Seriously thoughtful Have you read 6 of those 100?

[HistoryWes]

Originally Posted by lilac_jive

Richard Adams, he wrote Watership Down which is basically a scary book about bunnies. I haven't read it yet.

I'm embarrassed to say that I've only read 30 of these, but I have read Watership Down more than ten times. It's not scary.

[Bilbo1967]

Originally Posted by HarryT

There is already a thread of this nature on the "Reading Recommendations" forum, which is the appropriate place for it. No need for a duplicate.

Originally Posted by Bilbo1967

Hmmm...OK, thanks Harry - consider me slapped down.

When are they going to publish the results?

Oh, and good of you not to link to that thread so that we all have the fun of trying to find it!

Harry, seriously, could you please point me towards that duplicate thread as I really can't find it?

[BenG]

I've read about 50.
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen -YES
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien - YES, multiple times
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling -YES
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee -YES, multiple times

6 The Bible -- YES
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte - YES
8 1984 - George Orwell - YES, multiple times
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman -YES, multiple times
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens -YES

14 Complete Works of Shakespeare - YES

16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien YES, multiple times
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger YES

21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell -- YES, multiple times
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams -YES, multiple times

29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll - YES
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame - YES

33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis -YES

36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis -YES
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne -YES

41 Animal Farm - George Orwell - YES
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown -YES
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving -yes

46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery -YES
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding -YES

52 Dune - Frank Herbert -YES, multiple times
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons -YES

56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon -YES
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens -YES
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley -YES
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night - Mark Haddon -YES

61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck - YES
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold -YES

66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac -YES
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville -YES

71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens -YES
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker -YES, multiple times

81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens -YES, multiple times
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker -YES

87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White -YES
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle -YES

91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad -YES
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery -YES
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams-YES, multiple times
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole -YES

96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute -YES
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas -YES
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare - YES
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory -YES
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo -YES
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[fugazied]

34 for me. There are quite a few classics I really MUST read at some point. I wish I had more time to read!

[jenieliser]

Eighteen. It's funny, I was pretty proud of myself for beating the estimated 6, then read everyone else who had read so stinkin many!! haha... Looks like I have some more good reads to read.

[lilac_jive]

Originally Posted by HistoryWes

I'm embarrassed to say that I've only read 30 of these, but I have read Watership Down more than ten times. It's not scary.

I'm thinking of the movie, sorry. You can't tell me that's not freaky

[BenG]

Originally Posted by HistoryWes

I have read Watership Down more than ten times. It's not scary.

And it's available at the Kindle store.

[lilac_jive]

Originally Posted by BenG

And it's available at the Kindle store.

Really? It's not available for Sony I wonder if it's uploaded legally.

[AnemicOak]

Originally Posted by lilac_jive

Really? It's not available for Sony I wonder if it's uploaded legally.

Yep, it's from Scribner, the publisher of the pbook editions.

[lilac_jive]

Originally Posted by AnemicOak

Yep, it's from Scribner, the publisher of the pbook editions.

Yeah I saw that. It's 9.99 though, so I don't feel like I'm missing much

[Juliette]

Talking about results- maybe a poll would help?

[Sweetpea]

Originally Posted by YGG-

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 - YES
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien - YES
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte -
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling - YES
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee -
TOTAL SO FAR: 3

6 The Bible --
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte -
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 -
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier -
TOTAL SO FAR: 4

16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien - YES
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk -
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger - (I did say at school I had read this one, never did though, couldn't get passed the second page...)
19 The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger -
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot -
TOTAL SO FAR: 5

21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell -
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald -
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens -
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy -
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams - YES
TOTAL SO FAR: 6

26 Tess Of The D'Urbervilles -
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky-
28 Grapes of Wrath -
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll - YES
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame -
TOTAL SO FAR: 7

31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy -
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens -
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis -
34 Emma - Jane Austen -
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen -
TOTAL SO FAR: 7

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 -
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne -
TOTAL SO FAR: 7

41 Animal Farm - George Orwell - YES
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown - YES
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez -
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving -
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins -
TOTAL SO FAR: 9

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 - (same as nr 18, never read it even though I said I had...)
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan -
TOTAL SO FAR: 9

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 -
TOTAL SO FAR: 10

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 - Mark Haddon -
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez -
TOTAL SO FAR: 10

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 - YES
TOTAL SO FAR: 11

66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac -
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy -
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding -
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie -
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville -
TOTAL SO FAR: 11

71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens -
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker -
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett -
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson -
75 Ulysses - James Joyce -
TOTAL SO FAR: 11

76 The Inferno - Dante - (no, but I did read Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle's version...)
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome -
78 Germinal - Emile Zola -
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray -
80 Possession - AS Byatt -
TOTAL SO FAR: 11

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 -
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert -
TOTAL SO FAR: 11

86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry -
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: 12

91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad -
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 -
TOTAL SO FAR: 12

96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute -
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas -
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare -
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - YES
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo -
TOTAL SO FAR: 13
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Most of the books mentioned I've never even heard off...

[GeneS]

Put me down for 44. Interesting list, though.

[Bilbo1967]

Originally Posted by dreams

Nice idea How about something like this?

The MR International Essential Books of all Time List suggestions. (Fiction) [Non-discussion Thread]

and a second thread or in the same thread....

The MR International Essential Books of all Time List suggestions. (Non-Fiction)[Non-discussion Thread]


*[Separate threads in: English forum / German forum / French forum - Language forums can contain suggestions from other languages ie., Spanish in the English forum etc.]

*List no more than 5 essential books and the universal aspect of each that makes it qualify as an essential book (in your opinion).


To keep the thread on topic of lists and aspects of universal appeal, and not digress into various side debates of another member's personal listed choices, the thread title could state; Non-discussion Thread.

I'd be interested to see what the compilation of the 3 separate language forums would be.

**I've read 51 of the books and some of 12 more--I found it strange that a few were listed as counting as only 1 book.. His Dark Materials, Harry Potter series, Complete Works of Shakespeare, The Bible, The Lord of the Rings, Chronicles of Narnia.. **

Originally Posted by Bilbo1967

Thanks for the suggestions Dreams. I think I'll start this thread this evening (UK time). I will need to ask for volunteers to help with the French and German forum versions (I'm English, remember - we don't learn languages, we just speak English very...slowly...and....LOUDLY to those pesky foreigners )

Originally Posted by HarryT

There is already a thread of this nature on the "Reading Recommendations" forum, which is the appropriate place for it. No need for a duplicate.

Originally Posted by Bilbo1967

Hmmm...OK, thanks Harry - consider me slapped down.

When are they going to publish the results?

Oh, and good of you not to link to that thread so that we all have the fun of trying to find it!

Originally Posted by Bilbo1967

Harry, seriously, could you please point me towards that duplicate thread as I really can't find it?

Harry, given that I and others have expressed an interest in this, could you please point us to that duplicate thread?

[YGG-]

Originally Posted by Juliette

The Catcher in the Rye is translated in Italian as Young Holden... so I feel your pain

And in French as "l'attrape-coeur" !!!