I don't feel so bad now, I can beat 6 easily

[ishte]

Stole this from evil_little_dog

The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they've printed.


1) Bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
3a) Strikethrough the books you hate. (my add)
4) Reprint this list in your own LJ.

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen (I've seen several different movie productions of it. I seek them out.)
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien (all three books)
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling (actually haven't read the last one yet I think.)
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible Yes, all the way through.
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte (this story was terrible the whole time I was reading it I was like .... WTF??)
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell (I own a copy, but I haven't picked it up yet.)
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 NO NO NO! The stories are fine, but I can't stand Iambic Pentameter!
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 (only recently learned I'd missed a Dickens)
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy (tried... ugh... terrible story. BORING! Why is this a classic?)
25 The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams (last year I was the meaning of life and everything)
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll (are there really people who haven't read this?)
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 (liked the movie)
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne (at least... I think so. I thought there was more than one though)
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery (I have a stack of sequels to read too...)
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
52 Dune - Frank Herbert (great book. The sequels? not so much)
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 (probably my favorite 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 (I think I saw the movie)
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 (I got an anime based on this from the library. story was good. art style not so much)
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker (I might have read this once long ago. I don't remember)
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill
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 (I thought this was a magazine! haha!)
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens (there are people who haven't read this? seriously, it's a farce. A Christmas Ghost story you can read in an evening.)
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 (I know I've read some)
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 (Um... see above... Ishte=ANTIPOET -- Hates Iambic Pentameter)
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl (and Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator)
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo (this book was HORRIBLE... such a good story ruined. Maybe the translation just sucked)