Bookworm.... The BBC WOULD think that!
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The 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 [X]
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 [X]
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte [ ]
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell [ ]
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman [ ]
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens [X] (
Total: 5
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 [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: 7
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 [ ]
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh [ ]
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky [ ]
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck [X]
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll [ ]
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame [ ]
Total: 9
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy [ ]
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens [X]
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis [ ]
34 Emma-Jane Austen [ ]
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen [ ]
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis [ ]
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres [ ]
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden [ ]
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne [ ]
Total: 10
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 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 [X]
Total: 13
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 - Mark Haddon [ ]
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez [ ]
Total: 13
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 [ ]
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy [ ]
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding [ ]
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie [ ]
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville [X]
Total: 16
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens [ ]
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker [ ]
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnet [ ]
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson [ ]
75 Ulysses - James Joyce [ ]
76 The Inferno - Dante [X]
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome [ ]
78 Germinal - Emile Zola [ ]
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray [ ]
Total: 17
80 Possession - AS Byat [ ]
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 [X]
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton [ ]
Total: 19
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 [ ]
Total: 21
The 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 [X]
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 [X]
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte [ ]
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell [ ]
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman [ ]
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens [X] (
Total: 5
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 [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: 7
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 [ ]
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh [ ]
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky [ ]
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck [X]
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll [ ]
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame [ ]
Total: 9
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy [ ]
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens [X]
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis [ ]
34 Emma-Jane Austen [ ]
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen [ ]
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis [ ]
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres [ ]
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden [ ]
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne [ ]
Total: 10
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 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 [X]
Total: 13
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 - Mark Haddon [ ]
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez [ ]
Total: 13
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 [ ]
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy [ ]
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding [ ]
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie [ ]
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville [X]
Total: 16
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens [ ]
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker [ ]
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnet [ ]
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson [ ]
75 Ulysses - James Joyce [ ]
76 The Inferno - Dante [X]
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome [ ]
78 Germinal - Emile Zola [ ]
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray [ ]
Total: 17
80 Possession - AS Byat [ ]
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 [X]
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton [ ]
Total: 19
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 [ ]
Total: 21