The Big Read (http://www.neabigread.org/) said that, on average, adults have only read six books on this list. So ... copy this list, remove my yeses and nos, and add your comments (favourable or otherwise) about the ones you have read. Don't forget to include a total.
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen -no, but i have her complete works on my nightstand to read.
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien – Started once...couldn't finish it
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte - yes, read it freshman year of H.S. hated it.
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling – yes
5. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee -
6 The Bible – I went to Catholic School what do you think?
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte - no, but i want to maybe this summer
8 1984 - George Orwell - no
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman -
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens - yes Sophmore yr of HS
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott -
12 Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy –
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller –
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare – parts of
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier -
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien - yes, it was long and i found it boring
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 tried, I really did, but I saw the movie first so it kinda ruined the book experience for 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 - I think I did.
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh -
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky -
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll - I think so...
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame -
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy - on my very long list
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens -
33 The Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis - i own it... haven't read it yet
34 Emma - Jane Austen - on my list
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen - on my list
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - maybe it's this one that i own. the ex hubster thought it sad that i never read it as a kid and got it for me for xmas.
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini -
38 Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres- saw the movie...
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden -
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne – YES! i heart me some winnie the pooh
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell -
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown -
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez - 4
4 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving - I think i did
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 - twice, both times for HS (i went to 2 different HS, i read it the first time freshman yr and sr yr the 2nd time)
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan -
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel - yes and it was uite good
52 Dune - Frank Herbert-
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons -
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen -on my nightstand
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth -
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon -
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens - yup HS again
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley -
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon - yes
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez -
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck –
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov - I tried to...
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt -
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold – yes
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas -
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac - yes, excellent book
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy -
68 Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding - YES
69 Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie -
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville -
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens -
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker - I tried
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 - yes
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 - yes, my favorite book as a little girl
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom - yes, excellent book, and it leads me to ask, where is Tuesdays with Morrie?
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-Exupe –
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 – Shakespeare – yes
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl -
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo -
Now my top 10 list of favorite books (in no particular order):
1. Tuesdays with Morrie - Mitch Albom
2. Lying in Bed - JD Landis
3. The Scarpetta Series - Patricia Cornwell
4. The Rosie Cruxifiction - Henry Miller
5. pretty much anything by Douglas Coupland
6. Prozac Nation by Elizabeht Wurtzel
7. Twilight Series - Stephanie Myer
8. Cary Grant: A Biography by Marc Eliot
9. Einstein in Berlin by Thomas Levenson
10. Anything by Gregory MacGuire
what are yours?
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