another "how many of these have you read" lemming

[jrtom]

because I really need to be spending time FORMATTING TEXT instead of sleeping.

Some organization believes that the average adult has read only six of the works below. Don't ask me how they think they know this. We all know I have a Long Tail...let's just see how long it is.



have read
intend to read
seen film version
(started but never finished)
[read for school]

[001 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen]
002 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
[003 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte]
004 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
[005 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee]
([006 The Bible])
007 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
[008 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell]
009 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
010 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
011 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
012 Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
(013 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller)
(014 Complete Works of Shakespeare)
[015 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier]
016 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
017 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
[018 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger]
019 The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
020 Middlemarch - George Eliot
021 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
022 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
023 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
024 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
025 The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
026 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
[027 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky]
(028 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck)
029 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
030 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame R
031 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
032 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
033 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
034 Emma - Jane Austen
[035 Persuasion - Jane Austen]
036 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - C.S. Lewis*
037 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
038 Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
039 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
040 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
[041 Animal Farm - George Orwell]
042 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown [can I indicate that I actually intend never to read something? I've read
part of a prequel to this book, and the author seriously is a hack.]
043 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
044 A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
045 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
046 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
047 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
[048 The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood]
049 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
050 Atonement - Ian McEwan
051 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
052 Dune - Frank Herbert
053 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
[054 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen]
055 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
056 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
(057 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens)
[058 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley]
059 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
060 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
061 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
062 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
063 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
064 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
065 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
066 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
067 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
068 Bridget Jones' Diary - Helen Fielding
069 Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
([070 Moby Dick - Herman Melville])
071 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
072 Dracula - Bram Stoker
073 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
074 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
075 Ulysses - James Joyce
076 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
077 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
078 Germinal - Emile Zola
079 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
080 Possession - AS Byatt
081 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
082 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
[083 The Color Purple - Alice Walker]
084 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
085 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
086 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
087 Charlotte's Web - EB White
(088 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom)
089 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
090 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
[091 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad]
092 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
093 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
094 Watership Down - Richard Adams
095 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
096 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
097 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
[098 Hamlet - William Shakespeare]
099 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo



* duplicates (included in other items on the list)
read for school: 16
read in entirety: 40
started, haven't finished: 7
intend to read: 7 (not the same 7, but there is some overlap :) )
seen in film or theatre production: 24