bluekarin Posted March 10, 2009 Share Posted March 10, 2009 Apparently the BBC reckons most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here. Instructions: 1) Look at the list and put an 'x' after those you have read. 2) Tally your total at the bottom. 1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen 2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien - 3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte 4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling X 5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee X 6 The Bible - 8 Nineteen Eighty Four - Orson Welles X 9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman X 10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens 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 17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks X 18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger 19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger X 20 Middlemarch - George Eliot 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 26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh 27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky 28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck 29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll X 30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame X 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 X 37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini x 38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin 39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden 40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne X 41 Animal Farm - George Orwell X 42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown X 43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez 44 A Prayer for Owen Meany - 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 X 51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel X 52 Dune - Frank Herbert 53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons x 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 X 60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez 61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck X 62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov 63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt X 64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold X 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 X 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 X 74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson X 75 Ulysses - James Joyce 76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath 77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome x 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 - EB 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 x 93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks 94 Watership Down - Richard Adams X 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 X 100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo Total: 28 (But I have read other titles by some of the authors) Courtesy of Facebook PS I have just done some research and it seems the BBC said no such thing ! But they did compile a top 100 list in 2003 http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/bigread/top100.shtml, which includes some of these books. The tinternet is a marvelous place but it shows you can't believe everything you read. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BarbaraJ Posted March 10, 2009 Share Posted March 10, 2009 1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen x(not out of choice!) 2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien - 3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte 4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling X 5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee 6 The Bible - 8 Nineteen Eighty Four - Orson Welles x 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 Faulks 18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger 19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger 20 Middlemarch - George Eliot 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 26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh 27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky 28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck 29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll X 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 X 37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini x 38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin 39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur x 40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne X 41 Animal Farm - George Orwell X 42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown 43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez 44 A Prayer for Owen Meany - 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 x 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 x 59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon X 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 x 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 x 72 Dracula - Bram Stoker 73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett X 74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson 75 Ulysses - James Joyce 76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath 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 - 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 x 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 X 100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo total 18 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
little chickadee Posted March 10, 2009 Share Posted March 10, 2009 1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen x 2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien x 3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte x 4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling x 5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee x 6 The Bible - 8 Nineteen Eighty Four - Orson Welles X 9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman X 10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens x 11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott x 12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy x 13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller 14 Complete Works of Shakespeare 15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier 16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien x 17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks X 18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger 19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger X 20 Middlemarch - George Eliot 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 x 26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh 27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky 28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck x 29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll X 30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame X 31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy 32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens x 33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis x 34 Emma - Jane Austen x 35 Persuasion - Jane Austen x 36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis X 37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini x 38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin x 39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden x 40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne X 41 Animal Farm - George Orwell X 42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown X 43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez x 44 A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving x 45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins x 46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery x 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 x 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 X 60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez 61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck X 62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov 63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt 64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold X 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 X 69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie x 70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville 71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens x 72 Dracula - Bram Stoker 73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett X 74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson X 75 Ulysses - James Joyce 76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath 77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome 78 Germinal - Emile Zola 79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray 80 Possession - AS Byatt x 81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens 82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell 83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker x 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 x 89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton x 91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad 92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery 93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks x 94 Watership Down - Richard Adams X 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 X 100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo x I believe my total is 49. Must check out the others lol ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lydia Posted March 10, 2009 Share Posted March 10, 2009 I've read 11 of them: 3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte 5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee 25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy 30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame 40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne 41 Animal Farm - George Orwell 50 Atonement - Ian McEwan 59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon 68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding 74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson 99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl I have to say though that amongst those are some of the dullest reads ever! