71, not counting books started but not finished, or complete Bible and Shakespeare.

Some of them I read so long ago I'd struggle to remember all details now...

Why is Hamlet listed as well as complete Shakespeare?

Not read the whole thread (I see it started a while back) - has anyone read them all?

40, plus some of the Bible... Numbers and Job were my undoing!

Have read 72, and was really good and didn't include the ones I started but didn't finish (like Atonement - hated it!!) which would take me up to 80. Going to print list and check them off!!

I'm on 70, but must confess to narnia and the lion the witch etc which give 2 points and not counting shakespeare,the bible and harry potter... as i can't say i've read the whole "collection"

16 for me?! Good or bad, I don't care, toddlers are not conducive to giving time for reading

26 - some of those books I have tried but did not get along with. 5 people you meet in heaven is really boring. I struggle with Jane Austin - far too goody goody.

58, half of them at school, does that make me reasonably well-read? Gave up on Shakespeare after the comedies and obvious others. 2 x Potter books, couldn't be chewed with the rest.

A suitable boy by Vikram Seth, however, is the most beautiful book I've ever had the joy of re-reading. Don't be put off by its size, by the time you reach the end, you'll want another 1000 pages!

1. [x] Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen
2. [x] The Lord of the Rings JRR Tolkien
3. [x] Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte
4. [] Harry Potter series JK Rowling
5. [x] To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee
6. [] The Bible
7. [x] Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte
8. [x] Nineteen Eighty Four George Orwell
9. [x] His Dark Materials Philip Pullman
10. [] Great Expectations Charles Dickens
11. [x] Little Women Louisa M Alcott
12. [] Tess of the D’Urbervilles Thomas Hardy
13. [] Catch 22 Joseph Heller
14. [] Complete Works of Shakespeare
15. [] Rebecca Daphne Du Maurier
16. [x] 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. [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. [] 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. [x] 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. [] A Prayer for Owen Meaney John Irving
45. [] The Woman in White Wilkie Collins
46. [x]Anne of Green Gables LM Montgomery
47. [] 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. [x] Life of Pi Yann Martel
52. [ ] Dune Frank Herbert
53. [] Cold Comfort Farm Stella Gibbons
54. [x] Sense and Sensibility Jane Austen
55. [x] 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. [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. [ ] 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. [] 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. [] Germinal Emile Zola
79. [] Vanity Fair William Makepeace Thackeray
80. [ ] 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. [x] 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. [] 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. [x] Les Miserables Victor Hugo

32, and also have abandoned quite a few of the others after starting.

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. 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. [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. Catcher in the Rye JD Salinger
19. [x] The Time Traveller’s Wife Audrey Niffenegger
20. Middlemarch George Eliot
21. Gone With The Wind Margaret Mitchell
22. The Great Gatsby F Scott Fitzgerald
23. 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. Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck
29. [x] Alice in Wonderland Lewis Carroll
30. [x] The Wind in the Willows Kenneth Grahame
31. Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy
32. 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. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin Louis De Bernieres
39. Memoirs of a Geisha Arthur Golden
40. [x] Winnie the Pooh AA Milne
41. Animal Farm George Orwell
42. The Da Vinci Code Dan Brown
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
47. [x] Far From The Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy
48. [ ] The Handmaid’s Tale Margaret Atwood
49. [x] Lord of the Flies William Golding
50. [x] Atonement Ian McEwan
51. [x] Life of Pi Yann Martel
52. Dune Frank Herbert
53. Cold Comfort Farm Stella Gibbons
54. [x] 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. Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck
62. Lolita Vladimir Nabokov
63. 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. Jude the Obscure Thomas Hardy
68. [x] Bridget Jones’s Diary Helen Fielding
69. Midnight’s Children Salman Rushdie
70. [x] Moby Dick Herman Melville
71. [x] Oliver Twist Charles Dickens
72. 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. Swallows and Amazons Arthur Ransome
78. Germinal Emile Zola
79. 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. Charlotte’s Web EB White
88. [x] The Five People You Meet In Heaven Mitch Alborn
89. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90. [x] The Faraway Tree Collection Enid Blyton
91. Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad
92. The Little Prince Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93. The Wasp Factory Iain Banks
94. [x] 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

40 out of 100 for me, although I have tried several times to read Captain Correllis Mandolin but have found it one of the most unreadable books I have ever come across!

Surprised at how many Charles Dickins I have read and was very pleased to see the Faraway Tree on the list - loved those when I was a kid.

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. [] To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee
6. [x] The Bible
7. [x] Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte
8. [x] Nineteen Eighty Four George Orwell
9. [x ] 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. [] 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. [x ] 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. [] 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. [ x] The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini
38. [] Captain Corelli’s Mandolin Louis De Bernieres
39. [] 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. [ x] One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44. [x] A Prayer for Owen Meaney John Irving
45. [] The Woman in White Wilkie Collins
46. [ x]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. [] Cold Comfort Farm Stella Gibbons
54. [x] Sense and Sensibility Jane Austen
55. [x ] 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. [ x] The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time Mark Haddon
60. [ x] 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. [ x] Moby Dick Herman Melville
71. [x] Oliver Twist Charles Dickens
72. [] Dracula Bram Stoker
73. [x] The Secret Garden Frances Hodgson Burnett
74. [x] Notes From A Small Island Bill Bryson
75. [x ] Ulysses James Joyce
76. [ x] The Bell Jar Sylvia Plath
77. [x] Swallows and Amazons Arthur Ransome
78. [] 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. [ x] The Remains of the Day Kazuo Ishiguro
85. [x ] 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. [] 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. [x] Watership Down Richard Adams
95. [ ] A Confederacy of Dunces John Kennedy Toole
96. [] 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

Looks like I've read 64 of them. I have read otehr Neville Shutes though.

49 - all before I had kids and none since - in last 6 years I have probably read an average of 2 books a year and mostly parenting ones!

55 of them.
NOT Harry Potter ;)

1. [x] Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen
3. [x] Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte
4. [x] Harry Potter series JK Rowling
5. [x] To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee
9. [ x] His Dark Materials Philip Pullman
11. [x] Little Women Louisa M Alcott
12. [x] Tess of the D’Urbervilles Thomas Hardy
15. [x] Rebecca Daphne Du Maurier
18. [x] Catcher in the Rye JD Salinger
19. [x] The Time Traveller’s Wife Audrey Niffenegger
22. [x] The Great Gatsby F Scott Fitzgerald
25. [x] The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Douglas Adams
29. [x] Alice in Wonderland Lewis Carroll
34. [x] Emma Jane Austen
36. [x] The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe CS Lewis
40. [x] Winnie the Pooh AA Milne
41. [x] Animal Farm George Orwell
44. [x] A Prayer for Owen Meaney John Irving
46. [x ]Anne of Green Gables LM Montgomery
49. [x ] Lord of the Flies William Golding
50. [x ] Atonement Ian McEwan
51. [x] Life of Pi Yann Martel
52. [x] Dune Frank Herbert
54. [x] Sense and Sensibility Jane Austen
58. [x ] Brave New World Aldous Huxley
59. [ x] The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time Mark Haddon
63. [x] The Secret History Donna Tartt
66. [x ] On The Road Jack Kerouac
68. [x] Bridget Jones’s Diary Helen Fielding
73. [x] The Secret Garden Frances Hodgson Burnett
77. [x] Swallows and Amazons Arthur Ransome
82. [x ] Cloud Atlas David Mitchell
85. [x ] Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert
87. [x] Charlotte’s Web EB White
88. [x ] The Five People You Meet In Heaven Mitch Alborn
90. [ x] The Faraway Tree Collection Enid Blyton
94. [x] Watership Down Richard Adams
99. [x] Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

What's that - about 38?

42.
What are they exactly?
I mean there is no way that Dan feckin Broown or Briget Jones are classics. <mind boggles>
Most read books maybe?

