Book Meme
The BBC believes most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here. How do your reading habits stack up?
Instructions: Look at the list and put an 'x' after those you have read.
stolen from nygoldfish54
01. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen [ ]
02. The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien [x]
03. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte [x]
04. Harry Potter series - JK Rowling [x]
05. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee [x]
06. The Bible [x]
07. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte [ ]
08. Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell [x]
09. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman [ ]
10. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens [ ]
Total: 6
11. Little Women - Louisa M Alcott [x]
12. Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy [ ]
13. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller [x]
14. Complete Works of Shakespeare [ ] (only some)
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 [ ]
20. Middlemarch - George Eliot [ ]
Total: 3
21. Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell [x]
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 [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]
Total: 5
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 - Louis De Bernieres [ ]
39. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden [ ]
40. Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne [x]
Total: 3
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 [x]
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 [ ]
Total: 3
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: 0
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 [x]
67. Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy [ ]
68. Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding [ ]
69. Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie [ ]
70. Moby Dick - Herman Melville [ ] (I tried...but I failed)
Total: 2
71. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens [ ]
72. Dracula - Bram Stoker [x]
73. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnet [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 [ ]
Total: 2
80. Possession - AS Byat [ ]
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 [ ]
Total: 3
91. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad [x]
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 - Roald Dahl [x]
100. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo [ ]
Total: 4
Overall Total: 31 out of 100
Instructions: Look at the list and put an 'x' after those you have read.
stolen from nygoldfish54
01. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen [ ]
02. The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien [x]
03. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte [x]
04. Harry Potter series - JK Rowling [x]
05. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee [x]
06. The Bible [x]
07. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte [ ]
08. Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell [x]
09. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman [ ]
10. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens [ ]
Total: 6
11. Little Women - Louisa M Alcott [x]
12. Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy [ ]
13. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller [x]
14. Complete Works of Shakespeare [ ] (only some)
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 [ ]
20. Middlemarch - George Eliot [ ]
Total: 3
21. Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell [x]
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 [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]
Total: 5
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 - Louis De Bernieres [ ]
39. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden [ ]
40. Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne [x]
Total: 3
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 [x]
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 [ ]
Total: 3
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: 0
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 [x]
67. Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy [ ]
68. Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding [ ]
69. Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie [ ]
70. Moby Dick - Herman Melville [ ] (I tried...but I failed)
Total: 2
71. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens [ ]
72. Dracula - Bram Stoker [x]
73. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnet [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 [ ]
Total: 2
80. Possession - AS Byat [ ]
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 [ ]
Total: 3
91. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad [x]
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 - Roald Dahl [x]
100. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo [ ]
Total: 4
Overall Total: 31 out of 100