Think I saw some version of it over at
Urban Recluse some time ago, too. Before anyone starts getting steamed over the selections on the list, please check the link to see how it was compiled, okay? It's all in fun.
The Big Read
reckons that the average adult has only read six 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 blog 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. Tolkien
3
Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series – J.K. Rowling (I
so can't summon the enthusiasm...)
5
To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee (One of the best
ever.)
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 (read about half)
15
Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier
16
The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien
17
Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks
18
Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger
19 The Time Traveler'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 – C.S. Lewis (couldn't finish this)
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 – A.A. 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 (loved
Garp and
Hotel New Hampshire.)
45 The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins
46
Anne of Green Gables – L.M. Montgomery
47
Far From the Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid's Tale – Margaret Atwood
49
Lord of the Flies – William Golding (a truly frightening book)
50 Atonement – Ian McEwan
51
Life of Pi – Yann Martel (dude can write!)
52
Dune – Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons
54
Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
55
A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth (highly recommended by a friend)
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 (the movie didn't wow me, but I'll read the book)
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 Dickens
72 Dracula – Bram Stoker
73
The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett
74
Notes From a Small Island – Bill Bryson (Read
A Walk in the Woods and plan to read
everything by this author.)
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
82 Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
83
The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84
The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro (Loved the movie, so subtle and sensitive. Will definitely read this.)
85
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 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 (read so long ago I recall almost nothing)
97
The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
98
Hamlet – William Shakespeare
99
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl (read his memoir
Boy and loved it)
100
Les Miserables – Victor Hugo