1. [ ] Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen
2. [x] The Lord of the Rings JRR Tolkien
3. [ ] Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte
4. [x] Harry Potter series JK Rowling
5. [x] To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee
6. [ ] The Bible
7. [ ] Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte
8. [x] Nineteen Eighty Four George Orwell
9. [x] His Dark Materials Philip Pullman
10. [ ] Great Expectations Charles Dickens
11. [ ] Little Women Louisa M Alcott
12. [x] Tess of the D’Urbervilles Thomas Hardy
13. [ ] 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. [ ] Catcher in the Rye JD Salinger
19. [ ] The Time Traveller’s Wife Audrey Niffenegger
20. [ ] Middlemarch George Eliot
21. [ ] Gone With The Wind Margaret Mitchell
22. [ ] The Great Gatsby F Scott Fitzgerald
23. [ ] 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. [ ] Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck
29. [x] Alice in Wonderland Lewis Carroll
30. [x] The Wind in the Willows Kenneth Grahame
31. [ ] Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy
32. [ ] David Copperfield Charles Dickens
33. [x] Chronicles of Narnia CS Lewis
34. [ ] Emma Jane Austen
35. [ ] Persuasion Jane Austen
36. [x] The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe CS Lewis
37. [ ] The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini
38. [ ] Captain Corelli’s Mandolin Louis De Bernieres
39. [ ] Memoirs of a Geisha Arthur Golden
40. [x] Winnie the Pooh AA Milne
41. [ ] Animal Farm George Orwell
42. [ ] The Da Vinci Code Dan Brown
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. [x]Anne of Green Gables LM Montgomery
47. [ ] 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. [ ] Life of Pi Yann Martel
52. [ ] Dune Frank Herbert
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
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. [ ] Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck
62. [ ] Lolita Vladimir Nabokov
63. [ ] 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. [ ] 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. [ ] 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. [x] The Bell Jar Sylvia Plath
77. [x] 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
82. [ ] 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. [x] Charlotte’s Web EB White
88. [ ] The Five People You Meet In Heaven Mitch Alborn
89. [ ] Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90. [x] The Faraway Tree Collection Enid Blyton
91. [ ] Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad
92. [ ] 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. [ ] A Town Like Alice Nevil Shute
97. [ ] The Three Musketeers Alexandre Dumas
98. [ ] Hamlet William Shakespeare
99. [x] Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
100. [ ] Les Miserables Victor Hugo

Shocking!!!

and I used to read a LOT.

13 and none of the books i'm waiting to read are on the list either!

34

At least half the books on there that Ihaven't read I haven't read out of choice because I just have no interest in reading them. With a world full of books to read why limit yourself to what other people say are 'classics'?

42

About 50 - plus several that I have started and then not finished. (And one that I have started many, many times, both in the original language and in translation, and have never made it to even half way through. One day...)

40

What it says about a person I have no idea. I have read Hamlet, I have also read a lot of other Shakespeare but not the compete works. I think Dan Brown is crap. I have never managed to finish anything by Dickens. As a small child I was petrified by the Lion the Witcha nd the Wardrobe on TV so never read the books. So there you go, I have read 40/100 books from a list that someone else thinks ought to be read but I have read many, many more that do not appear.

What is this list anyway? Is it popular books? Really important literary books? Books which have changed society? Just seems like a random collection to me. I'm currently reading a geeky linguistic book so ya boo sucks to the list maker.

74 for me, am in the middle of a 75th and have a 76th on my dressing table.

63 and a few more that I started but didn't finish (mostly Dickens).

39

I have actually finished reading 35 of them, but have started reading others on the list that I never got to the end of

70 for me.

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. [ ] Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte
8. [x] Nineteen Eighty Four George Orwell
9. [x] His Dark Materials Philip Pullman
10. [ ] 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. [x] Birdsong Sebastian Faulks
18. [x] Catcher in the Rye JD Salinger
19. [x] The Time Traveller’s Wife Audrey Niffenegger
20. [ ] Middlemarch George Eliot
21. [ ] Gone With The Wind Margaret Mitchell
22. [ ] The Great Gatsby F Scott Fitzgerald
23. [ ] 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. [ ] Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck
29. [x] Alice in Wonderland Lewis Carroll
30. [x] The Wind in the Willows Kenneth Grahame
31. [ ] Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy
32. [ ] David Copperfield Charles Dickens
33. [x ] Chronicles of Narnia CS Lewis
34. [ ] Emma Jane Austen
35. [ ] Persuasion Jane Austen
36. [x] 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. [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. [ ] A Prayer for Owen Meaney John Irving
45. [ ] The Woman in White Wilkie Collins
46. [x ]Anne of Green Gables LM Montgomery
47. [x] Far From The Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy
48. [x] The Handmaid’s Tale Margaret Atwood
49. [x ] Lord of the Flies William Golding
50. [ ] 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. [ ] A Suitable Boy Vikram Seth
56. [x] The Shadow of the Wind Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57. [ ] A Tale Of Two Cities Charles Dickens
58. [x] 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. [ ] 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. [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. [ ] 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. [ ] Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90. [x ] The Faraway Tree Collection Enid Blyton
91. [ ] Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad
92. [x ] The Little Prince Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93. [ ] The Wasp Factory Iain Banks
94. [x] 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. [ ] Hamlet William Shakespeare
99. [x ] Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
100. [ x] Les Miserables Victor Hugo

51

75 but I did do an Eng lit degree

62. How did they put this list together? Or was that explained earlier?

Actually I've read 10, apparently I can't count....

19 and I rarely read anymore, I just don't have time, I used to love reading, dd is half way through The Folk of The Far Away Tree.

45

10.5 - am quite chuffed with that read half of mice and men with dd1 for GCSEs

I've read 8 but I read all the time, just not these books....

48 - although there are some stories I know so well that I am unsure if I have read them or not (in which case I put a no).

A few omissions that I will rectify I think and a few that need to be re-read.

54 - I would be intersted in how they camo to assemble this list though

I'm impressed with myself (or maybe that should be unimpressed with the wideness of the list?) I seem to have read 70 of them, but then I read a huge amount and did do an English degree so the classics are mainly from then!

1. [x] Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen
2. [x book 1] The Lord of the Rings JRR Tolkien
3. [x] Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte
4. [] 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. [x] Complete Works of Shakespeare most i reckon
15. [x] Rebecca Daphne Du Maurier
16. [x] 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. [x] Gone With The Wind Margaret Mitchell
22. [x] The Great Gatsby F Scott Fitzgerald
23. [] Bleak House Charles Dickens
24. [ ]War and Peace Leo Tolstoy
25. [x] The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Douglas Adams
26. [x ] 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. [x] Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy
32. [] 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. [ x] 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. [] The Da Vinci Code Dan Brown
43. [x ] 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. [x ]Anne of Green Gables LM Montgomery
47. [x] Far From The Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy
48. [x ] The Handmaid’s Tale Margaret Atwood
49. [x] Lord of the Flies William Golding
50. [x ] Atonement Ian McEwan
51. [] 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. [] The Shadow of the Wind Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57. [] A Tale Of Two Cities Charles Dickens
58. [x] Brave New World Aldous Huxley
59. [x] The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time Mark Haddon
60. [ x] 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. [ x] 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. [] Dracula Bram Stoker
73. [x] The Secret Garden Frances Hodgson Burnett
74. [xxx] 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. [x] Germinal Emile Zola
79. [] Vanity Fair William Makepeace Thackeray
80. [] Possession AS Byatt
81. [x] A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens
82. [] Cloud Atlas David Mitchell
83. [x] The Color Purple Alice Walker
84. [x ] The Remains of the Day Kazuo Ishiguro
85. [x ] Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert
86. [ ] A Fine Balance Rohinton Mistry
87. [x] Charlotte’s Web EB White
88. [ x] The Five People You Meet In Heaven Mitch Alborn
89. [] 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. [x] Watership Down Richard Adams
95. [ ] A Confederacy of Dunces John Kennedy Toole
96. [x] 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

A quick scan and 23.

I would love to have time to read more - I have a backlog of about 4 books that I want to read and have acquired, but find no time to do so. They are gathering dust on my bedside table.

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. [] To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee
6. [x] 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. [x] Little Women Louisa M Alcott
12. [] Tess of the D’Urbervilles Thomas Hardy
13. [] Catch 22 Joseph Heller
14. [] Complete Works of Shakespeare
15. [x] Rebecca Daphne Du Maurier
16. [x] The Hobbit JRR Tolkien
17. [x] Birdsong Sebastian Faulks
18. [] Catcher in the Rye JD Salinger
19. [] The Time Traveller’s Wife Audrey Niffenegger
20. [] Middlemarch George Eliot
21. [] Gone With The Wind Margaret Mitchell
22. [] The Great Gatsby F Scott Fitzgerald
23. [] 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. [] Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy
32. [] David Copperfield Charles Dickens
33. [x] Chronicles of Narnia CS Lewis
34. [] Emma Jane Austen
35. [] Persuasion Jane Austen
36. [x] The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe CS Lewis
37. [ ] The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini
38. [] Captain Corelli’s Mandolin Louis De Bernieres
39. [] Memoirs of a Geisha Arthur Golden
40. [x] Winnie the Pooh AA Milne
41. [] Animal Farm George Orwell
42. [] 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. [x ]Anne of Green Gables LM Montgomery
47. [] Far From The Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy
48. [x ] The Handmaid’s Tale Margaret Atwood
49. [x] Lord of the Flies William Golding
50. [ ] 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. [] A Suitable Boy Vikram Seth
56. [] The Shadow of the Wind Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57. [x] A Tale Of Two Cities Charles Dickens
58. [x] 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. [] 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. [] Dracula Bram Stoker
73. [x] The Secret Garden Frances Hodgson Burnett
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
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. [ x] The Faraway Tree Collection Enid Blyton
91. [ ] Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad
92. [ The Little Prince Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93. [] The Wasp Factory Iain Banks
94. [x] 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

so 36 for me not too good then.
Mind you there's quite a few books on here that I have no interest whatsoever in reading.