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WitchHazel Posted March 10, 2009 Share Posted March 10, 2009 1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen X 2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien X 3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte X 4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling X 5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee X 8 Nineteen Eighty Four - Orson Welles X 11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott X 16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien X 19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger X 21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell X 25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy X 29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll X 30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame X 33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis X 36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis X 40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne X 41 Animal Farm - George Orwell X 46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery X 47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy 48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood X 49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding X 53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons x 58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley X 68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding X 73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett X 74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson X 77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome x 81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens X 87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White X 94 Watership Down - Richard Adams X 99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl X 100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo X Total: 33 EDITED to do as Lydia has done - leave just the list of the ones I've read. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eeyoreshunny Posted March 10, 2009 Share Posted March 10, 2009 1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen X 2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien X 3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte X 4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling X 5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee 6 The Bible - X 8 Nineteen Eighty Four - Orson Welles 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 Faulks 18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger 19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger X 20 Middlemarch - George Eliot 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 X 26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh 27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky 28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck 29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll X 30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame X 31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy 32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens 33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis X 34 Emma - Jane Austen 35 Persuasion - Jane Austen 36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis X 37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini 38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin 39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden X 40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne X 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 Meany - John Irving 45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins 46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery X 47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy X 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 - Char les 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 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 67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy 68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding X 69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie 70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville 71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens X 72 Dracula - Bram Stoker 73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett X 74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson 75 Ulysses - James Joyce 76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath 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 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 88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom 89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle X 90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton X 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 X 99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl X 100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo I've read 24 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs Webmuppet Posted March 10, 2009 Share Posted March 10, 2009 1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen X 2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien - X 3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte X 4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling X 5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee X 6 The Bible - X 8 Nineteen Eighty Four - Orson Welles X 9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman 10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens X 11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott X 12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy X 13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller 14 Complete Works of Shakespeare X 15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier 16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien X 17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks 18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger 19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger X 20 Middlemarch - George Eliot X 21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell 22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald X 23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens X 24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy - 25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy X 26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh 27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky 28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck 29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll X 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 X 39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden X 40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne X 41 Animal Farm - George Orwell 42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown X 43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez 44 A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving 45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins 46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery 47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy X 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 X 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 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 X 69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie 70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville 71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens X 72 Dracula - Bram Stoker 73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett X 74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson X 75 Ulysses - James Joyce 76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath 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 - EB 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 ShuteX 97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas 98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare X 99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl X 100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo I think that's 31 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chickencam Posted March 10, 2009 Share Posted March 10, 2009 I have read 4 6 - Gideon as a teenager 11 - and the others in the series. 15 16 25 29 30 33 - why is the Lion The Witch And The Wardrobe seperate? 40 46 59 64 68 - I left it a long time after reading it before I watched the film because I though that it would be rubbish and I was right 73 77 87 90 94 99 That totals 20 I think, quite a few are children's fiction which I have read to our children Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laurmurf Posted March 10, 2009 Share Posted March 10, 2009 Apparently the BBC reckons most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here. Instructions: 1) Look at the list and put an 'x' after those you have read. 2) Tally your total at the bottom. 1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen x 2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien - x 3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte x 4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling Xx 5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee Xx 6 The Bible - 8 Nineteen Eighty Four - Orson Welles Xx 9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman Xx 10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens x 11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott x 12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy x 13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller Xx 14 Complete Works of Shakespeare 15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier x 16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien x 17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks Xx 18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger x 19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger Xx 20 Middlemarch - George Eliot 21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell x 22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald x 23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens x 24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy - x 25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy x 26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh x 27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky x 28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck x 29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll Xx 30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame X 31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy x 32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens x 33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis x 34 Emma - Jane Austen x 35 Persuasion - Jane Austen x 36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis Xx 37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini x 38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin 39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden x 40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne Xx 41 Animal Farm - George Orwell Xx 42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown Xx 43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez x 44 A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving 45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins 46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery 47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy x 48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood x 49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding x 50 Atonement - Ian McEwan Xx 51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel X 52 Dune - Frank Herbert x 53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons xx 54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen x 55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth x 56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon 57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens x 58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley 59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon Xx 60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez x 61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck X 62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov x 63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt Xx 64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold