In April 2003, the BBC compiled The Big Read, which began as a search for the UK's best loved novel. Apparently the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they’ve printed. (OK, I couldn't find a reliable source here; I just pilfered this fact from lots of other blogs which have copied and pasted this list/activity.)
Here's what you do:
1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicise those you intend to read.
3) [Bracket] the books you LOVE.
4) Reprint this list on your own blog.
- Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
- The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien {no intention whatsoever!}
- Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
- [Harry Potter series] - JK Rowling
- To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
- The Bible {a fair bit of it}
- Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
- Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell
- His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
- Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
- Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
- Tess of the d'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
- Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
- Complete Works of Shakespeare - William Shakespeare {a few plays}
- Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
- The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien {tried several times, hated it, won't try again}
- Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
- Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
- The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
- Middlemarch - George Eliot
- Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
- The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
- Bleak House - Charles Dickens
- War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
- The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams {tried, not really my thing}
- Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
- Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
- Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
- The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
- Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
- David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
- Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
- Emma - Jane Austen
- Persuasion - Jane Austen
- The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
- The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
- [Captain Corelli's Mandolin] - Louis de Bernières
- [Memoirs of a Geisha] - Arthur Golden
- [Winnie the Pooh] - AA Milne
- Animal Farm - George Orwell
- The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
- One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
- The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
- [Anne of Green Gables] - LM Montgomery
- Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
- The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
- Lord of the Flies - William Golding
- Atonement - Ian McEwan
- Life of Pi - Yann Martel
- Dune - Frank Herbert
- Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
- Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
- A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
- The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
- A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
- Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
- [The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time] - Mark Haddon
- Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
- Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
- The Secret History - Donna Tartt
- [The Lovely Bones] - Alice Sebold
- Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
- On The Road - Jack Kerouac
- Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
- [Bridget Jones's Diary] - Helen Fielding
- Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
- Moby Dick - Herman Melville
- Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
- Dracula - Bram Stoker
- The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
- Ulysses - James Joyce
- [The Bell Jar] - Sylvia Plath
- Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
- Germinal - Emile Zola
- Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
- Possession - AS Byatt
- A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
- Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
- The Color Purple - Alice Walker
- The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
- Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
- A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
- [Charlotte's Web] - EB White
- The Five People You Meet In Heaven = Mitch Albom
- Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
- Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
- The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
- The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
- Watership Down - Richard Adams
- A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
- A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
- The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
- Hamlet - William Shakespeare
- [Charlie and the Chocolate Factory] - Roald Dahl
- Les Misérables - Victor Hugo
- I have read 26 of these books
- Of these 26, I [love 11] of them
- I want to read 16 more of them
How did you go? Are you an average adult?
1 comment:
Glancing over your list, I can say I've for sure read 12 of those books... and I love 4 or 5.
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