Too fun to resist - Gacked from loads of people.
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 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
3
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte4
Harry Potter series - JK Rowling5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible - some of it.
7
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte8
Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12
Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy13
Catch 22 - Joseph Heller14 Complete Works of Shakespeare -- not all of them, but
Love 'the Tempest', 'Hamlet', 'Macbeth', 'King Lear'
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier16
The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18
Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger19 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 Tolstoy25
The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams26
Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh27
Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky28
Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29
Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30
The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame31 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
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39
Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden40
Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne41
Animal Farm - George Orwell
42
The DaVinci 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 Collins46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47
Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy48
The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood49
Lord of the Flies - William Golding50 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 Huxley59 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's Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71
Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73
The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce.....I've read about half - it's still laying next to the bed waiting for me
76
The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81
A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens82 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 Toole96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98
Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
I'd like to read most of these that I haven't, but there's only so many hours in a day and night.
Wish there were more short stories listed, and I miss Jorge Luis Borges and Franz Kafka.