I found this over at
Sassymonkey Reads today ...
According to The Big Read, the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books on this list.
The instructions:
Look at the list and:
Bold those you have read.
Italicize those you intend to read.
Underline the books you LOVE.
1.
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen2.
The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien3.
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte4.
Harry Potter series - JK Rowling5.
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee6.
The Bible7.
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte8.
1984 - George Orwell9. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman -- I haven't decided yet if I want to read these
10.
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens11.
Little Women - Louisa M Alcott12. Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13.
Catch 22 - Joseph Heller14.
Complete Works of Shakespeare15.
Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier16.
The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien17. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18. Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19. The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20.
Middlemarch - George Eliot21.
Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell -- I've read this book enough times for all of us
22. The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23.
Bleak House - Charles Dickens - on my nightstand
24. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25.
The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams26.
Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh27. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28.
Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck29.
Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll30.
The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame31. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32.
David Copperfield - Charles Dickens33.
Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis34. Emma - Jane Austen
35.
Persuasion - Jane Austen36.
The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis37. 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 Orwell42. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43.
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez44.
A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving45.
The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins -- Wilkie Collins is my favorite author right now
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 Golding50. Atonement - Ian McEwan
51.
Life of Pi - Yann Martel52. Dune - Frank Herbert
53. Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54.
Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen55.
A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth56.
The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon57.
A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens58.
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley59. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60.
Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez61. Of
Mice and Men - John Steinbeck62. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63. The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65.
Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas66. On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67. Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68. Bridget Jones’ Diary - Helen Fielding
69.
Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie70. Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71.
Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens72.
Dracula - Bram Stoker73.
The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett74. Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75. Ulysses - James Joyce -- I have it in the house but I'm honestly not sure I will ever read it
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 Dickens82. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83.
The Color Purple - Alice Walker84.
The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro85.
Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert86. 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 Conrad
92.
The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery -- this on is on Z's shelf so I need to pick it up and read it!
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 Shakespeare99.
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl100.
Les Miserables - Victor HugoI guess I have read 48 of the 100 already ... I'm slightly ahead of the average adult!
How about you?
K