Gaps in my education? Hmmmm

I lifted this from LargeMarge's blog. It was rather interesting. According to Marge, the Big Read figures the average adult has read only about 6 of the following 100 books. I am only going to bold those I've read all the way through. Some I've started ("Stately plump....") You know the really sad thing? Most of the classics I read as a child and the real question is how many of them I actually remember!
Well, here goes:

1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read.
3) Reprint this list and leave a comment
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 (read the 1st; saw the others in the movies, LOL)
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible most of it anyway
7 Wuthering Heights
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 Traveler’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 This is part of 33.
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 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
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
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 Conrad
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

There are so many more books I actually have that I want to read - fiction and non-fiction alike.
I should live so long....

Comments

Anonymous said…
What a great list of books. I enjoyed looking through them and seeing what I have read, it also made me want to read the ones if haven't
November 21, 2008 at 3:32 AM
joannamauselina said…
I have read almost the same ones you have, but since my favorites are 19th century, I have read more of those. You had better get going on Jane Austin. Not much better than her.
November 21, 2008 at 12:57 PM
Anonymous said…
Neat! I came to you via RGBP, I like! I'd like to give the meme a try, too. Good inspiration to read more!
November 21, 2008 at 7:14 PM
Unknown said…
Love the list - there are so many I think I remember reading in school. I do remember having to get parental permission to read Catcher in the Rye and then not liking the book at all. Others I do remember reading. I also like how the list has changed over the years - books added and other loved books are missing now.
November 22, 2008 at 1:02 AM
Unknown said…
Hello you! Well I have not read most of them. I have seen many as TV films or cinema films. I have read Lord of The Flies and ALL the Narnia books.The Faraway Tree books, all of Dan Brown's books.The Lovely Bones by Sebold is probably the best I have ever read or at least when I was reading it, I knew I was reading LITERATURE.
November 22, 2008 at 1:52 PM
Anonymous said…
I really enjoyed this meme. Thanks for sharing it. I put up my own list (in case yer interested...)

And I do urge you to consider reading The Color Purple by Alice Walker - it is one of my favorite books ever...and I see that you haven't read it. It's wonderful.
November 25, 2008 at 12:50 AM
moonspot 月点 said…
Yeah, it's a little Jane Austen-heavy, but that makes it a great list in my opinion.

I've read almost exactly half the list, but that includes all 6 of Jane Austen.

I believe that it is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. You may quote me.
December 2, 2008 at 2:14 PM
FuguesStateKnits said…
Judith - thanks - I agree - the list makes me want to catch up on what I missed when I was younger and what I should begin now. The NY Times recently came out with a list of good books to read - from just THIS year! Too much to read - too little time!
Joanna - thanks I have heard the same about Jane Austin - have seen movies about her and her books made into movies. I have also heard that George Sands is excellent.
Turtledoves&Tofu - thanks!
Gail - We had a small issue with Catcher in the Rye and of course I read it right away, LOL! Like you, it left me cold - precisely, I think, what it was intended to do. Reading it again some forty years later, I felt exactly the same way!
Colin - I share your opinion of The Lovely Bones - what an amazing piece of literature! Didn't you keep wanting the SOB who killed her to be "caught" in a more dramatic way???
Helen - one of these years I am going to read The Color Purple - yet having seen so much of it on the Silver Screen, I wonder if it's a spoiler?
Moonspot - thanks for the comment, but nope - not gonna quote that one. I like the by Gloria Steinem: A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle - or something like that.
Thanks to all of you for commenting!
Joan
December 2, 2008 at 4:07 PM
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