The English Major in me could not resist...

The Big Read

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

  The Rules:

  1) Look at the list and put one * by those you have read.
  2) Put a % by those you intend to read.
  3) Put two ** by the books you LOVE.
  4) Put # by the books you HATE.
  5) Post.

  **1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
  **2 The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien
  *3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë
  *4 Harry Potter series - J.K. Rowling
  *5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
  **6 The Bible
  **7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë
  #8 1984 - George Orwell
  9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
  **10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
  **11 Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
  **12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
  13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
  **14 Complete Works of Shakespeare (Yes, really, every line)
  **15 Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier
  **16 The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien
  17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
  *18 Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
  19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
  %20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
  **21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell (Come on, I'm from Georgia)
  **22 The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
  %23 Bleak House - 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- C.S. Lewis
  **34 Emma - Jane Austen (Does the movie count?)
  **35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
  **36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - C.S. Lewis -
  37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
  38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis de Bernières - (Is Nicholas Cage in the book? ;) )
  #39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
  **40 Winnie the Pooh - A.A. 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 Meaney - John Irving
  **45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins -
  **46 Anne of Green Gables - L.M. Montgomery
  *****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
  **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’s Diary - Helen Fielding
  69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
  %70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville ( Currently reading)
  **71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
  **72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
  **73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
  74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
  76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
  77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
  78 Germinal - Émile Zola
  **79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
  ***********80 Possession - A.S. Byatt
  **81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
  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 - E.B. White
  88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom (I started it, and quickly lost interest)
  **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 - in French
  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