雅思阅读背景：英国发布100部必读书籍清单

　　Literary enthusiasts yesterday published a list of 100 books， at least one of which will be found on every bookcase in Britain.

　　昨天，英国文学爱好者公布了一个100部必读书籍清单，几乎囊括了所有英国最为家喻户晓的书籍。

　　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.

　　涉及的经典各种体裁不等，包括系列小说《哈利波特》、经典名着《简爱》甚至情色小说《五十度灰》。

　　Other titles featured include Pride and Prejudice， Wuthering Heights and The Man Who Thought Different， the late Steve Jobs biography.

　　另外还有《傲慢与偏见》《呼啸山庄》，以及新近出版的乔布斯传记《史蒂夫乔布斯：那个非同凡想的人》。

　　弗兰克斯金纳大卫威廉姆斯

　　Autobiographies from the likes of Frank Skinner， David Walliams， Miranda Hart and even Katie Price also feature on Britains bookshelves.

　　英国人的书架上常见的自传书籍主要是来自喜剧演员弗兰克斯金纳大卫威廉姆斯、米兰达哈特，甚至还有模特波霸乔丹 凯蒂普莱斯。

　　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.

　　此项调查由Bookmarkyourlibrary.org.uk网站组织举行，在各大文学论坛与网站上展开，整理罗列了大家的最爱书籍清单。

　　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.

　　人们最喜欢买回家放到书架上尘封的藏书是JK罗琳的《哈利波特与火焰杯》，其次是《霍比特人》。

　　Elisabeth Robinson， spokesperson for Bookmarkyourlibrary.org.uk said： Bearing in mind the first Harry Potter book was released just 15 years ago， its incredible that two of them are in the top ten books that appear on Britons bookshelves and its an incredible feat to beat classics like Great Expectations and Pride and Prejudice.

　　该网站的发言人伊丽莎白罗宾森说：记得第一部《哈利波特》系列上市还是15年前的事了，真不敢相信该系列有两部到现在还排在英国藏书的前十名，远远超过了《远大前程》和《傲慢与偏见》等经典名着。

　　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.

　　调查还发现，超过1/10的人表示同一本书不会读两遍，1/20的人则干脆读完就扔了。

　　And over half of Brits leave books to gather dust on their shelves， 16 per cent would take them to a charity shop and 15 pass finished books on to a friend when they have finished them.

　　近半成的英国人任由书籍在书架上落满灰尘，16%的人会把书捐给慈善机构，15%的人则在读完后转送给朋友。

　　Elisabeth continued Nobody likes to see a good book go to waste and libraries have been Britains bookshelves for centuries giving people access to the greatest reads of all time without them gathering dust.

　　伊丽莎白还说：大家都不希望好书受到冷落，而图书馆几个世纪以来一直是人们大量阅读的便利场所。Its refreshing to see how varied the genres on the list are， going from classics like Little Women to Bradley Wiggins autobiography. It also goes to show that a good book， however old， will always find a new audience.

　　书单上的作品体裁各异，既有像《小妇人》这样的经典名着，也有自行车名将布拉德利维金斯的自传，真的很有意思。这也恰恰表明，经典就是经典，不论在哪个年代，总会受到人们的喜爱。

　　No doubt literary aficionados will object to the likes of titles by Katie Price and Russell Brand appearing in the list， but our view is that as long as people are picking up books and reading that has to be a positive thing.

　　当然，也有文学爱好者反对将凯蒂普莱斯和拉塞尔布兰德的书收入其中。不过我们认为，只要有人爱读，那就是件好事。

　　Our aim is to drive people back in to Britains libraries whether they are reading chick-lit， science fiction or a celebrity autobiography.

　　我们的目的是鼓励英国人重拾阅读的习惯，不论是读通俗言情、科幻小说还是名人自传，都很不错！

　　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.

　　调查还发现，超过1/10的人谎称自己读过某些书。这些人中有1/3谎称自己读过某些作品，好让自己听上去比较聪明好学。有1/4的人表示自己会假装阅读广泛。

　　Of the 2000 adults polled 18 per cent said they regularly re-read books on their shelves， but 13 per cent said they hang on to books as they like seeing them lined up on the bookshelf.

　　参加调查的2000名成人中，18%表示自己经常重翻书架上的藏书，而13%的人则表示自己藏书仅仅是因为喜欢书籍满满当当列在书架上的样子。

　　英国人最爱看的100部书

　　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. Jamies 30 minute meals - Jamie Oliver

　　14. The BFG - Roald Dahl

　　15. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens

　　16. The Hitchhikers 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 Joness 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. Georges 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 1950s - 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 OGrady

　　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