence I'm in the middle of Emma by Austen....I fail :(

[heather11483.livejournal.com]

Aww! Yeah, a fair few of them I read in school, so who knows if I'd have picked those up otherwise.

[florahart]

54, and pieces of another 8 or so I gave up on. However, probably 20 or more of those (some of which I hated kind of a lot) were for lit classes toward my, you know, lit degree, so.

Also, Why are Chronicles of Narnia and Lion, Witch and Wardrobe separate entries? Weird.

[heather11483.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's the thing. A chunk of these would've been required even in high school lit, and Mockingbird for example I read for the first time in like eighth grade. My degree's in biology, so there're maybe less than ten that I read at college.

The Narnia one is weird, and also they've got the complete works of Shakespeare separate from Hamlet. Huh. Even if they singled that one out, why that one and not MacBeth, or whatever. I had to read that one in ninth grade.

[the_rainbow_jen]

I noticed that too. Apparently reading the one doesn't mean you've read the whole series. Which might explain the lack of enthusiasm for Caspian at the box office, but still

[the_rainbow_jen]

I'm rather ashamed of my score. There's more books I want and intend to read than there are books actually read! *facepalm*

[heather11483.livejournal.com]

♥!! A bunch of them I may never have picked up if it weren't for some class or another.

[marenkp.livejournal.com]

I've only read a piddling 20 of them (a good half of them in high school), but I have another 16 of them sitting right here next to me on my bookshelf, still waiting patiently to be read. How embarrassing is that? Only 20? And I call myself a book lover. *hangs head in shame*

But wait, wait! I read a lot more than this list would suggest. Where's The Scarlett Letter, huh? Where's The House of Seven Gables? Where's Phantom of the Opera? I've read all those! And what about all the really great YA books out there in the reading world? How come there aren't more of those on the list?

*sighs*

[pettybureaucrat.livejournal.com]

I'm impressed. I've only read 23. Most of them in high school or college.