Being Curious, How well read are you?
#12
Originally Posted by henryparrish76
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
() 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 Withering 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
( x) 13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
(x ) 14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
( x) 15 Rebbecca - Daphne Du Maurie r
(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
() 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
( 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
( ) 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
( ) 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
(X) 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
( x) 55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
() 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
( ) 59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
( ) 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 Tartt
( ) 64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
() 65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
(X ) 66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
( ) 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
( ) 76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
() 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
( ) 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
( ) 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
(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 Hu
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
() 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 Withering 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
( x) 13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
(x ) 14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
( x) 15 Rebbecca - Daphne Du Maurie r
(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
() 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
( 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
( ) 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
( ) 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
(X) 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
( x) 55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
() 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
( ) 59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
( ) 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 Tartt
( ) 64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
() 65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
(X ) 66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
( ) 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
( ) 76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
() 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
( ) 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
( ) 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
(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 Hu
love to read.
#15
I grew up reading the classics, from huge anthology books of Dickens, Shakespeare, and such. I read the Bible cover to cover several times, looking for things I never found there. JRR Tolkein and CS Louis were my junior high favorites. Folks in my crowd wrote as easily in runes as English. The newer stuff I am not so well acquainted with.
I recently came across Acrobat's free book reader, (Adobe Digital Editions) well worth the download. Also, Project Gutenberg has been mentioned several times here already, and that has free e-books on every subject.
the reader allows you to zoom so you can see the text better, so no excuses about reading glasses are needed!
I recently came across Acrobat's free book reader, (Adobe Digital Editions) well worth the download. Also, Project Gutenberg has been mentioned several times here already, and that has free e-books on every subject.
the reader allows you to zoom so you can see the text better, so no excuses about reading glasses are needed!
#17
Originally Posted by BellaBoo
93 here. I am a book snob. Did you know most new popular fiction novels are written on an 8th grade level? That's the average reading level of adults now. :cry:
#19
Originally Posted by sewaholic
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:
Hang on didn't you work in a library??
Are you talking about the whole book or just the cover? :lol:
As I stated with some of the books I didn't make it all the way through, so I counted the books that got at least halfway through. There were some books on that list that I just couldn't read from beginning to end. One of them being Nineteen Eighty Four by Orwell. I just couldnt finish it.
#20
Originally Posted by Barb M
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 :)
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