About 75, I think - though I'm a bit hazy about exactly which Dickens and Hardy I had shoved down my throat - sorry, was encouraged to read - at school. Read too much, me? When there's deadlines to meet and washing up and laundry to be done? Never....

<opens new tab and clicks on Amazon...>

I completely agree with whoever said these are more read by the British folk than those of us across the pond. I'm American, 22, and have read about 30 of them. We didn't have a lot of them shoved down our throats lovingly taught to us at school, and I haven't chosen to read a lot of what I consider tosh.

Had never heard of Cold Comfort Farm before Mumsnet. And Americans would never read a book by a guy called Nevil Shute

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

Read 31 but have personally owned and not read a further 19 . DH currently owns a further 13 that I have not read from this list.

There are however quite a few books on there I would not want to read.

Think I'll keep this list so when I'm saying "there's nothing to read" I can go back and refer to this and see just how many books we have that I haven't even looked at.

only 27. Much more if we're counting books started but not finished, but I guess we're not!

1. [x] Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen
2. [x] The Lord of the Rings JRR Tolkien
3. [x] Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte
4. [] Harry Potter series JK Rowling
5. [] To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee
6. [] The Bible
7. [x] Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte
8. [] 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. [] 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. [] The Time Traveller’s Wife Audrey Niffenegger
20. [x] Middlemarch George Eliot
21. [x] Gone With The Wind Margaret Mitchell
22. [] The Great Gatsby F Scott Fitzgerald
23. [] 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. [x] Alice in Wonderland Lewis Carroll
30. [x] The Wind in the Willows Kenneth Grahame
31. [] 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. [] A Prayer for Owen Meaney John Irving
45. [] The Woman in White Wilkie Collins
46. [x ]Anne of Green Gables LM Montgomery
47. [] 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. [] 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. [] 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. [] 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. [ ] 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. [] 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. [] Germinal Emile Zola
79. [] 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. [] Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90. [x ] The Faraway Tree Collection Enid Blyton
91. [ ] Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad
92. [] The Little Prince Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93. [] The Wasp Factory Iain Banks
94. [x] 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. [] Hamlet William Shakespeare
99. [x] Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
100. [ ] Les Miserables Victor Hugo

42 I think. I've read a lot of books over the years though, and there are some 'worthy' authors who aren't on there.

83 and a half - haven't read the Complete works of Shakespeare, but have read an awful lot of them!!!

53

DH says 20. Says lots of the books are not really what a bloke would read though choice (ie where's Flashman? Clive Barker? Shogun?!)

47. Loved the Five People you Meet in Heaven.

the problem with this list is that they have a series and then later on have one of the books in the series listed separately.
that makes it an unfair list.
so if you've read the narnia chronicles then of course you've read the lion witch and wardrobe, but what if you've read 3 of the 7 (silver chair, voyage of the dawn treader and the last battle): then you can't sa yyo u've read the chronicles and you can't claim a single book!

and i've read 37 in the list, but add the 3 above, plus harry potter's 7 books, not 1, the faraway tree stories are 3, etc.

ROFL the COMPLETE works of Shakespeare - what idiot has put this list together? Also why is Hamlet on there again further down?

1. [] Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen
2. [] The Lord of the Rings JRR Tolkien
3. [] Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte
4. [] Harry Potter series JK Rowling
5. [] To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee
6. [] The Bible
7. [] Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte
8. [] Nineteen Eighty Four George Orwell
9. [ ] His Dark Materials Philip Pullman
10. [x] Great Expectations Charles Dickens
11. [] Little Women Louisa M Alcott
12. [] Tess of the D’Urbervilles Thomas Hardy
13. [] Catch 22 Joseph Heller
14. [] Complete Works of Shakespeare
15. [x] Rebecca Daphne Du Maurier
16. [] The Hobbit JRR Tolkien
17. [x] Birdsong Sebastian Faulks
18. [] Catcher in the Rye JD Salinger
19. [x] The Time Traveller’s Wife Audrey Niffenegger
20. [] Middlemarch George Eliot
21. [] Gone With The Wind Margaret Mitchell
22. [ The Great Gatsby F Scott Fitzgerald
23. [] 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. [] 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. [] David Copperfield Charles Dickens
33. [] Chronicles of Narnia CS Lewis
34. [] Emma Jane Austen
35. [] Persuasion Jane Austen
36. [x] The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe CS Lewis
37. [ ] The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini
38. [] Captain Corelli’s Mandolin Louis De Bernieres
39. [x] Memoirs of a Geisha Arthur Golden
40. [] 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. [] A Prayer for Owen Meaney John Irving
45. [] The Woman in White Wilkie Collins
46. [ ]Anne of Green Gables LM Montgomery
47. [] Far From The Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy
48. [ ] The Handmaid’s Tale Margaret Atwood
49. [x ] Lord of the Flies William Golding
50. [ x] Atonement Ian McEwan
51. [x] Life of Pi Yann Martel
52. [ ] Dune Frank Herbert
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
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. [] Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck
62. [ ] Lolita Vladimir Nabokov
63. [] 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. [] 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. [ ] The Bell Jar Sylvia Plath
77. [] Swallows and Amazons Arthur Ransome
78. [] Germinal Emile Zola
79. [] Vanity Fair William Makepeace Thackeray
80. [x ] Possession AS Byatt
81. [] 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. [] Charlotte’s Web EB White
88. [ ] The Five People You Meet In Heaven Mitch Alborn
89. [] Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90. [ ] The Faraway Tree Collection Enid Blyton
91. [ ] Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad
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 Alexadre Dumas
98. [] Hamlet William Shakespeare
99. [x] Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
100. [ ] Les Miserables Victor Hugo

16/100 for me - although im not entirely sure what this list is meant to be. I hardly see the da vinci code as classic ficion!

37 for me, because it is an odd mix of classic and non classic eg Faraway Tree and Bridget Jones.

2 started and abandoned aswell.

Interesting list, thanks for posting it.

62, but quite a few of those i wouldn't put on a 100 top books to be read list !

My 11 year-old has read 6.

I've read 74 of them. Sadly lacking in Dickens and Hardy and have never got the hang of Ulysses - have tried a number of times but can't get into it and rapidly lose enthusiasm by forcing myself to read 20 pages per night or whatever...

I think 19

53!
Quite proud of myself really although some were GCSE/A level texts
Haven't read the whole of the bible - but that is 50odd books in its own right isn't it?
Why is Hamlet singled out over all his other plays?
Hardy is dull and Dickens depressing, love Austen, think Brontes massively under represented - and how Bridget Jones got in there is beyond me!

49.

I've read 35, but a lot of the others I've seen the film instead!

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. [] The Bible
7. [x] Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte
8. [x] Nineteen Eighty Four George Orwell
9. [x] His Dark Materials Philip Pullman
10. [] Great Expectations Charles Dickens
11. [x] Little Women Louisa M Alcott
12. [] Tess of the D’Urbervilles Thomas Hardy
13. [] Catch 22 Joseph Heller
14. [] Complete Works of Shakespeare
15. [x] 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

48/100
21. [] Gone With The Wind Margaret Mitchell
22. [x] The Great Gatsby F Scott Fitzgerald
23. [] Bleak House Charles Dickens
24. [x]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. [] Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck
29. [x] Alice in Wonderland Lewis Carroll
30. [x] The Wind in the Willows Kenneth Grahame
31. [] Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy
32. [] 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. [] Captain Corelli’s Mandolin Louis De Bernieres
39. [] Memoirs of a Geisha Arthur Golden
40. [x] Winnie the Pooh AA Milne
41. [x] Animal Farm George Orwell
42. [] 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. [] The Woman in White Wilkie Collins
46. [x]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. [x] Sense and Sensibility Jane Austen
55. [ ] A Suitable Boy Vikram Seth
56. [] The Shadow of the Wind Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57. [x] A Tale Of Two Cities Charles Dickens
58. [x] 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. [] 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. [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. [] Oliver Twist Charles Dickens
72. [x] Dracula Bram Stoker
73. [x] The Secret Garden Frances Hodgson Burnett
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. [x] A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens
82. [ ] 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. [x] Charlotte’s Web EB White
88. [x] 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. [ ] 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. [] 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

28, most of them before I was twenty, so not great but ok but would like to read about another 6 of them.

35 for me.

one of the categories was "the Complete works of Shakespeare", I doubt many people will have read ALL of Shakepeare's works...
I have read about 4 or 5...

25! Am surprised as didn't think I was that well read.

I thought i was well read but only read 7, started and failed to read another 6 though and there was little mention of shakespeare which would have pulled my number up (or did i just miss that?)

