Literary meme thingy
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ruwheiThe Big Read says that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they've printed.
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 LJ so we can try and track down these people who've only read 6 and force books upon them ;-)
1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2. The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien
3. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4. Harry Potter series - J.K. Rowling – I’ve only read the first book
5. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6. The Bible - I’ll echo Ruwhei here, does anyone actually *read* the Bible and not just parts of it?
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8. Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell - *Read it for school
9. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens – Read this one more than once for school. It’s one of the things that taught me that I really hate Dickens writing
11. Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12. Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller – Read it for school. Eh.
14. The Complete Works of Shakespeare – Read a lot of his works, but not ALL of them
15. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16. The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien – I liked The Hobbit. I really couldn’t get into the Lord of the Rings books, but The Hobbit I rather enjoyed.
17. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18. Catcher in the
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 *- I liked it. I wasn’t as keen on the sequels, but they were enjoyable.
26. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28. Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck .
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30. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame – It was okay.
31. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens – I loathe Dickens. Hey! Everyone is somehow related to someone else or played an integral role in your past!. Bleah
33. The Chronicles of Narnia - C.S. Lewis
34. Emma - Jane Austen
35. Persuasion - Jane Austen *- Jane Austen is not all that and a bag of chips.
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 - A.A. Milne – Better than the Disney versions of the characters, which I also like.
41. Animal Farm - George Orwell *- Read it for school.
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 – Read it for school. I didn’t think it was bad, but didn’t really like it much.
50. Atonement - Ian McEwan
51. Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52. Dune - Frank Herbert – I got free passes to the movie way back when. Read the book after that. Kinda liked it, but I never read any sequels.
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 – Did I mention I dislike Dickens?
58. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley – Read it for school, like most of the ones I’ve read on this list. It wasn’t my cup of tea
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 – I really feel I should read this book, but never do..
67. Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68. Bridget Jones' Diary - Helen Fielding
69. Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie.
70. Moby Dick - Herman Melville – Another one I read for school
71. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens – Hmm, a story about a boy with a crummy life, being mistreated and used by freaky adults. Now who could’ve written hat? Oh yeah! Dickens!
72. Dracula - Bram Stoker
73. The
74. Notes From A
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 - A.S. Byatt
81. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens – Okay, the one thing Dickens wrote that I didn’t hate. Not that I feel any urge to read it again ever.
82. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83. The Color Purple -
84. The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86. A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
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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 – My sister loved this book and talked me into reading it.. Not bad, and far better than Plague Dogs.
95. A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96. A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97. The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas – Read it when I was fairly young, after seeing the 1973 movie version.
98. Hamlet - William Shakespeare – Shouldn’t this be included with #13 ‘The Complete Works’? Read it. Eh.
99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl – Yup. The original Willy Wonka movie scared the bejeezus out of me when I was a little kid. Normally that might’ve kept me away from the book, but then my sister played one of the Aunts in a school play which didn’t scare me so I read it.
100. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo – Read it. Saw the musical in
So at least I can claim to be above average in one category.