Books - The Big Read

I found this on Kai's blog (Yarn Mistrys).

BTW if you are wondering why I am posting so much today - I spent all of yesterday and last night being ill (not booze related) and I don't have any energy for anything other than sitting on my arse and messing about with t'interweb.

The original is from Big Read. Apparently they reckon most people will have only read 6 of the 100. Is this a challenge?

Instructions:

1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Underline those you intend to read. I’ve indented those choices…
3) Italicise the books you LOVE.
4) Reprint this list so we can try and track down these people who’ve read 6 and force books upon them.

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– HarperLee 6. The Bible (To quote the wonderful Tom Baker - a marvellous book for children... "full of sex and violence").
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 - really didn't love but can't switch off the italics.
12. Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy - a novel to slit your wrists by - Hardy was a depressing bugger. "Jude" is even worse!
13. Catch 22 – Joseph Heller
14. Complete Works of Shakespeare - dunno about complete but I've read a lot of them.
15. Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier
16. The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien
17. Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks - and it's pants.
18. Catcher in the Rye – J D Salinger - and it's worse than pants. I think my mistake was reading it when I was 21, rather than a 14 year old. This kid is such a whinge. 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 (My mate Paul says I must read it).
25. The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
26. Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh - saw it on the telly, does that count? I'm joking!!
27. Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28. Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck - Love it. It's fab.
29. Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
30. The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame - I hate all of the dramatisations so it's unlikely I'll be reading this one.
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
37. The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
38. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis De Bernieres Mans - Big Pile of Poo. What a rubbish ending.
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 Yuk!! Spawned a million imitators and worse - Kate Moss "Labyrinth" and Barbara Erskine "Whispers in the Sand". These two produce Dan Brown for Girls. Cack, utter cack!
43. One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44. A Prayer for Owen Meaney – John Irving - I cried and cried. It's lovely.
45. The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins 46. Anne of Green Cables - LM Montgomery 47. Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy - Probably not, I've learned my lesson.
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 - Haven't read but can't switch off the bold on this one.
86. A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
87. Charlotte’s Web – EB White - Haven't read but can't switch off the bold on this one, either! 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

49/100 Cool.