100 books list

[double_ohsteven]

The Big Read thinks the average adult has only read six of the top 100 books they've printed below. Look at the list and...
1) 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.

3) I'm strikethroughing the ones I've read part of, given up on or may yet try again.

Comments

[fuzzygruf]

Wait a minute. "The Pet Goat" isn't on the list???

[noelbear]

I am an AVID reader. I read 2-3 books a month and have most of my adult life. I've only read 36 of these books. It's a strange list while some of it is obvious (Harry Potter) some it is so obscure as to be pointless (Cloud Atlas? I mean, really?)Some of it is extremely dense (Madame Bovary, Tess of the D'Erbivilles) and other parts is frankly pop dreck (Bridget Jones Diary, Battlefield Earth) There seems to be an over emphasis on children's literature and books which were later made into films (everyone read Cosmos by Sagan not Contact until it was a movie).

That said there are some standouts that would appear on my short list of must reads

Confederacy of Dunces
100 Years of solitude
Shadows of the Wind
Life of Pi
Captain Corelli Mandolin

[mrdreamjeans]

I've read 39. The most unlikely book on the list for me to complete? The Bible:)

More books

[double_ohsteven]

If I were to add to this list what I've read in the last couple of years:

106. Don Quixote - Cervantes
107. The Golden Notebook - Doris Lessing
108. Light before Day - Christopher Rice
109. Candide - Voltaire
110. Hawthorne and History - J. Hillis Miller
111. The Magic Mountain - Thomas Mann
112. Dr. Faustus - Thomas Mann
113. Robinson Crusoe - Defoe
114. The flowers of Evil - Charles Baudelaire
115. Aspects of the Novel - E. M. Forster

I think that's about it.