• Jun. 23, 2009 - Are We Really Illiterate Schlubs?
From a friend's Facebook Notes. Many of the books listed do not belong on the list, in my opinion:
Apparently the BBC believes most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books on the BBC big read top 100 book list.
How do your reading habits stack up?
Instructions:
Copy the list, create your own new "Note" and paste text into it.
Look at the list and put an 'x' after those you have read. Make sure you delete my Xs!
When you've finished, tag 10 people to do it too, and put your total at the bottom.
Here we go!!!
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen X 2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien X
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte (movie) X
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling -- (Ummm, I don't count these among my Must-Reads.)
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee 6 The Bible X 7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte X
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell X
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman -- (I think not!)
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens 11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott X 12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy X 13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller X Hilarious book! 14 Complete Works of Shakespeare X Not the complete works, but many, many of them, including the sonnets
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier 16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien X
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks (Never heard of it)
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger (No Salinger on my list, thanks. Bleah)
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot 21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell X (Read many times!) 22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald X
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens 24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy X (Yes, I actually read this, and it was actually great!) 25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams X (Hilarious!)
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky 28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck X 29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll X (Many times over) 30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame X (Many times over)
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens 33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis X (Many times over) 34 Emma - Jane Austen X 35 Persuasion - Jane Austen X (Jane Austen is great!)
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis X (How does this differ from Chronicles?_
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hossein
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - 40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne X (Many times over and still reading it aloud!)
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell X
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown X (I read it, and it stunk.)
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 X (Many times over, and just read it to my kids!)
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy 48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood X (Read it and it was paranoid feminist tripe.)
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding X (Scary book spot-on when it comes to human nature.)
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel 52 Dune - Frank Herbert (Nope, only seen the movie) X I actually did read it during my sci fi stage.
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons 54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen X
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zifon 57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens X (knitting knitting knitting)
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley X 59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon X (Eh...)
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 X (Very yucky book. Does not belong on this list. Did not like it.)
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 X
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens X
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker 73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett X (Many times over!)
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Inferno - Dante
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola 79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray X
80 Possession - AS Byatt 81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens X
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro 85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert X (Yuck)
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry 87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White X
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle X (only the Hound of the Baskervilles)
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton 91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad X 92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery X
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks 94 Watership Down - Richard Adams X
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 X 99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl X
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
Total = 45 46 (If I counted right) But where are Swift, Defoe, O'Connor, etc.?
