books, oh my!
So. I stole this. From Noah. I’m not gonna do all this crap though. I’m just gonna bold the ones I’ve read. And maybe italicize the ones I plan to read in the near future.
The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they’ve printed
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) Strike out the books you have no intention of ever reading, or HATED.
(5. And I’ll leave untouched the ones I’m neutral about.
6. And asterisk **the ones I’ve never heard of.**)
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 (I haven’t read all of them, but I think… three?)
5 To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee (This is one of my favorite books)
6 The Bible (I, too, should strike this out, but I won’t. Despite my lack of belief in God, I have actually read the bible cover to cover. I consider it an historical piece of literature, rather than my personal guide to spirituality.)
7 Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell (Bold and italic, as I have been in the middle of this book for quite some time, and I consider it on my "currently reading" list, lol.)
9 His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
11 Little Women – Louisa M Alcott (One of my favorite childhood books. I read all 500 some pages at age 10.)
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 – Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare (I am sure I have not read the complete works, but a good many of them.)
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 (I love love love this movie, but have never taken the time to read the book. Shame on me.)
22 The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House – Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitchhiker’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 (longest. book. ever.)
32 David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis
34 Emma – Jane Austen (Love this book.)
35 Persuasion – Jane Austen (I have this book on my shelf just waiting for me.)
36 Peter Pan – James M Barrie
37 The Kite Runner – Khaleed 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 (I hated this book, actually.)
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 (Another one I’m "currently reading.")
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 Nighttime – Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck (Ryan’s favorite book. It’s been on my to-read list for too long.)
62 Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History – Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold (Quite possibly my favorite book of all time.)
65 Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas (Again, loved the movie! :-P)
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 (I have read part of this book. But I’m not sure where it is anymore… :-/)
72 Dracula – Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett (My absolute favorite childhood book.)
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 The Alchemist – Paulo Coelho
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl (I loved Roald Dahl as a kid! Charlie, James and the Giant Peach, Matilda, Big Friendly Giant, Danny the Champion of the World… *sigh* I used to read so much! What happened to me?)
100 Les Miserables – Victor Hugo
Yeah. 27 and 3 half ones, lol. Wow. I need to read more.