Big Read Books

The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they’ve printed.

1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read.
3) Place an asterisk (*) by those you’ve not read, but have seen a movie or stage performance of.
4) 2 dashes (--) means you have started it but never finished it for whatever reason
5) a ?? means you have never heard of it before

1. The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien*
2. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen*
3. His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman *
4. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams--*
5. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, JK Rowling*
6. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee*
7. Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne
8. Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell--
9. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis*
10. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë*
11. Catch-22, Joseph Heller --
12. Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë
13. Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks ??
14. Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier*
15. The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger--
16. The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame*
17. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
18. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott *
19. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres ??
20. War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
21. Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell *
22. Harry Potter And The Philosopher’s Stone, JK Rowling*
23. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets, JK Rowling*
24. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban, JK Rowling*
25. The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien
26. Tess Of The D’Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy
27. Middlemarch, George Eliot*
28. A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving ??
29. The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck
30. Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll*
31. The Story Of Tracy Beaker, Jacqueline Wilson ??
32. One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez ??
33. The Pillars Of The Earth, Ken Follett ??
34. David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
35. Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl*
36. Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
37. A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute ??
38. Persuasion, Jane Austen*
39. Dune, Frank Herbert
40. Emma, Jane Austen *
41. Anne Of Green Gables, LM Montgomery*
42. Watership Down, Richard Adams
43. The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald
44. The Count Of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas*
45. Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh ??
46. Animal Farm, George Orwell
47. A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens*
48. Far From The Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy ??
49. Goodnight Mister Tom, Michelle Magorian ??
50. The Shell Seekers, Rosamunde Pilcher ??
51. The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett*
52. of Mice And Men, John Steinbeck
53. The Stand, Stephen King ??
54. Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
55. A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth ??
56. The BFG, Roald Dahl
57. Swallows And Amazons, Arthur Ransome ??
58. Black Beauty, Anna Sewell
59. Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer--
60. Crime And Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
61. Noughts And Crosses, Malorie Blackman ??
62. Memoirs Of A Geisha, Arthur Golden
63. A Tale Of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
64. The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCollough ??
65. Mort, Terry Pratchett ??
66. The Magic Faraway Tree, Enid Blyton ??
67. The Magus, John Fowles ??
68. Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman ??
69. Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett ??
70. Lord Of The Flies, William Golding
71. Perfume, Patrick Süskind ??
72. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Robert Tressell ??
73. Night Watch, Terry Pratchett ??
74. Matilda, Roald Dahl*
75. Bridget Jones’s Diary, Helen Fielding
76. The Secret History, Donna Tartt ??
77. The Woman In White, Wilkie Collins ??
78. Ulysses, James Joyce ??
79. Bleak House, Charles Dickens
80. Double Act, Jacqueline Wilson ??
81. The Twits, Roald Dahl??
82. I Capture The Castle, Dodie Smith ??
83. Holes, Louis Sachar*
84. Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake ??
85. The God Of Small Things, Arundhati Roy ??
86. Vicky Angel, Jacqueline Wilson ??
87. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
88. Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons*
89. Magician, Raymond E Feist ??
90. On The Road, Jack Kerouac ??
91. The Godfather, Mario Puzo
92. The Clan Of The Cave Bear, Jean M Auel??
93. The Colour Of Magic, Terry Pratchett ??
94. The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho ??
95. Katherine, Anya Seton ??
96. Kane And Abel, Jeffrey Archer ??
97. Love In The Time Of Cholera, Gabriel García Márquez ??
98. Girls In Love, Jacqueline Wilson ??
99. The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot *
100. Midnight’s Children, Salman Rushdie ??
I've read 28,
Intend to read 6,
Seen 28 in movie form,
Started 5 that I never finished,
and I'm afraid I've never heard of 42 of them.
So I guess I'm tied with Stef and I'm way behind Lisa. Why have I never heard of these books?
Is there a category for books you read but didn't enjoy? Because that would be 4