英國發(fā)布100部必讀書籍清單
The catalogue of classics includes a diverse mix of literary genres including everything from Harry Potter to Jane Eyre to the saucy novel Fifty Shades of Grey.
Other titles featured include Pride and Prejudice, Wuthering Heights and The Man Who Thought Different, the late Steve Jobs’ biography.
Autobiographies from the likes of Frank Skinner, David Walliams, Miranda Hart and even Katie Price also feature on Britain’s bookshelves.
The research was commissioned by Bookmarkyourlibrary.org.uk which trawled literary forums and websites to compile a list of books for people to select their favourites from.
The book most people are likely to have gathering dust on the shelf is Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by JK Rowling, followed by The Hobbit.
Elisabeth Robinson, spokesperson for Bookmarkyourlibrary.org.uk said: “Bearing in mind the first Harry Potter book was released just 15 years ago, it’s incredible that two of them are in the top ten books that appear on Briton’s bookshelves and it’s an incredible feat to beat classics like Great Expectations and Pride and Prejudice.”
The survey also revealed that more than one in ten said they would never read the same book twice and one in twenty said they throw books away.
And over half of Brits leave books to gather dust on their shelves, 16 percent would take them to a charity shop and 15 pass finished books on to a friend when they have finished them.
Other authors that feature in homes were Helen Fielding who penned Bridget Jones’ Diary and unsurprisingly Enid Blyton.
The poll also found that more than one in ten Brits have lied about reading certain books.
Of those a third said they pretend to have read certain titles to make themselves appear more intelligent than they actually are.
And a quarter said they pretend to be more well-read than they actually are.
Of the 2000 adults polled 18 percent said they regularly re-read books on their shelves, but 13 percent said they hang on to books as they like seeing them lined up on the bookshelf.
英國文學(xué)愛好者們近日發(fā)布了一個100部書籍清單，英國每個家庭的書架上至少會有其中一本書。
這一經(jīng)典書籍目錄囊括了多種多樣的文學(xué)體裁，既包括《哈利·波特》和《簡·愛》，也有《格雷的50道陰影》這種風(fēng)格大膽的色欲小說。
其他入選的書籍還包括《傲慢與偏見》、《呼嘯山莊》和已故的史蒂夫·喬布斯的傳記《那個非同凡“想”的人》。
像主持人弗蘭克·斯金納、笑星大衛(wèi)·沃廉姆斯、女演員米蘭達(dá)·哈特甚至“波霸喬丹”凱蒂·普萊斯這些人的自傳也出現(xiàn)在英國最受歡迎的書籍之列。
這一調(diào)查是由圖書館網(wǎng)站Bookmarkyourlibrary.org.uk委托開展的，該調(diào)查從各文學(xué)論壇和網(wǎng)站搜羅信息，編纂出一個書籍清單供人們挑選自己喜愛的書。
被最多英國人收入自家書架的書是J·K·羅琳的《哈里·波特與火焰杯》，其次是《霍比特人》。
Bookmarkyourlibrary網(wǎng)站的發(fā)言人伊麗莎白·羅賓森說：“考慮到《哈利·波特》系列第一部的出版也不過就在15年前，竟然就有兩部躋身英國讀者最多的十大書籍，而且還擊敗了《遠(yuǎn)大前程》、《傲慢與偏見》這樣的經(jīng)典著作，確實是不可思議的成就。”
該調(diào)查還揭示，超過十分之一的英國人表示他們不會把同一本書看兩遍，二十分之一的人稱他們會把書扔掉。
超半數(shù)的英國人把書放在書架上積灰，16%的人會把書捐給慈善商店，15%的人在看完書后會把書送給朋友。
著作最常出現(xiàn)在英國家庭書架上的其他作家還有《BJ單身日記》的作者海倫?菲爾丁和兒童文學(xué)家伊妮德?布萊頓，布萊頓的入選也是意料之中。
調(diào)查還發(fā)現(xiàn)，超過十分之一的英國人謊稱自己看過某些書而實際上沒看過。
其中三分之一的人稱自己假裝看過某些書是為了讓自己顯得比實際更聰明。
四分之一的人稱自己裝出比實際更博學(xué)的樣子。
在接受調(diào)查的2000名成人中，有18%稱他們經(jīng)常重讀家中書架上的書籍，而13%的人稱自己保存書籍是因為喜歡看到書架上整整齊齊地排滿了書。
100 Most Popular Books(part 1)
1. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - JK Rowling
2. The Hobbit - J R R Tolkien
3. The Bible
4. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
5. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - JK Rowling
6. The Official Highway Code - Department for Transport
7. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
8. Fifty Shades of Grey - E L James
9. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
10. Lord of the Rings: Return of the King - JRR Tolkein
11. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
12. Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers - JRR Tolkein
13. Jamie's 30 minute meals - Jamie Oliver
14. The BFG - Roald Dahl
15. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
16. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
17. Animal Farm - George Orwell
18. 1984 - George Orwell
19. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - Stieg Larsson
20. Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding
21. Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
22. Romeo and Juliet - William Shakespeare
23. Dracula - Bram Stoker
24. The Secret Garden -Frances Hodgson Burnett
25. George's Marvellous Medicine - Roald Dahl
26. Time Travellers Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
27. The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins
28. The Catcher in the Rye - J.D Salinger
29. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
30. Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
31. The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
32. Emma - Jane Austen
33. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
34. The Story of Tracy Beaker - Jacqueline Wilson
35. The shining - Stephen King
36. Confessions of a shopaholic - Sophie Kinsella
37. Game of Thrones - George R R Martin
38. Life of Pi - Yann Martel
39. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40. Far from the Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
41. The Magic Faraway Tree - Enid Blyton
42. Silence of the Lambs - Thomas Harris
43. My Sisters keeper - Jodi Picoult
44. Is It Just Me? - Miranda Hart
45. Mort - Terry Pratchett
46. One Day - David Nicholls
47. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
48. Moby Dick - Herman Neville
49. My Booky Wook - Russell Brand
50. The Godfather - Mario Puzo
51. The Perks of Being a Wallflower - Stephen Chbosky
52. Wolf Hall - Hilary Mantel
53. Brief history of time - Stephen Hawking
54. Men are from Mars Women are from Venus - John Gray
55. Kane and Abel - Jeffrey Archer
56. America Psycho - Bret Easton-Ellis
57. Artemis Fowl - Eoin Colfer
58. Diary of Wimpy Kid - Jeff Kinney
59. Gone Girl - Gillian Flynn
60. The Princess Diaries - Meg Cabot
61. Life and Laughing - Michael McIntyre
62. Wonders of the Universe - Brian Cox
63. Call The Midwife: A True Story of the East End in the 1950's - Jennifer Worth
64. On The Road - Jack Kerouac
65. Being Jordan - Katie Price
66. Bradley Wiggins: An Autobiography - Bradley Wiggins
67. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
68. Secret diary of a call girl - Belle de Jour
69. How to be a Woman - Caitlin Moran
70. The Casual Vacancy - JK Rowling
71. Riders - Jilly Cooper
72. The Pillars of the Earth - Ken Follet
73. Blood of Dragons - Robin Hobb
74. David Walliams - Mr Stink
75. Me Before You - Jojo Moyes
76. Frank Skinner - By Frank Skinner
77. World War Z - Max Brooks
78. A thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini
79. 12th of Never - James Patterson
80. We can remember it for you wholesale – Phillip K Dick
81. The Snail and the Whale - Julia Donaldson
82. Steve Jobs: The Exclusive Biography - Walter Isaacson
83. Still Standing: The Savage Years - Paul O'Grady
84. Bring up the Bodies - Hilary Mantel
85. The Insider - Piers Morgan
86. Football - Bloody Hell! - Alex Ferguson
87. The Hundred-Year-Old Man who Climbed out of the Window and Disappeared - Jonas Jonasson
88. A Street Cat Named Bob - James Bowen
89. My Animals and Other Family - Clare Balding
90. The James Bond Archives - Paul Duncan
91. Entwined With You - Sylvia Day
92. Running My Life - Seb Coe
93. Ratburger - David Walliams
94. The Snow Child - Eowyn Ivey
95. Over the Moon: My Autobiography - David Essex
96. Honest: My Story So Far - Tulisa Contostavlos
97. Looking for Alaska - John Green
98. The Autobiography of Jack the Ripper - James Carnac
99. Eloise - Judy Finnigan
100. The Hare with Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance - Edmund de Waal
