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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:
1) Look at the list and put an 'x' after those you have read.
2) Add a '+' to the ones your favorites
3) Star (*) those you plan on reading.
4) Tally your total at the bottom.
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien X+
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
The Bible (New Testament) X (parts)
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte X
Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell X
His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman X
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens X
Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy X
Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
Complete Works of Shakespeare (Complete?!?! How about several?)
Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien X+
Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger X
The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
Middlemarch - George Eliot
Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald X
Bleak House - Charles Dickens
War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams X (listening to audio books now, after having read them years ago. My opinion has changed. I now think they're self-indulgent tripe.)
Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky X
Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
Emma - Jane Austen
Persuasion - Jane Austen
The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne X
Animal Farm - George Orwell X
The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown X
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy X
The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
Atonement - Ian McEwan
Life of Pi - Yann Martel
Dune - Frank Herbert X
Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
A Suitable Boy - Vikram Set
The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley X
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov X
The Secret History - Donna Tartt
The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold X
Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
On The Road - Jack Kerouac X (most over-rated book ever)
Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding X
Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
Moby Dick - Herman Melville X (Classic Illustrated version MUCH better!)
Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
Dracula - Bram Stoker X+
The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson X++ (Read all of his books. Fantastic!)
Ulysses - James Joyce
The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath X (I'd kill myself too if I wrote this)
Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
Germinal - Emile Zola
Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
Possession - AS Byatt
A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens X+
Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
The Color Purple - Alice Walker
The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishigur
Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
Charlotte’s Web - EB White X (Many times)
The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle X+
The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
Watership Down - Richard Adams
A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
Hamlet - William Shakespeare X
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl X
Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
30! I'm not sure what this list was meant to represent. No Hemingway? Twain? Faulkner? It seems to snub important American authors in favor of books of questionable relevance. The Da Vinci Code?
Instructions:
1) Look at the list and put an 'x' after those you have read.
2) Add a '+' to the ones your favorites
3) Star (*) those you plan on reading.
4) Tally your total at the bottom.
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien X+
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
The Bible (New Testament) X (parts)
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte X
Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell X
His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman X
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens X
Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy X
Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
Complete Works of Shakespeare (Complete?!?! How about several?)
Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien X+
Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger X
The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
Middlemarch - George Eliot
Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald X
Bleak House - Charles Dickens
War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams X (listening to audio books now, after having read them years ago. My opinion has changed. I now think they're self-indulgent tripe.)
Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky X
Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
Emma - Jane Austen
Persuasion - Jane Austen
The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne X
Animal Farm - George Orwell X
The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown X
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy X
The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
Atonement - Ian McEwan
Life of Pi - Yann Martel
Dune - Frank Herbert X
Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
A Suitable Boy - Vikram Set
The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley X
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov X
The Secret History - Donna Tartt
The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold X
Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
On The Road - Jack Kerouac X (most over-rated book ever)
Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding X
Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
Moby Dick - Herman Melville X (Classic Illustrated version MUCH better!)
Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
Dracula - Bram Stoker X+
The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson X++ (Read all of his books. Fantastic!)
Ulysses - James Joyce
The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath X (I'd kill myself too if I wrote this)
Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
Germinal - Emile Zola
Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
Possession - AS Byatt
A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens X+
Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
The Color Purple - Alice Walker
The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishigur
Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
Charlotte’s Web - EB White X (Many times)
The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle X+
The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
Watership Down - Richard Adams
A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
Hamlet - William Shakespeare X
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl X
Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
30! I'm not sure what this list was meant to represent. No Hemingway? Twain? Faulkner? It seems to snub important American authors in favor of books of questionable relevance. The Da Vinci Code?