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 LOVE.
4) Strike out the books you have no intention of ever reading, or were forced to read at school and hated.
5) 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 ;-)


Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen

The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien

Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte

Harry Potter series - JK Rowling

To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee

The Bible

Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte - truly one of my favourite books, a beautofully written dark romance.

Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell - a chilling book which changes your perception of the world around you, you will never feel quite the same again.

His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman

Great Expectations - Charles Dickens

Little Women - Louisa M Alcott

Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy

Catch 22 - Joseph Heller

Complete Works of Shakespeare - some but certainly not all.

Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier

The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien

Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks

Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger

The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger

Middlemarch - George Eliot

Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell

The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald - But I prefer Tender is the Night, which I'm re-reading now.

Bleak House - Charles Dickens

War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy - read Anna Karenina and loved that.

The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams

Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh

Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky  - read The gambler. Bobok. A nasty story which were great. Will read C & P at some point.

Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck

Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll 

The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame

Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy - One of my favourite books, another dark romance with a tragic heroine, bit of a theme?

David Copperfield - Charles Dickens

Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis - just finishing the Last Battle now, reading it aloud to my daughter. 

Emma - Jane Austen

Persuasion - Jane Austen

The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini

Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres

Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden

Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne

Animal Farm - George Orwell

The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown 

One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving

The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins

Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery

Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy

The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood

Lord of the Flies - William Golding

Atonement - Ian McEwan

Life of Pi - Yann Martel

Dune - Frank Herbert

Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons

Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen

A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth

The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon

A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens

Brave New World - Aldous Huxley - Similar in subject and feel to 1984 although I prefer 1984.

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon - felt like an insight into another world, I thoroughly enjoyed it.

Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck

Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov

The Secret History - Donna Tartt

The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold

Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas

On The Road - Jack Kerouac

Bridget Jones' Diary - Helen Fielding  - not great

Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie

Moby Dick - Herman Melville

Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens

Dracula - Bram Stoker - has to be read if you're a goth I suppose :)

The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett

Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson

Ulysses - James Joyce - tried hard, but really couldn't manage it. Got to about 200 pages in and though WTF and went onto something else, never to return, unless my English degree reading list takes me back there of course.

The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath

Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome

Germinal - Emile Zola

Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray

Possession - AS Byatt

A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens

Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell

The Color Purple - Alice Walker

The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro

Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert - another beautifully written tale of a tragic heroine. Another of my favs.

A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry

Charlotte's Web - EB White

The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom

Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton

Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad

The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery

The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks

Watership Down - Richard Adams

A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole

A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute

The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl

Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot 

I'm not sure what categorises these as top 100, some are amazing books, others not. There isn't a book in the list I wouldn't try though, but many I've read or read some of which I would not neccessarily recommend.