This is a pic of my car boot. A friend and I *waves to dl*, were at a charity book sale (which was almost at an end). I asked the organiser what would happen to the unsold books and he informed my they would be picked up and recycled. Eek! The thought of all those books being chewed up. I batted my eyelashes and asked him if I could take a few after the sale (he was really old so this worked a treat). My friend and I filled up the boot and back seat and we're still working our way through them.
The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they've printed. Well let's see.
I didn't do the whole... to be read and books I love thing because well, you know I don't like doing what I'm told!
1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicise those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Reprint this list in your own journal/blog so we can try and track down these people who've read 6 and force books upon them ;-)
I reckon Muttars would have read more than me because he eats books for breakfast.Toadee will be reading one of them on the toilet right now (was that too much information?) andWhitesnakewill have read one by accident because he doesn't know what a book is. As for the rest of you, I have no idea but would be interested to find out.
1 Pride and Prejudice
2 The 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 - Philip 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 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 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 - 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 Meaney - 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 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' 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 Ransome
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 Color Purple - Alice Walker
4 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
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
MISSY!!!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteGrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr..
Hi Karen...xo
You beat Galen...I hope it wasn't with a stick
ReplyDelete*whispers* He might like it xxxxx
Hi G x0
I love it when people fight over me. I think I'll just sit back over here and watch.
4,25,36,81,87,99 and if ya count all the books in Number 4 then I done pretty good aye?
ReplyDeleteSteve - I thought you meant you'd watched all HP movies but you've read the series and other books. I'm impressed, hehe x
ReplyDeleteY'know, KB - I've upset quite a few with my comments on the Potter series. (Being that it's a child's series...).
ReplyDeleteeeeh yeh, what shall I say that's a long list. I read some of the children's books hated reading when I was young
ReplyDeleteM - You've been upsetting people? Surely not *giggles*
ReplyDeleteI could write a book about the many times you've upset people (including me) but for some reason, we still love ya. Oh wait, better cross out love and put like in or I'll be getting another lecture again :)
Missy - Me too!
Marja - Reading's good for the soul. I hope you enjoy it more than you did when you were a child.
It's my milieu apparently.
ReplyDeleteDon't know if it says more about me or the upsettee...
I didn't expect you read the Bible. There are some good ones which I also know because of the movie.
ReplyDeleteGone with the wind is my favourite one.
I arned you girl!
ReplyDeleteI am turning off the web cam as you are intent on reporting my whereabouts and my activities.
I guess I'll have a look at your list and do it.
M - What's a milieu?
ReplyDeleteErik - Yes, my grandad was a religious man and used to make me read it. I loved Gone With The Wind too.
Toadee - Have just checked out your list....WOW! you must spend hours in the loo.
ReplyDeleteYes 1 Pride and Prejudice
ReplyDeleteYes 2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
Yes 3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
Yes 4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
No 5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
Not all 6 The Bible
Yes 7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
Yes 8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
Yes 9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
Yes 10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
Yes 11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
Yes 12 Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
No 13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
Not all 14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
Yes 15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
Yes 16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
Yes 17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
No 18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
Yes 19 The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
Yes 20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
Yes 21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
No 22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
Yes 23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
No 24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
Yes 25 The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
No 26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
No 27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
No 28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
Yes 29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
Yes 30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
No 31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
Yes 32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
Yes 33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
Yes 34 Emma - Jane Austen
Yes 35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
Yes 36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
Yes 37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
Yes 38 Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
Yes 39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
Yes 40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
Yes 41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
Yes 42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
Almost 43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
No 44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
Yes 45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
No 46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
Yes 47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
Yes 48 The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
Yes 49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
No 50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
Yes 51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
No 52 Dune - Frank Herbert
No 53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
Yes 54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
No 55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
Yes 56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Yes 57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
Yes 58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
Yes 59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
No 60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
No 61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
No 62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
Yes 63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
Yes 64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
Yes 65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
No 66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
Yes 67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
Yes 68 Bridget Jones' Diary - Helen Fielding
No 69 Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
No 70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
Yes 71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
Yes 72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
Yes 73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
Yes 74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
No 75 Ulysses - James Joyce
No 76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
No 77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
No 78 Germinal - Emile Zola
Yes 79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
No 80 Possession - AS Byatt
Yes 81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
No 82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
Does the film count? No 83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
No 4 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
No 85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
No 86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
No 87 Charlotte's Web - EB White
No 88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
Yes 89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
No 90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
No 91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
Yes 92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
No 93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
Yes 94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
No 95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
Yes 96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
Yes 97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
Yes 98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
No 99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
No 100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
Phew....
Sage - I'm impressed!
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