X x 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 Xx 69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie 70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville 71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens x 72 Dracula - Bram Stoker x 73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett Xx 74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson Xx 75 Ulysses - James Joyce 76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath 77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome x 78 Germinal - Emile Zola 79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray x 80 Possession - AS Byatt x 81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens x 82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell x 83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker x 84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro x 85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert -x 86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry x 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 91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad 92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery xx 93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks 94 Watership Down - Richard Adams Xx 95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole 96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute 97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas x 98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare x 99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl Xx 100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo Total: 28 (But I have read other titles by some of the authors) Courtesy of Facebook PS I have just done some research and it seems the BBC said no such thing ! But they did compile a top 100 list in 2003 http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/bigread/top100.shtml /url], which includes some of these books. The tinternet is a marvelous place but it shows you can't believe everything you read. I've ticked a few (69) but i did do an english degree, so some were more required reads than voluntary. I'm more worried about the ones I haven't read! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MadMitch Posted March 10, 2009 Share Posted March 10, 2009 2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien - 3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte 5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee 16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien 17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks 18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger 27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky 28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck 30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame 36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis 37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini 38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin 40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne 42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown 47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy 49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding 50 Atonement - Ian McEwan 51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel 59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon 61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck 73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett 93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks 94 Watership Down - Richard Adams 98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare 23 for me. Love number 93, I often read this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tessa the Duchess Posted March 10, 2009 Share Posted March 10, 2009 1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen x 2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien 3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte x 4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling 5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee x 6 The Bible - 8 Nineteen Eighty Four - Orson Welles X 9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman 10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens x 11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott x 12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy x 13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller x 14 Complete Works of Shakespeare 15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurierx 16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien 17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks 18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salingerx 19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger 20 Middlemarch - George Eliot x 21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell 22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald x 23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens x 24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy - 25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy x 26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waughx 27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky 28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck x 29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll X 30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame X 31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy 32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens x 33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis x 34 Emma - Jane Austen x 35 Persuasion - Jane Austen x 36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis X 37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini x 38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin x 39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden x 40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne X 41 Animal Farm - George Orwell X 42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown X 43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez x 44 A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving x 45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins x 46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery 47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy x 48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood x 49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding x 50 Atonement - Ian McEwan 51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel x 52 Dune - Frank Herbert 53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons x 54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen x 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-time - Mark Haddon X 60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez 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 x 66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac x 67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy x 68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding X 69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie x 70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville x 71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens x 72 Dracula - Bram Stoker 73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett X 74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson X 75 Ulysses - James Joyce 76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath 77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome x 78 Germinal - Emile Zola x 79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray x 80 Possession - AS Byatt x 81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens x 82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell 83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker x 84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro x 85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert -x 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 x 90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton x 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 X 95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole x 96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute x 97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas x 98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare x 99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl X 100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo Seems I've read 68 of them, but then reading is one of my favourite occupations. Tessa Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fluffyknickers Posted March 10, 2009 Share Posted March 10, 2009 3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte 4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling 11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott 12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy 15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier 25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy 29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll 30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame 33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis 34 Emma - Jane Austen 36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis 38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin 40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne 46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery 64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold 68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding 71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens 73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett 87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White 90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton 99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl 21 - lots at school thought that we HAD to read! Michelle Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhapsody Posted March 10, 2009 Share Posted March 10, 2009 1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane AustenX 2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien - X 3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte X 4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling X 5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee X 6 The Bible - X 8 Nineteen Eighty Four - Orson Welles X 9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman X 10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens 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 X 15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier X 16 The Hobbit - JRR TolkienX 17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks X 18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger X 19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger X 20 Middlemarch - George Eliot X 21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell X 22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald 23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens X 24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy - (but I've started it about 5 times) 25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy X 26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh X 27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky X 28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck 29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll