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Right, it's a FB thing where it seems to be common practice to attach an unlikely sponsor's name to such things to "anger" people into commenting/joining in. Half of the ones I received were prefaced "this is purportedly from the bbc...." or some such
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the list was originally promulgated by the BBC. The challenge was not.
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I just found this by doing a quick search.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/bigread/top100.shtml The list is a little different, and there is no mention that most people have only read six of the books. It's simply a list of reader recommended books. |
good point. although I really don't think it matters for the purpose of the challenge. It's just a silly netz meme, which has apparently been around for a while. I got all excited -- cause I like books!
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It's cool to have such a list. It makes one stretch outside one's reading comfort zone. Lots of us would like to do that, but it's hard without suggestions
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When I did this one, I think I'd read 44.
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3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee 6 The Bible 8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell 11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott 18 Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger 21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell 22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald 24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy 25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams 27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky 28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck 29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll 31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy 37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini 40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne 41 Animal Farm - George Orwell 42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown 43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez 44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving 48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood 49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding 51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel 57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens 58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley 61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck 62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov 64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold 68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding 70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville 71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens 72 Dracula - Bram Stoker 73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett 76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath 81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens 83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker 85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert 87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White 89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad 94 Watership Down - Richard Adam 98 A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess 99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl |
This is the list of favorite books; I find it odd that Winne the Poo ranked seventh.
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Winnie the Pooh indeed ranked seventh.
Well, a lot of people read it/ had it read to them as a child. It's very fondly remembered. There are quite a few children's books in the original Top 20. My scores on the doors for this, the Original list: 1. The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien 2. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen 3. His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman 4. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams 5. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, JK Rowling 6. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee 7. Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne 8. Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell 9. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis 10. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë 11. Catch-22, Joseph Heller 12. Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë 13. Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks 14. Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier 15. The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger 16. The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame 17. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens 18. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott 19. Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres 20. Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell 21. Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone, JK Rowling 22. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets, JK Rowling 23. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban, JK Rowling 24. The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien 25. Tess Of The D'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy 26. Middlemarch, George Eliot 27. A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving 28. The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck 29. Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll 30. One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez 31. The Pillars Of The Earth, Ken Follett 32. David Copperfield, Charles Dickens 33. Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl 34. Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson 35. A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute 36. Persuasion, Jane Austen 37. Dune, Frank Herbert 38. Emma, Jane Austen 39. Anne Of Green Gables, LM Montgomery 40. Watership Down, Richard Adams 41. The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald 42. Animal Farm, George Orwell 43. A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens 44. Far From The Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy 45. Goodnight Mister Tom, Michelle Magorian 46. The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett 47. Of Mice And Men, John Steinbeck 48. The Stand, Stephen King 49. A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth 50. The BFG, Roald Dahl 51. Swallows And Amazons, Arthur Ransome 52. Black Beauty, Anna Sewell 53. Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer 54. Memoirs Of A Geisha, Arthur Golden 55. A Tale Of Two Cities, Charles Dickens 56. The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCollough 57. Mort, Terry Pratchett 58. The Magic Faraway Tree, Enid Blyton 59. The Magus, John Fowles 60. Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman 61. Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett 62. Lord Of The Flies, William Golding 63. Perfume, Patrick Süskind 64. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Robert Tressell 65. Night Watch, Terry Pratchett 66. Matilda, Roald Dahl 67. Bridget Jones's Diary, Helen Fielding 68. The Woman In White, Wilkie Collins 69. Bleak House, Charles Dickens 70. The Twits, Roald Dahl 71. I Capture The Castle, Dodie Smith 72. Holes, Louis Sachar 73. The God Of Small Things, Arundhati Roy 74. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley 75. Magician, Raymond E Feist 76. On The Road, Jack Kerouac 77. The Colour Of Magic, Terry Pratchett 78. The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho 79. Kane And Abel, Jeffrey Archer 80. Love In The Time Of Cholera, Gabriel García Márquez 81. Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie I remember outcry at the time that teens had skewed the online voting. But there's plenty of classics on there. Especially ones I hadn't read then and haven't still. I really need to sort out the Russians.... |
Are they ranked? Or just listed?
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8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens 12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy 13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller 18 Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger 22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald 25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams 29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll 30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame 32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens 40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne 41 Animal Farm - George Orwell 42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown 43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez 46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery 49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding 51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel 53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons 57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens 58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley 60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez 65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas 66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac 70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville 71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens 75 Ulysses - James Joyce Just started it last week 81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens 83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker 87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White 92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery 94 Watership Down - Richard Adam 98 A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess 99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl |
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Note how the second (technically the first) list is even more Brit-centric. People go with what they know. I'd be interested in seeing a similar American poll, New York Times or whatsuch. |
Quickly looking the list over, 2 current reading, 38 read.
currently reading 79 Vanity Fair - Thackeray 6 The Bible read 2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien 3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte 4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling 7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte 8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell 9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman 15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier 16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien 18 Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger 25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams 26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh 27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky 29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll 30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame 33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis 37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini 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 48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood 49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding 52 Dune - Frank Herbert 58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley 59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night - Mark Haddon 71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens 72 Dracula - Bram Stoker 76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath 81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens 87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White 89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad 92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery 94 Watership Down - Richard Adam 96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute 98 A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess 99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl 100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo |
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5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee 6 The Bible 8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell 9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman 10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens 13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller 14 Complete Works of Shakespeare 18 Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger 24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy 25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams 27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky 29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll 30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame 31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy 32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens 40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne 41 Animal Farm - George Orwell 42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown 49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding 52 Dune - Frank Herbert 57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens 58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley 61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck 62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov 65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas 66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac 70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville 71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens 72 Dracula - Bram Stoker 75 Ulysses - James Joyce 76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath 81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens 87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White 89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad 94 Watership Down - Richard Adam 97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas 98 A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess 99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl |
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