The Big Read

[kageisuke]

Well, I wanted a book list? This one is something else to tack on?

The Big Read reckons 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) Strike out the books you have no intention of ever reading, or were forced to read at school and hated.
5) Reprint this list in your own LJ so we can try and track down these people who've read less than 6 and force books upon them.

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 -
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens Oh snap, school required reading.
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller I started it, cus it was on my list. Got to page 92 and couldn't take it anymore. It sucked.
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
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 On my list \o/
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky Isn't this on my list? If not, it is now!
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 - CS Lewis I KNOW I read this in Elementary school. I don't remember a LICK except the title, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. Conveniently on the list below
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 Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne Unless they mean the original and not one of the bajillion OTHER books.
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
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 School reading /o/ I liked it, Piggy bashing aside.
50 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 Another school one... but did I read it?
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
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck School reading.
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas - ........Gankutsuo doesn't count, does it XDDDD?
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 - Arthur Ransome
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 Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams Hellz yeah! Elementary school I read this! Don't remember shit. Should probably read it again >_>
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

I fail.

Comments

[havocmangawip.livejournal.com]

50 of them here... but I'm elderly at 33... and have been a book hoarder/loner for most of my life.

[kageisuke.livejournal.com]

HOYL CRAP. 50?! I was kinda a loner in class, too and read, but... not the things on this list XD

[abandonreality.livejournal.com]

HOLY SHIT, NEVER THE HOBBIT!

*shakes head* Soooo disappointed.

Oh, and 44, btw.

[kageisuke.livejournal.com]

Yeah well. I was reading other things. -__-;

What about #44?

[abandonreality.livejournal.com]

I've read 44 of them. Did the meme too.

[kageisuke.livejournal.com]

*facepalms* i read so little... ;_;

[abandonreality.livejournal.com]

Well, you have to realize that I have three years of English Lit college major in there and probably a quarter of that was required reading for that. And then some more of them were High School reading.

I noticed that they forgot a LOT on there. I didn't see "Cold Sassy Tree" or any of Nathaniel Hawthorne's works. Or Ray Bradbury's.. >/

[kageisuke.livejournal.com]

Aa yeah... The English lit part.

Well, I know Ray Bradbury by name but can't remember for the life of me why he's important or anything.

[abandonreality.livejournal.com]

Wrote, "I am Legend" and "Fahrenheit 451"

[kageisuke.livejournal.com]

Ahaaa~ Fahrenheit 451. That's where I knew him from. I don't remember what that was about.

[smell-likesun.livejournal.com]

It was about a dystopian future where books are outlawed and Firemen, instead of putting fires out, were in charge of finding rebels, killing or arresting them and burning their books.

The story is about a Fireman who somehow gets hold of a book and reads it and sees how corrupt the gov't is. The title is in reference to the temperature at which books burn.

[kageisuke.livejournal.com]

Aaa, that's what I thought. I 'read' that one! Books on tape from when I was working at Wachovia and typing! I thought that was really interesting!

[abandonreality.livejournal.com]

Nothing wrong with books on tape.

My mum uses them bunches when she drives the 7 hour drive down here. Down here at Cracker Barrel Restaurants/Stores, you can buy used audiobooks and trade them in at any other Cracker Barrel you stop at.

[kageisuke.livejournal.com]

Ooo, not a bad idea. I just use the library. 8D

The limit is 50 books that you can check out at a time. XDDDD