X 30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame X 31 Anna Karenina - Leo TolstoyX 32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens X 33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis X 34 Emma - Jane Austen X (Rave fave) 35 Persuasion - Jane Austen X 36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis X 37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini x 38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin X 39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden X 40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne X 41 Animal Farm - George Orwell X 42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown X 43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez 44 A Prayer for Owen Meany - John IrvingX 45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins X 46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery 47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy X 48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood X 49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding 50 Atonement - Ian McEwan X 51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel X 52 Dune - Frank Herbert X 53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons x 54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen X 55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth X 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-time - Mark Haddon X 60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez 61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck X 62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov X 63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt X 64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold X 65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas X 66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac X 67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy 68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding X 69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie 70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville X 71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens X 72 Dracula - Bram Stoker X 73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett X 74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson X 75 Ulysses - James Joyce (tried and tried and fell asleep every time) 76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath X 77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome x 78 Germinal - Emile Zola 79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray X 80 Possession - AS Byatt X 81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens X 82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell 83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker X 84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro 85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert X 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 X 90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton 91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad 92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery x 93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks X (ace book!) 94 Watership Down - Richard Adams X 95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole 96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute X 97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas X 98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare X 99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl X 100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo X So I've read 84/100- do you think I need to get out more? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tina C Posted March 10, 2009 Share Posted March 10, 2009 46 I think - and many of them more than once - although I may have read some of the children's ones when I was younger and have forgotten! I love Zola. By the way - I have read 1984 by George Orwell - but I haven't read the one by Orson Welles Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tina C Posted March 10, 2009 Share Posted March 10, 2009 Wow - Rhapsody - I'm impressed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tessa the Duchess Posted March 10, 2009 Share Posted March 10, 2009 Wow - Rhapsody - I'm impressed. I'm extremely impressed that Rhapsody has read the ENTIRE works of Shakespeare Tessa Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Willow Posted March 10, 2009 Share Posted March 10, 2009 1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen X 2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien 3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte X 4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling X 5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee X 6 The Bible 8 Nineteen Eighty Four - Orson Welles X 9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman X 10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens 11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott X 12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy X 13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller 14 Complete Works of Shakespeare 15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier X 16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien X 17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks 18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger 19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger X 20 Middlemarch - George Eliot 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 -X 25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy X 26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh 27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky 28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck 29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll X 30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame X 31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy X 32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens 33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis X 34 Emma - Jane Austen X 35 Persuasion - Jane Austen X 36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis X 37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini X 38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin 39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden X 40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne X 41 Animal Farm - George Orwell X 42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown 43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez X 44 A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving 45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins 46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery X 47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy X 48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood X 49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding X 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 X 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 X 60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez X 61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck 62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov X 63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt 64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold X 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 (1/2 way through) 70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville 71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens 72 Dracula - Bram Stoker 73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett X 74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson X 75 Ulysses - James Joyce 76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath 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 X 84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro X 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 91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad 92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery X 93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks X 94 Watership Down - Richard Adams X 95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole 96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute X 97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas 98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare 99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl X 100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo 44 I read War and Peace in my final year at Uni to try and make me study more and read less however I really enjoyed it. Could never get into Lord of the Rings - I couldn't keep all the names straight in my head then when the movie came out felt any movie with Sean Bean was preferable to the book... Ian Banks, Kazuo Ishiguro and Gabriel Garcia Marquez amongst my favourite authors. One day I plan to read Dickens Awed by Rhapsody and Tessa's lists ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhapsody Posted March 10, 2009 Share Posted March 10, 2009 Wow - Rhapsody - I'm impressed. I'm extremely impressed that Rhapsody has read the ENTIRE works of Shakespeare Tessa English Lit degree saw to that! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mutrix Farmers Posted March 10, 2009 Share Posted March 10, 2009 1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen X 2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien - 3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte X 4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling X 5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee X 6 The Bible - ABOUT HALF 8 Nineteen Eighty Four - Orson Welles X 9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman 10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens 11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott X 12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy X 13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller 14 Complete Works of Shakespeare 15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier X 16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien X 17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks 18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger 19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger 20 Middlemarch - George Eliot X 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 26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh 27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky 28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck 29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll X 30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame X 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 X 36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis X 37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini 38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin 39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden X 40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne X 41 Animal Farm - George Orwell X 42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown 43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez 44 A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving 45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins X 46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery X 47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy X 