Apparently the BBC reckons most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here.
Do they think no one reads anymore?
Instructions:
Look at the list and put an 'x' after those you have read.
Add a '+' to the ones you LOVE.
Star (*) those you plan on reading.
Tally your total at the bottom.
Put in a note with your total in the subject
1 Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen x+
2 The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien * (but I've heard it read aloud while I was in the room)
3 Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte x+
4 Harry Potter series – JK Rowling x+
5 To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
6 The Bible (I've read exerpts and the stories of the Bible)
7 Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte x
8 Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell x+
9 His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman (but I've read The Golden Compass which is the first part!)
10 Great Expectations – Charles Dickens x+ (I disliked the movie, however)
11 Little Women – Louisa M Alcott x+
12 Tess of the DΓÇÖUrbervilles – Thomas Hardy (I've tried this before but couldn't get through it)
13 Catch 22 – Joseph Heller x+
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare * (I've read some but not all!)
15 Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien x+
17 Birdsong – Sebastian Faulk
18 Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger *
19 The Time TravellerΓÇÖs Wife – Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch – George Eliot *
21 Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell (I liked the movie, so the book can't be that bad, can it?)
22 The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald *
23 Bleak House – Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy *
25 The Hitch HikerΓÇÖs Guide to the Galaxy x+ (my favorite page is the first one of the first book!)
26 Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky *
28 Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll x+ (It's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, btw! And Through the Looking Glass)
30 The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame x+
31 Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy *
32 David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis x+
34 Emma – Jane Austen
35 Persuasion – Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe x+ (isn't this part of the Chronicles of Narnia?)
37 The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain CorelliΓÇÖs Mandolin – Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden x+ (well written, but not necessarily accurate)
40 Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne x+
41 Animal Farm – George Orwell *
42 The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown (I watched the movie)
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez x+ (I usually enjoy 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 HandmaidΓÇÖs Tale – Margaret Atwood (I should probably read this, as it's on my bookshelf)
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 * (I've read the first page, and I've seen a movie version)
58 Brave New World – Aldous Huxley x+ (adore this!)
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon * (I totally need to read this)
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez *
61 Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck *
62 Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov * (I've only read excerpts but I want to finish it!)
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 * (I've SEEN the original manuscript! The exhibit at the NY Public Library was so amazing, I just MUST read this sometime)
67 Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget JonesΓÇÖs Diary – Helen Fielding
69 MidnightΓÇÖs Children – Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick – Herman Melville * (I wanna know more than just the first lines)
71 Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens * (probably necessary)
72 Dracula – Bram Stoker x+ (better than I had imagined! 🙂 )
73 The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett x+
74 Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses – James Joyce * (it keeps coming up in conversation)
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 x+ (a great read!)
82 Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple – Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary – Gustave Flauber *
86 A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry *
87 CharlotteΓÇÖs Web – EB White x+
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 * (I probably should finish reading this one)
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 * (I've read excerpts in French)
98 Hamlet – William Shakespeare x
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl x+
100 Les Miserables – Victor Hugo * (it would be good to actually read this for reals rather than just knowing it off by heart)
If I count correctly I've read 24. This makes me feel MUCH better about my ENORMOUS lack of having read books that come up in conversation… and my 100+ books that I still need to read that await me on my bookshelf. *sighs*