Monday, March 9, 2009

100 Books, How Many Have I Read?

BBC believes the majority of people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here:

  1. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (X)
  2. The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkein (X)
  3. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte (X)
  4. Harry Potter Series by J.K. Rowling (X)
  5. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (X)
  6. The Bible
  7. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
  8. 1984 by George Orwell
  9. His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman (X)
  10. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens (X)
  11. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott (X)
  12. Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy (X)
  13. Catch 22 by Joseph Heller (X)
  14. Complete Works of Shakespeare (X)
  15. Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier (X)
  16. The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien (X)
  17. Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
  18. Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger (X)
  19. The Time Traveller's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger (X)
  20. Middlemarch by George Eliot 
  21. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell (X)
  22. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (X)
  23. Bleak House by Charles Dickens
  24. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
  25. The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galexy by Douglas Adams
  26. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
  27. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  28. Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
  29. Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll (X)
  30. The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame (X)
  31. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
  32. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
  33. Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis (X)
  34. Emma by Jane Austen (X)
  35. Persuasion by Jane Austen (X)
  36. The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis (X)
  37. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (X)
  38. Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Louis De Bernieres (X)
  39. Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
  40. Winnie the Pooh by AA Milne (X)
  41. Animal Farm by George Orwell (X)
  42. The DaVinci Code by Dan Brown (X)
  43. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (X)
  44. A Prayer for Owen Meaney by John Irving
  45. The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
  46. Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery (X)
  47. Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
  48. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
  49. Lord of the Flies by William Golding (X)
  50. Atonement by Ian McEwan (X)
  51. Life of Pi by Yann Martel (X)
  52. Dune by Frank Herbert
  53. Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons (X)
  54. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen (X)
  55. A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth
  56. The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
  57. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens (X)
  58. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
  59. The Curious Incidend of the Dog in the Nighttime by Mark Haddon
  60. Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  61. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck (X)
  62. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
  63. The Secret History by Donna Tartt
  64. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold (X)
  65. Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
  66. On the Road by Jack Kerouac
  67. Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
  68. Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding (X)
  69. Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
  70. Moby Dick by Herman Melville
  71. Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
  72. Dracula by Bram Stoker
  73. The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett (X)
  74. Notes from a Small Island by Billy Bryson
  75. Ulysses by James Joyce
  76. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath (X)
  77. Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome
  78. Germinal by Emile Zola
  79. Vanity Fair by William Mackpeace Thackeray (X)
  80. Possession by AS Byatt
  81. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
  82. Cloud Atlas by David Mitchel
  83. The Color Purple by Alice Walker
  84. The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
  85. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
  86. A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
  87. Charlotte's Web by EB White (X)
  88. The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom (X)
  89. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
  90. The Faraway Tree Collection by Enid Blyton
  91. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
  92. The Little Prince by Antoine De Saint-Exupery
  93. The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks
  94. Watership Down by Richard Adams
  95. A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
  96. A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute
  97. The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
  98. Hamlet by William Shakespeare (X)
  99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl (X)
  100. Les Miserables by Victor Hugo (X)
I have read 47. Take that BBC!

4 comments:

  1. You killed it. I feel literaturally inadequate next to the great Booker Becca!

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  2. I've read 35. I'll work on it this weekend.

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  3. Does watching the movie count?

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  4. You haven't read the COMPLETE works of Shakespeare!!!

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