Book Meme & Good Reading List

The Big Read thinks the average adult has only read six of the top 100 books they’ve printed below.
thanks to Atlantis from the aspiring writers group!

1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.

2) Italicize those you intend to read

3) Underline the books you LOVE (and I added stars as my underline was being difficult!***)

4) Reprint this list in your own weblog / journal so we can try and track down these people who’ve read 6 and force books upon them.

   1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen****
   2. Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien***
   3. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte***
   4. Harry Potter Series - JK Rowling***
   5. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
   6. The Bible
   7. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte***
   8. Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
   9. His Dark Materials - Phillip 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 William Shakespeare***
  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. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
  24. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
  25. The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams***
  26. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
  27. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  28. Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
  29. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll***
  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***
  40. Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne****
  41. Animal Farm - George Orwell***
  42. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown***
  43. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  44. A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
  45. 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 Attwood***
  49. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
  50. Atonement - Ian McEwan
  51. Life of Pi - Yann Martel
  52. Dune - Frank Herbert
  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***
  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
  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' Diary - Helen Fielding
  69. Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
  70. Moby Dick - Herman Melville
  71. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
  72. Dracula - Bram Stoker***
  73. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett***
  74. Notes From a Small Island - Bill Bryson
  75. Ulysses - James Joyce
  76. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath***
  77. Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ranson
  78. Germinal - Emile Zola
  79. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
  80. Possession - AS Byatt
  81. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
  82. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
  83. The Colour Purple - Alice Walker
  84. The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishigury
  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
  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***
  99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl****
 100. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

63/100 although many of these were school reads!  How can you get away with 6 though??