Jun. 26th, 2008

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"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 put *** next to the ones that you read
2) * Next to the ones that you intend to read
3) ***Bracket the ones that 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

#note that this is not the top 100 books of all time

1 ***Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 ***The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 [***Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte]
4 * Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 [***To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee]
6 ***The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte {kim, i hate this book too. never finished it}
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
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 Hitchhiker'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 - 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 Golden
40 ***Winnie the Pooh - AA 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
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
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 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
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 - 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]
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]

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