I have read 64
I am confused by the cs lewis
surely the Lion the witch and the wardrobe is part of the chronicles of narnia?

20 for me. Plus I've also read some of the Bible and Shakespeare.

NB how come the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe is separate from the Chronicles of Narnia?

43 - book read
Does watching the film count too? Then I could add another few!

50 all the way through and a few that I couldn't finish.

moving but very dour and hard work of doom and gloomness???

Steinbeck is amazing sophable. Really should be read at some point in one's life. Truly moving

70 read here.

am crap on steinbeck, thackaray and some classics like the bell jar.

40 - that's alright, I thought I was really going to embarras myself!

31.

Distinctly average.

42 i think.

25 but a few of them were for A-level English Lit

That actually meant that I read English at uni, and so I have encountered some of those unwillingly, like James Joyce and Ulysses

I haven't read 5 of them.
But in my defence, I read English, and I love books and I'm really old.

Really! Check out the thread - quite a few of the 100 books here have defeated MNers!

LSITD - really? i have read Catch 22 about 6 times!

8. I love to read, but rarely do I read bestsellers, I read what I like, not what publishers tell me to!

...or you could go to this thread and see how many of these 100 books have been abandoned by MN readers....
including Midnight's Children, Catch 22 and Captain Corelli's Mandolin!!

PS for anyone who hasn't read it, i can really recommend Midnight's Children by Salmon Rushdie.

1. [ ] 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. [x] The Bible
7. [ ] Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte
8. [x] Nineteen Eighty Four George Orwell
9. [ ] His Dark Materials Philip Pullman
10. [ ] Great Expectations Charles Dickens
11. [x] Little Women Louisa M Alcott
12. [ ] Tess of the D’Urbervilles Thomas Hardy
13. [x] Catch 22 Joseph Heller
14. [x] 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. [ ] Middlemarch George Eliot
21. [ ] Gone With The Wind Margaret Mitchell
22. [x] The Great Gatsby F Scott Fitzgerald
23. [ ] 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. [ ] Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy
32. [ ] David Copperfield Charles Dickens
33. [x] Chronicles of Narnia CS Lewis
34. [ ] Emma Jane Austen
35. [ ] 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. [ ] A Prayer for Owen Meaney John Irving
45. [x] The Woman in White Wilkie Collins
46. [x]Anne of Green Gables LM Montgomery
47. [ ] Far From The Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy
48. [x] The Handmaid’s Tale Margaret Atwood
49. [x] Lord of the Flies William Golding
50. [ ] Atonement Ian McEwan
51. [x] 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. [ ] A Tale Of Two Cities Charles Dickens
58. [x] 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. [ ] Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck
62. [x] Lolita Vladimir Nabokov
63. [ ] The Secret History Donna Tartt
64. [x] The Lovely Bones Alice Sebold
65. [x] Count of Monte Cristo Alexandre Dumas
66. [x] On The Road Jack Kerouac
67. [ ] Jude the Obscure Thomas Hardy
68. [x] Bridget Jones’s Diary Helen Fielding
69. [x] Midnight’s Children Salman Rushdie
70. [x] Moby Dick Herman Melville
71. [x] Oliver Twist Charles Dickens
72. [x] Dracula Bram Stoker
73. [x] The Secret Garden Frances Hodgson Burnett
74. [ ] Notes From A Small Island Bill Bryson
75. [x] Ulysses James Joyce
76. [x] 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. [x] A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens
82. [ ] 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. [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. [ ] The Little Prince Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93. [ ] 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

52 for me. I couldn't get into JRR Tolkein - but enjoyed the movies!

64. And there is still stuff I will get round to. Weird list though. Funny mixture of 'canon' and 'popular' stuff. Where did it come from?

Bible essential for study of English Literature before 1800, and presumably, if you are a Christian ...

45, but possibly at the least literary end of the weird spectrum

i do OWN about 10 more of them, but they just sit on my shelves accusingly!

44 or thereabouts. But what a weird list!

30 plus some Shakespeare, some Bible and some Harry Potter...

32 Though it lists a few I'd like to read

The voice of the majority here - only 6 for me. However it does make me think that I would like to read some of the others..... if only I had the time....

1. [x] Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen
2. [x] The Lord of the Rings JRR Tolkien
3. [x] Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte
4. [ ] 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. [x] Rebecca Daphne Du Maurier
16. [x] The Hobbit JRR Tolkien
17. [] Birdsong Sebastian Faulks
18. [x] Catcher in the Rye JD Salinger
19. [] The Time Traveller’s Wife Audrey Niffenegger
20. [] 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. [x] Alice in Wonderland Lewis Carroll
30. [x] The Wind in the Willows Kenneth Grahame
31. [] Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy
32. [x] David Copperfield Charles Dickens
33. [x] Chronicles of Narnia CS Lewis
34. [x] Emma Jane Austen
35. [] Persuasion Jane Austen
36. [x] The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe CS Lewis
37. [ ] The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini
38. [] Captain Corelli’s Mandolin Louis De Bernieres
39. [] 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. [] A Prayer for Owen Meaney John Irving
45. [x] The Woman in White Wilkie Collins
46. [x ]Anne of Green Gables LM Montgomery
47. [x] Far From The Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy
48. [ ] The Handmaid’s Tale Margaret Atwood
49. [x ] Lord of the Flies William Golding
50. [ ] Atonement Ian McEwan
51. [x] Life of Pi Yann Martel
52. [ ] Dune Frank Herbert
53. [] Cold Comfort Farm Stella Gibbons
54. [x] Sense and Sensibility Jane Austen
55. [ ] A Suitable Boy Vikram Seth
56. [] The Shadow of the Wind Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57. [x] A Tale Of Two Cities Charles Dickens
58. [x ] 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. [] 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. [ ] Jude the Obscure Thomas Hardy
68. [] Bridget Jones’s Diary Helen Fielding
69. [ ] Midnight’s Children Salman Rushdie
70. [x ] Moby Dick Herman Melville
71. [x] Oliver Twist Charles Dickens
72. [x] Dracula Bram Stoker
73. [x] The Secret Garden Frances Hodgson Burnett
74. [] 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. [] Germinal Emile Zola
79. [] 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. [x ] The Faraway Tree Collection Enid Blyton
91. [ ] Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad
92. [] The Little Prince Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93. [] 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. [x ] Les Miserables Victor Hugo

50 for me

52

78. And another five or so that I've started and not finished.

82/100 - there were a couple I've never heard of, a couple that I have bought but not yet read, and some like the Handmaid's Tale and the Bell Jar that I intend to read.
Some I read many years ago so can scarcely remember.

49/100 including one duplication as I've read all of the Chronicles of Narnia and the Lion The Witch and the Wardrobe is one of them. Perhaps whoever compiled the list did not know that? I've deleted the ones I've not read and left someone elses crosses in place!

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
7. [x] Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte
8. [x] Nineteen Eighty Four George Orwell
9. [ ] His Dark Materials Philip Pullman
11. [x] Little Women Louisa M Alcott
12. [x] Tess of the D’Urbervilles Thomas Hardy
13. [x] Catch 22 Joseph Heller
15. [] Rebecca Daphne Du Maurier
16. [x] The Hobbit JRR Tolkien
19. [x] The Time Traveller’s Wife Audrey Niffenegger
20. [x] Middlemarch George Eliot
21. [] Gone With The Wind Margaret Mitchell
25. [x] The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Douglas Adams
29. [x] Alice in Wonderland Lewis Carroll
30. [x] The Wind in the Willows Kenneth Grahame
32. [x] David Copperfield Charles Dickens
33. [x] Chronicles of Narnia CS Lewis
34. [x] Emma Jane Austen
36. [x] The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe CS Lewis
40. [x] Winnie the Pooh AA Milne
41. [x] Animal Farm George Orwell
42. [x] The Da Vinci Code Dan Brown
46. [ ]Anne of Green Gables LM Montgomery
47. [x] Far From The Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy
53. [x] Cold Comfort Farm Stella Gibbons
54. [x] Sense and Sensibility Jane Austen
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
63. [x] The Secret History Donna Tartt
68. [x] Bridget Jones’s Diary Helen Fielding
71. [x] Oliver Twist Charles Dickens
72. [x] Dracula Bram Stoker
73. [x] The Secret Garden Frances Hodgson Burnett
77. [x] Swallows and Amazons Arthur Ransome
79. [x] Vanity Fair William Makepeace Thackeray
81. [x] A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens
83. [ ] The Color Purple Alice Walker
87. [x] Charlotte’s Web EB White
90. [ ] The Faraway Tree Collection Enid Blyton
91. [ ] Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad
94. [x] Watership Down Richard Adams
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

40. 7 I've started and not bothered to finish if I didnt' get into it (ie the time travellers wife, madame bovary) not many that I would liek to read.

