I found this on Sara's blog, (who found it on Erin's) and just had to see how I compared.
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) Place an asterisk (*) by those you’ve not read, but have seen a movie or stage performance of.
4) 2 dashes (--) means you have started it but never finished it for whatever reason
5) a ?? means you have never heard of it before
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 ??
Intend to read 3,
Seen 5 in movie form,
Started 2 that I never finished,
and I'm afraid I've never heard of 46 of them. (Ouch. But at least that's less than half.)
Is there a category for books you've heard of, but don't plan on reading?
Because that would be 16.
Hmm, I think Sara won. But at least I'm above the national average!
3 comments:
I think there were many other indicators that we were nerds long before we fell in love with Sense & Sensibility. What else can you expect from an above average reader? At any rate, I think nerds are cool now, right?!
Wait a minute! How did you end up leaving Cullie's class without reading Wuthering Heights?!
And I'm even more convinced that I'm the only woman on the planet who simply cannot get through a Jane Austen novel. Like a trooper though, I will start one again, if only because I feel like I'm defective in this regard. :)
By the way - you really MUST read Pillars of the Earth, and the one that comes after (can't remember the name).
Sara - We were given the choice of reading Wuthering Heights or Return of the Native. I started one, quit, started the other, quit, and somehow faked it from there. Can't remember how now.
And I would recommend Persuasion for your next Austen attempt. It's the shortest. :)
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