Have you read 6 of those 100?
The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books here. How do your reading habits stack up?
Instructions: just tell us how many & maybe comment?
(I left my answers --too lazy to dump them)
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen -
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien - YES
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte - YES
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling -
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee -
TOTAL SO FAR: 2
6 The Bible -- YES
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte - YES
8 1984 - George Orwell - YES
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman -
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens -
TOTAL SO FAR: 4
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott -
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy -
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller -
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare - YES
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier -
TOTAL SO FAR: 5
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien YES
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk -
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger YES
19 The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger -
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot -
TOTAL SO FAR: 7
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell -- YES
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald YES
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens -
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams -
TOTAL SO FAR:8
26 Tess Of The D'Urbervilles - - - - - - -
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky-
28 Grapes of Wrath YES
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll - YES
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame - YES
TOTAL SO FAR: 11
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy -YES
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens -
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis -
34 Emma - Jane Austen -
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen -
TOTAL SO FAR: 12
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis -
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hossein -
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres -
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden - yes
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne -YES
TOTAL SO FAR: 13
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell - YES
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown -
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez -YES
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving -yes
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins -
TOTAL SO FAR: 15
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery -
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy -
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood -
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding -
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan -yes
TOTAL SO FAR: 15
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel -
52 Dune - Frank Herbert -YES
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons -
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen -
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth -YES
TOTAL SO FAR: 17
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon -
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens -
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley -YES
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night - Mark Haddon -
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez -
TOTAL SO FAR: 18
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck - YES
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov -
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt -
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold -
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas -
TOTAL SO FAR: 19
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac -
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy -
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding -yes
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie -
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville -
TOTAL SO FAR: 19
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens -
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker -YES
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett -
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson -
75 Ulysses - James Joyce -YES
TOTAL SO FAR: 21
76 The Inferno - Dante -
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome -
78 Germinal - Emile Zola -
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray -
80 Possession - AS Byatt -yes
TOTAL SO FAR: 21
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens -
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell -
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker -
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro -yes
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert -YES
TOTAL SO FAR: 22
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry -yes
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White -
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom -
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle -YES
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton -
TOTAL SO FAR: 23
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad -
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery -YES
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks -
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams-
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole -YES
TOTAL SO FAR: 25
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute -
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas -YES
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare - YES
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory -
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo -YES
TOTAL SO FAR: 30
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1) Being French I don't pay so much attention to all anglo-saxon titles (Who is Richard Adams?)
2) Having in the same list "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" & "Les Miserables" is...hm.
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