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Instructions:
1) Look at the list and put an ‘x’ before those you have read.

How many have you read?

1. [x] Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen
2. [x] The Lord of the Rings JRR Tolkien
3. [x] Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte
4. [x] Harry Potter series JK Rowling
5. [x] To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee
6. [x] The Bible
7. [x] Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte
8. [x] Nineteen Eighty Four George Orwell
9. [ ] His Dark Materials Philip Pullman
10. [x] Great Expectations Charles Dickens
11. [x] Little Women Louisa M Alcott
12. [x] Tess of the D’Urbervilles Thomas Hardy
13. [x] Catch 22 Joseph Heller
14. [] Complete Works of Shakespeare
15. [] Rebecca Daphne Du Maurier
16. [x] The Hobbit JRR Tolkien
17. [] Birdsong Sebastian Faulks
18. [x] Catcher in the Rye JD Salinger
19. [x] The Time Traveller’s Wife Audrey Niffenegger
20. [x] Middlemarch George Eliot
21. [] Gone With The Wind Margaret Mitchell
22. [x] The Great Gatsby F Scott Fitzgerald
23. [x] Bleak House Charles Dickens
24. [ ]War and Peace Leo Tolstoy
25. [x] The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Douglas Adams
26. [ ] Brideshead Revisited Evelyn Waugh
27. [ ] Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28. [x] Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck
29. [x] Alice in Wonderland Lewis Carroll
30. [x] The Wind in the Willows Kenneth Grahame
31. [x] Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy
32. [x] David Copperfield Charles Dickens
33. [x] Chronicles of Narnia CS Lewis
34. [x] Emma Jane Austen
35. [x] Persuasion Jane Austen
36. [x] The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe CS Lewis
37. [ ] The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini
38. [x] Captain Corelli’s Mandolin Louis De Bernieres
39. [x] Memoirs of a Geisha Arthur Golden
40. [x] Winnie the Pooh AA Milne
41. [x] Animal Farm George Orwell
42. [x] The Da Vinci Code Dan Brown
43. [ ] One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44. [x] A Prayer for Owen Meaney John Irving
45. [x] The Woman in White Wilkie Collins
46. [ ]Anne of Green Gables LM Montgomery
47. [x] Far From The Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy
48. [ ] The Handmaid’s Tale Margaret Atwood
49. [ ] Lord of the Flies William Golding
50. [ ] Atonement Ian McEwan
51. [x] Life of Pi Yann Martel
52. [ ] Dune Frank Herbert
53. [x] Cold Comfort Farm Stella Gibbons
54. [x] Sense and Sensibility Jane Austen
55. [ ] A Suitable Boy Vikram Seth
56. [x] The Shadow of the Wind Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57. [x] A Tale Of Two Cities Charles Dickens
58. [ ] Brave New World Aldous Huxley
59. [ ] The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time Mark Haddon
60. [ ] Love In The Time Of Cholera Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61. [x] Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck
62. [ ] Lolita Vladimir Nabokov
63. [x] The Secret History Donna Tartt
64. [ ] The Lovely Bones Alice Sebold
65. [ ] Count of Monte Cristo Alexandre Dumas
66. [ ] On The Road Jack Kerouac
67. [ ] Jude the Obscure Thomas Hardy
68. [x] Bridget Jones’s Diary Helen Fielding
69. [ ] Midnight’s Children Salman Rushdie
70. [ ] Moby Dick Herman Melville
71. [x] Oliver Twist Charles Dickens
72. [x] Dracula Bram Stoker
73. [x] The Secret Garden Frances Hodgson Burnett
74. [x] Notes From A Small Island Bill Bryson
75. [ ] Ulysses James Joyce
76. [ ] The Bell Jar Sylvia Plath
77. [x] Swallows and Amazons Arthur Ransome
78. [x] Germinal Emile Zola
79. [x] Vanity Fair William Makepeace Thackeray
80. [ ] Possession AS Byatt
81. [x] A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens
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. [x] Charlotte’s Web EB White
88. [ ] The Five People You Meet In Heaven Mitch Alborn
89. [x] Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90. [ ] The Faraway Tree Collection Enid Blyton
91. [ ] Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad
92. [x] The Little Prince Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93. [x] The Wasp Factory Iain Banks
94. [x] Watership Down Richard Adams
95. [ ] A Confederacy of Dunces John Kennedy Toole
96. [x] A Town Like Alice Nevil Shute
97. [x] The Three Musketeers Alexandre Dumas
98. [x] Hamlet William Shakespeare
99. [x] Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
100. [ ] Les Miserables Victor Hugo

61/100 for me but others on the list that I really do want to read

Yes, around 6, I think.
At least two of those at school.

I don't really do fiction.

oh Brideshead is fantastic - very poignant - a real passing of an era and the institution of family.

ok so I'll go and check how many I've read but definately more than 6!

I've read about 30 of them, but I'm only 20

23

24. I'm not keen on fiction on the whole.

I've read 70 of them.

