May 21, 2009

  • I just got this from Coolmom_56.  Apparently the BBC thinks most people have only read 6 of these books.  Hah!
    Instructions:

    1) Look at the list and put an 'x' after those you have read.
    2) Add a '+' to the ones you LOVE.
    3) Star (*) those you plan on reading.
    4) Tally your total at the bottom.

    If I tagged you, it means I want to see your list.

    How many have you read?

    1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen x+
    2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkienx+
    3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte x
    4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling x
    5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee x+
    6 The Bible x+
    7 Wuthering Heights - Emily BronteX
    8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George OrwellX
    9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
    10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens x+
    11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott x+
    12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardyx
    13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
    14 Complete Works of Shakespeare (except King John)
    15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier x
    16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien x +
    17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
    18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger x
    19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger x - (this means I have no idea why it's on the list!)
    20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
    21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell x
    22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald x
    23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
    24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy x
    25 The Hitch Hiker’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
    31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy x
    32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens x
    33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis x

    34 Emma - Jane Austen x
    35 Persuasion - Jane Austen x
    36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis x+
    37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini x
    38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
    39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
    40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne x
    41 Animal Farm - George Orwell x
    42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown x - this one wasn't even well-written, just controversial
    43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez x
    44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
    45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins x
    46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery x+
    47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy x
    48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
    49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding x
    50 Atonement - Ian McEwan x
    51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel x
    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-time - Mark Haddon x
    60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez x
    61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck x
    62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
    63 The Secret History - Donna Tart
    64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold x
    65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas x
    66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac x
    67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy x
    68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
    69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
    70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville x
    71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens x
    72 Dracula - Bram Stoker x
    73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett x+
    74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
    75 Ulysses - James Joyce
    76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath x
    77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
    78 Germinal - Emile Zola
    79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray I've tried, honestly!
    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 x
    89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle x
    90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
    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

    It was easier to count those I haven't read - 25, which means I'm 3/4 through it.  I will try a few of them, but some I will never read.  A strange list, imho.

Comments (5)

  • I would say I have seen more than half of these books in a movie

  • Does it count when you read one more than once?  Where's the Good Earth on that?  The bible is 66 books....not usually read at one sitting though.

    So many books...so little time!

  • I was surprised by some of the books that were on the list and some that were left out.  I have a long way to go but yeah, some I will not read, some I've tried and just haven't been able to "get into".  Pick a couple for some summer reading!

  • I agree with your Mom & say that all the time --so little books--so little time! Indeed, it is a  strange list of books. *hugs*

  • Interesting. I didnt read a lot of them.  Oh well.  I will have to get on that. LOL Some I couldnt remember if I read or not.

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