The Big Books List

I have stolen this list from another blog, The Crazy Ranter. Anyhow, The Big Read thinks that the average adult has only read 6 of the books on this 100 list.

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) Strikethrough the ones you hate.

1. Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)- love love love love love. I have at least three copies of this book in my house. . .and the Colin Firth/Jennifer Ehle version is the classic movie version!
   
2. The Lord of the Rings (JRR Tolkien) - Well, I made it through The Hobbit and The Fellowship of the Ring. I made it partially through The Two Towers, but I haven't gotten anywhere near The Return of the King.
   
3. Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)
   
4. Harry Potter series (JK Rowling) - I have the paperbacks, the hardbacks, and I'm trying to get the British versions. Does that explain???
   
5. To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee) - I have a copy of this somewhere also.
   
6. The Bible - I grew up Pentecostal. I think it's mandatory.
   
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 (Partially read)
    
13. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
    
14. Complete Works of Shakespeare - Jeez, that will take forever! Do you have any idea how many poems he wrote?
    
15. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier - I've seen the movie...does that count?
    
16. The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien - So, I guess this didn't count for the earlier Lord of the Rings listing, huh...?
    
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--I'm southern. I think this book is mandatory.
    
22. The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23. Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy - Someday...
25. The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh - This is pathetic. I received a free copy via LibraryThing and I still haven't read it. It keeps putting me to sleep.
    
27. Crime and Punishment- Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Thus began my love affair with Russian authors.
    
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--YES!!!
34. Emma - Jane Austen - Not as good as Pride and Prejudice, but it will do in a pinch.
    
35. Persuasion - Jane Austen
36. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - C.S. Lewis - HEY, why is the first book broken out from the rest of the series....???
    
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- Yeah, but I like Curious George more.
41. Animal Farm - George Orwell - Loved it.
    
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 - I own it, I just haven't read it yet.
    
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 - My copy is somewhere in the house.
    
60. Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez - I Tried
61. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck - I think I've read this...
    
62. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63. The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65. Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas - Revenge really is a dish best served cold.
    
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 - Who hasn't read this?
    
82. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83. The Color Purple - Alice Walker - I watched the movie numerous times as a child, but I didn't read it until my teens and didn't pick up on the lesbian bits until college....man, I was sheltered. I went to an HBCU; being able to quote this movie was mandatory!
    
84. The Remains of the Day- Kazuo Ishiguro - Easily ranks as the most boring book I EVER read. I still don't get it (and I'm no literary slouch)
85. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86. A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87. Charlotte's Web - EB White - I cry every time.
    
88. The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom - I read this entire book in 30 minutes in Target....
    
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 - I'm pretty sure I read this.
    
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 - By the end, I was ready for him to die.
    
99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo - Does Rent Count?

Total Count:
Read: 38
Intend to Read: 38
Loved: 12
Hated: 1