{"id":766,"date":"2008-06-25T21:29:03","date_gmt":"2008-06-25T21:29:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stevepugh.net\/VTT\/?p=766"},"modified":"2008-06-25T21:29:03","modified_gmt":"2008-06-25T21:29:03","slug":"book-meme-another-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevepugh.net\/VTT\/2008\/06\/book-meme-another-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Meme (another one)"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Big Read (or the BBC, depending on which source you read, but actually The Guardian) reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they’ve printed.<\/p>\n

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  1. Look at the list and bold<\/b> those you have read.<\/li>\n
  2. Italicize<\/i> those you intend to read.<\/li>\n
  3. Underline<\/u> the books you LOVE.<\/li>\n
  4. Strike out<\/s> the books you have no intention of ever reading, or were forced to read at school and hated.<\/li>\n
  5. Reprint this list in your own blog so we can try and track down these people who’ve read 6 and force books upon them<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n
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    1. Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen<\/li>\n
    2. The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien<\/b><\/li>\n
    3. Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte<\/li>\n
    4. The Harry Potter Series – JK Rowling<\/b><\/li>\n
    5. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee<\/li>\n
    6. The Bible<\/li>\n
    7. Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte<\/li>\n
    8. Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell<\/i><\/li>\n
    9. His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman<\/b><\/li>\n
    10. Great Expectations – Charles Dickens<\/li>\n
    11. Little Women – Louisa M Alcott<\/li>\n
    12. Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy<\/li>\n
    13. Catch 22 – Joseph Heller<\/b><\/li>\n
    14. Complete Works of Shakespeare <\/li>\n
    15. Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier<\/li>\n
    16. The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien<\/b><\/li>\n
    17. Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks<\/li>\n
    18. Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger<\/li>\n
    19. The Time Traveller’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger<\/li>\n
    20. Middlemarch – George Eliot<\/li>\n
    21. Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell<\/li>\n
    22. The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald<\/li>\n
    23. Bleak House – Charles Dickens<\/li>\n
    24. War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy<\/li>\n
    25. The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams<\/b><\/u><\/li>\n
    26. Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh<\/li>\n
    27. Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky (I’ve read about a third, but a long time ago so I really should start again)<\/li>\n
    28. Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck<\/li>\n
    29. Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll<\/b><\/li>\n
    30. The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame<\/b><\/li>\n
    31. Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy<\/li>\n
    32. David Copperfield – Charles Dickens<\/li>\n
    33. Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis (I’m sure I’ve read some other than TLTWATW but I’m not sure how many)<\/li>\n
    34. Emma – Jane Austen<\/li>\n
    35. Persuasion – Jane Austen<\/li>\n
    36. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – CS Lewis<\/b> (Why is this separate to 33?)<\/li>\n
    37. The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini<\/li>\n
    38. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis De Bernieres<\/li>\n
    39. Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden<\/li>\n
    40. Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne<\/b><\/li>\n
    41. Animal Farm – George Orwell<\/b><\/li>\n
    42. The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown<\/s><\/li>\n
    43. One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez<\/li>\n
    44. A Prayer for Owen Meaney – John Irving<\/li>\n
    45. The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins<\/li>\n
    46. Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery<\/li>\n
    47. Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy<\/li>\n
    48. The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood<\/i><\/li>\n
    49. Lord of the Flies – William Golding<\/b><\/li>\n
    50. Atonement – Ian McEwan<\/li>\n
    51. Life of Pi – Yann Martel<\/li>\n
    52. Dune – Frank Herbert<\/b><\/u><\/li>\n
    53. Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons<\/i><\/li>\n
    54. Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen<\/li>\n
    55. A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth<\/li>\n
    56. The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon<\/li>\n
    57. A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens<\/li>\n
    58. Brave New World – Aldous Huxley<\/i><\/li>\n
    59. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon<\/li>\n
    60. Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez<\/li>\n
    61. Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck<\/li>\n
    62. Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov <\/li>\n
    63. The Secret History – Donna Tartt<\/li>\n
    64. The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold<\/li>\n
    65. Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas<\/li>\n
    66. On The Road – Jack Kerouac<\/li>\n
    67. Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy<\/li>\n
    68. Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helen Fielding<\/b><\/li>\n
    69. Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie<\/li>\n
    70. Moby Dick – Herman Melville<\/i><\/li>\n
    71. Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens<\/b><\/li>\n
    72. Dracula – Bram Stoker<\/i><\/li>\n
    73. The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett<\/li>\n
    74. Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson<\/i><\/li>\n
    75. Ulysses – James Joyce<\/li>\n
    76. The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath<\/li>\n
    77. Swallows and Amazons – Arthur Ransome<\/b><\/li>\n
    78. Germinal – Emile Zola<\/li>\n
    79. Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray<\/li>\n
    80. Possession – AS Byatt<\/li>\n
    81. A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens<\/li>\n
    82. Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell<\/li>\n
    83. The Color Purple – Alice Walker<\/li>\n
    84. The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro<\/li>\n
    85. Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert<\/li>\n
    86. A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry<\/li>\n
    87. Charlotte’s Web – EB White<\/li>\n
    88. The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom<\/a><\/li>\n
    89. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle<\/b><\/li>\n
    90. The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton<\/li>\n
    91. Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad<\/i><\/li>\n
    92. The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery<\/li>\n
    93. The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks<\/b><\/li>\n
    94. Watership Down – Richard Adams <\/b><\/li>\n
    95. A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole<\/li>\n
    96. A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute<\/li>\n
    97. The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas<\/li>\n
    98. Hamlet – William Shakespeare<\/li>\n
    99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl<\/b><\/li>\n
    100. Les Miserables – Victor Hugo<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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