The Big Read thinks the average adult has only read six of the top 100 books they've printed below.

1) Look at the list and 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 so we can try and track down these people who've read 6 and force books upon them.


1. Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
2. The Lord of the Rings – J.R.R. Tolkien
3. Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
4. The Harry Potter series – JK Rowling
5. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
6. The Bible
7. Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
8. Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell
9. His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman
10. Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
11. Little Women – Louisa M Alcott
12. Tess of the D'Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
13. Catch 22 – Joseph Heller
14. The Complete Works of Shakespeare (some of it)
16. The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien
17. Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks
18. A Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger
19. The Time Traveller's Wife – Audrey Niffenegger
20. Middlemarch – George Eliot
21. Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell
22. The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald
23. Bleak House – Charles Dickens
24. War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
25. The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
26. Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
27. Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28. The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
29. Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
30. The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame
31. Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
32. David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
33. The Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis
34. Emma – Jane Austen
35. Persuasion – Jane Austen
36. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – C.S. Lewis
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 – A.A. 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
45. The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins
46. Anne of Green Gables – LMMontgomery
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 (Entire Series)
53. Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons
54. Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
55. A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth
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 inthe Night-time – 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' 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. Ulysses – James Joyce
76. The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
77. Swallows and Amazons – Arthur Ransome
78. Germinal – Emile
79. Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
80. Possession – A.S. Byatt
81. A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
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 – E.B. 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 (Le Petit 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

Thank you for restoring my faith in your office, thank you for restoring my pride in being an American, thank you for the rejuvination of the spirit of our great nation. Your speech made tears run down my face and chills sweep my body. You have rallied the people to your call, I pray we have the stregnth to follow your vision and that we do not disappoint you. Thank you Mr President, this is a great day in our history.

I really don't want to celebrate anyone's bad luck, but karma is biting Tom Brady in the ass.  Yes America, I am not a Tom Brady fan.  What kind of jerk has an affair on his girlfriend when she is 7.5 month pregnant with his child with a supermodel.  As if she didn't feel fat enough being pregnant, he leaves her for a twig.  To top it off it was all in the tabloids, no privacy for the poor thing.  I am happy he didn't have a perfect season last year, and I won't miss him this year.  Karma's a bitch.

I am in Baltimore for the week for the conference and I have an absolutely gorgeous view from my room of the Baltimore Harbor.  I am not sure what I was expecting, but I walked around the inner harbor area this afternoon, and it was really quite lovely.  I am looking forward to me week here!

Just got home and it rocked!  I danced in my chair, sang along to the songs, lauged, cried, laughed till I cried.  It rocked.  Won't win any awards but just plain fun. If you go make sure you stay long enough for the encore!!!!

It seems that I have mad skills when it comes to doing really stupid things at work.  It has only been about 3months since I got knocked out at work and got to spend a lovely week at home with a concussion.  This morning though, I really proved that I am an idiot.  While serving myself a wonderful bowl of grits this morning in the cafeteria, I got distracted and accidentally poured the hot bubbling grits all over my hand.  Woohoo, do I know how to have fun or what! Now I am sitting here typing with one hand, pretending that my skin is not on fire and the blisters are really just big freckles.  I am sure the rest of the day is just going to be peachy!

What is it about painting your toenails pink that makes the day just that much happier? I painted my toenails last night and every time I got stressed today all I had to do was look at them and it made me smile every time.  I love spring!

Yes, I went to the bathroom this morning after my first meeting and noticed that I had my purple bra on underneath a crisp white shirt.  I really need to start drinking caffeine in the morning.  Luckily, with my jacket you could hardly tell.  Oh well, at least I keep things interesting.

This is day five of peeing blood and now I am just to the really pissed off point.  I have shit to do this week and I do NOT have time for this.  I love my Dr too.  Direct from his office, with my history unless I am in acute pain bad enough for the ER or I start running a fever I just need to wait and see what happens.   The kidney stone is only 1/4 of an inch so it is small enough to pass without surgery so they totally leave you hanging.  I am flying to Orlando on Friday for 10 days for work and then a couple of days of fun, so cross your fingers and think good thoughts 

Current Mood: pissed off