Books

[evile]

(I think I need a 'reading' icon, btw)

Stolen from various:

The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they've printed.


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 LJ

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 (only the first 2)
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible (only some parts of it)
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
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare (probably NOT all of them. But a LOT of them.)
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
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 (HEY! How come this gets its own line aside from "Chronicles of Narnia"!?)
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
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
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
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 (somehow, this one seems out-of-place...)
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
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 - 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 Toole (I tried, I really did. I just couldn't get through it!)
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare (HEY! how come Hamlet gets its own apart from 'complete works!??)
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

Comments

[madame-mage.livejournal.com]

hey toots?

go ahead and scan my icons list..there's a nemi with a gargoyle and she's reading! feel free to take it 'kay>

[bramblekite.livejournal.com]

ooh, shiny!

I need to buy more icons :)

[made-of-paradox.livejournal.com]

"Buy"? Icons?

[boggle]

I need to make more icons. The ones I didn't make, I ganked with permission. This one was made for me by zarq. Dan made me some, as well -- the "iFrog" one I specifically requested, and pointed him to zarq's "iCylon" one to give him an idea of what I was after.

[bramblekite.livejournal.com]

I think I expressed myself badly. I can make or find as many icons as I want. LJ only allows you to keep so many 'on hand' in your icon collection, unless you pay extra for more icon storage.

I still don't think I'm expressing it properly. I'm sorry for the confusion.

[made-of-paradox.livejournal.com]

Oh, buy more icon 'space'! Yes, I get that now!

(I paid for my account to be permanent awhile back, so I don't worry about that now. But I've done things like buy a couple months of service for a friend whose payment lapsed and who really needed more icons than the free account would let her have.)

I want to know

[emmainfiniti.livejournal.com]

what makes the books good enough to be on this list?

Re: I want to know

[bramblekite.livejournal.com]

I don't know. I think I won't bother with these kinds of 'best' memes anymore unless there's a source cited, a link to the original list, or whatever.

I would assume it's probably from some kind of 'best seller' list, Briget Jones (and, arguably, Harry Potter, pleasedon'tshootme!) would have never made it on literary merit alone.

[smurfbrother.livejournal.com]

Any "best" list that has a Mitch Albom book in it can be immediately disregarded.

[bramblekite.livejournal.com]

I don't even know who that is.
Never read his book, obviously.

[smurfbrother.livejournal.com]

He's a sportswriter who's branched into writing schmaltzy, sentimental garbage.