May 21, 2012

if six is really the average, then i don't want to live on this planet anymore

krcubed:

Cross out what you’ve already read. Six is the average.

Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen 
The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
The Bible - Council of Nicea
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte 
Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien 
Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
Middlemarch - George Eliot
Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
Bleak House - Charles Dickens
War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
Emma - Jane Austen
Persuasion - Jane Austen
The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
Animal Farm - George Orwell
The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
Atonement - Ian McEwan
Life of Pi - Yann Martel
Dune - Frank Herbert
Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
The Secret History - Donna Tartt
The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold 
Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
On The Road - Jack Kerouac
Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie 
Moby Dick - Herman Melville
Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
Dracula - Bram Stoker 
The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
Ulysses - James Joyce 
The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
Germinal - Emile Zola
Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
Possession - AS Byatt
A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
The Color Purple - Alice Walker
The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
Charlotte’s Web - EB White
The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery 
The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
Watership Down - Richard Adams
A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole 
A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
Hamlet - William Shakespeare
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
Les Miserables - Victor Hugo


my numer is 45. thank you, Bookmobile. I regret nothing. 

(side note: what constituted the standards for books that “made the cut?”)

(Source: riptdogmahbrotha)

1,566 notes
tags #books #get smart #literature #read more you idiots

repeat from Seeking the Great Perhaps

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  1. cantrememberwhativeforgotten reblogged this from blasianlovebox and added:
    62…. The fact that 6 is the average trouble me considering that Id read at least 10 of these before I’d turned 11.
  2. bowleggedjerk reblogged this from futurecastiels and added:
    39. Holy hell I have way more than I thought I would.
  3. lawfulgoodness reblogged this from improbablenormality and added:
    I started filling it out, but got pretty angry halfway through. I mean… who wrote this (rhetorical question)? Why is...
  4. leo-lo-erlo reblogged this from diedandturnedintobarrowman and added:
    41 read, 8 liked tremendously, 12 are
  5. isolde-and-monsters reblogged this from sprakles and added:
    I have read 40. But there are some things about this list that really annoy me. Like how a whole book series counts as...
  6. sprakles reblogged this from ruthituesday and added:
    38 /o/
  7. cinaed01 reblogged this from stairwaytolucifer and added:
    I totaled 25…little more than average?
  8. kimono reblogged this from llamapus and added:
    15! edit: I forgot that I had read The Lovely Bones. That makes it 16.
  9. ruthituesday reblogged this from ladyhacksaway and added:
    29. so ashamed. .o. i started reading a few of these but never finished them so i didn’t strike them out. and by a few i...
  10. madelineinspired reblogged this from timeinthetardis and added:
    21! Although some...I had to read in...school, but a lot
  11. lickoutyourbrains reblogged this from pane-bianco
  12. whouffleftw reblogged this from ispeakineloquently and added:
    19 :)
  13. timeinthetardis reblogged this from wearyruler and added:
    19…I think I can do better. Lots of these are on my to read list anyway
  14. futurecastiels reblogged this from ispeakineloquently and added:
    22. That’s a lot more than I though I’ve read. And a few of them I before high school. Like, Anne of Green Gables and...
  15. ispeakineloquently reblogged this from ishouldntbeallowedoutinpublic and added:
    18. Many of them are on my read-ASAP list though!
  16. cinnamisha reblogged this from improbablenormality and added:
    15…not bad
  17. wearyruler reblogged this from altimateginger and added:
    I can’t be bothered to count, but I’m just going to go ahead and say good job me.
  18. death-benotproud reblogged this from ladyhacksaway
  19. altimateginger reblogged this from sardonicscrewdriver and added:
    21. (although why not group The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe with the rest of The Chronicles of Narnia? ) yeah half...
  20. poockie reblogged this from kiliphilia
  21. mishocallins reblogged this from improbablenormality
  22. tser reblogged this from lets-save-castiel and added:
    Clearly I have some reading to do.
  23. pagingthedoctortomypants reblogged this from llamapus and added:
    28. Some of these, I had to think twice about. I own a lot of these, but apparently haven’t gotten to yet. :p
  24. xofrank-iero reblogged this from lets-save-castiel
  25. lets-save-castiel reblogged this from bifurism
  26. kiliphilia reblogged this from ishouldntbeallowedoutinpublic and added:
    …50. I think I have too much time on my hands.