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[here_inmyhead]

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) Bold the books you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Strike the books you can't stand.
5) Stars next to the books you're reading/have read some of.



1 Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien * (I got halfway to Two Towers before I got lost. XD I wanna reread it again and make it to the ending when I have the chance)
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee (Dad says this'll be the best book I'll ever read, and I agree with him. *_____*)
6 The Bible * (I doubt I could stand to read the entire thing though. Hahaha! XDDDD)
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell * (Godammit. Why haven't I finished this already? I love books about dystopian societies)
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman * (I read the beginning of Golden Compass. Got bored)
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens * (I only read the illustrated abridged version at school, so that doesn't count. I can't say I like it that much though. :/ )
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare * (I studied Othello, studied/watched Romeo & Juliet, saw parts of Much Ado About Nothing in a movie, and saw Taming of the Shrew and an early-Shakespeare-comedy-I-don't-remember-the-name-of as a play production. I intend on checking out A Midsummer Night's Dream, Hamlet, and Macbeth since those are supposed to be the "cool" plays. XD)
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien (That was good old fun~! I read this in 7th grade. ♥)
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger (Dad hates this book! XDDDD Not sure about what I think though, maybe I'll like it. XD)
19 The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger (Hedgie says this book makes her cry. ;;)
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone with the Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald (A book that studies the lives of rich & shallow people. Blech)
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams (WHY OH WHY HAVEN'T I READ THIS YET)
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll * (Dad was reading it to me from his ancient 1st edition copy and he stopped. ;; I wanna finish it, I adore this book)
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame (Pretty much meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeh in my book. *pun intended* Too slow-paced for me. :o)
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis (YAHOO)
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis Hey hey! That IS apart of the Chronicles of Narnia, you dingbat! :/ *pickypicky*
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 * (A darling little series with darling little illustrations~)
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell (Ohgodohgod. Mostamazingbookever. *________________________*)
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown * (I got bored when it read too much like a typical mystery novel. XD)
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 (If you get past Golding's habit of describing the same parts of the island over and over and over again, it's a fascinating book. :o)
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel (I've heard good things about this book)
52 Dune - Frank Herbert * (Much luff. Haven't gotten to the really juicy bits yet, but I'm getting there~)
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 (Lenny... ;____________;)
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas * (It's a huge book. @.@ I hope to make it through one day, though)
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 (Dad says it's one of those books that are better appreciated when you're older. Maybe that's so)
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens * (Again, illustrated abridged only. I'm still angry at Dickens for what he did to Nancy. D: )
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett (I thought the Doom and Gloom would suck me in, but turns out the book holds its promise of feel-goodness after all. :o I liked it)
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 * (It was a Quentin Blake illustrated edition. :o I want to finish that, and with Mr. Blake by my side!)
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 (Childhood favorite! Oh yes! :o)
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom ('Cause I'm a sucker for the afterlife. *cough*)
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 (BEST. BOOK. EVER. DROP WHAT YOU'RE READING AND READ IT RIGHT NOW. IT WILL SERVE YOU MUCH GOOD)
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams (Everybody read this awesome book but me. T__________T I WANNA READ IT TOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO)
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 (See waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay way above)
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl (THE AMAZING CHOCOLATIER)
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo (Personally, I'm more interested in the musical. XDDDD!)

♡ the 『feel good』 anonymous meme ☆ﾐ

Comments

[psychicninja.livejournal.com]

jfkasd Holycrap, the Kite Runner is on this list. ^0^

I'm begging you, put that on your 'to read' list. It's one of the most amazing books I've ever read. Ranks right up there with To Kill A Mockingbird for me, if not higher. It's just... amazing. Gah. <3

Also, lawl Heart of Darkness. *stabs it and burrrrrns* >.>; It dragged so much it was painful. ;~; <3<3

[insanepurin.livejournal.com]

O RLY. I'll have to see then. :o

Buwahaha! I've been warned a lot against Heart of Darkness. XD I don't like pretentious books whose prose runs on and on forever without a point, hahaha.

[bottlemilk.livejournal.com]

Notes From A Small Island? Oooh, Bill Bryson writes some interesting books about English linguistics if you're interested in the technical side of language! :D ..then again I am a dork about stuff like that, so. it. might not be your thing >_>

I didn't like it, but you might enjoy The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time. Read the summary paragraph and you'll see why! And you should totally check out Memoirs of a Geisha, too. That's one of my favourites! :3

EEEEE WINNIE THE POOOOOOH *_________*

Every night, Ness saves Paula's life, like Silver in your wonderful icon~

[insanepurin.livejournal.com]

Tee hee! I'll consider those notes from a small island then! ;D

I don't think I'd enjoy Curious Incident either. D: It well... sounds like something I wouldn't like, looking at the plot. :( One of those books I want to pick and stomp on over and over or something.

WINNIE THE POOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥

That is so adorable. JUST LIKE THIS ICON, WHICH I LOVE

[bottlemilk.livejournal.com]

Ahh, I did wonder.. D: It's been years since I read it, and though it had lots of praise and won several awards, it didn't appeal to me at all and it often left me feeling frustrated. So yeah, really thinking about it.. probably wouldn't be your thing after all. >: I'M SORRY MY SUGGESTIONS SUCK ;_;

I used to have a collection of Pooh's Poem's. :3 THE ANXIOUS POOH SONG WAS MY FAVOURITE ♥♥♥♥♥♥