The Big Read thinks 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 (or read again)
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 Austen2. The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien3. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte4. Harry Potter series - JK Rowling5. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee6. The Bible7. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte8. Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell9. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman10. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens11. Little Women - Louisa M Alcott12. Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14. Complete Works of Shakespeare15. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16. The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien17. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18. Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger19. The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger20. Middlemarch - George Eliot
21. Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22. The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald23. Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy25. The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams26. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky28. Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll30. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens33. Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis (All of them!)34. Emma - Jane Austen
35. Persuasion - Jane Austen
36. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis37. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini38. Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden40. Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41. Animal Farm - George Orwell
42. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown43. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez44. A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46. Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery47. Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48. The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood49. Lord of the Flies - William Golding50. Atonement - Ian McEwan
51. Life of Pi - Yann Martel52. Dune - Frank Herbert53. Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen55. A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56. The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon57. A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens58. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley59. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon60. Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck62. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63. The Secret History - Donna Tartt64. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold65. Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas66. On The Road - Jack Kerouac67. Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68. Bridget Jones' Diary - Helen Fielding
69. Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie70. Moby Dick - Herman Melville71. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens72. Dracula - Bram Stoker73. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett74. Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75. Ulysses - James Joyce76. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath77. Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78. Germinal - Emile Zola
79. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray80. 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 White88. The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom89. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle90. The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad92. The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery93. The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94. Watership Down - Richard Adams95. A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole96. A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97. The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas98. Hamlet - William Shakespeare99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl100. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
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