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This is just a teeny reward to ME for finishing trig test yourself, french, geography AND english so far. *clapclap* I'm so proud. Yay me!

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 Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling(till the 5th book BUT IDC THAT COUNTS!)
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell (ooo my brother had to read that haha)
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott(started it-now the book's somewhere in my room :/)
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 (I watched the Disney movie-I think-, does that count?)
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 (cough watched the cough show)
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini (OOO my year read that in term 1. too bad I wasn't here then, or I could proudly BOLD this book ): )
38 Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne (the cartoon...?)
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown (HAVE IT HAVEN'T READ IT)
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 (OOO I saw it on Mr B's desk once, didn't interest me though, LOL)
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan (watched a shot of the show..)
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
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 (oooo the movie starred Renee Zellweger, just, you know...fyi.)
69 Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens (isn't this about this boy, named Oliver, who's an orphan, and went to work for this evil man who treat him badly?? and he stood up to mr evil about the food they're given, right?? RIGHT??!?!? see! I could totally BOLD this book too.)
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 (only heard of the magazine...)
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens (oh, I know enough about it to have read it, furthermore I WATCHED THE BARBIE VERSION!! BAH, HUMBUG!)
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 (HAHAHAH FINALLY. A book I can truly and honestly say I've read. Or rather, Mrs Menon read it to us when I was exactly...p2.)
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom (a priest? a taxi driver? or something like that?? LOL)
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton (I've read ALOT of her other books, and I could still have them but my mom gave them to my lovely cousin to destroy. anyway. whatever. I've probably read that collection or 1 or 2 books from that collection, whatever I'M STILL BOLDING IT.)
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 (YAYYYYY ANOTHER ONE! THAT MAKES 2!! AND I've watched the movie too, I totally loved Johnny Depp in that movie, HE'S SO GOOOOOD!! ahem. anyway. Roald Dahl. yeah. read the other one, Charlie and The Glass Elevator too, I should get extra marks! :D )
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

Oh dear. I've not accomplished ANYTHING with my life. I've read like 6 out of all these books, and some of them I HAVEN'T EVEN FINISHED!! I'm screwed. I'll just go crawl in the corner and watch grass die. Bye bye people. I'll miss you all.

















I'm back. Grass is boring. Anyway, WHY COULDN'T THE LIST HAVE INCLUDED BOOKS LIKE...SHOPAHOLIC SERIES MAYBE! ALOT OF PEOPLE READ THAT. Or or OR! THE TWILIGHT SERIES. Right?? Agree with me someone.

SherilynY