Anne of green gables was a series and I read them all [smug emoticon]

4 for me and I got A level English!

I've read quite a lot of Shakespeare but not the complete works and I've not read the last book in the Harry Potter Series.

Books I read at school like Paradise Lost are not on the list as only seems to be novels.

76 for me, but I am old and have been reading about 4 books per week for the last 40 years! I also worked in libraries for many years!

A very odd selection though.

And yes, despite the inclusion of Zafón and García Marquez, few Russians and French, the list is very Anglo-Saxon.

55. What is the criterion for this list though? I mean, how can you have Mme. Bovary next to Bridget Jones, or why would anybody need to read the whole of Harry Potter?

I've read 71 but have read some books that aren't on the list by the same authors, for e.g. I haven't read The Grapes of Wrath but have read East of Eden (fab book).

26. Not bad I used to think but looking on here....

Didn't count it if I hadn't managed to finish it though - Far from the Madding crowd etc

67,
but what an odd list-

ALL Shakespeare?
And the bible? What for? Purlease.....

28 here. Several of them thanks to English GCSE and A level.
27 if you don't count reading a childrens bible as the bible ( it was a big thick one)

32, and I am definitely no reader of ficton. Many I read at school, and some I have read to the dc. As many of the books in the list are related, I find 6 books for most people hard to believe .

45, but there are alot that i never really wanted to read and about 10 that i started and got utterly bored with.

i have no idea why the davinci code is in her,e or the lovely bones when you have great pieces of literature like a suitable boy, dickens, austen and thackeray in there too.....

I think about 28 but not necessarily finished all of them.

Have read a couple of Harry Potters but not all.

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. [ ] The Bible
7. [x] Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte
8. [x] Nineteen Eighty Four George Orwell
9. [x] 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. [] Catch 22 Joseph Heller
14. [] Complete Works of Shakespeare
15. [x] 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. [ ] The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Douglas Adams
26. [x] Brideshead Revisited Evelyn Waugh
27. [ ] Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28. [ ] Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck
29. [x] Alice in Wonderland Lewis Carroll
30. [ ] The Wind in the Willows Kenneth Grahame
31. [x] Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy
32. [x] David Copperfield Charles Dickens
33. [ ] 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. [ ] 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. [ ] 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. [x] The Handmaid’s Tale Margaret Atwood
49. [x] Lord of the Flies William Golding
50. [x] Atonement Ian McEwan
51. [ ] 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. [x] 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. [x] The Secret Garden Frances Hodgson Burnett
74. [x] Notes From A Small Island Bill Bryson
75. [ ] Ulysses James Joyce
76. [x] The Bell Jar Sylvia Plath
77. [x] 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. [ ] Cloud Atlas David Mitchell
83. [x] The Color Purple Alice Walker
84. [ ] The Remains of the Day Kazuo Ishiguro
85. [x] 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. [x] 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. [ ] 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

63 for me (I think!) and started five more - not including the Bible! - and didn't get on with them at all.

Very strange list - there seems to be no logic to it. Not all really popular, not all prizewinners (I don't think?), not all classics - does anyone know what the list is based on.

I have read 45 all the way through but started 60 (must get back to them when my books come out of the attic!!)

30 of them

71 - none of the dickens though & how many people have read everything shakespeare ever wrote or the bible cover to cover?

38; it is a bit of a weird list. Some trash, some classics, some kids...

62. Most of those I read years ago as I'm not so driven by approved reading lists these days :-)

I've only read 6 from that list! But I read all the time! Just different books I guess . Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy is the best of these that I've read. I've read the whole series and it's great!

(ps, I posted on the word game thread 'Arther' after someone posted 'queue', and no-one got it! Read Hitchhikers!!!)

Am reading Rides a Dread Legion at the mo. I'm a bit dissapointed to be honest but DP assures me it has a good ending!

I've finished 37, started a few more but ashamed to say didn't get to the end....

Only 45 for me.

actually i have read 55. and have 2 others on the list in my "things to read" pile.

hmmm...nothing really intelligent to add. an interesting list though.

has anyone got a bloomsbury good reading guide? i try and choose things to read out of that occasionally but mostly jujst end up reading the guide itself for pleasure

54. but have tried and not got on with at least 5 others.

will reaad thread now and see what intelligent comments i am supposed to make

Another English teacher here and my count is 48, with two half read (The Bible, did it in bits when I was young - like a lot of posters on here, it seems, I had this mad idea that it would be good for my 'cultural' education ) and read a lot of Shakespeare but nowhere near all. I don't, however, have an English degree, so I consider that having read the intellectual stuff for pleasure should give me more points!

Have to agree with those who are surprised at the choices of the 'masses', with a lot of missing best-sellers and some quite 'intellectual' stuff - though, when I read that it was voted for by the public, I did say to myself, 'oh, that explains the Dan Brown' (which I personally love, even though, of course, it's trash of the highest/lowest degree - sometimes you need trash to unwind. )

I've read 84, and don't aspire much to those I haven't read. Couldn't eg care less about PPi or McEwen.

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. [x ] 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. [x] Complete Works of Shakespeare
15. [x] Rebecca Daphne Du Maurier
16. [x] 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. [x] Gone With The Wind Margaret Mitchell
22. [x] The Great Gatsby F Scott Fitzgerald
23. [x] Bleak House Charles Dickens
24. [x ]War and Peace Leo Tolstoy
25. [x] The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Douglas Adams
26. [ x] Brideshead Revisited Evelyn Waugh
27. [x ] Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28. [] 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. [] Captain Corelli’s Mandolin Louis De Bernieres
39. [] Memoirs of a Geisha Arthur Golden
40. [x] Winnie the Pooh AA Milne
41. [x] Animal Farm George Orwell
42. [] 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. [ x]Anne of Green Gables LM Montgomery
47. [x] Far From The Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy
48. [x ] The Handmaid’s Tale Margaret Atwood
49. [x ] Lord of the Flies William Golding
50. [ ] Atonement Ian McEwan
51. [] 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. [] The Shadow of the Wind Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57. [x] A Tale Of Two Cities Charles Dickens
58. [x ] Brave New World Aldous Huxley
59. [x ] The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time Mark Haddon
60. [x ] Love In The Time Of Cholera Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61. [x] Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck
62. [x ] Lolita Vladimir Nabokov
63. [x] The Secret History Donna Tartt
64. [ ] The Lovely Bones Alice Sebold
65. [ ] Count of Monte Cristo Alexandre Dumas
66. [x ] On The Road Jack Kerouac
67. [ x] Jude the Obscure Thomas Hardy
68. [x] Bridget Jones’s Diary Helen Fielding
69. [ x] Midnight’s Children Salman Rushdie
70. [x ] 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. [ x] Ulysses James Joyce
76. [x ] 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. [ x] Possession AS Byatt
81. [x] A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens
82. [ ] Cloud Atlas David Mitchell
83. [ x] The Color Purple Alice Walker
84. [x ] The Remains of the Day Kazuo Ishiguro
85. [ x] 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. [x ] 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. [x ] 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. [x ] Les Miserables Victor Hugo

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. [x ] 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. [] Catch 22 Joseph Heller
14. [] Complete Works of Shakespeare
15. [x] Rebecca Daphne Du Maurier
16. [x] The Hobbit JRR Tolkien
17. [x] Birdsong Sebastian Faulks
18. [] Catcher in the Rye JD Salinger
19. [x] The Time Traveller’s Wife Audrey Niffenegger
20. [] 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. [ x] 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. [] A Prayer for Owen Meaney John Irving
45. [x] The Woman in White Wilkie Collins
46. [ x]Anne of Green Gables LM Montgomery
47. [x] Far From The Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy
48. [ ] The Handmaid’s Tale Margaret Atwood
49. [ x] Lord of the Flies William Golding
50. [ ] Atonement Ian McEwan
51. [] 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. [] 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. [] The Secret History Donna Tartt
64. [ x] The Lovely Bones Alice Sebold
65. [x ] 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. [ x] 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. [ x] The Faraway Tree Collection Enid Blyton
91. [ ] Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad
92. [x] The Little Prince Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93. [] 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. [ x] Les Miserables Victor Hugo

51 for me but that doesn't include all 7 Harry Potter books, all 3 Pullman "His Dark Materials" and all the Chronicles of Narnia and Faraway Tree books!

1. Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen
3. Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte
4. Harry Potter series JK Rowling
in part....6. The Bible
7. Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte
10. Great Expectations Charles Dickens
11. Little Women Louisa M Alcott
some of.... 14. Complete Works of Shakespeare
16. The Hobbit JRR Tolkien
20. Middlemarch George Eliot
25. The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Douglas Adams
29. Alice in Wonderland Lewis Carroll
30. The Wind in the Willows Kenneth Grahame
33. Chronicles of Narnia CS Lewis
36. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe CS Lewis
39. Memoirs of a Geisha Arthur Golden
40. Winnie the Pooh AA Milne
42. The Da Vinci Code Dan Brown
46. Anne of Green Gables LM Montgomery
51. Life of Pi Yann Martel
54. Sense and Sensibility Jane Austen
59. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time Mark Haddon
70. Moby Dick Herman Melville
73. The Secret Garden Frances Hodgson Burnett
got halfway through...75. Ulysses James Joyce
81. A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens
87. Charlotte’s Web EB White
90. The Faraway Tree Collection Enid Blyton
94. Watership Down Richard Adams
98. Hamlet William Shakespeare
99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

so 28/31 depending on whether i count half read things.

am only 25 though and lots of the others are on my 'must remember to borrow from the library list'

It's a really weird list. I've read 67 of them, but most of the rest I've decided in the past that there are other things I'd read before them.

I do think Everyone should read Germinal. Amazing book.

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. [x] Complete Works of Shakespeare
15. [x] Rebecca Daphne Du Maurier
16. [x] The Hobbit JRR Tolkien
17. [] Birdsong Sebastian Faulks
18. [x] Catcher in the Rye JD Salinger
19. [] The Time Traveller’s Wife Audrey Niffenegger
20. [x] Middlemarch George Eliot
21. [x] Gone With The Wind Margaret Mitchell
22. [x] The Great Gatsby F Scott Fitzgerald
23. [x] Bleak House Charles Dickens
24. [ x]War and Peace Leo Tolstoy
25. [x] The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Douglas Adams
26. [ x] Brideshead Revisited Evelyn Waugh
27. [x ] 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. [] A Prayer for Owen Meaney John Irving
45. [] The Woman in White Wilkie Collins
46. [ x]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. [ x] 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. [ x] 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. [] The Secret History Donna Tartt
64. [ ] The Lovely Bones Alice Sebold
65. [x ] Count of Monte Cristo Alexandre Dumas
66. [ x] 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. [ x] 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. [ x] The Bell Jar Sylvia Plath
77. [x] Swallows and Amazons Arthur Ransome
78. [] Germinal Emile Zola
79. [x] Vanity Fair William Makepeace Thackeray
80. [ ] Possession AS Byatt
81. [x] A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens
82. [ x] Cloud Atlas David Mitchell
83. [ x] The Color Purple Alice Walker
84. [ x] The Remains of the Day Kazuo Ishiguro
85. [ x] Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert
86. [ ] A Fine Balance Rohinton Mistry
87. [x] Charlotte’s Web EB White
88. [ x] 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. [ ] 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. [ x] Les Miserables Victor Hugo
78/100

46/100

Only 22, but lots more if you count "how many have you read bits of but got bored". Very weird list, yes. And how did Five people you meet in heaven get on the same list as Dostoyevsky, for a start?

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. [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. [] Tess of the D’Urbervilles Thomas Hardy
13. [] 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. [] Catcher in the Rye JD Salinger
19. [] The Time Traveller’s Wife Audrey Niffenegger
20. [] Middlemarch George Eliot
21. [x] 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. [ x] Brideshead Revisited Evelyn Waugh
27. [ ] Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28. [] Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck
29. [x] Alice in Wonderland Lewis Carroll
30. [x] The Wind in the Willows Kenneth Grahame
31. [] 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. [] Captain Corelli’s Mandolin Louis De Bernieres
39. [] 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. [] A Prayer for Owen Meaney John Irving
45. [] The Woman in White Wilkie Collins
46. [x ]Anne of Green Gables LM Montgomery
47. [x] Far From The Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy
48. [ x] The Handmaid’s Tale Margaret Atwood
49. [ x] Lord of the Flies William Golding
50. [ ] Atonement Ian McEwan
51. [] Life of Pi Yann Martel
52. [ ] Dune Frank Herbert
53. [] Cold Comfort Farm Stella Gibbons
54. [x] Sense and Sensibility Jane Austen
55. [ ] 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. [ ] 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. [x ] Jude the Obscure Thomas Hardy
68. [x] Bridget Jones’s Diary Helen Fielding
69. [x ] 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. [] 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. [] Germinal Emile Zola
79. [] Vanity Fair William Makepeace Thackeray
80. [ ] Possession AS Byatt
81. [x] A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens
82. [ ] 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. [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. [x ] The Faraway Tree Collection Enid Blyton
91. [ ] Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad
92. [x] The Little Prince Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93. [] 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

I've read 37 of them, but have actively rejected a lot of the others (usually after reading a bit/asking people/reading about them)on the grounds that they are shit.

I have read 31 of them, and own more but have not read yet.

Surprised A Confederacy of Dunces is there, I HAVE read that, but was under the impression it was wierd and not well known!

I've read 50, but I seem to have lost my appetite for fiction since having the DCs 14 years ago.

Time became so precious, and I really resented wasting it trying to get into novels which often turned out to be sub-standard.

76 here too, another 6 or so that I got half way through (e.g. War and Peace) and then gave up on. An interesting variety on the list, I haven't read all the posts so maybe I've missed how the list was put together - I don't see why THESE books in particular.

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. [x] The Bible
7. [x] Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte
8. [x] Nineteen Eighty Four George Orwell
9. [x] His Dark Materials Philip Pullman
10. [] Great Expectations Charles Dickens
11. [x] Little Women Louisa M Alcott
12. [] 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. [] Middlemarch George Eliot
21. [] Gone With The Wind Margaret Mitchell
22. [x] The Great Gatsby F Scott Fitzgerald
23. [] 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. [x] Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28. [x] Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck
29. [x] Alice in Wonderland Lewis Carroll
30. [] The Wind in the Willows Kenneth Grahame
31. [] Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy
32. [] David Copperfield Charles Dickens
33. [] Chronicles of Narnia CS Lewis
34. [] Emma Jane Austen
35. [] Persuasion Jane Austen
36. [] The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe CS Lewis
37. [ ] The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini
38. [] 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. [] The Da Vinci Code Dan Brown
43. [x] One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44. [x] A Prayer for Owen Meaney John Irving
45. [] The Woman in White Wilkie Collins
46. [xxxxxx]Anne of Green Gables LM Montgomery
47. [] Far From The Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy
48. [ ] The Handmaid’s Tale Margaret Atwood
49. [x] Lord of the Flies William Golding
50. [x] Atonement Ian McEwan
51. [x] Life of Pi Yann Martel
52. [ ] Dune Frank Herbert
53. [x] 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
58. [ ] Brave New World Aldous Huxley
59. [x] The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time Mark Haddon
60. [x] Love In The Time Of Cholera Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61. [x] Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck
62. [x] Lolita Vladimir Nabokov
63. [x] The Secret History Donna Tartt
64. [x] The Lovely Bones Alice Sebold
65. [x] Count of Monte Cristo Alexandre Dumas
66. [x] 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. [x] 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. [] 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
82. [ ] Cloud Atlas David Mitchell
83. [x] The Color Purple Alice Walker
84. [ ] The Remains of the Day Kazuo Ishiguro
85. [x] Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert
86. [ ] A Fine Balance Rohinton Mistry
87. [x] Charlotte’s Web EB White
88. [x] 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. [x] Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad
92. [x] The Little Prince Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93. [] The Wasp Factory Iain Banks
94. [x] Watership Down Richard Adams
95. [] A Confederacy of Dunces John Kennedy Toole
96. [] 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. [x] Les Miserables Victor Hugo

I cannot count how many. a good list though. most of the ones I didn;t tick I want to read (when kids leave home I guess) except for the da vinci code.

I've read 76 of them or as an earlier poster said, 78 if you count some of the bible and Shakespeare. I've got an English degree though so some were not read by choice or I suspect could have been properly digested at 3am after half a packet of pro plus and twenty cigarettes. Those were the days!

Also...isn't it a weird list?!