48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood 49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding X 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 X 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 65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas X 66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac 67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy X 68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding X 69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie 70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville 71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens X 72 Dracula - Bram Stoker 73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett X 74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson X 75 Ulysses - James Joyce 76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath 77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome X 78 Germinal - Emile Zola 79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray X 80 Possession - AS Byatt 81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens 82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell 83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker X 84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro 85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert X 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 X 90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton X 91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad 92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery X 93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks 94 Watership Down - Richard Adams X 95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole 96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute X 97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas X 98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare 99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl X 100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo Total: 42 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
..lay a little egg for me Posted March 10, 2009 Share Posted March 10, 2009 1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen X 2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien X 3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte X 4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling X 6 The Bible - large chunks of it but not cover to cover 8 Nineteen Eighty Four - Orson Welles X 9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman X 10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens X 11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott X 12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy X 13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller X 14 Complete Works of Shakespeare many but not all 15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier X 16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien X 17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks X 18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger started but not finished 19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger X 20 Middlemarch - George Eliot X 22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald X 23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens X 24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy X 25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy X 26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh X 29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll X 30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame X 32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens X 33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis X 34 Emma - Jane Austen X 35 Persuasion - Jane Austen X 36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis X 37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini X 38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin X 40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne X 41 Animal Farm - George Orwell X 45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins X 52 Dune - Frank Herbert X 53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons X 54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen X 56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon X 58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley X 59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon X 61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck X 62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov X 79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray X 81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens X 82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell X 87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White X 91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad X 93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks x- read half but didn't finish it 94 Watership Down - Richard Adams X 96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute X 98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare X 99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl X Total: 47 and several halves! Quite a strange mixture of books in the list. Oddest thing is the Narnia Chronicles as number 33 and The Lion The Witch and the Wardrobe as number 36!!!! I guess it must be something to do with it starting out as a list of top sellers? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snowy Posted March 10, 2009 Share Posted March 10, 2009 (edited) 1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen 2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien - 3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte 4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling 5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee 6 The Bible - (cover to cover! although admittedly I skimmed certain books!) 11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott 12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy 15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier 16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien 21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell 25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy 29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll X 30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame X 32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens 33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis 34 Emma - Jane Austen 36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis X 37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini x 40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne X 46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery 47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy 54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen 59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon X 68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding X 70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville 71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens 72 Dracula - Bram Stoker 73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett X 77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome x 81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens 90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton 92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery x 94 Watership Down - Richard Adams X 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 X 38 for me! Edited March 10, 2009 by Guest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 10, 2009 Share Posted March 10, 2009 1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen 2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien - 3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte 4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling X 5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee X 6 The Bible - 8 Nineteen Eighty Four - Orson Welles X 9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman X 10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens 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 17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks X 18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger 19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger X 20 Middlemarch - George Eliot 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 26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh 27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky 28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck 29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll X 30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame X 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 X 37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini x 38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin 39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden 40 the PooWinnie h - AA Milne X 41 Animal Farm - George Orwell X 42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown X 43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez 44 A Prayer for Owen Meany - 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 X 51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel X 52 Dune - Frank Herbert 53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons x 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 X 60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez 61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck X 62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov 63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt X 64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold X 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 X 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 X 74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson X 75 Ulysses - James Joyce 76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath 77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome x 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 - EB 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 x 93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks 94 Watership Down - Richard Adams X 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 X 100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo 25 I am surprised it is so many. Not sure why the Chronicles of Narnia and the Lion, witch and wardrobe are listed as two items though Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cinnamon Posted March 10, 2009 Share Posted March 10, 2009 Did this on Facebook a couple of weeks ago... I got 53 I have purpled the ones I have read. 1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen 2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien- 3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte 4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling 5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee 6 The Bible 8 Nineteen Eighty Four - Orson Welles 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 Faulks 18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger 19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger 20 Middlemarch - George Eliot 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 26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh 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 