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.
5) Bold and strike books you read but hated.
6) Reprint this list in your own LJ
1
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen 2
The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien 3
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte 4
The Harry Potter Series - JK Rowling 5
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee6
The Bible 7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8
Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell9
His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman10
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens11
Little Women - Louisa M Alcott12
Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy 13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14
Complete Works of Shakespeare 15
Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier16
The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18
Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger19 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 Dickens24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams 26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27
Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29
Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32
David Copperfield - Charles Dickens33
Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis34
Emma - Jane Austen35 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 Golden40
Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne 41
Animal Farm - George Orwell42
The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown43
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez44
A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46
Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery 47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48
The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood 49
Lord of the Flies - William Golding50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52
Dune - Frank Herbert53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54
Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57
A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens58
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 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
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68
Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding69 Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
70
Moby Dick - Herman Melville 71
Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens72
Dracula - Bram Stoker73
The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
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
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81
A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens82 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 White88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle90 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 Adams95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97
The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas98
Hamlet - William Shakespeare 99
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl100
Les Miserables - Victor Hugo Totals:
Read: 42
Favorites: 5 (with the exception of the Harry Potter stories all of my favorites have required the purchase of additional copies because the previous copy fell apart from over-reading)
To-read: 7 (this list only includes ones I'll actually think I read someday)
Hated/not interested: 4