THE BIG READ (stolen from Morgan Drake)

This fun list came from another blog written by Morgan Drake, and I have to say I found it a fun list of good reading, something for everyone in it.

Big Read Top One Hundred
"The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they've printed." So check the list and 1) Look at the list and bold/colorize those you have read.2) Post the list on your site.(This can also remind you of some great books to read.)

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 (well, I read the first two books of the series)
5. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee *
6. The Bible (some, huh?)7
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 *
12. Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller *
14. Complete Works of Shakespeare*
15. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier*
16. The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien *
17. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18. Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger *
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 *
25. The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh *
27. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky *
28. Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck *
29. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll *
30. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame *
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*
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 ***
43. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez ***
44. A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46. Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery ***
47. Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48. The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood ***
49. Lord of the Flies - William Golding ***
50. Atonement - Ian McEwan ***
51. ife 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's 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 ***
86. A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87. Charlotte's Web - EB White ***
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 Conrad92
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

Well darn seems I have read less than half of the above list---spending to much time sucking up all the "Who dunits" I guess. (I didn't count the titles above that I hadn't read the book ,but HAD seen the movie---that would be cheating)