I found this at And She Knits Too! I think I need to get to reading judging by my responses.
The Big Read (http://www.neabigread.org/) said that, on average, adults have only read six books on this list. So … copy this list, remove my yeses and nos, and add your comments (favourable or otherwise) about the ones you have read. Don’t forget to include a total.
1 Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen – No
2 The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien – I own the trilogy but I have never been brave enough to start
3 Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte – no
4 Harry Potter series – JK Rowling – YES
5. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee – YES
6 The Bible – Lotsa parts but not the entire thing. One of these days
7 Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte – No
8 1984 – George Orwell – YES
9 His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman- No
10 Great Expectations – Charles Dickens -No
11 Little Women – Louisa M Alcott – Nope
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy – No
13 Catch 22 – Joseph Heller – no
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare –No
15 Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier – 1No
6 The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien -No
17 Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks -
18 Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger – no
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger -no
20 Middlemarch – George Eliot- no
21 Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell – I have always wanted to
22 The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald – YES
23 Bleak House – Charles Dickens-
24 War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy – no
25 The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams -
26 Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh – no
27 Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky – no
29 Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll – no
30The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame -
31 Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy – no
32 David Copperfield – Charles Dickens -no
33 The Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis -no
34 Emma – Jane Austen – no
35 Persuasion – Jane Austen – no
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe -no
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 –
41 Animal Farm – George Orwell -No but I bought it to read and it’s sitting on the shelf patiently waiting for me
42 The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown – no
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez -I have started a million times
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
48 The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood – YES
49 Lord of the Flies – William Golding – no
50 Atonement – Ian McEwan – no
51 Life of Pi – Yann Martel -no
52 Dune – Frank Herbert- no
53 Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons -no
54 Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen – no, perhaps I should start reading jane austen
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 – no but on the list
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon – no
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez -no
61 Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck – no
62 Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov -no
63 The Secret History – Donna Tartt – no
64 The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold – fYES and didn’t much care for it
65 Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas – no
66 On The Road – Jack Kerouac – I read the first 40 pages and put it down, never to pick up again.
67 Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy – no
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helen Fielding – no
69 Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie – no
70 Moby Dick – Herman Melville -no
71 Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens – no
72 Dracula – Bram Stoker – no
73 The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett – no
74 Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson – I love Bill but haven’t read this one
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 – no
85 Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert -no
86 A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry – no
87 Charlotte’s Web – EB White – Yes
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom – no
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle – no
90 The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton –no
91 Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad – My sis read and said she hated it, so no, never
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 – no
98 Hamlet – Shakespeare – no
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl – yes, many moons ago
100 Les Miserables – Victor Hugo -no
I have read a mere 11.
