5 And A Beagle

"Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans." John Lennon

Wednesday, March 04, 2009

According to 'The Big Read' (http://www.neabigread.org/) , adults on average, 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 - Yes
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien – Yes
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte - No
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling – Does watching the movies count? Only read the first two.
5. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee - Yes
6 The Bible –some
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte - Yes
8 1984 - George Orwell - Yes
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman - No
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens - No
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott - Yes
12 Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy – Yes
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller – No
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare –No
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier - No
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien - Yes
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks - No
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger - No
19 The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger - Just started
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot- Yes
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell - Yes
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald - Yes
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens-No
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy - No
25 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams - No
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh - No
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky - No
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll - Yes
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame - Yes
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy - Yes
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens - No
33 The Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis - Yes
34 Emma - Jane Austen - Yes
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen - No
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - Yes
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini - Yes
38 Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres-Yes
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden - Yes
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne – Yes
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell - Yes
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown - Yes
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez - No
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving - Yes
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins - No
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery - Yes
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 - Yes
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
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 - Yes
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley -No
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon -Yes
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez -No
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck –Yes
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov -No
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt -No
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold –Yes
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas -No
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac -No
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 - Yes
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson -Yes
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 -Yes
87 Charlotte's Web - EB White - Yes
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom -Yes
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - No
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton –No
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad -No
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupe –Yes
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks -No
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams -Yes
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
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo -No




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