Since I AM at the library...
From incendiarypixie...
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 (X)
The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte (X)
Harry Potter series - JK Rowling (X+)
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee (X+)
The Bible (New Testament)
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte (X)
Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell (X+)
His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens (X)
Little Women - Louisa M Alcott (X)
Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
Catch 22 - Joseph Heller (*)
Complete Works of Shakespeare (X)
Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
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)
Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky (X+)
Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck (X)
Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame (X+)
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 (X)
Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne (X)
Animal Farm - George Orwell (X+)
The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown (*)
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
The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood (X+)
Lord of the Flies - William Golding (X+)
Atonement - Ian McEwan
Life of Pi - Yann Martel
Dune - Frank Herbert (*)
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 (X)
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley (X++)
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon (X+)
Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez (X+)
Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck (X)
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++++)
Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy (*)
Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie (*)
Moby Dick - Herman Melville (*) (Kyle's in the middle of this!)
Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
Dracula - Bram Stoker
The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett (X+)
Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
Ulysses - James Joyce (X)
The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath (X+)
Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
Germinal - Emile Zola
Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
Possession - AS Byatt
A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
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+)
The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad (X+)
The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery (X+)
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 (X...I only got halfway, but with this book, I'm giving myself an X for that)
My Tally: 37...not bad. I have a lot of complaints with this list though...I thought it was more of a "100 greatest of the 20th century" kind of list...Maybe I'll find one of those soon and do a similiar post :):)
How'd you do?
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 (X)
The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte (X)
Harry Potter series - JK Rowling (X+)
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee (X+)
The Bible (New Testament)
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte (X)
Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell (X+)
His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens (X)
Little Women - Louisa M Alcott (X)
Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
Catch 22 - Joseph Heller (*)
Complete Works of Shakespeare (X)
Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
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)
Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky (X+)
Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck (X)
Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame (X+)
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 (X)
Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne (X)
Animal Farm - George Orwell (X+)
The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown (*)
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
The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood (X+)
Lord of the Flies - William Golding (X+)
Atonement - Ian McEwan
Life of Pi - Yann Martel
Dune - Frank Herbert (*)
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 (X)
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley (X++)
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon (X+)
Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez (X+)
Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck (X)
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++++)
Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy (*)
Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie (*)
Moby Dick - Herman Melville (*) (Kyle's in the middle of this!)
Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
Dracula - Bram Stoker
The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett (X+)
Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
Ulysses - James Joyce (X)
The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath (X+)
Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
Germinal - Emile Zola
Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
Possession - AS Byatt
A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
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+)
The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad (X+)
The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery (X+)
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 (X...I only got halfway, but with this book, I'm giving myself an X for that)
My Tally: 37...not bad. I have a lot of complaints with this list though...I thought it was more of a "100 greatest of the 20th century" kind of list...Maybe I'll find one of those soon and do a similiar post :):)
How'd you do?