Are you thinly read? [sheldrake]

The Big Read thinks the average adult has only read six of the top 100 books they've printed below.

1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicise those you intend to read
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Reprint this list in your own LJ so we can try and track down these people who've read 6 and force books upon them.

Like the person I nicked it from, I can't be bothered to do steps 2 and 3. I haven't bolded things I started or have read some of, like the Bible and Shakespeare.

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
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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 - C.S. Lewis
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
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
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
68 Bridget Jones' 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
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

Well, I am fairly thinly read according to this list. Looks like only about 20 or so. The sad thing is that some of them I'm not even sure of--I might've read them in college, but I read so much that I just crammed it in there, took the tests, and then promptly forgot them. Gah.

But at least I've done better than 6. And I think lumping entire series in there isn't exactly fair. I mean, reading 7 Harry Potter books shouldn't really count as "1", but I guess they're going for how much *variety* you've read.

I have read a lot of books that aren't on here, that's for sure.

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Yeah, and they've got both the Chronicles of Narnia, AND The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe! It's an odd list.

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Hee. Well I have read more than 7. But a lot of those on there I had never heard of.

I'm quite surprised I've read as many as I have - disappointed it's less than half though. Anyway, it's a bit of a weird list...

Oh, you've not read To Kill A Mockingbird??? I thought that was compulsory for everyone! It's brilliant. Go read it. *nods*

No, I haven't -- it's certainly on my to-read list, though! :)

Hello there - long time no comment, for various reasons.

I've read 66 of these, and am feeling very smug ... though I have to admit that there are some I only read because I was forced to (most notably, almost everything by C Dickens)

Oh sorry - I completely forgot to reply! Nice to see you around! (Although you beat me in the book-reading, so grrr!) ;)

What about all those books that I started but never finished? Does that count? Otherwise my list looks rather woeful... but at least more than 6.

But anyway, who would have read the complete works of Shakespeare?! And is there anyone who would have read the Bible from cover to cover??

I know quite a few people who've read all of the Bible! Not me though. I may have attempted it a few times in my younger days (for some odd reason), but really... there are a lot of other things on my to-read list. Sorry, Bible. Laterz.

I am so thinly read that I am too embarassed to do this meme!!

Yet I am always reading.

But i read everything by the same few authors!!

So you're not so much thinly read as narrowly read. And, so says I, there's nowt wrong with that.

Anyway, this list was picked by random members of the public, so I wouldn't put too much store by it. After all, they seem to think Harry Potter counts as one book, and The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe isn't included in The Chronicles of Narnia. Sod 'em.

sheldrake

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