[bksvol-discuss] Re: Research task for a motivated volunteer
- From: "Sue Stevens" <siss52@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2010 09:21:20 -0600
Could someone please send me the final list again? I accidentally deleted
it. My address is:
siss52@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Thanks,
Sue S.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gary Petraccaro" <garyp130@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, November 24, 2010 1:07 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Research task for a motivated volunteer
I'm at 27, but some are things I've read so long ago that they probably
shouldn't be counted. I'm also surprised at the classics that aren't
there--Iliad, Odyssey, Frankenstein.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mayrie ReNae" <mayrierenae@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, November 20, 2010 3:56 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Research task for a motivated volunteer
> Hi Melissa,
>
> I think I've read 28 of them. Not bad, but not as good as I'd like it to
> be.
>
> Mayrie
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Melissa Smith
> Sent: Saturday, November 20, 2010 11:47 AM
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Research task for a motivated volunteer
>
> I see that this project has already been undertaken. I don't know about
> the
> rest of you, but more than 6 of those were required reading for me either
> in
> high school or college. I've read additional ones on my own as well.
>
> Melissa Smith
>
> On 11/20/2010 6:05 AM, Scott Rains wrote:
>> The BBC has posted a list of 100 noteworthy books - and predicts that
>> most
> people will have only read 6 of them.
>>
>> Bookshare would like to be sure that all our members have the chance to
> find all 100 of them in our collection. To do that we need someone to
> check
> the catalog for each title.
>>
>> Any takers?
>>
>> Ideally the list would give the URL for each book that we already have.
>>
>> Here's the BBC list:
>>
>>
>> The BBC apparently believes most people will have only read 6 of the 100
> books here:
>>
>> 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
>> 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 Complete Works of Shakespeare - read some, but not others...
>> 15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
>> 16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
>> 17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
>> 18 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 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 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
>> 34 Emma - Jane Austen
>> 35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
>> 36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe
>> 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
>> 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
>> 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 in the 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's 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 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
>> 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 - 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
>>
>>
>> Scott Rains
>> Benetech Fellow, Bookshare Volunteer Department
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