reading is fundamental
Have you read more than 6 of these books? The BBC believes most people will have read only 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 a 'Yes' after those you have read. Tag other book nerds. Tag me as well so i can see your responses!"
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen - no
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien - no
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte - yes
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling - no
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee - yes
6 The Bible - no
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte - no
8 1984 - George Orwell - no
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman - no
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens - no
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott - yes
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy - no
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller - no
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare - no (but i do own all of them in a leather-bound book)
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier - no
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien - yes
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk - no
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger - yes
19 The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger - no
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot - no
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell - no
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald - yes
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens - no
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy - no
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams - no
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh -no
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky - no
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck - no
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll - no
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame - no
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy - no
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens - no
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis - no
34 Emma - Jane Austen - no
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen - no
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis - yes
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hossein - no
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres - no
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden - no
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne - yes
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell - no
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown - yes
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez - no
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving - yes
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins - no
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery - no
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy - no
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood - no
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding - yes
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan - no
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel - no
52 Dune - Frank Herbert - no
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons - no
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen - no
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth - no
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon - no
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens - no
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley - no
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night - Mark Haddon - no
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez - yes
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck - yes
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov - no
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt - no
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold - no
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas - no
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac - no
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy - no
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding - no
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie - no
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville - no
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens - no
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker - no
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett - yes
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson - no
75 Ulysses - James Joyce - no
76 The Inferno - Dante - no
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome - no
78 Germinal - Emile Zola - no
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray -no
80 Possession - AS Byatt - no
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens - no
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell - no
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker - yes
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro - no
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert - no
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry - no
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White - yes
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom - no
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - no
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton - no
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad - no
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery - no
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks - no
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams - no
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole - no
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute - no
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas - no
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare - yes
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl - yes
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo - no
TOTAL: 18
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen - no
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien - no
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte - yes
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling - no
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee - yes
6 The Bible - no
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte - no
8 1984 - George Orwell - no
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman - no
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens - no
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott - yes
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy - no
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller - no
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare - no (but i do own all of them in a leather-bound book)
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier - no
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien - yes
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk - no
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger - yes
19 The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger - no
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot - no
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell - no
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald - yes
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens - no
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy - no
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams - no
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh -no
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky - no
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck - no
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll - no
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame - no
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy - no
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens - no
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis - no
34 Emma - Jane Austen - no
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen - no
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis - yes
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hossein - no
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres - no
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden - no
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne - yes
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell - no
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown - yes
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez - no
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving - yes
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins - no
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery - no
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy - no
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood - no
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding - yes
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan - no
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel - no
52 Dune - Frank Herbert - no
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons - no
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen - no
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth - no
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon - no
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens - no
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley - no
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night - Mark Haddon - no
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez - yes
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck - yes
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov - no
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt - no
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold - no
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas - no
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac - no
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy - no
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding - no
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie - no
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville - no
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens - no
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker - no
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett - yes
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson - no
75 Ulysses - James Joyce - no
76 The Inferno - Dante - no
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome - no
78 Germinal - Emile Zola - no
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray -no
80 Possession - AS Byatt - no
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens - no
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell - no
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker - yes
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro - no
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert - no
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry - no
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White - yes
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom - no
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - no
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton - no
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad - no
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery - no
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks - no
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams - no
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole - no
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute - no
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas - no
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare - yes
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl - yes
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo - no
TOTAL: 18