My "cousin" Megan posted this on her blog and I've been looking for a good list of books to tackle so I figured I'd look at where I was at on this list
"The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they’ve printed.”
1) Bold: I have read.
2) Italics: Those I intend to read.
3) ?: don't know enough about it to judge
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 The Harry Potter Series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nine-Teen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials – Phillip 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 – J.R.R. Tolkien
17 Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveler's Wife ?
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-tried and failed
28 Grapes of Wrath - Steinbeck -tried and failed
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy ?
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 Hosseini38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milner
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 Meany-?
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--seen movie :)
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
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon?
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez---started...never finished
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?
75 Ulysses - James Joyce?
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath?
77 Swallows and Amazons?
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 St. 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
1 comment:
I made it down a few notes and had to throw my two cents in (you know me). I hated Wuthering Heights. I respect it, it's well-done. But I'll never read it again.
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