The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books theyʼve printed.
1) Look at the list and * those you have started but did not finish.
2) ** those that you read.
3) *** the books you LOVE.
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*
5. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee **
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 **
11. Little Women - Louisa M Alcott ***
12. Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy*
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 *
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 (want to read this so badly! just need a copy...)
27. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky (have it with me..)
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 (...this is in the chronicles... lol) ***
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 **
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 (want to!)
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 (want to)
68. Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding
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 (loved the movie - will read the book)
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
96. A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97. The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98. Hamlet - William Shakespeare ***
99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl *
100. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo * (got through more than half then lost the book lol - i've seen the movie many times but that does not justify my not completing the book)
Unknown "Kitten" Petulant
- 15 years, 11 months, 18 days ago
