I heard about this article on the big read that said the average adult has only read 6 books from this list (of 100), which seems kinda shocking to me.
i've gone through the list and marked the ones i have read:
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen - yes
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien –yes
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte - no (i kinda hate the bronte sisters)
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling – yes
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee - yes
6 The Bible – yes
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte - yes (the reason i kinda hate the bronte sisters)
8 1984 - George Orwell -no
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 – no
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare – not complete works, but the majority
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier - no
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien - yes
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks - no
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger - no *but we own it
19 The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger - no
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot- no
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 - no *but we own it
25 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams - no
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh - no
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky - no *but we own it
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll - yes
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame - read to me by my dad
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy - yes
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens - no
33 The Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis -yes
34 Emma - Jane Austen - yes
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen -yes (my favorite jane austen novel)
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini - yes
38 Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres- no
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden - yes
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne – no
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell -yes
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown - no
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez - no
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving - no
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins - no
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery - no
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy - no (it's on my "to read" list)
48 The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood - no
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding - yes
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan - no
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel - yes
52 Dune - Frank Herbert- no
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons - no
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen - yes
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth - no
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon - no
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens - no
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley - yes
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon - yes
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez - saddly, no
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck – yes
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov - no
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt - no (it's on my "to read" list)
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold – yes
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas - yes (josh's favorite book)
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac - no
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy - no
68 Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding - yes
69 Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie - no
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville - no
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens - no (but i know all the words to the musical)
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker - no
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 - no
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray - no
80 Possession - AS Byatt- no
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens -yes
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell - no
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker -no
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro - yes
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 - yes
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton – no
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad - no
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupe – no
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks - no
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams - no
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole - no
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute - no
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas - yes
98 Hamlet – Shakespeare – yes
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl - yes
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo - no
I've read 42 - and 6 more if you count half-way attempts (war and peace, anna karinena, lord of the rings, brideshead revisited, remains of the day, lolita)
ReplyDeletealso, if you only read 12-year old books, you would have def. read the little prince (has pictures), watership down(has talking rabbits), and of course, charlotte's web! just sayin'...
cool list, by the way. i may reblog, and it gave me tons of ideas for books to read!
i've read fifty....
ReplyDeletei'm not sure if that is a good thing to admit to in means i must spend far too much time on my own reading books.....oh dear, i will put being more social on my list of things to do....after i finish the book i'm reading now!
I only read ten of these although I read a lot. I've heard of most of them.
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