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 |
Does it count if you've seen the movie?? :lol:
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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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I've read 36 of them. There are quite a few there I've read several times - I love books.
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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. |
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: |
12 here.
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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 |
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 |
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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