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. [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. [x] 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. [x] The Great Gatsby F Scott Fitzgerald
23. [x] Bleak House Charles Dickens
24. [x]War and Peace Leo Tolstoy
25. [] The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Douglas Adams
26. [ ] Brideshead Revisited Evelyn Waugh
27.[x] 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. [] 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. [] Winnie the Pooh AA Milne
41. [] Animal Farm George Orwell
42. [x] The Da Vinci Code Dan Brown
43. [x] 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. [x]Anne of Green Gables LM Montgomery
47. [x] Far From The Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy
48. [x] The Handmaid’s Tale Margaret Atwood
49. [x] Lord of the Flies William Golding
50. [ ] Atonement Ian McEwan
51. [] Life of Pi Yann Martel
52. [ ] Dune Frank Herbert
53. [] Cold Comfort Farm Stella Gibbons
54. [x] Sense and Sensibility Jane Austen
55. [x] 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. [x] The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time Mark Haddon
60. [x] Love In The Time Of Cholera Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61. [x] Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck
62. [x ] 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. [x] On The Road Jack Kerouac
67. [x] Jude the Obscure Thomas Hardy
68. [x] Bridget Jones’s Diary Helen Fielding
69. [x] Midnight’s Children Salman Rushdie
70. [ ] Moby Dick Herman Melville
71. [x] Oliver Twist Charles Dickens
72. [] Dracula Bram Stoker
73. [x] 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. [x] The Remains of the Day Kazuo Ishiguro
85. [x] Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert
86. [x] A Fine Balance Rohinton Mistry
87. [x] Charlotte’s Web EB White
88. [ ] The Five People You Meet In Heaven Mitch Alborn
89. [] Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90. [x] The Faraway Tree Collection Enid Blyton
91. [x] Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad
92. [] The Little Prince Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93. [] The Wasp Factory Iain Banks
94. [x] 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

think thats 67 - tbh it's counting that's always been my problem

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. [] Little Women Louisa M Alcott
12. [x] Tess of the D’Urbervilles Thomas Hardy
13. [] Catch 22 Joseph Heller
14. [] Complete Works of Shakespeare
15. [X] Rebecca Daphne Du Maurier
16. [x] The Hobbit JRR Tolkien
17. [] Birdsong Sebastian Faulks
18. [x] Catcher in the Rye JD Salinger
19. [] The Time Traveller’s Wife Audrey Niffenegger
20. [] Middlemarch George Eliot
21. [] Gone With The Wind Margaret Mitchell
22. [x] The Great Gatsby F Scott Fitzgerald
23. [] 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. [x] Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28. [] Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck
29. [] Alice in Wonderland Lewis Carroll
30. [] The Wind in the Willows Kenneth Grahame
31. [x] Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy
32. [] David Copperfield Charles Dickens
33. [] Chronicles of Narnia CS Lewis
34. [] Emma Jane Austen
35. [] Persuasion Jane Austen
36. [] The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe CS Lewis
37. [ ] The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini
38. [] Captain Corelli’s Mandolin Louis De Bernieres
39. [] Memoirs of a Geisha Arthur Golden
40. [x] Winnie the Pooh AA Milne
41. [] Animal Farm George Orwell
42. [] The Da Vinci Code Dan Brown
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
47. [] 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. [x] Life of Pi Yann Martel
52. [ ] Dune Frank Herbert
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
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. [] Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck
62. [x ] Lolita Vladimir Nabokov
63. [] 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. [] 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. [ ] The Bell Jar Sylvia Plath
77. [] Swallows and Amazons Arthur Ransome
78. [] 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. [x] The Color Purple Alice Walker
84. [ ] The Remains of the Day Kazuo Ishiguro
85. [ x] 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. [] Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90. [ ] The Faraway Tree Collection Enid Blyton
91. [ ] Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad
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
98. [] Hamlet William Shakespeare - isn't this double counting from number 14
99. [x] Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
100. [] Les Miserables Victor Hugo -

28/100

Nope, don't think that seeing TV or film adaptations count! That would add a few more to my list!

37. It is a bizarre list. Some of them I refuse to read (cough Harry Potter cough) because i'm a book snob.

Surprised they included Federacy of Dunces, though it is REALLY good.

How many have you read?

1. [x] Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen
2. [1/3] The Lord of the Rings JRR Tolkien
3. [x] Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte
4. [4/7] Harry Potter series JK Rowling
5. [x] To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee
6. [bits and pieces] The Bible
7. [x] Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte
8. [] 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. [] Catch 22 Joseph Heller
14. [] Complete Works of Shakespeare
15. [X] Rebecca Daphne Du Maurier
16. [x] The Hobbit JRR Tolkien
17. [X] Birdsong Sebastian Faulks
18. [] Catcher in the Rye JD Salinger
19. [x] The Time Traveller’s Wife Audrey Niffenegger
20. [] Middlemarch George Eliot
21. [X] Gone With The Wind Margaret Mitchell
22. [] The Great Gatsby F Scott Fitzgerald
23. [] 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. [] 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. [] David Copperfield Charles Dickens
33. [x] Chronicles of Narnia CS Lewis
34. [] Emma Jane Austen
35. [] 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. [] 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. [] The Woman in White Wilkie Collins
46. [X]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. [x] 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. [x] The Shadow of the Wind Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57. [] 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. [] 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. [] 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. [] Swallows and Amazons Arthur Ransome
78. [] Germinal Emile Zola
79. [] Vanity Fair William Makepeace Thackeray
80. [X] Possession AS Byatt
81. [] 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. [X] A Fine Balance Rohinton Mistry
87. [] Charlotte’s Web EB White
88. [X] The Five People You Meet In Heaven Mitch Alborn
89. [] 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. [] The Wasp Factory Iain Banks
94. [x] 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. [] Hamlet William Shakespeare - isn't this double counting from number 14
99. [x] Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
100. [] Les Miserables Victor Hugo - seen the musical though. Does that count?

43/100 (plus some "parts of") for me but others on the list that I really do want to read

13 on that list. I did attempt Middlemarch recently but I just couldn't understand it .

I have a long way to go!

I've read 65 and a half (I'm reading The Bell Jar at the moment, although I've had it on the shelf for 7 years)

31. Also, am reading a suitable boy at the moment, so didnt' count it.

1. [] Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen
2. [x] The Lord of the Rings JRR Tolkien
3. [] Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte
4. [x] Harry Potter series JK Rowling
5. [] To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee
6. [x] The Bible
7. [] Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte
8. [x] Nineteen Eighty Four George Orwell
9. [ ] His Dark Materials Philip Pullman
10. [] Great Expectations Charles Dickens
11. [] Little Women Louisa M Alcott
12. [] Tess of the D’Urbervilles Thomas Hardy
13. [] Catch 22 Joseph Heller
14. [] Complete Works of Shakespeare
15. [x] Rebecca Daphne Du Maurier
16. [x] The Hobbit JRR Tolkien
17. [] Birdsong Sebastian Faulks
18. [] Catcher in the Rye JD Salinger
19. [x] The Time Traveller’s Wife Audrey Niffenegger
20. [] Middlemarch George Eliot
21. [] Gone With The Wind Margaret Mitchell
22. [] The Great Gatsby F Scott Fitzgerald
23. [] 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. [] Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck
29. [x] Alice in Wonderland Lewis Carroll
30. [x] The Wind in the Willows Kenneth Grahame
31. [] Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy
32. [] David Copperfield Charles Dickens
33. [x] Chronicles of Narnia CS Lewis
34. [] Emma Jane Austen
35. [] Persuasion Jane Austen
36. [x] 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. [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. [] A Prayer for Owen Meaney John Irving
45. [] The Woman in White Wilkie Collins
46. [ ]Anne of Green Gables LM Montgomery
47. [] Far From The Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy
48. [ ] The Handmaid’s Tale Margaret Atwood
49. [x ] Lord of the Flies William Golding
50. [ ] Atonement Ian McEwan
51. [x] Life of Pi Yann Martel
52. [ ] Dune Frank Herbert
53. [] Cold Comfort Farm Stella Gibbons
54. [x] 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
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. [] Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck
62. [ ] Lolita Vladimir Nabokov
63. [] 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. [ ] 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. [] Dracula Bram Stoker
73. [x] The Secret Garden Frances Hodgson Burnett
74. [] 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. [] Germinal Emile Zola
79. [] 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. [] 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. [] The Wasp Factory Iain Banks
94. [x] 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. [] Hamlet William Shakespeare
99. [x] Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
100. [ ] Les Miserables Victor Hugo

1. [x] Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen
2. [s] The Lord of the Rings JRR Tolkien
3. [x] Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte
4. [1] 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. [2] 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. [s] Catch 22 Joseph Heller
14. [s] Complete Works of Shakespeare
15. [x] 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. [] Middlemarch George Eliot
21. [] Gone With The Wind Margaret Mitchell
22. [x] The Great Gatsby F Scott Fitzgerald
23. [] Bleak House Charles Dickens
24. [ ]War and Peace Leo Tolstoy
25. [] The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Douglas Adams
26. [x] Brideshead Revisited Evelyn Waugh
27. [ ] Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28. [] Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck
29. [] Alice in Wonderland Lewis Carroll
30. [] The Wind in the Willows Kenneth Grahame
31. [x] Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy
32. [x] David Copperfield Charles Dickens
33. [] Chronicles of Narnia CS Lewis
34. [x] Emma Jane Austen
35. [x] 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. [] Memoirs of a Geisha Arthur Golden
40. [] Winnie the Pooh AA Milne
41. [x] Animal Farm George Orwell
42. [x] The Da Vinci Code Dan Brown
43. [x ] One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44. [x] A Prayer for Owen Meaney John Irving
45. [] The Woman in White Wilkie Collins
46. [x]Anne of Green Gables LM Montgomery
47. [x] Far From The Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy
48. [ ] The Handmaid’s Tale Margaret Atwood
49. [x ] Lord of the Flies William Golding
50. [x ] 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. [] 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. [x ] 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. [x ] 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. [] Oliver Twist Charles Dickens
72. [x] Dracula Bram Stoker
73. [] The Secret Garden Frances Hodgson Burnett
74. [x] Notes From A Small Island Bill Bryson
75. [s ] 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. [] A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens
82. [s ] Cloud Atlas David Mitchell
83. [ ] The Color Purple Alice Walker
84. [x ] The Remains of the Day Kazuo Ishiguro
85. [x ] 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. [] Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90. [ ] The Faraway Tree Collection Enid Blyton
91. [ ] Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad
92. [] The Little Prince Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93. [x] 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. [] Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
100. [ ] Les Miserables Victor Hugo

