The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they have 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. Cross out the ones you don't know, or don't want to read.
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen 2. The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkein 3. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte 4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling 5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee 6. The Bible 7 Withering Heights – Emily Bronte 8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell 9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman 10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens 11. Little Women by Lousia May Alcott 12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller 14 Works of Shakespeare- A few plays here and there 15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier 16. The Hobbit by JRR Tolkein 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 by Margaret Mitchell 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 by Lewis Carrol 30. The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame 31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens 33. The Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis 34 Emma - Jane Austen 35 Persuasion - Jane Austen 36. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C. S. 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 by 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 Meaney - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins 46. Anne of Green Gables by 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 by Herman Melville 71. The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett 72 Dracula - Bram Stoker 74 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 by 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 Webb by E. B. 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 by Roald Dahl 100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
Lets see.....how many have I read??? *goes back and counts*
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I am an Authoress under the penname of Avii.
I am a HomeSchooler, who is very creative and loves fiction books. I am deffinantly a Bibliophile!
I am a proud Catholic, and a very proud Eowyn fan!!!
My blog is a small peak into the many asspects of my character and how she views the world. Hence, fiction meets reality.
Frustration is masked creativty, (tm)
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You don't just create compelling stories, you see them as clearly as a movie in your mind.
You have a knack for details and dialogue. You can really make a character come to life.
Chances are, you enjoy creating all types of stories. The joy is in the storytelling.
And nothing would please you more than millions of people seeing your story on the big screen!
Idealistic and thoughtful, you have the mind and ideas to change the world.
And you have the charisma of a great leader, even if you don't always use it!
The purpose of your life: saying truths that other people dare not say
Famous purples include: Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr., Susan B. Anthony
Careers for you to try: Political Activist, Inventor, Life Coach
Your personality type is goofy, imaginative, relaxed, and brilliant.
Only about 4% of all people have your personality, including 2% of all women and 6% of all men
You are Introverted, Intuitive, Thinking, and Perceiving.
You are quite introverted. You enjoy keeping to yourself and cultivating your talents.
You are dedicated and focused. If practice makes perfect, you're willing to keep practicing.
While some people may dismiss you as boring, you can be quite edgy and interesting.
You can fit in almost anywhere... and your style ranges from conservative to funky.
You are a Jedi Master!! You are brave, wise, and very loyal to the Jedi Code. The greater good is more important to you than personal feelings, so you may seem unsympathetic to some. Who cares, though; becuase you have awesome Force powers! Quiz by TheQuizzery.comLava dragon
What kind of dragon are you?
You don't act much, but your powerful when you choose to show it. Quiz by TheQuizzery.com
You are full of anger and can hardly contain your firey power. When you want something you will not give up until you find it. Your favorite power is fire and your best weapon is your self. Quiz by TheQuizzery.com
You Are Lightning
Beautiful yet dangerous
People will stop and watch you when you appear
Even though you're capable of random violence
The first firebenders were taught by Dragons. To the Fire Nation, fire represented destruction and anger was central to firebending. True firebending involves balance, emotional stability and inner calm, as fire truly represents life. Firebending draws its power from the sun and is stronger during the day, strongest during Sozin’s comet which arrives every hundred years. Firebending is not possible during a solar eclipse.
You are Eowyn, Lady of Rohan. You are feisty and restless. You prefer outdoor pursuits and sword-fighting to embroidering and court life, but deep in your heart you have a hidden love of beauty and purity and ladylike things. You see only the outside of people; you think you have no time to really look into them. You are tall and beautiful, with a lovely figure and long pretty hair; you are also wicked with a sword. You are strong and brave, and though rash, you are quick to fight for those you love. In the end, you learn great wisdom, and you find your heart’s desire.
