My gorgeous cousins A and Elena have done their part to destroy the average. I shall now do my best to not only join them, but BEAT them as well. Because everyone knows that having more books bolded means you are a better person (I even make myself groan with that bit of sarcasm). To be honest, A usually whips my tail at any kind of board game. And dang, y'all, Elena can sing for realz. So really, they're in the lead at this point.
"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 blog so we can try and track down these people who've read 6 and force books upon 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.
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 blog so we can try and track down these people who've read 6 and force books upon them ;-)"
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
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 - Thanks to Miss McVicar, 9th grade English.
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens - SORRY, Chad, you tried to get me into Dickens once, and I failed. This is one horse I won't get back up on.
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare - a large chunk, anyway.
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 - HA! My failed resolution for 2007 has come back to haunt me!
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 - why is this on here by itself, given #33 above? WEIRD.
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 - Thanks again, Miss McVicar.
42 The Da Vinci 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 - 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 - Miss McVicar strikes again!
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's Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens - Does playing in the pit orchestra of our high school's production count? NO?
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 -Does watching "The Muppet's Christmas Carol" count? NO?!?
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 - 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
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
It appears I've gotten through 27 things on this list, not counting the double listing of The Lion, The Witch, And The Wardrobe, which as everyone knows is the most well known of The Chronicles of Narnia, also on the list, and which, incidentally, is actually 7 books. So really, I've read 34. HA, Big Read list people.
I'll post soon with more real-life stuff. Highlights will include: the rest of last week's OB appt details lost in the cloud of pink; the first pink clothing I bought for my (holy crap) daughter; my reflections on Ashley, and a movie review of WALL-E. I bet you just can't wait.
I'll post soon with more real-life stuff. Highlights will include: the rest of last week's OB appt details lost in the cloud of pink; the first pink clothing I bought for my (holy crap) daughter; my reflections on Ashley, and a movie review of WALL-E. I bet you just can't wait.
5 comments:
I didn't think to count all the books contained within a series! Could I be shorting myself on the bragging rights?
Thanks for posting this and proving that you are, in fact, a gud reeeder, and for all those glowing compliments. :)
Oh, and I forgot to mention that I read many of the same books with Miss. McVicker. I liked her class, except for all the Jim Morrison poems.
I didn't think we had read 1984 with Miss McVicar - just Animal Farm, I thought...
--Kat
I read Animal Farm and Of Mice and Men with Miss McVicar, but I read 1984 in college.
I think the CS Lewis books are on there twice for the same reason Complete Works of Shakespeare and Hamlet are both on the list -- it's the list of the top 100 best selling published books. Those books were published separately and both came into the top 100 in sales. That's my assumption, at least.
Did you remember to italicize those you intend to read? Those should count for half a point or something, no?
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