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Found this on Facebook….<\/p>\n

The Big Read is an NEA program designed to encourage community reading initiatives and of their top 100 books, they estimate the average adult has read only six.<\/p>\n

*Look at the list and star those you have read.<\/p>\n

Share this list in your blog, too, if you like.<\/p>\n

1 Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen*
\n2 The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien*
\n3 Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte *
\n4 Harry Potter series – JK Rowlin *
\n5 To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee *
\n6 The Bible *
\n7 Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte*
\n8 Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell*
\n9 His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman
\n10 Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
\n11 Little Women – Louisa M Alcott*
\n12 Tess of the D\u00e2\u20ac\u2122Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
\n13 Catch 22 – Joseph Heller
\n14 Complete Works of Shakespeare *( most but not all of Shakespeare\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s works)
\n15 Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier (saw film)
\n16 The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien*
\n17 Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks
\n18 Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger
\n19 The Time Traveler\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger
\n20 Middlemarch – George Eliot
\n21 Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell
\n22 The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald
\n23 Bleak House – Charles Dickens
\n24 War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
\n25 The Hitch Hiker\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams*
\n26 Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
\n27 Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
\n28 Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
\n29 Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
\n30 The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame*
\n31 Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
\n32 David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
\n33 Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis*
\n34 Emma – Jane Austen*
\n35 Persuasion – Jane Austen *
\n36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – CS Lewis*
\n37 The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
\n38 Captain Corelli\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Mandolin – Louis De Bernieres
\n39 Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
\n40 Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne*
\n41 Animal Farm – George Orwell *
\n42 The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown *
\n43 One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
\n44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney – John Irving
\n45 The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins
\n46 Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery *
\n47 Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy
\n48 The Handmaid\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Tale – Margaret Atwood
\n49 Lord of the Flies – William Golding*
\n50 Atonement – Ian McEwan
\n51 Life of Pi – Yann Martel
\n52 Dune – Frank Herbert *
\n53 Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons
\n54 Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen*
\n55 A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth
\n56 The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon
\n57 A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
\n58 Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
\n59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon
\n60 Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
\n61 Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
\n62 Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
\n63 The Secret History – Donna Tartt
\n64 The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold
\n65 Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
\n66 On The Road – Jack Kerouac
\n67 Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy
\n68 Bridget Jones\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Diary – Helen Fielding (film = blech!)
\n69 Midnight\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Children – Salman Rushdie
\n70 Moby Dick – Herman Melville
\n71 Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
\n72 Dracula – Bram Stoker
\n73 The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett*
\n74 Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson
\n75 Ulysses – James Joyce
\n76 The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
\n77 Swallows and Amazons – Arthur Ransome
\n78 Germinal – Emile Zola
\n79 Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
\n80 Possession – AS Byatt
\n81 A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens*
\n82 Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
\n83 The Color Purple – Alice Walker*
\n84 The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
\n85 Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
\n86 A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
\n87 Charlotte\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Web – EB White*
\n88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom
\n89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle*
\n90 The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton
\n91 Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
\n92 The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery
\n93 The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks
\n94 Watership Down – Richard Adams *
\n95 A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
\n96 A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute
\n97 The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
\n98 Hamlet – William Shakespeare*
\n99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl *
\n100 Les Miserables – Victor Hugo<\/p>\n

Cool…I’m definitely going to look for some of these in my library.\u00c2\u00a0 Anyone have a good suggestion for where to start?<\/p>\n

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