Villainous Equals "Evil with Intent"

The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read six of the top one hundred books they've printed.

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) Cross out the ones you started but didn't finish.
5) Add a * to the ones you've only seen the movie of.
6) Reprint this list in your own LJ so we can try and track down these people who’ve only read six books and force more books upon them.

1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2. The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4. Harry Potter series - JK Rowling (Rowling is a decent storyteller. However, she is most definitely not anywhere close to even a half-way decent writer, in my opinion. I own the first five books, have read the first six, and have no intention of reading the seventh unless I run out of other books – which is not likely to happen!)
5. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6. The Bible
7. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8. Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell (Along with Brave New World and We, Nineteen Eighty-Four is one of my favourite dystopias.)
9. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens (Read - and hated it - for school; the only Dickens books I actually like are A Tale of Two Cities and Oliver Twist.)
11. Little Women - Louisa M Alcott (Along with Little Men and Jo’s Boys, Little Women is one of my favourite novels from that era, and one that I reread frequently, as I very much like the characters and enjoy sharing their lives.)
12. Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller (War novels are almost always of interest, and Catch 22 is a good one.)
14. Complete Works of Shakespeare (I wanted to finish this, but there was a small problem—the print in my copy was too small to read, and I didn’t have a decent magnifying glass at the time.)
15. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16. The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18. Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger (Another school read, and not one of my favourites.)
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 (School, again, and not of enough interest for me to get through it.)
23. Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25. The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams (It’s on my nightstand, in the midst of my “to read” pile.)
26. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28. Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame (I prefer Brian Jacques Redwall series, but The Wind in the Willows isn’t bad.)
31. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens (School, again.)
33. Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis (My preferred reading order is The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, Prince Caspian, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, The Silver Chair, The Horse and His Boy, The Magician’s Nephew, and The Last Battle, rather than the more recent chronological order that’s popular nowadays.)
34. Emma - Jane Austen
35. Persuasion - Jane Austen
36. [repeat]
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 - 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
45. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46. Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery (Some of my favourite books, even before I realized they were set in Canada, and ages before I actually ended up moving to Calgary.)
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 (One of my all-time favourite sci-fi books.)
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 (Great book!)
59. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60. Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck (Five times over the course of my K-12 schooling - no book should be read and analyzed that many times, particularly when it’s not a very good book; no, I don’t care much for Steinbeck’s work.)
62. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63. The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65. Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas (The Man in the Iron Mask, also by Dumas, and the only one of his books I’ve read, is good, but has almost nothing to do with the Leonardo DiCaprio movie, which takes up about a paragraph in the book.)
66. On The Road - Jack Kerouac (I’ve liked the work of many of the rest of the Beatniks, but Jack Kerouac is the King of that literary era, in my opinion.)
67. Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68. Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding
69. Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
70. Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens (The musical version my high school put on wasn't bad, either.)
72. Dracula - Bram Stoker
73. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett (Favourite book from my childhood; I have also quite enjoyed both live action films as well as the animated musical version.)
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 Zola
79. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80. Possession - AS 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 - EB White (I don’t like the book. I don’t like the animated film from ages ago. And I have no interest in seeing the live action adaptation, either.)
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 (More school, more boring.)
92. The Little 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. [repeat]
99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl (Great book, great movies, and great reading of the audiobook by Eric Idle.)
100. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo (As with The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, I couldn’t easily read my copy, and I’ve yet to get a new one.)