Discovered this here and thought I aught to do it. The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they’ve printed. Well let’s see.1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.2) Italicize those you intend to read.3) Reprint this list on your blog so we can try and track down these people who’ve read 6 and force books upon them 😉 Here goes: 1 Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen2 The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien3 Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte4 Harry Potter series – JK Rowling5 To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee6 The Bible7 Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte8 Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell9 His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman10 Great Expectations – Charles Dickens11 Little Women – Louisa M Alcott12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy13 Catch 22 – Joseph Heller14 Complete Works of Shakespeare (I’m bolding this anyway because I’ve read a hell of a lot of his work)15 Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier16 The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien17 Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks18 Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger19 The Time Traveller’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger20 Middlemarch – George Eliot21 Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell22 The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald23 Bleak House – Charles Dickens24 War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams26 Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh27 Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky28 Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck29 Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll30 The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame31 Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy32 David Copperfield – Charles Dickens33 Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis34 Emma – Jane Austen35 Persuasion – Jane Austen36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – CS Lewis (wat, why is this on there twice)37 The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis De Bernieres39 Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden40 Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne (I’ve seen and read enough Pooh stuff that this counts)41 Animal Farm – George Orwell42 The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown43 One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney – John Irving45 The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins46 Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery47 Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy48 The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood49 Lord of the Flies – William Golding50 Atonement – Ian McEwan51 Life of Pi – Yann Martel52 Dune – Frank Herbert53 Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons54 Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen55 A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth56 The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon57 A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens58 Brave New World – Aldous Huxley59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon60 Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez61 Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck62 Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov63 The Secret History – Donna Tartt64 The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold65 Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas66 On The Road – Jack Kerouac67 Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy68 Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helen Fielding69 Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie70 Moby Dick – Herman Melville71 Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens72 Dracula – Bram Stoker73 The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett74 Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson75 Ulysses – James Joyce76 The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath77 Swallows and Amazons – Arthur Ransome78 Germinal – Emile Zola79 Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray80 Possession – AS Byatt81 A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens82 Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell83 The Color Purple – Alice Walker84 The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro85 Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert86 A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry87 Charlotte’s Web – EB White88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle90 The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton91 Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad92 The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery93 The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks94 Watership Down – Richard Adams95 A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole96 A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute97 The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas98 Hamlet – William Shakespeare (this is also on there twice; why does this get separated from the Complete Works rather than Romeo & Juliet, or Macbeth, or Othello…)99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl100 Les Miserables – Victor Hugo Twenty-two. That’s not bad I suppose. There are a lot of books on here I’m not really interested in though. So be it. Everyone is tagged, by the way!

By far the coolest infusion of Shakespeare into geek culture ever. Got this from the Swivet. (Don’t click the read more, there isn’t any more after this)