The other day I posted about the books Brits are re-reading. At the time I could only find the top ten books in the list, but Anne has found the top twenty. Here, according to a recent survey, are the top twenty re-reads in the United Kingdom.
- The Harry Potter Series by J.K Rowling
- Lord of the Rings Trilogy by JRR Tolkien
- Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen
- The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien
- Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
- 1984 by George Orwell
- Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
- The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis
- Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
- Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
- Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson
- To Kill a Mocking Bird by Harper Lee
- Flowers in the Attic by Virginia Andrews
- Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
- Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
- The Bible
- Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
- Bridget Jones Diary by Helen Fielding
- Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
- Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
I know this is rather sad, but there are many on this list that I haven’t read. There are two on the list I’ve never heard of and a few I’ll likely never read. A lot of the list is fantasy/sci fi and that just isn’t my reading area…perhaps time to change that.
OK, you *have* to fess up about the ones you haven’t heard of. Is Good Omens one of them? I looked it up and it looks as if it might be amusing. I have a guess as to what the other one might be, but I might be way out there, so tell me!!!
As you thought, I’d never heard of Good Omens; unlike you, I haven’t even looked it up. The other one I’ve never heard of is Notes from a Small Island. All confessed up.