People think adults have only read six of the below books. Is it true?

Bold for Read
Italics for Intend to Read
Underline for Love
Added: Bold/italics for read in part

(P.S. If something is bold and I don't underline it, assume I like it unless I say so.)

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen (I don't remember what happened, though. I need to re-read it)
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 (Read Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Samuel 1 and 2, Kings 1 and 2, Isaiah, most of Jeremiah, Jonah, Ruth, Esther, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John (Gospel), Acts, Romans, Hebrews and the odd poem here and there.)
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman (Golden Compass only)
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott (Only read half of it because my copy didn't have the "Good Wives" section. I really hated it, so I'm not sure I want to pick it up again.)
12 Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare (Read Hamlet, Macbeth, Romeo & Juliet, King Lear, The Tempest, Merchant of Venice and 120 of the 154 Sonnets)
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier (Got it! Haven't read it.)
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger (Ugh, I'm not sure. It smells like "The Lovely Bones" to me.)
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 (Got it, haven't read it.)
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 (Read the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and Prince Caspian)
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen (Got it, haven't read it.)
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis (Someone can't read, I think.)
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini (Listened to half of the abridged audio book, not interested in finished it but my Dad may twist my arm enough because he loved this shit.)
38 Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden (Not as impressive on retrospection, but I don't hate it.)
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown (Blistering bullshit.)
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 (This deserves a re-read, too.)
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy (Well, maybe. He's not all that fun.)
48 The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood (Got it, haven't read it.)
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding (Am I the only one whose sick of hearing about this book? I think English class ruined this one for me.)
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel (Doesn't deserve its backlash, yo. Good shit. Not great, but good.)
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth (AAAAH! SHIT! THIS THING IS A CINDERBLOCK! My Dad gave it to my Mom and she thought he was crazy. Is it worth it?)
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 (Man, I've wanted to read this since I was 12 and watched the 1997 movie with my Dad and was traumatized ... I wonder what the hold up is.)
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold (BOOOOOOO!)
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac (On loan from my Dad. Next to read after "Naked Lunch," actually.)
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding (Although God knows why; I'll probably hate it given my track record of this shit)
69 Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville (Aw, crap. I've been borrowing this from Dad for a YEAR and haven't touched it.)
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson (Maybe. Is this the one about England? I'm not interested in him enough to look it up ...)
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 (WAAAH! HAD IT FOR A YEAR! HAVE NOT READ IT!)
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad (Yuck.)
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 ("Durr! I has teh dumb.")
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

Additions by fax-celestis (because he missed the point)
101 Good Omens - Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
102 Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson
103 Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card
104 The Sword of Shannara - Terry Brooks
105 Mossflower - Brian Jacques (I guess ... I'm not as into this stuff anymore.)
106 Armor - John Steakley
107 Cartomancy - Michael Stackpole
108 American Gods - Neil Gaiman
109 The Guns of the South - Harry Turtledove
110 Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson

OK, 10 additions by me (because I did too):
111 Cyrano de Bergerac - Edmond Rostand
112 Frankenstein - Mary Shelly
113 Life After God - Douglas Coupland
114 The Chosen - Chaim Potok
115 Mirror of Love - Alan Moore and Jose Villarubia
116 Arsene Lupin, Gentleman Thief - Maurice LeBlanc
117 Lucky - Alice Sebold
118 Naked - David Sedaris
119 Walden - Henry David Thoreau
120 Cathedral - Raymond Carver


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