Well-read?
[The BBC reports that most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here.]
Instructions:
1) Look at the list and put an 'X' after those you have read.
2) Add a '+' to the ones you LOVE.
3) Star (*) those you plan on reading.
4) Tally your total at the bottom.
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 [read some, loved some parts]
7.) Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8.) Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell X
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 X
13.) Catch 22 - Joseph Heller X+
14.) Complete Works of Shakespeare
15.) Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier X+
16.) The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien X+
17.) Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
18.) Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger X+
19.) The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20.) Middlemarch - George Eliot
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 *
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 Hossein
38.) Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres *
39.) Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden X
40.) Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
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 X {HATED THIS BOOK}
51.) Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52.) Dune - Frank Herbert X+
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 X
58.) Brave New World - Aldous Huxley X+
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 X
63.) The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64.) The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65.) Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas X
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 X
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 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 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
89.) Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle *
90.) The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
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 *
95.) A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole *
96.) A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97.) The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas X+
98.) Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99.) Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl X
100.) Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
X 37
+ 17
* 9
*** My own addendum is that some of these books I'd agree with the authors of this list insinuating being classics. However, time does not make a book a classic. Or good reading, or anything. I still think most "classical" literature is a waste of time. As long as one is reading, that's really all that counts.
Instructions:
1) Look at the list and put an 'X' after those you have read.
2) Add a '+' to the ones you LOVE.
3) Star (*) those you plan on reading.
4) Tally your total at the bottom.
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 [read some, loved some parts]
7.) Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8.) Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell X
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 X
13.) Catch 22 - Joseph Heller X+
14.) Complete Works of Shakespeare
15.) Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier X+
16.) The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien X+
17.) Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
18.) Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger X+
19.) The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20.) Middlemarch - George Eliot
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 *
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 Hossein
38.) Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres *
39.) Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden X
40.) Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
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 X {HATED THIS BOOK}
51.) Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52.) Dune - Frank Herbert X+
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 X
58.) Brave New World - Aldous Huxley X+
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 X
63.) The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64.) The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65.) Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas X
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 X
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 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 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
89.) Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle *
90.) The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
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 *
95.) A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole *
96.) A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97.) The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas X+
98.) Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99.) Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl X
100.) Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
X 37
+ 17
* 9
*** My own addendum is that some of these books I'd agree with the authors of this list insinuating being classics. However, time does not make a book a classic. Or good reading, or anything. I still think most "classical" literature is a waste of time. As long as one is reading, that's really all that counts.