I saw this at Rullsenberg Rules and thought I’d give it a go myself
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 were forced to read at school and hated. (I see no reason to restrict ‘books I hated’ to school - there are only a couple of books on the list I really disliked, and neither of them was a school text.)
5) 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 (see the Hobbit)
2. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
3. His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman
4. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams5. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, JK Rowling (just not interested)
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 Mitchell22. Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone, JK Rowling25. The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien and I hated every second of it!
23. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets, JK Rowling
24. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban, JK Rowling
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 Carroll31. 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 Seth56. 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 Dickens64. The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCollough
65. Mort, Terry Pratchett66. 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 Dahl75. Bridget Jones's Diary, Helen Fielding
76. The Secret History, Donna Tartt
77. The Woman In White, Wilkie Collins
78. Ulysses, James Joyce Or finish... I’ve tried nine times so far!
79. Bleak House, Charles Dickens80. Double Act, Jacqueline Wilson82. I Capture The Castle, Dodie Smith
81. The Twits, Roald Dahl83. 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 Seton96. 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
Hmm more than six but less than some I think. I doubt I’ll read any of the children’s books either. If I had anything to do with the Big Read (and could stuff the ballot box) The Third Policeman, A confederacy of Dunces and Master and Margarita would be in the top three spots....
18 comments:
'Ulysses' seems to be getting a bit of a knocking in these polls - which is shame, as it's worth the effort of reading in my opinion. (Although I have to admit that I've managed this feat only once, and only then because I had to for my university dissertation).
Can't manage 'Gormenghast' though. But it's been a while since I last tried.
Jams, this is a very interesting meme. I'd like to do it. But first I want to compare this 100 reads (I think complied by the BBC) to another 100 Reads compiled in 1998 100 Best novels by the Modern Library(US)
There are no children's books on the list however. It might be even more interesting to compare the lists... I'll let you know. :)
Jams, I'm going to do this meme anyway...:)
You seem to have a different list from the blogs you have linked to?
I'll have to look at the US list to see how it differs (childrens books aside)
Ah Matt force majeure? Seriously I will read it to the end before I die! As for Gormenghast, I love it
Louis, I went back to teh Big Read list rather than try to unpick the amendments. It may have changed since.
I am going to give this a go myself :-)
It was fun Cherie
I've read 46 of those, including some of the children's books which I read to them, so I am just ahead of you although I have been around a lot longer.
I can categorically state that I am never going to read Harry Potter books unless I am on a dessert island and there is not another thing to read. Not going to see the movies either. Don't do science fiction or fantasy as well.
I can say that I will not read them all jmb!
On this list I got 78 but it does include all those kids books and modern rubbish - like Archer and the Princess Diaries..
You truly are a dog of letters Mutley
Twenty two. A recount after Cherie's list. I still think it a strange sort of list. My reading rate is down to less than that per year - from the high sixties. How the mighty,etc.
I'm not as voracious a reader as I used to be either Aileni
Ooh, that was interesting! I might do it properly at my place. On first glance I think I've read about 50 of them, give or take. I thought I would be one of the shamed less than 6!
Jams, this is a very interesting meme. I'd like to do it. I actually started it and i have read 42 of them I will post later this weekend
I know what you mean Alison.. all the childrens books bring my max down quite a bit...
It's a fune meme eh Marcia?
I hated Midnight's Chuildren!! So slow and long and boring until the last eighth!
The Twits now ... Seriously, The Twits is a good read. Very funny. Most of Dahl's children's books are.
I love Midnight's Children. It's a bit slow but a great novel. I must read the Twits!
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