The BBC believes most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books listed below. Lets prove them wrong!
How do your reading habits stack up?
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Instructions:
Copy this into your blog, notes, email, etc. Look at the list and put an 'v' after those you have read.
Tag "Book Nerds", plus me so I can see what you've read!
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen - v
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien-v (one of many favorites)
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte - v
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee- v ( one of top favorite)
6 The Bible- v
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell - v
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullmanv
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens - v
Total: 6
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott - v
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy - v
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Helle - v
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare - not cover to cover, but most – v ( a must read)
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien -v
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger -v
19 The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
Total: 6
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell - v
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald – v ( one of 5 top favorites)
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy - v
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams – v (funny)
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky – v ( a necessary classic)
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck – v (wonderful)
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll - v
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
Total: 7
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy - v
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens - v
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis - v
34 Emma - Jane Austen - v
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis - v
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hossein - v
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden - v
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne – v ( everyone must read it. One of the wises books written for children)
Total: 8
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell - v
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown -v
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez – v ( a must read)
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving – v (love this book and everything by Irving)
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins - v
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy - v
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding - v
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan – v (I thought it overrated)
Total: 8
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel – v
52 Dune - Frank Herbert – v (had a hard time getting thought it in high school due to language barrier)
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons - v
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen - v
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon – v (wonderful)
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens – v
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley - v
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez – v (top 10 favorites)
Total: 8
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck – v (classic)
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov – v (disturbing but very well written, prefer other books by Nabokov)
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas – v (a must read)
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac - v (a must read)
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding – v (amusing)
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville – v (classic)
Total: 5
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens - v
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker - v
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett - v
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce – v (difficult but a required reading for any intellectual)
76 The Inferno – Dante – v ( classic)
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola - v
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray - v
Total: 7
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens - v
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker -v
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro – v ( enjoyed the film as well)
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert - v
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White - v
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle – v (favorite as a kid)
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
Total: 6
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery – v (a top 5 favorite)
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole – v (hilarious)
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas – v (classic)
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare – v (does not this fall into the earlier Shakespeare category?)
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl – v (very wise)
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo –v (top 10 favorites)
Total: 6
Grand total: 67
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