grabbed from z111
I hate memes - but this is about books that matter, so here we go:
The Big Read thinks the average adult has only read six of the top 100 books they've printed below.
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 LJ so we can try and track down these people who've read 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.
Harry Potter series – JK Rowling5. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
6. The Bible
7. Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte8.
Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell9. His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman10.
Great Expectations – Charles Dickens11. Little Women – Louisa M Alcott
12. Tess of the D'Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
13.
Catch 22 – Joseph Heller14. Complete Works of Shakespeare
16. The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien 17. Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks
18.
Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger19. The Time Traveller's Wife – Audrey Niffenegger
20. Middlemarch – George Eliot
21. Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell
22.
The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald23.
Bleak House – Charles Dickens24. War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
25.
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 Dickens
33. Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis34. 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 – AA Milne41.
Animal Farm – George Orwell
42.
The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown
43.
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 – LMMontgomery
47. 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 Martel
52.
Dune – Frank Herbert53. 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 Dickens58.
Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
59. The Curious Incident of the Dog inthe Night-time – Mark Haddon
60.
Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez61.
Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck62
. Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov63. The Secret History – Donna Tartt
64. The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold
65.
Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas66.
On The Road – Jack Kerouac67. Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy
68. Bridget Jones' Diary – Helen Fielding (are you frickin' kidding me??)
69. Midnight's Children – Salman Rushdie
70. Moby Dick – Herman Melville
71.
Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens72.
Dracula – Bram Stoker73.
The Secret Garden – Frances HodgsonBurnett74. Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson
75. Ulysses – James Joyce
76. The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
77. Swallows and Amazons – ArthurRansome
78. Germinal – Emile
79. Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
80. Possession – AS Byatt
81.
A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens82. Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
83.
The Color Purple – Alice Walker84
. The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro85. Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
86. A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
87.
Charlotte's Web – EB White88. The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom
89.
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle90. The Faraway Tree Collection –Enid Blyton
91.
Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad92. The Little Prince (Le Petit Prince) – Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93. 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