According to Big Read the average person has only read 6 of the top 100 books.
(Bolded are my favorite books, and those with a * are ones I intend to read)
| Read it | Own it | |
| 1 | 1 | 1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen |
| 1 | 1 | 2. The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien |
| 1 | 1 | 3. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte |
| 1 | 1 | 4. The Harry Potter Series JK Rowling |
| 1 | 5. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee | |
| 1 | 1 | 6. The Bible |
| 1 | 7. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte | |
| 1 | 8. Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell | |
| 1 | 1 | 9. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman |
| 1 | 1 | 10. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens |
| 1 | 1 | 11. Little Women - Louisa M Alcott |
| 12. Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy* | ||
| 13. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller | ||
| 1 | 1 | 14. Complete Works of Shakespeare |
| 15. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier | ||
| 1 | 1 | 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* | ||
| 1 | 21. Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell | |
| 22. The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald | ||
| 23. Bleak House - Charles Dickens | ||
| 1 | 24. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy* (I've tried and tried but never get through it) | |
| 1 | 1 | 25. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams |
| 26. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh . | ||
| 1 | 1 | 27. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
| 1 | 28. Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck | |
| 1 | 1 | 29. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll |
| 1 | 1 | 30. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame |
| 1 | 31. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy* (russian literature is my bane) | |
| 1 | 32. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens* | |
| 1 | 1 | 33. Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis |
| 1 | 1 | 34. Emma - Jane Austen |
| 35. Persuasion - Jane Austen | ||
| 1 | 1 | 36. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis (um, isn't this included in #33?) |
| 37. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini* | ||
| 38. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres | ||
| 39. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden* | ||
| 1 | 1 | 40. Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne |
| 1 | 41. Animal Farm - George Orwell | |
| 1 | 1 | 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 | ||
| 1 | 49. Lord of the Flies - William Golding | |
| 50. Atonement - Ian McEwan | ||
| 1 | 1 | 51. Life of Pi - Yann Martel |
| 1 | 52. Dune - Frank Herbert | |
| 53. Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons | ||
| 1 | 1 | 54. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen |
| 55. A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth | ||
| 56. The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon | ||
| 1 | 1 | 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 | ||
| 1 | 61. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck | |
| 62. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov Nabokov | ||
| 63. The Secret History - Donna Tartt | ||
| 1 | 1 | 64. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold |
| 1 | 1 | 65. Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas |
| 66. On The Road - Jack Kerouac | ||
| 1 | 1 | 67. Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy |
| 68. Bridget Jones’ Diary - Helen Fielding | ||
| 69. Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie | ||
| 1 | 1 | 70. Moby Dick - Herman Melville |
| 1 | 1 | 71. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens |
| 72. Dracula - Bram Stoker | ||
| 1 | 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 | ||
| 1 | 1 | 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 | ||
| 1 | 1 | 85. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert |
| 86. A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry . | ||
| 1 | 87. Charlotte’s Web - EB White | |
| 88. The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom | ||
| 1 | 1 | 89. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
| 90. The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton | ||
| 91. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad | ||
| 1 | 1 | 92. The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery |
| 93. The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks | ||
| 1 | 94. Watership Down - Richard Adams* | |
| 95. A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole | ||
| 96. A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute | ||
| 1 | 1 | 97. The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas |
| 1 | 1 | 98. Hamlet - William Shakespeare |
| 1 | 1 | 99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl |
| 1 | 1 | 100. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo |
I've read 48 of them and own 37. What do we learn from this? Keep me far away from bookstores, I spend too much money on books!
Correction: I do not own charlie and the Chocolate Factory, but I'm hoping my birthday next week will resolve that, hint hint.
3 comments:
That's outstanding, Jenni. Truly something to be proud of.
Holy cow!! You are a reading machine!
wow, you must have a lot of books. That's a cool list, i think I may have to save it and make my to-read list from it.
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