The Big Read has estimated that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they've printed. How many have you read? Actually #39 is missing and I have no idea what it is, so of the 99 left, how many have you read?
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
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 Hitch Hiker'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
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 Dickens5
8 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
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
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I have read 37...thanks to numerous English classes and Book Club!
This is hilarious!
I've read 37 ALSO!
How did we get the same number? I bet they aren't the same books either.
There were a couple that I thought I might have read sometime but wasn't positive so I didn't count them.
I really can't believe we got the same number.
I have read 35...I think...unless I missed one or two.
Ok, here's my list...
Pride and Prejudice
The Lord of the Rings
Jane Eyre
Harry Potter series
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Bible
Wuthering Heights
Little Women
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
The Hobbit
The Time Traveller's Wife
The Great Gatsby
War and Peace
Crime and Punishment
Anna Karenina
Chronicles of Narnia
Emma
Persuasion
The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe
Animal Farm
The Da Vinci Code
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Anne of Green Gables
Lord of the Flies
Atonement
Life of Pi
Sense and Sensibility
The Shadow of the Wind
Love In The Time Of Cholera
Of Mice and Men
On The Road
Jude the Obscure
Moby Dick
Charlotte's Web
The Five People You Meet In Heaven
Heart of Darkness
Hamlet
My list:
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Eyre
Harry Potter series
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Bible
1984
Great Expectations
Little Women
Catcher in the Rye
Time Traveler's Wife
The Great Gatsby
Hitch Hiker's Guide
Chronicles of Narnia
Emma
Persausion
Lion Witch Wardrobe
Kite Runner
Animal Farm
Da Vinci Code
100 Years Solitude
The Woman in White
Anne of Green Gables
Lord of the Flies
Atonement
Life of Pi
Sense and Sensibility
Shadow of the Wind
Brave New World
Curious Incident of the Dog
Love in the Time of Cholera
Of Mice and Men
Lovely Bones
Secret Garden
The Bell Jar
A Christmas Carol
Charlotte's Web
5 People you Meet in Heaven
I think that is 37.
Oh man I am embarrassed to put my number in...13. I better get on top of my reading. Several I have read b/c of Book Club.
i looked up all the ones from this list that i have never read or even heard of in many cases on amazon to see what they are about. i made a list of 10 that i really want to read.Probably the top 3 that I want to read are:
Rebecca
The Handmaid's Tale
Cold Comfort Farm
coming in after those are:
Lolita
Swallows and Amazons
Vanity Fair
Possession
Faraway Tree Collection
Wasp Factory
Watership Down
Here are the books I've read. And it actually is 37 books!
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
The Bible
Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe- CS Lewis
The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
Animal Farm - George Orwell
The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
Atonement - Ian McEwan
Life of Pi - Yann Martel
Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens5
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
Charlotte's Web - EB White
The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
Hamlet - William Shakespeare
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
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