The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they've printed. Well let's see.

1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicise those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Reprint this list.

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 - well not all of it, obviously!
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
15. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16. The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
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 - CS Lewis
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' 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

Since scottishcabbage  tagged me, here are the current top 5 songs on my mp3 player:

1. Living is a Problem Cause Everything Dies ~ Biffy Clyro
2. Paradise by the Dashboard Light ~ Meatloaf
3. Over the Hills and Far Away ~ Nightwish
4. Hypo full  of Love ~ Alabama 3
5. Rabbiteen ~ Jack Off Jill

Not going to tag people, but if you feel the need to display your taste in music to the world then go for it.

1. What did you do in 2007 that you'd never done before? Got a grown up job, in science.

2. Did you keep your new year resolutions, and will you make more for next year? Some of them. I will make more, I guess.

3. Did anyone close to you give birth? Nope.

4. Did anyone close to you die? No.

5. What countries did you visit? England (!), an France.

6. What would you like to have in 2008 that you lacked in 2007? I would like to have Nic closer. Well, I can dream..

7. What date from 2007 will remain etched upon your memory, and why? The whole week of my graduation/graduation ball/job interview/getting a job.

8. What was your biggest achievement of the year? Graduating and getting a real job.

9. What was your biggest failure? I try not to dwell on the failures. Plus, there are too many to list!

10. Did you suffer illness or injury? Nothing like 2006! I had glandular fever in January, but other then that I've been pretty healthy.

11. What was the best thing you bought? A super-amazing Christmas present for somebody. Obviously I can't say what it is yet.

12. Whose behaviour merited celebration? All my uni friends who graduated/got jobs/got onto pg courses etc. Also +Mark.

13. Whose behaviour made you appalled and depressed? Pretty much all politicians, the voting public of Scotland, and the general public.

14. Where did most of your money go? Overdraft and rent.

15. What did you get really, really, really excited about? Getting a 2.1!!

16. What song will always remind you of 2007? I'm not sure I can pick one, music is too important for that.

17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
i. happier or sadder? Happier
ii. thinner or fatter? Thinner
iii. richer or poorer? Richer (not hard!)

18. What do you wish you'd done more of? Trips to London. More holiday would have been nice too.

19. What do you wish you'd done less of? Worrying about my degree.

20. How will you be spending Christmas? In Dunf with (nearly) the whole family.

22. Did you fall in love in 2007? I was already in love.

23. How many one-night stands? None.

24. What was your favourite TV programme? Probably Scrubs, and I love Virgin 1 for showing Deep Space Nine and allowing me to geek out every weeknight.

25. Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year? Hate is a bit strong.

26. What was the best book you read? I loved A short History of Tractors in Ukranian, and also The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde.

27. What was your greatest musical discovery? Heart FM. No, really. It made me appreciate real music even more.

28. What did you want and get? A degree, and a job.

30. What was your favourite film of this year? I've barely been to the cinema this year. I liked Run Fatboy, Run, right up until the part where I lost my mobile phone in the cinema.

31. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you? I was 22, and I didn't do much really.

32. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying? That would be an eccumenical matter.

33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2007? Primark cheap.

34. What kept you sane? Sane? Mwahahahahaha...

35. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most? See 32.

36. What political issue stirred you the most? The Scottish elections.

37. Who did you miss? The Drinking Society and Nic, mainly.

38. Who was the best new person you met? Couldn't possibly pick from people at work.

39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2007: Relax!

40. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year:
Could you maybe close your ears and talk to someone else
While I tell you things I've never said before,
Cause I'm feeling kind of stupid and I'm feeling kind of shy.
That I've not been used to tenderness and I've not been used to being kissed
Or being held for hours at a time, eating pizza and drinking wine.
Oh I love the way you put your hand in mine.

List 10 musical artists you like, in no specific order (do this before reading the questions below)!

1 Red Hot Chili Peppers
2 Nightwish
3 Alice Cooper
4 Marilyn Manson
5 Placebo
6 Rage Against the Machine
7 Leonard Cohen
8 Jack Off Jill
9 Kirsty MacColl
10 Nirvana

IF A MOVIE WAS MADE OF YOUR LIFE, WHAT WOULD THE SOUNDTRACK BE?

 So, here's how it works:

1. Open your library (iTunes, Winamp, Media Player, etc).
2. Put it on shuffle.
3. Press play.
4. For every question type the song that's playing.
5. When you go to a new question press the next button.

I just lost The Game. Sorry.