The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they've printed. Well let's see.
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) Reprint this list in your own Blog so we can try and track down these people who've read 6 and force books upon them ;-)
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen2
The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien3
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte4
Harry Potter series - JK Rowling5
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee6
The Bible7
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte 8
Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9
His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman 10
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens11
Little Women - Louisa M Alcott12 Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14
Complete Works of Shakespeare15
Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16
The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18
Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger19
The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21
Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22
The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald23
Bleak House - Charles Dickens 24
War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy25
The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27
Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky28
Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29
Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll30
The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame31
Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy32
David Copperfield - Charles Dickens33
Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34
Emma - Jane Austen35
Persuasion - Jane Austen36
The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis37
The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini38
Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres39
Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden40
Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne41
Animal Farm - George Orwell42
The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown43
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 Montgomery47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
49
Lord of the Flies - William Golding 50
Atonement - Ian McEwan51
Life of Pi - Yann Martel52
Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54
Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57
A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens58
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 Marquez61
Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck62
Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64
The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65
Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68
Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding69 Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
70
Moby Dick - Herman Melville71
Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72
Dracula - Bram Stoker
73
The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnet74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75
Ulysses - James Joyce76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79
Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray80 Possession - AS Byatt
81
A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83
The Color Purple - Alice Walker84 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 Albom89
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92
The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery93 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 Dumas98
Hamlet - William Shakespeare99
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl100
Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
I am above those 6 and my the ones to be read are in my reading pile.