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henryparrish76 04-27-2009 09:38 PM

Saw this on a friends blog today and thought this was kinda cool. I have read 84 of these 100 books. But thats not to say I made it to the last page. How many of these books have you read? You dont have to put the x beside them as I did, just tell the number.
The BBC believes most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here.
How do your reading habits stack up?

Instructions:
1) Look at the list and put an 'x' before those you have read.
2) Tally your total at the bottom.

(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

(X ) 5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee

(X ) 6 The Bible (I was young and wanted to find out what it said myself)

(X ) 7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte

(x) 8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell (in jr. high or high school)

( ) 9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman

(X ) 10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens

(X ) 11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott

(X ) 12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy

( ) 13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller

( ) 14 Complete Works of Shakespeare

( ) 15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier

(X ) 16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien

(x ) 17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk

(X) 18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger

( ) 19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger

( ) 20 Middlemarch - George Eliot

(x ) 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

(x) 25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams

(X ) 26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh

( X) 27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

(X) 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

( ) 32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens

(X ) 33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis

(X ) 34 Emma - Jane Austen

( ) 35 Persuasion - Jane Austen

(X ) 36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis

( x) 37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini

( ) 38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres

(x ) 39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden

(X) 40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne

(X) 41 Animal Farm - George Orwell

(X) 42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown

(x ) 43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

( X) 44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving

(X ) 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

(X) 49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding

( ) 50 Atonement - Ian McEwan

(x ) 51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel

(X ) 52 Dune - Frank Herbert

( ) 53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons

(X ) 54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen

( x) 55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth

( x) 56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon

(X ) 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

(x ) 63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt

( ) 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

( x) 69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie

(X ) 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

(X ) 75 Ulysses - James Joyce

(X ) 76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath

(x ) 77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome

( ) 78 Germinal - Emile Zola

(X ) 79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray

(x ) 80 Possession - A.S. Byatt

(X ) 81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens

( x) 82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell

(X ) 83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker

(X ) 84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro

(X ) 85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert

(x ) 86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry

(X) 87 Charlotte’s Web - E.B. White

(x ) 88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom

( X) 89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

( ) 90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton

(X ) 91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad

(X ) 92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery

( x) 93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks

(x ) 94 Watership Down - Richard Adams

(X ) 95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole

(x ) 96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute

(X ) 97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas

(X) 98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare

(X ) 99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

( X) 100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

TOTAL READ: 84

Pats8e8 04-27-2009 09:44 PM

Does it count if you've seen the movie?? :lol:

Barb M 04-27-2009 09:47 PM

uhmmm, two????? lol Charlottes web was one of them, and the Bible lol. I was an avid reader when i was young, but i mostly read nancy drew and the hardy boys lol. And as an adult, ive just never read fiction, but i have read lots of health magazines and stuff. Now i just like to look at my quilting magazines sometimes :)

Katrine 04-27-2009 11:14 PM

I've read 36 of them. There are quite a few there I've read several times - I love books.

mumtoliam 04-28-2009 12:23 AM

1) Look at the list and put an 'x' before those you have read.
2) Tally your total at the bottom.

(X ) 1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen

( ) 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 ) 7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte

(x) 8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell

( ) 9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman

(X ) 10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens

(X ) 11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott

( ) 12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy

( X) 13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller

( ) 14 Complete Works of Shakespeare

( ) 15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier

(X ) 16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien

( ) 17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk

() 18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger

( ) 19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger

( ) 20 Middlemarch - George Eliot

( ) 21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell

( ) 22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald

(X ) 23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens

( ) 24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy

() 25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams

( ) 26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh

( X) 27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

(X) 28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck

(X ) 29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll

(x ) 30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame

( ) 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

( ) 38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres

(x ) 39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden

(X) 40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne

(X) 41 Animal Farm - George Orwell

(X) 42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown

( ) 43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

( ) 44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving

() 45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins

(X ) 46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery

( ) 47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy

(X ) 48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood

() 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

(X ) 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

() 58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley

( ) 59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon

( ) 60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

() 61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck

() 62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov

( ) 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

( ) 67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy

( X) 68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding

( ) 69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie

(X ) 70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville

(X ) 71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens

( ) 72 Dracula - Bram Stoker

(x ) 73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett

( ) 74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson

( ) 75 Ulysses - James Joyce

() 76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath

( ) 77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome

( ) 78 Germinal - Emile Zola

( ) 79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray

(x ) 80 Possession - A.S. Byatt (One of my all time favourites - I have read this many times)

(X ) 81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens

( ) 82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell

(X ) 83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker

( ) 84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro

(X ) 85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert

( ) 86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry

(X) 87 Charlotte’s Web - E.B. White

() 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

(X ) 91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad

(X ) 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

(X) 98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare

(X ) 99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

( ) 100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

TOTAL READ: 43


I actually reread most of Jane Austen again after a movie released last year called the Jane Austen Book Club.

sewaholic 04-28-2009 02:08 AM

Gee Henry - how do you find time to quilt if you read all them.
Hang on didn't you work in a library??
Are you talking about the whole book or just the cover? :lol:

a4Ohio 04-28-2009 02:35 AM

12 here.

k3n 04-28-2009 02:39 AM

I've read 65 at least once, many several times, Wuthering Heights is my favourite book of all time and I can quote large chunks from memory - so much so that when we were watching a film adaptation (a pretty accurate one, generally) the other week, I drove DH up the wall - Heathcliff didn't say THAT, he said... Cathy actually said....!!! And so on! After he complained, I restricted myself to occasional derisive snorts!

You can bump my total up to 67 if I can include parts of the Bible and some of the works of Shakespeare - King Lear is my favourite. I love reading and can read really fast - I like trash as well as classics, I'm not picky! I read an entire Dean Koontz on the ferry back from England (5 hours, but we had a meal as well). I read Kane and Abel - nearly 5 inches thick - in a day! People say I must skip read, but I don't!

K x


kaykay 04-28-2009 03:39 AM

I have read 40. I am an avid reader and read just about anything.

One of my all time favorites on there is the Little Prince. Just an awesome little book weather your a child or an adult


Kay

Knot Sew 04-28-2009 03:44 AM

I've read 36 of that list, but it leaves out a lot of the best....some of those are just not my thing :wink:


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