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Apparently the BBC think that most people have only read 6 of these books how far of are you?

(718 Posts)

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

DaddyJ Tue 24-Feb-09 16:41:31

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

I don't really do fiction.

Lucycat Tue 24-Feb-09 16:43:51

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!

SpringySunshine Tue 24-Feb-09 16:44:11

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

cazboldy Tue 24-Feb-09 16:44:16

23

Spidermama Tue 24-Feb-09 16:44:41

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

slug Tue 24-Feb-09 16:45:14

I've read 70 of them.

bunjies Tue 24-Feb-09 16:45:32

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!!

Lucycat Tue 24-Feb-09 16:45:58

about 53 I think. where is the list from?

ByTheSea Tue 24-Feb-09 16:46:19

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

DisasterArea Tue 24-Feb-09 16:46:37

um 73 at first count through.

potplant Tue 24-Feb-09 16:46:51

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.

Molesworth Tue 24-Feb-09 16:46:54

29

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

NorktasticNinja Tue 24-Feb-09 16:47:01

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

Lucycat Tue 24-Feb-09 16:47:14

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

PuppyMonkey Tue 24-Feb-09 16:47:18

33 - I win!

So far.. wink

PandaG Tue 24-Feb-09 16:47:18

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

OrmIrian Tue 24-Feb-09 16:47:21

67

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

RubyRioja Tue 24-Feb-09 16:47:23

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

wastingmyeducation Tue 24-Feb-09 16:47:29

22. I feel v.v. blush

43

dutchmam Tue 24-Feb-09 16:47:58

39. Not too bad for a foreigner. smile

potplant Tue 24-Feb-09 16:48:04

Where/how was the list compiled.

NorktasticNinja Tue 24-Feb-09 16:48:04

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 shock

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