The BBC thinks you will have read 6 of the books on this list
The BBC thinks you will have read 6 of the books on this list. It is such a strange list, I can't begin to guess why they think that.
Copy and paste your bolded books read, italicized books not completed, and then sum up with a head count, so to speak.
I think that gives me a total of 49...
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
(I don't like Austin. There, I said it)
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
(I ought to get extra points for number of times read)
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
(I made it through. This whole genera is not my thing)
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible
I had 12 years of Catholic Schooling. I have no idea if I have actually read all of it, but I must be pretty close.
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
I actually liked this one, but I was 15. I don't expect it would hold up for me now, but maybe
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
(I mostly can't read Dickens either. In spite of how some of it fascinates me, I just want to slap everyone.)
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
(a favorite, but it was during Vietnam)
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare -
(How do we know for sure?)
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
(I think I have read this, but since I can't remember it, I will leave it as a no)
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
(Not nearly as many times. Probably 5 or 6)
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
(Some people in my class had to be assigned a different book to appease their parents. I still don't understand the fuss.)
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
(Another book I detest)
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
(And another, There is a theme to these books I can't read, and that is that I end up wanting to slap every one)
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
(I love the radio plays. all other media a disappointment after them.)
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
( huge favorite, always)
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
(slap)
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
(I hate the last book SO MUCH that I can't read them again.)
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe
(One of the ones I actually liked, but why does this get a separate entry when the chronicles are just above?)
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
(It's in my to do pile)
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
I loved it
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
(I didn't read Milne until I was in college)
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
(I am not unhappy to say I did not read it. )
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
(NO. A friend once recommended Garp to me - to this day, it is the book I wish I could un-read.)
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
(oh yes)
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
(I have a number of people recommending this to me. And when they describe it, I think - don't you like me? Am I wrong about this book?)
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
(I love this one, too)
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
(It is currently in my re-read pile as well. for my kindle)
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
(The exception- because I DON'T want to slap everyone!)
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
(of course. But again, not until College. I didn't read most of my favorite children's books until I was in my 20's)
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
(I just got the complete for my kindle so I'll be there again soon)
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
(not a favorite)
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
(Why are you not in the complete? This list confuses me. It is obviously trying to skew results, but I can't figure out how)
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
Copy and paste your bolded books read, italicized books not completed, and then sum up with a head count, so to speak.
I think that gives me a total of 49...
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
(I don't like Austin. There, I said it)
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
(I ought to get extra points for number of times read)
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
(I made it through. This whole genera is not my thing)
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible
I had 12 years of Catholic Schooling. I have no idea if I have actually read all of it, but I must be pretty close.
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
I actually liked this one, but I was 15. I don't expect it would hold up for me now, but maybe
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
(I mostly can't read Dickens either. In spite of how some of it fascinates me, I just want to slap everyone.)
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
(a favorite, but it was during Vietnam)
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare -
(How do we know for sure?)
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
(I think I have read this, but since I can't remember it, I will leave it as a no)
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
(Not nearly as many times. Probably 5 or 6)
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
(Some people in my class had to be assigned a different book to appease their parents. I still don't understand the fuss.)
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
(Another book I detest)
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
(And another, There is a theme to these books I can't read, and that is that I end up wanting to slap every one)
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
(I love the radio plays. all other media a disappointment after them.)
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
( huge favorite, always)
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
(slap)
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
(I hate the last book SO MUCH that I can't read them again.)
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe
(One of the ones I actually liked, but why does this get a separate entry when the chronicles are just above?)
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
(It's in my to do pile)
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
I loved it
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
(I didn't read Milne until I was in college)
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
(I am not unhappy to say I did not read it. )
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
(NO. A friend once recommended Garp to me - to this day, it is the book I wish I could un-read.)
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
(oh yes)
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
(I have a number of people recommending this to me. And when they describe it, I think - don't you like me? Am I wrong about this book?)
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
(I love this one, too)
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
(It is currently in my re-read pile as well. for my kindle)
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
(The exception- because I DON'T want to slap everyone!)
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
(of course. But again, not until College. I didn't read most of my favorite children's books until I was in my 20's)
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
(I just got the complete for my kindle so I'll be there again soon)
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
(not a favorite)
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
(Why are you not in the complete? This list confuses me. It is obviously trying to skew results, but I can't figure out how)
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo