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) Strike out the books you have no intention of ever reading, or HATED.
(5. And I'll leave untouched the ones I'm neutral about.
6. And asterisk **the ones I've never heard of.**)


1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen (hated the movies, but the beginning of the book is tempting)
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 (loved the Gregory Peck movie but don't remember much of the book)
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 **His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman**
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens (DO NOT LIKE DICKENS. but i've always been interested in this one.
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy (loved the miniseries)
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 **Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks**
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger (HATRED! one of the stupidest protagonists i ever met.)
19 The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell (HATE the movie)
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens (again, Dickens is way too fatalistic for me.)
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams (liked the movie, figure the book is better)
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky (i have a thing for Russian writers)
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck (again, LOVED the old Fonda movie)
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll (kind of dull, but i love the cartoon)
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 (too much matchmaking fluff.)
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 Peter Pan - James M Barrie (kind of dull, but sweet. NOTHING like the Disney at ALL.)
37 The Kite Runner - Khaleed Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis de Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne (bores me to tears. not a Winnie fan.)
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown (movie was boring...what's the supposed controversy? the Catholic Church is corrupt? oh. surprise surprise.)
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving (love 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 (another hateful dumb boy story. HATE it.)
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan (movie had me in tears...which is not easy!)
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert (sci-fi...meh...)
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons (movie is HILARIOUS.)
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 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 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas (revenge stories don't do anything for me.
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding (another book about a whiny normal-sized girl going on about how fat she is.)
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 (james joyce is annoying - and way too obsessed with fecal references.)
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath (main character was a pain in the ass. disliked her immensely)
77 **Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome**
78 **Germinal - Emile Zola**
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray (movie was surprisingly good)
80 Possession - AS Byatt (movie = fantastic)
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 (I LOVE aNTHONY hOPKINS...BUT THAT WAS ONE OF THE MOST DULL FILMS ever._
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert (another frustrating female lead. the point was not worth the pain)
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 (ONE OF MY FAVOURITE STORIES EVERRRRR!)
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 (boring as all get-out)
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho (HIGHLY RECOMMENDED! Beatiful story.)
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl (love both movies though.)
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo


TA DA! What's weird is I've read other books by many of these authors, but not the classics themselves? What else's weird is some of the classics missing from the list! I mean, ACK!

Love & Kisses!