Book meme

[annabtg]

The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they've printed. Well let's see.

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 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
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

7! Wee, I passed xD

Comments

[elshadye.livejournal.com]

Yay, you've read Little Women! {is cheering all people who have read "her" book}

Next to add to your list, recommended by mmeeeeeee, is Narnia. Gooooood books. :-)

[annabtg.livejournal.com]

Aha, will keep that in mind. I saw "The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe" at the cinema and I liked it, so I'm quite interested in reading the books. Haven't read anything in eons, though, so I don't know how that will go.

Hugs ^^

[elshadye.livejournal.com]

Well, if you do read them, let me know what you think! The movie was well done, but the book is and will always be better. :-) My mom read the entire series aloud to us when I was a kid and I've read them all countless times since, so they hold a special place in my heart.

Oh! But if you read them, read them in their proper order. I don't know if they've got the wrong order in Greek the way they do in English, but the way you should read them is this:
1. Lion, Witch and the Wardrobe
2. Prince Caspian
3. Voyage of the Dawn Treader
4. The Silver Chair
5. The Horse and His Boy (this techincally takes place "during" the LWW, which is why the "new" order puts it immediately after LWW. But that's wrong, as PC, VotDT and tSC follow the Pevensie kids, whereas tHaHB has hardly any of the kids in it and focuses on other main characters.)
6. The Magician's Nephew (they try and put this one first, because it's about the origins/creation of Narnia. DON'T READ IT FIRST. It's a way weird wonky book that, if read first, is just plain...weird. If you've already read the first five and love Narnia, though, it's beautiful and amazing.)
7. The Last Battle

{/Narnia Soapbox}

[annabtg.livejournal.com]

Aha, thank you :)

To be honest, I haven't read anything new in a while, so I don't see myself reading the Chronicles of Narnia anytime soon :x But someday I'll get back to reading, and then... :D

[cyad.livejournal.com]

YAY for passing! *g*

Another "little women" and "Jane Eyre" fan, YAY! Jane Eyre is the book that made the most impression on me. I had this Brönté family thing when everybody wa praising Wurthering heights. I really prefer Jane Eyre. and I'll shut up now. ;)

Have a super end of week... holidays yet?

[annabtg.livejournal.com]

I am quite curious to read Wuthering Heights, to be honest. I remember liking Jane Eyre a lot - it was one of the first books I ever read in English.

Yes! It's holidays already. :) Thanks, and have a great one too! :)

♥

[cyad.livejournal.com]

Thanks! sure will! :)

[timetraveled.livejournal.com]

I'm too scared to touch this meme. I'd only humiliate myself, lol. I say I like reading but I think the only books I read are Harry Potter!

[annabtg.livejournal.com]

Haha xD

Well, I've been reading all of my life, and only made 7/100 here. :x

[elshadye.livejournal.com]

To be fair, most of these books are originally in English. And I know many of the ones I had read were for classes (high school English lit, college English lit - as an English lit major), so I wouldn't belittle your 7. That's still impressive. :)

Of course, I'm still going to push you to make it 8 by reading Narnia. O:)

[timetraveled.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but it's not like you're 80 years old (or are you? lol)! So even if you have been reading all your life it's not that's long considering how young you are, unless you read Jane Austen the moment you popped out of your mum's uterus :P

[annabtg.livejournal.com]

Nah... I *have* been reading since before I went to school but I didn't begin with Jane Austen :P I started out with fairy tales, then Greek mythology and then Disney comics and biology :p

(I was a weird kid, that much is true.)

[timetraveled.livejournal.com]

You read biology when you were little?! You may have been a little weird but very adorable ♥

[annabtg.livejournal.com]

Hi and welcome :) I'm adding you back.

WOo HOO!!!

[jrider264re.livejournal.com]

17...could be a record. The vast majority of those 17 were required in school here. Some I just read because I liked to read....still do, though these days it's mostly Dean Koontz, James Patterson, David Baldacci, and Janet Evanovich.

Re: WOo HOO!!!

[annabtg.livejournal.com]

I don't know any of these writers :x

I kinda find it funny you have whole books as required reading at school. (Good for you, though.) We only study short passages of books here.

[elfishscallywag.livejournal.com]

Totally stealing this.
And... Er... Hi. Maybe you don't remember me anymore, sorry. I haven't posted for... Over a *year*. But I'm trying to get more active, so you'll probably see some more of me! :)

[annabtg.livejournal.com]

Of course I remember you! How are you? Is everything going all right? *I* am the one who's fallen off the face of LJ these past few months :x

[elfishscallywag.livejournal.com]

You seriously do? Wow... My compliments to your memory and niceness skills. Yes, I'm alright. No limb loss or being in jail in the last year. I'm sure I'll put it on my LJ if that happens later on. :P And the last post before my grand returnination was when I turned *fourteen*! Aah! That's over a year and a half! I'm bad.
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