that book meme everyone is doing

[roxy]

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 (as in the book is bought and sitting on my shelf).
3) Underline the books you LOVE.

Two were taken out of the list because they were repetitive.

Wow. Only 27! What strikes me is that I read most of these in high school or younger. I barely remember them. I was a big SF fan, so pretty much only read that for yeeeeeears. :)



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 * (I've read some, not all.)
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 Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
37. Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
38. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
39. Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
40. Animal Farm - George Orwell
41. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
42. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
43. A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
44. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
45. Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
46. Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
47. The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
48. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
49. Atonement - Ian McEwan
50. Life of Pi - Yann Martel
51. Dune - Frank Herbert
52. Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
53. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
54. A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
55. The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
56. A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
57. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
58. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
59. Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
60. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
61. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
62. The Secret History - Donna Tartt
63. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
64. Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
65. On The Road - Jack Kerouac
66. Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
67. Bridget Jones' Diary - Helen Fielding
68. Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
69. Moby Dick - Herman Melville
70. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
71. Dracula - Bram Stoker
72.The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
73. Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
74. Ulysses - James Joyce
75. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
76. Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
77. Germinal - Emile Zola
78. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
79. Possession - AS Byatt
80. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
81. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
82. The Color Purple - Alice Walker
83. The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
84. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
85. A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
86. Charlotte's Web - EB White
87. The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
88. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
89. The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
90. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
91. The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery it left me with a deep sense of WTF
92. The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
93. Watership Down - Richard Adams
94. A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
95. A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
96. The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
97. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
98. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

Comments

[kaydee23.livejournal.com]

This was confusing the crap out of me, but I finally figured it out. There are two different lists going around my flist. I couldn't figure out what was going on, and I'm not drunk or anything. Hell, it's only Tuesday.

Also, I really feel terrible because I forgot to thank you for my birthday card! You're so sweet.

Guess who sent me an e-card though? You'll never guess in a million years!










Kanye West!! I'm serious. No. Shit. They morning of my birthday when I checked my email, it was right there. Ha ha ha ha ha. I don't remember joining his site, but I suppose I did. :shrugs: Isn't that heeeelarious?

(((hugs)))

[roxymissrose.livejournal.com]

Damn that Kanye trying to steal my thunder--he's so jealous!! *G*

I'm glad you got the card! So, what's up with two different lists? I'll have to check that out.

[roxymissrose.livejournal.com]

oh yeah, the other list is better!

[helioshyperion.livejournal.com]

But you MUSTMUSTMUST read Life of Pi. You must!

[roxymissrose.livejournal.com]

Yeah but...does someone blow up, or have sex or orbit a planet?

[helioshyperion.livejournal.com]

Umm...someone's adrift at sea with a Bengal Tiger for an emergency life raft companion. Does that count?

But really, it is a very good book. If you do read it, the first half is technical, and the second half is an amazing story of survival. And the end, if nothing else, you must read it for the end.

[justabi.livejournal.com]

So, I've read 46. Guess how many I liked? *giggle* Wow, those numbers aren't close. I just ... yeah. I like scifi, too.

[justabi.livejournal.com]

Also, OMG woman, why haven't you read the Hitchikers Guide?! Go to the library right fucking now.

[roxymissrose.livejournal.com]

I know, I should read it. I think it's something I'd like.

[roxymissrose.livejournal.com]

See, that's it-I read some of them but I was dying...in those days if I picked up a book, I *had* to finish it no matter what. When you're young you have time to burn. :)

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[(Anonymous)]

I,ve read 20- that surprised me. Alot of them 25 years apart, and abit like you mostly sci fi when I was young. Can you believe that in the 70's my school didn,t touch Shakespear but we did read a book called the Sci Fi Omnibus for my final English exam!Best books on the list, Gone with the Wind and 1984. Love DarylStar1.

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[roxymissrose.livejournal.com]

Really? No Shakespeare, but you had science fiction? Wow, that's odd! When I went to school SF was for weirdo losers, and girls who read it where even more weird and loser-ish. Which was a small bit of the appeal to me back then :)

I skimmed bits and pieces of Gone With The Wind, but I did see the movie in my teens--they were doing a rerelease...in the late 60s, the civil rights era. *shakes head*. I almost had to leave the theater.

[aurora-bee.livejournal.com]

I read 11. I so suck.

[roxymissrose.livejournal.com]

*whack*!!!
*NO* one says my Baby Bee sucks, not even my Baby Bee!

*shnugglehugs*

[danceswithgary]

If they had a list of sci-fic written before 1985, I would have probably read 90%. I slowed down after that because I found the choices too repetitive. :-D

[roxymissrose.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'd clean up on a list like that, lol!

re;books again

[(Anonymous)]

i liked the romance of gone with wind, and was a bit naive(read young)to pick up on the overt racism of the book or Margaret Mitchell for that matter, and yes the film is full of stereotypes so I can see from your point of view why you would have a problem with it.English schools in the 70's were full of hippy teachers who did'nt think Shakespear was cool, hence the SCI FI. We did read the Woman in White which is on the list(first recognisable detective story) and it is piss boring! Ta DarylStar1