Book List – How many have you read? July 6, 2009
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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?
I’ve read 28. I’m currently working on 29 with Les Miserables, which means I won’t get to 30 for a looooong time.
This is that list that includes “The Complete Works of WIlliam Shakespeare” and then goes on to include Hamlet and does the same thing for the Narnia books.
I’ve read 26 of them. Jane Austen and Dickens dominate this list, and, as usual in lists like this, East of Eden is ignored.
35 is my total, which makes me feel smug.
Though I’ve started another 4 of them at different times and not managed to get to to the back page, or, in fact, even the 48th – on this list is The Bible, Moby Dick, Midnight’s Children & Captain Corelli’s Mandolin (what people see in Captain Corelli’s Mandolin has always baffled me).
Plus I’ve missed most of the classics on the list. Which makes me feel less smug. Except for War & Peace, which always manages to restore previous levels of smugtitude.
smugtitude – I’ll have to remember that one.
49 – feeling pretty good about it. I do think that 6 is a ridiculously low number…
See my blog post about it here: http://nishitak.wordpress.com/2009/07/24/the-bbc-book-list-which-ones-have-you-read/