{"id":229,"date":"2009-01-27T14:20:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-27T14:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tdgsafety.wordpress.com\/2009\/01\/27\/book-meme\/"},"modified":"2009-01-27T14:20:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-27T14:20:00","slug":"book-meme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/foolish-house.local\/2009\/01\/27\/book-meme\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Meme-"},"content":{"rendered":"

grabbed from z111<\/p>\n

I hate memes – but this is about books that matter, so here we go:<\/p>\n

The Big Read thinks the average adult has only read six of the top 100 books they’ve printed below.<\/a><\/p>\n

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) 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.<\/p>\n

1<\/i>. Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
2. The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien <\/strong>
3. Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
4. Harry Potter series – JK Rowling<\/strong>
5. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
6. The Bible
7. <\/i>Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte<\/u><\/strong>
8. Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell<\/b><\/u>
9. His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman<\/em>
10. Great Expectations – Charles Dickens<\/strong>
11. <\/strong>Little Women – Louisa M Alcott
12. Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
13. Catch 22 – Joseph Heller<\/strong><\/u>
14. Complete Works of Shakespeare
16. The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien <\/strong>
17. Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks
18. Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger<\/em>
19. <\/strong>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<\/strong>
23. Bleak House – Charles Dickens<\/strong>
24. War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
25. The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams<\/strong><\/u>
26. Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
27. Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky<\/strong>
28. Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
29. Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll<\/strong>
30. The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame
31. Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
32. David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
33. Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis<\/strong>
34. Emma – Jane Austen
35. Persuasion – Jane Austen
36. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – C.S. Lewis
<\/strong>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<\/strong>
41. Animal Farm – George Orwell
<\/strong><\/u>42. The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown
<\/strong>43. <\/strong>One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez<\/strong><\/u>
44. A Prayer for Owen Meaney – John Irving
45. The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins
46. Anne of Green Gables – LMMontgomery
47. Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy
48. The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood<\/em>
49. Lord of the Flies – William Golding<\/strong><\/u>
50. Atonement – Ian McEwan
51. Life of Pi – Yann Martel
<\/strong>52. Dune – Frank Herbert<\/strong>
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<\/strong>
58. Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
<\/strong>59. The Curious Incident of the Dog inthe Night-time – Mark Haddon
<\/strong>60. <\/strong>Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez<\/strong><\/u>
61. Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck<\/strong>
62.<\/strong> Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov<\/strong><\/u>
63. The Secret History – Donna Tartt
64. The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold
65. Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas<\/strong>
66. On The Road – Jack Kerouac<\/strong>
67. Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy
68. Bridget Jones’ Diary – Helen Fielding (are you frickin’ kidding me??)
69. Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
70. Moby Dick – Herman Melville
71. Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens<\/strong>
72. Dracula – Bram Stoker<\/strong>
73. The Secret Garden – Frances HodgsonBurnett<\/strong>
74. Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson
75. Ulysses – James Joyce
76. The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
77. Swallows and Amazons – ArthurRansome
78. Germinal – Emile
79. Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
80. Possession – AS Byatt
81. A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens<\/strong>
82. Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
83. The Color Purple – Alice Walker<\/strong>
84. The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro<\/strong>
85. Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
86. A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
87. Charlotte’s Web – EB White<\/strong>
88. The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom
89. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle<\/strong>
90. The Faraway Tree Collection –Enid Blyton
91. Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad<\/strong><\/u>
92. The Little Prince (Le Petit Prince) – Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93. The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks <\/em>
94. Watership Down – Richard Adams<\/strong>
95. A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole<\/strong>
96. A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute
97. <\/strong>The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas<\/strong><\/u>
98. Hamlet – William Shakespeare<\/strong><\/u>
99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl<\/strong>
100. Les Miserables – Victor Hugo<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

grabbed from z111 I hate memes – but this is about books that matter, so here we go: The Big Read thinks the average adult has only read six of the top 100 books they’ve printed below. 1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.2) Italicize those you intend to read.3) Underline […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/foolish-house.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/foolish-house.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/foolish-house.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foolish-house.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foolish-house.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/foolish-house.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/foolish-house.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foolish-house.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foolish-house.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}