[So what have you read?]
The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books here. Are they right? How do your reading habits stack up?
Instructions: Copy this into your journal. Look at the list and put an 'x' after those you have read. Tag other book nerds---and that would include me.
Just for the sake of being imformative I've italiscised any on the list that I plan to read at some point.
1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen -
2. The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien - X
3. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte -
4. Harry Potter series - JK Rowling - X
5. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee - X
6. The Bible -
7. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte -
8. Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell -
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 -
13. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller -
14. Complete Works of Shakespeare - X (well, most of them)
15. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier -
16. The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien - X
17. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk -
18. Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger -
19. The Time Traveler’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 - Douglas Adams - X
27. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky -
28. Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck -
29. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carrol -
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 -
38. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres -
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 Meaney - 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 -
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 -
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 Hadddon - 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 -
70. Moby Dick - Herman Melville -
71. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens -
72. Dracula - Bram Stoker - X
73. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett - X
74. Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson -
75. Ulysses - James Joyce -
76. The Inferno - Dante -
77. Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome -
78. Germinal - Emile Zola -
79. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80. Possession - AS Byatt -
81. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens -
82. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell -
83. The Color Purple - Alice Walker - 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 -
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 -
96. A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute -
97. The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas -
98. Hamlet - William Shakespeare - X
99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - X
100. Les Misèrables - Victor Hugo -
In my defense, I'm of the opinion that the list is lacking - who the hell decided on these books anyway? *sigh*
Okay, I tag burakkupansa, lady_razzle, missfahrenheit and sairensu.
Oh and while I'm talking about books, any reccomendations? I'm planning to read 100-150 books I've never read before this year and need inspiration XD
Instructions: Copy this into your journal. Look at the list and put an 'x' after those you have read. Tag other book nerds---and that would include me.
Just for the sake of being imformative I've italiscised any on the list that I plan to read at some point.
1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen -
2. The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien - X
3. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte -
4. Harry Potter series - JK Rowling - X
5. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee - X
6. The Bible -
7. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte -
8. Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell -
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 -
13. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller -
14. Complete Works of Shakespeare - X (well, most of them)
15. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier -
16. The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien - X
17. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk -
18. Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger -
19. The Time Traveler’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 - Douglas Adams - X
27. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky -
28. Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck -
29. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carrol -
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 -
38. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres -
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 Meaney - 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 -
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 -
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 Hadddon - 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 -
70. Moby Dick - Herman Melville -
71. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens -
72. Dracula - Bram Stoker - X
73. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett - X
74. Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson -
75. Ulysses - James Joyce -
76. The Inferno - Dante -
77. Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome -
78. Germinal - Emile Zola -
79. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80. Possession - AS Byatt -
81. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens -
82. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell -
83. The Color Purple - Alice Walker - 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 -
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 -
96. A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute -
97. The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas -
98. Hamlet - William Shakespeare - X
99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - X
100. Les Misèrables - Victor Hugo -
In my defense, I'm of the opinion that the list is lacking - who the hell decided on these books anyway? *sigh*
Okay, I tag burakkupansa, lady_razzle, missfahrenheit and sairensu.
Oh and while I'm talking about books, any reccomendations? I'm planning to read 100-150 books I've never read before this year and need inspiration XD