I saw this over at The Poor Mouth and thought I would see how many I had read!
The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they’ve printed.
- Look at the list and bold those you have read.
- Italicize those you intend to read.
- Underline the books you love.
Strike outthe books you have no intention of ever reading, or were forced to read at school and hated.- Reprint this list in your own blog so we can try and track down these people who’ve only read 6 and force books upon them.
1. The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien
2. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
3. His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman
4. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
5. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, JK Rowling
6. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
7. Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne
8. Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell
9. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis
10. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë
11. Catch-22, Joseph Heller
12. Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë
13. Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks
14. Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier
15. The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger
16. The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame
17. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
18. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
19.Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres
20.War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
21.Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
22. Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone, JK Rowling
23. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets, JK Rowling
24. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban, JK Rowling
25. The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien
26. Tess Of The D'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy
27. Middlemarch, George Eliot
28. A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving
29. The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck
30. Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
31. The Story Of Tracy Beaker, Jacqueline Wilson
32.One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez
33. The Pillars Of The Earth, Ken Follett
34. David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
35.Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl
36. Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
37. A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute
38. Persuasion, Jane Austen
39. Dune, Frank Herbert
40. Emma, Jane Austen
41. Anne Of Green Gables, LM Montgomery
42. Watership Down, Richard Adams
43. The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald
44. The Count Of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
45. Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
46. Animal Farm, George Orwell
47. A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
48. Far From The Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy
49. Goodnight Mister Tom, Michelle Magorian
50.The Shell Seekers, Rosamunde Pilcher
51. The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett
52. Of Mice And Men, John Steinbeck
53. The Stand, Stephen King
54. Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
55. A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth
56.The BFG, Roald Dahl
57. Swallows And Amazons, Arthur Ransome
58. Black Beauty, Anna Sewell
59. Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer
60. Crime And Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
61. Noughts And Crosses, Malorie Blackman
62. Memoirs Of A Geisha, Arthur Golden
63. A Tale Of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
64. The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCollough
65. Mort, Terry Pratchett
66.The Magic Faraway Tree, Enid Blyton
67. The Magus, John Fowles
68. Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
69. Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett
70. Lord Of The Flies, William Golding
71. Perfume, Patrick Süskind
72. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Robert Tressell
73.Night Watch, Terry Pratchett
74.Matilda, Roald Dahl
75. Bridget Jones's Diary, Helen Fielding
76. The Secret History, Donna Tartt
77. The Woman In White, Wilkie Collins
78. Ulysses, James Joyce
79. Bleak House, Charles Dickens
80. Double Act, Jacqueline Wilson
81.The Twits, Roald Dahl
82. I Capture The Castle, Dodie Smith
83. Holes, Louis Sachar
84.Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake
85. The God Of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
86. Vicky Angel, Jacqueline Wilson
87. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
88. Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons
89. Magician, Raymond E Feist
90. On The Road, Jack Kerouac
91. The Godfather, Mario Puzo
92. The Clan Of The Cave Bear, Jean M Auel
93. The Colour Of Magic, Terry Pratchett
94. The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
95. Katherine, Anya Seton
96. Kane And Abel, Jeffrey Archer
97.Love In The Time Of Cholera, Gabriel García Márquez
98. Girls In Love, Jacqueline Wilson
99. The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot
100.Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie
I make that 37! I managed over 6 so at least I am above average ;-) Why not give it a go yourself?
14 comments:
I managed 46 which is pretty good since the average is! What does that say about the reading world, I wonder.
Twenty - but I think it is a very different sort of reading list to mine.
Oh... 78 but that does include all the kids entries... including the Princess Diaries... ahem.
Looking at the original list, Number 6 is the Bible, which doesn't feature here.
And how are you going to force people to read? lol
LOTR totally rocks. 37 aint bad, nice!
Now i'm in the mood for reading. Or even better, cant i brive someone to read it loud for me ;)
Mind boggles!
i only got 33....! mostly pratchett and roald dahl ... ;-)
Dare i say i have read none of them...... i dont suppose i ever will....
BTW i can read and do read :-)
Good idea but I can't really get my head around all the bolding and striking out! As you know, I have over 6,000 books here and I have read them all!
Jmb - that is an impressive score. I wonder who the sampled to get such a low average!
Aileni - The books aren't all that varied are they?
Mutley - The kids books are always the best ;-)
Ginro - Yes there are too lists going round LOL As it mentioned the BBC I just went back there and copied that one. Hmm yes, I am not sure how many people you could get to read the whole of the bible!!!
Crashie - I have The Lord of the Rings on audio disc ;-) :-)
James - it certainly does :-)
Eve - that is quite a good number, you are lots younger than me ;-)
Sally - Ooooh! now you have to tell me what sort of things you read?
Welshcakes - You have done much better than me. I have loads of my books still in a pending reading pile!!!
i really don't know, Cherry ;-))))))))))
but i was looking fast the list and The god of small things is very good, well, i liked .....
magiccccccccccc weekend, Friend !!!
lots of xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I did when I was 17 but it was hard work, lol.
I got 28.
LOTR is, of course in my view, the greatest novel of all time.
Luisa - Maybe I should give that book a try :-) I am sure if you like it I will too xoxoxoxox
Ginro - I am impressed that you read it all the way through. I set myself that task when I was in my early teens and didn't quite manage. Full of good intentions and all that...
Maybe I should try now I am more likely to achieve the goal ;-)
Crushed - I love the world and how it mirrors RL. There are some bits of the book I love and some that bore me a little (the battle scenes). I keep coming back to it over and over again. The audio version means I can revisit the book whilst driving :-)
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