I’ve Read 53…
Wednesday, September 9th, 2009The BBC believes most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books listed here. How do your reading habits stack up?
I read 53 out of 100, I don’t know how the list was compiled, but I’d like to think most people have read at lest 35 to 45, they may not remember whet they’ve read all the way back in high school… If the selection is a series of books and I didn’t read all the books, but read at least two in the series, I marked it with a half an X…
1 Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen [X]
2 The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien [X]
3 Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte [X]
4 Harry Potter series – JK Rowling [/]
5 To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee [X]
6 The Bible – [X] – most of it!
7 Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte [X]
8 1984 – George Orwel [X]
9 Philip Pullman His Dark Materials Series- []
10 Great Expectations – Charles Dickens [X]
Running Total: 9
11 Little Women – Louisa M Alcott [X]
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy [X]
13 Catch 22 – Joseph Heller [X]
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare – [/]
15 Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier []
16 The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien [X]
17 Birdsong – Sebastian Faulk []
18 Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger [X]
19 The Time Traveler’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger []
20 Middlemarch – George Eliot []
Running Total: 15
21 Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell [X]
22 The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald [X]
23 Bleak House – Charles Dickens [X]
24 War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy [ ]
25 The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams [X]
26 Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh []
27 Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky []
28 Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck [X]
29 Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll [X]
30 The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame [X]
Running Total: 22
31 Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy [X]
32 David Copperfield – Charles Dickens [X]
33 Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis []
34 Emma-Jane Austen []
35 Persuasion – Jane Austen []
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe [X]
37 The Kite Runner – Khaled Hossein []
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis De Bernieresx []
39 Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden []
40 Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne [X]
Running Total: 26
41 Animal Farm – George Orwell [X]
42 The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown [X]
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 [X]
47 Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy []
48 The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood []
49 Lord of the Flies – William Golding [X]
50 Atonement – Ian McEwan []
Running Total: 30
51 Life of Pi – Yann Martel []
52 Dune – Frank Herbert [X]
53 Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons []
54 Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen [X]
55 A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth []
56 The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon []
57 A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens [X]
58 Brave New World – Aldous Huxley [X]
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night – Mark Haddon [ - NO, BUT I'VE ALWAYS WANTED TO...]
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez []
Running Total: 34
61 Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck [X]
62 Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov []
63 The Secret History – Donna Tartt []
64 The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold []
65 Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas [X]
66 On The Road – Jack Kerouac [X]
67 Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy []
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helen Fielding [X]
69 Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie []
70 Moby Dick – Herman Melville [X]
Running Total: 38
71 Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens [X]
72 Dracula – Bram Stoker [X]
73 The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett []
74 Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson []
75 Ulysses – James Joyce [X]
76 The Inferno – Dante [X - IT WAS A GRAPHIC NOVEL, BUT I COUNT IT!]
77 Swallows and Amazons – Arthur Ransome []
78 Germinal – Emile Zola []
79 Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackery []
Running Total: 42
80 Possession – AS Byatt []
81 A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens [X]
82 Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell []
83 The Color Purple – Alice Walker [X]
84 The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro []
85 Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert [X]
86 A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry []
87 Charlotte’s Web – EB White [X]
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom []
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle [X]
90 The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton []
Running Total: 47
91 Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad []
92 The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery [X]
93 The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks []
94 Watership Down – Richard Adams [X]
95 A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole []
96 A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute []
97 The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas [X]
98 Hamlet – William Shakespeare [X]
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl [X]
100 Les Miserables – Victor Hugo [X]
Total: 53
