The Odd Boy Sat Down by the Football Field...Pulled out a Slim Volume of Mallarme.
Hey, two posts in one day.
I just thought I would answer the reading question posed on JJ's blog in order to make a mockery of the so-called findings that most folk have only read six of the books on the list of the top one hundred.
Here goes:-
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2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien.
3 Jayne Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4
5 To Kill a Mockinbird - Harper Lee
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7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
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11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
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15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
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19 The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
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25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
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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
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35
36
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
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
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46
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
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55
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 Nightime- 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 Rushdie
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
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
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80 Possession - AS Byatt
81
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
So there! Thirty four out of the top one hundred. It makes you wonder who they interviewed to come up with an AVERAGE of six!
9 comments:
Only 11 for me..........!(*blushes*)
35 for me. Interesting list 'tho'. Many I haven't heard of. Actually, as we are literararary it should be "... of which I haven't heard"
I managed 63, honest - but then I'm older than you lot & have had more time! Rather an odd collection - but these lists are inevitably a bit arbitrary. I was ashamed at some of my omissions - I see that I haven't tackled enough Russians.
17 for me
I can only assume they asked people like my sons who I don't think would have read 6 of them between them.
Where have I gone wrong eh???
Two more than me you boastful cleverdick! Must be all that spare time you had when you were a postie! Mind you, regarding the six average I know, as I am sure you do, a number of people who have never read a single book in their entire adult lives. Just look around you next time you watch Man City!
make it 37 and read "a confederacy of dunces".............it's a bit special.
not only dont i read enough.i cant count either! I reread your list & it's 13 !
21 and I don't read novels!! Work that one out...?
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