Words of Wisdom

I think I’ve done this list before, but since Leanna tagged me I’ll do it again.

BBC believes most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here. How do your reading habits stack up?

Instructions:
Copy this into your NOTES. Look at the list and put an ‘X’ after those you have read. Tag other” Book Nerds”.

1 Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien [X]
3 Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series – JK Rowling [X]
5 To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee[X]
6 The Bible [X]
7 Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell [X]
9 His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations – Charles Dickens

Total: 5/10

11 Little Women – Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 – Joseph Heller [X]
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien [X]
17 Birdsong – Sebastian Faulk
18 Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger [X]
19 The Time Traveler’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch – George Eliot

Total: 3/10

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 [X]
26 Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky [X]
28 Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck [X]
29 Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame

Total: 4/10

31 Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis [X]
34 Emma-Jane Austen[X]
35 Persuasion – Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe-CS Lewis [X]
37 The Kite Runner – Khaled Hossein [X]
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne

Total: 4/10

41 Animal Farm – George Orwell [X]
42 The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown [X] (But I’d like take my X back, please)
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney – John Irving
45 The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins
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 [X]
50 Atonement – Ian McEwan

Total: 3/10

51 Life of Pi – Yann Martel [X]
52 Dune – Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons
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 [X]
58 Brave New World – Aldous Huxley [X]
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night – Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Total: 3/10

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
66 On The Road – Jack Kerouac [X]
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: 2/10

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 (I read the first 50 pages on two occasions, does that count?)
76 The Inferno – Dante [X]
77 Swallows and Amazons – Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal – Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackery

Total: 2/10

80 Possession – AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens [X]
82 Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple – Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte’s Web – EB White [X]
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton

Total: 2/10

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 [X]
95 A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole [X]
96 A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet – William Shakespeare [X]
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables – Victor Hugo

Total: 4/10

TOTAL: 32!

How many have you read?