39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden 40 Winnie the Pooh - AA 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 Meany - 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 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 Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath 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 - EB 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 If any of you have not read 'The life of Pi', you are really missing out. Ditto 'The 5 people you meet in Heaven', which is, IMHO the most beautiful of books Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A chickychickychick-ENN!! Posted March 10, 2009 Share Posted March 10, 2009 1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen x 2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien 3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte x 4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling x 5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee x 6 The Bible x 8 Nineteen Eighty Four - Orson Welles x 9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman x 10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens x 11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott x 12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy x 13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller x 14 Complete Works of Shakespeare (NOT ALL BUT A FAIR WHACK) 15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier 16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien 17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks x 18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger x 19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger x (BEST BOOK EVER) 20 Middlemarch - George Eliot x 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 x 25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy x (WHOLE SERIES) 26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh x 27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky x 28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck x 29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll x 30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame 31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy x 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 Hosseini x 38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin x 39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden 40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne x (ALL OF THEM) 41 Animal Farm - George Orwell x 42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown (NEVER!!!) 43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez 44 A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving 45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins 46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery 47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy x 48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood x 49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding x 50 Atonement - Ian McEwan x 51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel 52 Dune - Frank Herbert 53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons 54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen x 55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth x 56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon 57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens 58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley x 59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon x 60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez 61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck x 62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov 63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt x 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 x 68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding x 69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie x 70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville x 71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens x 72 Dracula - Bram Stoker x 73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett x 74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson x 75 Ulysses - James Joyce x 76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath x 77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome x 78 Germinal - Emile Zola x 79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray 80 Possession - AS Byatt x 81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens x 82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell 83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker x 84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro x 85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert x 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 x 91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad x 92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery x 93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks x 94 Watership Down - Richard Adams 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 x 100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo 66. And some halves like the Martel and a lot of Dickens. So my youth wasn't entirely wasted then (apart from the Joyce, Flaubert, Austen, Tolstoy - god, I hated reading some of these!) Great quote from Charlie Brooker in the Guardian this week: "The other irony is that while people lie about having read highbrow novels in order to impress each other, a massive percentage of highbrow novels aren't worth reading anyway because the authors are too busy trying to impress the reader (who, we now know, probably hasn't bothered turning up). That's why so many contemporary novels seem to largely consist of a thinly veiled version of the author discussing politics and art and quantum theory over a carefully selected bottle of wine with the devastatingly beautiful mixed-race wife of an impotent international statesman and/or gangster (delete where applicable) before whisking her off to a swish hotel room to have expert sex with her all weekend until a pigeon symbolising the unions or something crashes into the window and blah blah blah blah BLAH. I mean, really, who cares? Mr Tickle had 20 times the raw entertainment value - and it came with pictures - so if you can't beat that, don't bother." so true! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Egluntyne Posted March 10, 2009 Share Posted March 10, 2009 (edited) Apparently the BBC reckons most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here. Instructions: 1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen x 2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien - attempted it and hurled it aside. 3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte x 4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling x not all of them so won't include it in the tally. 5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee X Absolutely loved it . An all time fave. 6 The Bible - 8 Nineteen Eighty Four - Orson Welles 9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman X 10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens x 11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott x 12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy x 13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller X 14 Complete Works of Shakespeare Not the complete works so not included. 15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier x 16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien - attempted it and hurled it aside. 17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks X 18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger x 19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger X Loved it. 20 Middlemarch - George Eliot x 21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell x 22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald 23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens x 24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy - 25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy x 26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh x 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 X 31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy 32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens x 33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis 34 Emma - Jane Austen x 35 Persuasion - Jane Austen x 36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis X 37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini x 38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin x 39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden x 40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne X 41 Animal Farm - George Orwell X 42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown X 43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez 44 A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving 45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins x 46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery x And all the rest of the series. Love 'em. 47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy x 48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood x 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 x 54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen x 55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth x 56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon x 57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens x 58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley 59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon X 60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez 61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck X 62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov x 63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt X 64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold X 65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas 66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac 67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy x 68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding X 69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie 70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville x 71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens x 72 Dracula - Bram Stoker 73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett X 74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson X 75 Ulysses - James Joyce 76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath 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 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 x 89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton x 91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad 92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery x 93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks x 94 Watership Down - Richard Adams X 95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole 96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute x 97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas 98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare 99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl X 100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo Total = 56. Edited to purple it up. Edited March 10, 2009 by Guest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
