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How many of these books have you read?
Thursday, Jun 26, 2008 12:05PM / Standard Entry / Members only
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Thanks to unwoundclock for this

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) Italicise those you intend to read
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Reprint this list in your own blog 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' 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

so that's 27 out of 100, hmmm - hehe it would be great if seeing the film version counted, then I could mark off a lot more (i'm sure we all could). NB I have read the Bible but not cover to cover - it's not that kind of book and I'm not a Christian.

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pauline720
posted on Wednesday, Jul 2, 2008 11:57PM [Report]

hmm...around 16 out of 100. oh no.. need to print out the list and start reading it :p
JoanneSanderson
posted on Monday, Jun 30, 2008 5:19AM [Report]

Lol, yep if films counted then my count would be higher too. Most I read was at school, including the bible...it's a rather big book, but it's so much easier when it's the children's bible, so I'm still counting it!
elenahapasmama
posted on Monday, Jun 30, 2008 3:45AM [Report]

Truthfully, I have not done this but I think I would not have many. I love to read but really lack the time, and sometimes the motivation. I'm sure it would be good for me to read more...I think this is one of the reasons I'm a screenwriter, not a novelist. I too have read the whole Bible, but not cover to cover.
Kit Hui
posted on Saturday, Jun 28, 2008 6:42PM [Report]

this is quite an extensive list but feels somewhat Europe centric, prob b/c of all the good ol' classic... funny being a comparative lit major undergrad, i was forced to read a lot of these books :-) hum... i actually think my first year of film school they did put out a list for films... i'll try to dig it out and post it then...
butter
posted on Friday, Jun 27, 2008 11:24PM [Report]

I was such a bookworm when I was kid but kind of grew out of it. I've picked up reading again lately though esp. since I was able to get through 3 books at jury duty. A cursory glance at this list shows that I've probably read about 15 - 20 of these books. I feel lacking all of a sudden :P
cRose
posted on Friday, Jun 27, 2008 1:22AM [Report]

damn , Jaine ....
i just read 24 & 98 ......
2 out of hundred !!
peachey
posted on Thursday, Jun 26, 2008 10:08PM [Report]

I've read 33 of them.
Dreamy
posted on Thursday, Jun 26, 2008 10:01PM [Report]

Not much I can tell u that.. hahaaa
janechu
posted on Thursday, Jun 26, 2008 2:10PM [Report]

wow.. you've read quite a number of books... =) that's awesome... OH! you read Lovely Bones too... did you read her other book, "Lucky"?
moonchild72
posted on Thursday, Jun 26, 2008 1:38PM [Report]

Copied .. followed instructions .. wrote my take on the list .. and posted ! ^^
shorty
posted on Thursday, Jun 26, 2008 1:01PM [Report]

Oh, shoot. After a quick scan, I've found exactly six.