1. [x] Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen
2. [] The Lord of the Rings JRR Tolkien
3. [x] Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte
4. [x] Harry Potter series JK Rowling
5. [x] To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee
6. [] The Bible
7. [x] Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte
8. [] Nineteen Eighty Four George Orwell
9. [x ] His Dark Materials Philip Pullman
10. [x] Great Expectations Charles Dickens
11. [] Little Women Louisa M Alcott
12. [x] Tess of the D’Urbervilles Thomas Hardy
13. [x] Catch 22 Joseph Heller
14. [] Complete Works of Shakespeare
15. [] Rebecca Daphne Du Maurier
16. [] The Hobbit JRR Tolkien
17. [x] Birdsong Sebastian Faulks
18. [x] Catcher in the Rye JD Salinger
19. [x] The Time Traveller’s Wife Audrey Niffenegger
20. [x] Middlemarch George Eliot
21. [] Gone With The Wind Margaret Mitchell
22. [] The Great Gatsby F Scott Fitzgerald
23. [x] Bleak House Charles Dickens
24. [ ]War and Peace Leo Tolstoy
25. [] The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Douglas Adams
26. [ ] Brideshead Revisited Evelyn Waugh
27. [ ] Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28. [x] Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck
29. [] Alice in Wonderland Lewis Carroll
30. [] The Wind in the Willows Kenneth Grahame
31. [] Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy
32. [x] David Copperfield Charles Dickens
33. [] Chronicles of Narnia CS Lewis
34. [x] Emma Jane Austen
35. [] Persuasion Jane Austen
36. [] The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe CS Lewis
37. [ x] The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini
38. [x] Captain Corelli’s Mandolin Louis De Bernieres
39. [x] Memoirs of a Geisha Arthur Golden
40. [] Winnie the Pooh AA Milne
41. [] Animal Farm George Orwell
42. [x] The Da Vinci Code Dan Brown
43. [ ] One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44. [] A Prayer for Owen Meaney John Irving
45. [x] The Woman in White Wilkie Collins
46. [ ]Anne of Green Gables LM Montgomery
47. [x] Far From The Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy
48. [ ] The Handmaid’s Tale Margaret Atwood
49. [ ] Lord of the Flies William Golding
50. [x ] Atonement Ian McEwan
51. [] Life of Pi Yann Martel
52. [ ] Dune Frank Herbert
53. [] Cold Comfort Farm Stella Gibbons
54. [] Sense and Sensibility Jane Austen
55. [ x] A Suitable Boy Vikram Seth
56. [] The Shadow of the Wind Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57. [x] A Tale Of Two Cities Charles Dickens
58. [ ] Brave New World Aldous Huxley
59. [ x] The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time Mark Haddon
60. [ ] Love In The Time Of Cholera Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61. [x] Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck
62. [ ] Lolita Vladimir Nabokov
63. [x] The Secret History Donna Tartt
64. [x ] The Lovely Bones Alice Sebold
65. [ ] Count of Monte Cristo Alexandre Dumas
66. [ ] On The Road Jack Kerouac
67. [ x] Jude the Obscure Thomas Hardy
68. [x] Bridget Jones’s Diary Helen Fielding
69. [ ] Midnight’s Children Salman Rushdie
70. [ ] Moby Dick Herman Melville
71. [x] Oliver Twist Charles Dickens
72. [x] Dracula Bram Stoker
73. [] The Secret Garden Frances Hodgson Burnett
74. [] Notes From A Small Island Bill Bryson
75. [ ] Ulysses James Joyce
76. [x ] The Bell Jar Sylvia Plath
77. [] Swallows and Amazons Arthur Ransome
78. [] Germinal Emile Zola
79. [x] Vanity Fair William Makepeace Thackeray
80. [ x] Possession AS Byatt
81. [x] A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens
82. [ x] Cloud Atlas David Mitchell
83. [ x] 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
88. [ ] The Five People You Meet In Heaven Mitch Alborn
89. [x] Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90. [ x] The Faraway Tree Collection Enid Blyton
91. [ x] Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad
92. [x] 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
98. [x] Hamlet William Shakespeare
99. [x] Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
100. [ ] Les Miserables Victor Hugo

46 for me but it would have been a lot less had I not done a degree in English Lit!!

about 53 I think. where is the list from?

33. That said, I was born and raised in America and there is a very British leaning to this list.

um 73 at first count through.

I've done 31, quite a few were at school though.

I didn't count The Bible because I've read lots of it (again at school) but not all.

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but I admit I have never been able to finish anything by Charles Dickens

Only 26/100 for me. I'm surprised to see A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole there, fantastic book though.

oh hang on forgot the bottom of the list make that 62

33 - I win!

So far..

I've read 50, but quite a few were for my degree. quite a few more where I've read some by that author, but not that particular title

67

69 if you count 'some' of the Bible and Shakespeare.

37 read (inc some which are multiples), but lots started and abandoned!

22. I feel v.v.

43

39. Not too bad for a foreigner.

Where/how was the list compiled.

Oh, and only one of them was for school. It was a monumentally crap school...

got bored at 50, but anyway quite a lot.
a bit much to be required to read the WHOLE Harry Potter series