I confess freely that I have cribbed this from Nancy at Bookfoolery & Babble. (http://bookfoolery.blogspot.com/) I did change the color coding to suit my taste. I hope she won't mind too terribly as I am a very big fan of her blog.
The Big Read list has been passed around quite a bit, this past week or two, so I thought I'd join in. It's a list of 100 books; the BBC believes most people will have read only 6 or so off this list. They probably have a point. I doubt you'll see anyone outside the book blogging community getting all excited about the list. The average Joe probably has only read what's required or the most popular tripe, right? Anyway, I'm going to alter mine a little.
Black = I have read it
Green = I read part of it but did not finish
Purple = I have read it AND I own a copy
** = A personal favorite from this list
Red = Not familiar with this one or don't want to read it
Blue = Will eventually read this one
Orange = hated it
And without further ado, here's the list!
1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2. The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien
3. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4. Harry Potter Series - J. K. Rowling ** (in hardback, no less)
5. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6. The Bible
7. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8. 1984 - George Orwell
9. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11. Little Women - Louisa May Alcott ** (must confess that I liked Little Men better)
12. Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13. Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
14. Complete Works of Shakespeare ** (I've read a LOT of Shakespeare, but not EVERYTHING)
15. Rebecca - Daphne DuMaurier
16. The Hobbit - J. R. R. Tolkien
17. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
18. Catcher in the Rye - J. D. Salinger
19. The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20. Middlemarch - George Elliot
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 Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams**
26. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28. The 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 - C. S. Lewis**
34. Emma - Jane Austen
35. Persuasion - Jane Austen
36. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - C. S. Lewis**
37. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38. Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis de Bernieres
39. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden (own an autographed copy and still haven't read it)
40. Winnie the Pooh - A. A. Milne**
41. Animal Farm - George Orwell
42. The DaVinci Code - Dan Brown
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 - 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 (I don't suppose watching the movie counts?)
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 (you may be noting a trend in my attitude toward Dickens)
58. Brave New World - Alduous Huxley
59. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime- 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. The 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 (an entire chapter on the color white?!? GAH)
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 Inferno - Dante**
77. Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78. Germinal - Emile Zola
79. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackery
80. Possession - A. S. Byatt**
81. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens (the only Dickens I can halfway stand)
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 Web - E. B. White**
88. The Five People You Meet in Heaven - Mitch Albom (are you freaking kidding me?!?)
89. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - 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 O'Toole
96. A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97. The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98. Hamlet - William Shakespeare** (not sure why this isn't included w/Complete Works above, but whatever)
99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl**
100. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
Well, if you take out the 33 that I haven't read and the 6 that I haven't finished, I don't think i finished too shabbily. 61 out of 100. Anyone else want to weigh in?
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