I pulled this off of Guinifer’s blog who stole it from Cursing Mama!
They say the average American has only read 6 of the following:
Key
1) Bold the books you have already read
2) Italicize the books you intend to read
3) Notes in parentheses next to note-worthy titles.
1) Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
2) The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien
3) Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
4) Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling
5) To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
6) The Bible (yeah - the whole thing, twice)
7) Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
8 ) Nineteen Eighty Four by George Orwell
9) His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman
10) Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
11) Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
12) Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
13) Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
14) Complete Works of Shakespeare (some)
15) Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
16) The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien
17) Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
18 ) Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger
19) The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
20) Middlemarch by George Eliot
21) Gone With The Wind by Margaret Mitchell
22) The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
23) Bleak House by Charles Dickens
24) War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
25) The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
26) Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
27) Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 ) Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
29) Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
30) The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
31) Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
32) David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
33) Chronicles of Narnia by CS Lewis
34) Emma by Jane Austen
35) Persuasion by Jane Austen
36) The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe by CS Lewis
37) The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
38 ) Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Louis De Bernieres
39) Memories of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
40) Winnie the Pooh by AA Milne
41) Animal Farm by George Orwell
42) The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
43) One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44) A Prayer for Owen Meaney by John Irving
45) The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
46) Anne of Green Gables by LM Montgomery
47) Far From The Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
48 ) The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
49) Lord of the Flies by William Golding
50) Atonement by Ian McEwan
51) Life of Pi by Yann Martel
52) Dune by Frank Herbert
53) Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
54) Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
55) A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth
56) The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57) A Tale Of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
58 ) Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
59) The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
60) Love In The Time Of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61) Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
62) Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
63) The Secret History by Donna Tartt
64) The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
65) Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
66) On The Road by Jack Kerouac
67) Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
68 ) Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding
69) Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
70) Moby Dick by Herman Melville
71) Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
72) Dracula by Bram Stoker
73) The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
74) Notes From A Small Island by Bill Bryson
75) Ulysses by James Joyce
76) The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
77) Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome
78 ) Germinal by Emile Zola
79) Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
80) Possession by AS Byatt
81) A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
82) Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
83) The Color Purple by Alice Walker
84) The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
85) Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
86) A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
87) Charlotte's Web by EB White
88 ) The Five People You Meet In Heaven by Mitch Albom
89) Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90) The Faraway Tree Collection by Enid Blyton
91) Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
92) The Little Prince by Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93) The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks
94) Watership Down by Richard Adams
95) A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
96) A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute
97) The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 ) Hamlet by William Shakespeare
99) Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
100) Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
I've read quite a few of the books but several of them have been so long ago that I can barely remember what they're about. Books are great. You get much more detail than movies and you get to use your imagination instead of relying of what some movie guy thinks the books should be like.
1 comment:
I cant figure out how to bold them on this comment page, so will delete the ones I haven't read and comment on the others.
Key
1) Bold the books you have already read
2) Italicize the books you intend to read
3) Notes in parentheses next to note-worthy titles.
2) The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien watched part of the movie and am now listening to the story on cassette tapes in my truck.
4) Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling, yep read them all!
6) The Bible (yeah - the whole thing, twice)still working on it. But being a Catholic, we go through the Bible once every three years in our masses.
7) Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte (Not much into historical lady stuff.)
11) Little Women by Louisa May Alcott - when I was a kid
13) Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
14) Complete Works of Shakespeare (some, mostly listened to)
16) The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien- that's next in the truck.
in the Rye by JD Salinger
19) The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger - Can't believe you have this one listed! I bought the book at the library and am part way through the beginning chapters. Really have to wrap my mind around the story though.
21) Gone With The Wind by Margaret Mitchell Loved it! Have kind of watched the movie off and on. Not really sat through it.
25) The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams Think I read that one
29) Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll who hasn't read this one?
30) The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame Kind of watched the cartoons and am intrigued by it so that is a maybe.
40) Winnie the Pooh by AA Milne some of the stories
42) The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown watched the movie and read the book and listened to the audio, all three.
46) Anne of Green Gables by LM Montgomery have the series on video and loved them
65) Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas watched the movie
68 ) Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding watched the movie
73) The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett think I read it or watched it.
81) A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens watched it.
83) The Color Purple by Alice Walker watched it
87) Charlotte's Web by EB White watched it
89) Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Right up my alley and have watched a lot and read a lot, don't know if I have done the complete stories though.
92) The Little Prince by Antoine De Saint-Exupery seem to remember a movie on this one
94) Watership Down by Richard Adams Husband introduced me to this one and still love it.
97) The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas watched the movie
98 ) Hamlet by William Shakespeare some not all
99) Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl watched the movie
By that list, I am an illiterate, but I have read all of William Kent Krueger, and almost all of Nevada Barr (unless she has pubolished a new one that I haven't gotten my sticky paws on), Tony Hillerman, Fern Michaels, Diane Mott Davidson, and a bunch of knitting authors. I have more, but the names have just slipped out of my mind. Must be blood sugar is low. Will test and eat. Sometimes eating is getting to be a chore lately. I KNOW!
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