Sunday, November 21, 2010

Just for Fun. How Many of These Have You Read?

Have you read more than 6 of these books? The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books listed here.

Copy this list. Because of formatting issues (the instructions are to bold, but too tedious in a comment), delete those you have not read. Put an asterisk next to those that you have started but not finished or read an excerpt of. If you'd like to see how you compare (although this is NOT a contest!) feel free to copy and paste into a comment. Think there is a book that should be on this list but is not? Note that in the comments, too. I'm always curious to see what others' think are great books

I have added my list to a comment if anyone is interested. Kind of fun to see


1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë
Harry Potter series - J. K. Rowling 
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte 
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
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 
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger 
19 The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell 
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald 
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams  
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck 
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll 
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame 
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy  
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens 
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34 Emma - Jane Austen 
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen 
36 The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres 
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - A.A. Milne 
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
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
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
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
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
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 Lame
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas  
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 
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 
76 The Inferno - Dante  
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome 
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray 
80 Possession - AS Byatt
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
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
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 
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
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 
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare 
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl 
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

Thanks for stopping by. Come back soon.
k

7 comments:

  1. 26. Emma - Jane Austen
    27. Persuasion - Jane Austen
    28. The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe - CS Lewis
    29. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
    30. Winnie the Pooh - A.A. Milne
    31. Animal Farm - George Orwell
    32. Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
    33. Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy *
    34. The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
    35. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
    36. Dune - Frank Herbert
    37. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
    38. A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens*
    39. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
    40. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
    41. On The Road - Jack Kerouac
    42. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
    43. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
    44. Ulysses - James Joyce*
    45. Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
    46. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
    47. Charlotte’s Web - E.B. White
    48. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
    49. The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
    50. Watership Down - Richard Adams
    51. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
    52. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo*

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  2. 1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
    2 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë
    3 Harry Potter series - J. K. Rowling* (all but last) 
    4 The Bible*
    5 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte* 
    6 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott 
    7 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller 
    8 Complete Works of Shakespeare* 
    9 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier 
    10 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger 
    11 The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
    12 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell 
    13 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald 
    14 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck 
    15 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll 
    16 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
    17 Emma - Jane Austen 
    18 The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe - CS Lewis
    19 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown 
    20 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
    21 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen* 
    22 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
    23 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
    24 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold Lame*
    25 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas  
    26 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
    27 Moby Dick - Herman Melville* 
    28 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens  
    29 Ulysses - James Joyce* 
    30 The Inferno - Dante*  
    31 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray* 
    32 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens 
    33 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
    34 Charlotte’s Web - E.B. White 
    35 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
    36 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle* 
    37 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad 
    38 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas*
    39 Hamlet - William Shakespeare 

    There are a few others I read the first few pages and tossed and just a few I haven't heard of.

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  3. 1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
    2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
    3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë
    4 Harry Potter series - J. K. Rowling
    5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
    6 The Bible
    7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
    8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
    10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
    11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
    12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
    14 Complete Works of Shakespeare*
    15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
    16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
    20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
    21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
    25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
    27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
    28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
    29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
    30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
    31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
    32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
    34 Emma - Jane Austen
    35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
    36 The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe - CS Lewis
    39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
    40 Winnie the Pooh - A.A. Milne
    41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
    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
    46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
    48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
    49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
    51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel*
    53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
    54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
    56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
    57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
    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
    65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
    70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville*
    71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
    72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
    73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
    81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
    83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
    84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
    85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
    87 Charlotte’s Web - E.B. White
    89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
    92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
    94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
    95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
    98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
    =59 of the 100 books.

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  4. Thanks! I love seeing what other people have read. I do have to admit, some of this was high school & college, but a lot was just because. ;-) There are a few that I had forgotten I want to read, so if I ever finish writing this book, I know what to read next.

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  5. I got 23 of them. Does that mean I'm weird? Several are some of my favorites and some I read in elementary school.

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  6. Just realized that only half of my list copied. Here's the rest. Guess there's a space limit on comments.
    1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
    2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
    3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë
    4 Harry Potter series - J. K. Rowling *
    5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
    6 The Bible *
    7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
    8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
    10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
    11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
    13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
    14 Complete Works of Shakespeare *
    15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
    16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
    18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
    21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
    22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
    25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
    27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky *
    28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
    29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
    30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
    31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy *
    32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
    33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis

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  7. AKDavedownunder:
    Okay, yes, you're weird. Many of these I read as a kid, some from high school or college, some I have read several times.

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