a book quiz. 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) Underline the books you really love (and strike through the ones you hate!). 4) Reprint this list in your own LJ 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 3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte 4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling 5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee i so want to read this. 6 The Bible:D 7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte was introduced to by.. STEPHMEYER! 8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell sounds cool. 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 sounds interesting. 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 i can't believe i bought it 3 years ago but haven't read it. 31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy 32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens 33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis read the 1st - 3rd, 6th book. 34 Emma - Jane Austen 35 Persuasion - Jane Austen 36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis 37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini very nice! 38 Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres 39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden ooh. sounds... interesting. 40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne 41 Animal Farm - George Orwell YAY YEAR1 SYLLABUS! [: 42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brownseriously want to read this. 43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez sounds intriguing. 44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving 45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins 46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery again, we have stephmeyer. 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 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 nice and vulgar. xD interesting! 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 does the simplified version count? XD 72 Dracula - Bram Stoker 73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett stopped halfway. wanna continue! 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 simplified version counted? 82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell 83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker 84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro 85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert sounds cool! 86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry 87 Charlotte's Web - EB WhiteNICE! ;D 88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom mitch albom's books are nice! 89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle studied it in P5 for mysteries or something. 90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blytonsome only. 91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad 92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery MR GROSSE'S RECOMMENDATION! 93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks 94 Watership Down - Richard Adams bought the book... haven't read. -.- 95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole 96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute 97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas 98 Hamlet - William Shakespearemy mom said its interesting. [: 99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl 100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo FRENCH! :D want to read!
dang. nine books. T.T i want to read alotttttttt of them! :D
Sunday, October 26, 2008
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Lawls. Saw this on Ching[space]Ying's blog! [:
a book quiz. 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) Underline the books you really love (and strike through the ones you hate!). 4) Reprint this list in your own LJ 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 3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte 4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling 5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee i so want to read this. 6 The Bible:D 7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte was introduced to by.. STEPHMEYER! 8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell sounds cool. 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 sounds interesting. 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 i can't believe i bought it 3 years ago but haven't read it. 31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy 32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens 33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis read the 1st - 3rd, 6th book. 34 Emma - Jane Austen 35 Persuasion - Jane Austen 36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis 37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini very nice! 38 Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres 39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden ooh. sounds... interesting. 40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne 41 Animal Farm - George Orwell YAY YEAR1 SYLLABUS! [: 42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brownseriously want to read this. 43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez sounds intriguing. 44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving 45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins 46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery again, we have stephmeyer. 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 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 nice and vulgar. xD interesting! 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 does the simplified version count? XD 72 Dracula - Bram Stoker 73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett stopped halfway. wanna continue! 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 simplified version counted? 82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell 83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker 84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro 85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert sounds cool! 86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry 87 Charlotte's Web - EB WhiteNICE! ;D 88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom mitch albom's books are nice! 89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle studied it in P5 for mysteries or something. 90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blytonsome only. 91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad 92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery MR GROSSE'S RECOMMENDATION! 93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks 94 Watership Down - Richard Adams bought the book... haven't read. -.- 95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole 96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute 97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas 98 Hamlet - William Shakespearemy mom said its interesting. [: 99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl 100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo FRENCH! :D want to read!
dang. nine books. T.T i want to read alotttttttt of them! :D