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. [] 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. [] Tess of the D’Urbervilles Thomas Hardy
13. [] Catch 22 Joseph Heller
14. [x] Complete Works of Shakespeare
15. [] Rebecca Daphne Du Maurier
16. [x] The Hobbit JRR Tolkien
17. [] Birdsong Sebastian Faulks
18. [] 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. [] Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck
29. [x] Alice in Wonderland Lewis Carroll
30. [x] The Wind in the Willows Kenneth Grahame
31. [] 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. [ x] The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini
38. [x] Captain Corelli’s Mandolin Louis De Bernieres
39. [] Memoirs of a Geisha Arthur Golden
40. [x] Winnie the Pooh AA Milne
41. [x] Animal Farm George Orwell
42. [] 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. [ ] Atonement Ian McEwan
51. [] Life of Pi Yann Martel
52. [ ] Dune Frank Herbert
53. [] 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. [] 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. [] 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. [ ] Jude the Obscure Thomas Hardy
68. [x] Bridget Jones’s Diary Helen Fielding
69. [ x] Midnight’s Children Salman Rushdie
70. [ x] Moby Dick Herman Melville
71. [x] Oliver Twist Charles Dickens
72. [] Dracula Bram Stoker
73. [x] The Secret Garden Frances Hodgson Burnett
74. [] 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. [] 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. [ x] 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. [ ] Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad
92. [x] The Little Prince Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93. [] The Wasp Factory Iain Banks
94. [x] 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

hmm only 44... best get reading!

i read a lot, but i'm not wading through 19 pages of thread to find the answers to that lol.

67, but what a totally random list lol.

a case of english lit grad meets richard and judy...

v. odd. who on earth came up with that? and what is it supposed to mean?

I've read 41. I wonder how they chose this selction. There's some odd ones in there.

So I've read 68 thats not to bad for 24 years of life.

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. [x] His Dark Materials Philip Pullman
10. [x] Great Expectations Charles Dickens
11. [x] Little Women Louisa M Alcott
12. [ ] Tess of the D’Urbervilles Thomas Hardy
13. [ ] Catch 22 Joseph Heller
14. [x] Complete Works of Shakespeare
15. [x] Rebecca Daphne Du Maurier
16. [ ] 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. [ ] Middlemarch George Eliot
21. [x] 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. [ ] The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Douglas Adams
26. [ ] Brideshead Revisited Evelyn Waugh
27. [x] 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. [ ] 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. [x] 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. [x]Anne of Green Gables LM Montgomery
47. [ ] Far From The Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy
48. [x] The Handmaid’s Tale Margaret Atwood
49. [x] 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. [x] Sense and Sensibility Jane Austen
55. [ ] 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. [x] Love In The Time Of Cholera Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61. [x] Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck
62. [x] 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. [x] On The Road Jack Kerouac
67. [ ] Jude the Obscure Thomas Hardy
68. [ ] Bridget Jones’s Diary Helen Fielding
69. [x] 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. [ ] Notes From A Small Island Bill Bryson
75. [ ] Ulysses James Joyce
76. [x] The Bell Jar Sylvia Plath
77. [x] Swallows and Amazons Arthur Ransome
78. [ ] 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. [x] The Color Purple Alice Walker
84. [ ] The Remains of the Day Kazuo Ishiguro
85. [x] 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. [x] The Faraway Tree Collection Enid Blyton
91. [ ] Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad
92. [x] The Little Prince Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93. [ ] The Wasp Factory Iain Banks
94. [x] Watership Down Richard Adams
95. [ ] A Confederacy of Dunces John Kennedy Toole
96. [ ] 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

I started reading this thread last night, and it made me stew. Having now actually read what it is and how it was compiled I feel a little bit better, having only read 40 or so. I realise that it is not a slur on my education , upbringing etc etc.

However, I am baffled that some of the bestselling authors are not on the list. Stephen King? Danielle Steel? Not a fan of either but pretty prolific bestselling riters not to feature. Agatha Christie? Personally, love John Grisham, Marian Keyes, Ruth Rendall, Patricia Cornwell. I am a self-confessed bookworm and yet 3/4 of the books on this list I wouldn't be interested in. Hamlet????? I loved 4 hrs of Kenneth Branagh in it at the RSC but otherwise???? I wonder what real profile of the people who were polled is - I can't believe the average person stopped in McDonalds on a Saturday thinks that War & Peace is their favourite book

66 for me but some I didn't want to read. I wonder how they got the list. Some I never heard of, and some I would put on it but are not there.

12 plus...currently reading Memoirs...I have the Kite Runner but it remains unread...wheres The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole & Frankenstein?...lol

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. [ ] To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee
6. [x] The Bible
7. [x] Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte
8. [ ] Nineteen Eighty Four George Orwell
9. [ ] His Dark Materials Philip Pullman
10. [ ] Great Expectations Charles Dickens
11. [x] Little Women Louisa M Alcott
12. [ ] Tess of the D’Urbervilles Thomas Hardy
13. [ ] Catch 22 Joseph Heller
14. [] Complete Works of Shakespeare
15. [X] Rebecca Daphne Du Maurier
16. [x] The Hobbit JRR Tolkien
17. [ ] Birdsong Sebastian Faulks
18. [ ] Catcher in the Rye JD Salinger
19. [x] The Time Traveller’s Wife Audrey Niffenegger
20. [ ] 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. [ ] The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Douglas Adams
26. [ ] Brideshead Revisited Evelyn Waugh
27. [ ] Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28. [ ] 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. [ ] 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. [X] The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini
38. [ ] Captain Corelli’s Mandolin Louis De Bernieres
39. [x] Memoirs of a Geisha Arthur Golden
40. [x] 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. [ ] The Woman in White Wilkie Collins
46. [X]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. [ ] Life of Pi Yann Martel
52. [ ] Dune Frank Herbert
53. [ ] Cold Comfort Farm Stella Gibbons
54. [x] 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
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. [ ] 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. [ ] Dracula Bram Stoker
73. [x] The Secret Garden Frances Hodgson Burnett
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. [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. [ ] Charlotte’s Web EB White
88. [ ] The Five People You Meet In Heaven Mitch Alborn
89. [ ] Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90. [X] The Faraway Tree Collection Enid Blyton
91. [X] Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad
92. [ ] 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. [ ] A Town Like Alice Nevil Shute
97. [ ] The Three Musketeers Alexandre Dumas
98. [ ] Hamlet William Shakespeare
99. [x] Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
100. [X ] Les Miserables Victor Hugo

53 here, what's the significance of the list?

32 here.

No happy crappy, in fact it was crime and punishment!

(not really, you got me )

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. [ ] The Bible
7. [x] Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte
8. [x] Nineteen Eighty Four George Orwell
9. [x] 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. [x] Complete Works of Shakespeare
15. [x] Rebecca Daphne Du Maurier
16. [x] 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. [x] 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. [ ] 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. [x] 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. [x]Anne of Green Gables LM Montgomery
47. [x] Far From The Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy
48. [x 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. [x] 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. [x] Brave New World Aldous Huxley
59. [x] The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time Mark Haddon
60. [x] 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. [x] On The Road Jack Kerouac
67. [x] Jude the Obscure Thomas Hardy
68. [x] Bridget Jones’s Diary Helen Fielding
69. [x] Midnight’s Children Salman Rushdie
70. [x] 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. [ ] Swallows and Amazons Arthur Ransome
78. [ ] Germinal Emile Zola
79. [x] Vanity Fair William Makepeace Thackeray
80. [ ] Possession AS Byatt
81. [x] A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens
82. [x] Cloud Atlas David Mitchell
83. [x] The Color Purple Alice Walker
84. [x] 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. [x] 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. [x] Watership Down Richard Adams
95. [ ] A Confederacy of Dunces John Kennedy Toole
96. [x] 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

80/100 for me, seem to have big gap in terms of russian authors, must put them on my list

16 for me

I hate lists like this though - who made the list maker god of what books you should read!

Read what you like

I'm only on 12 (double what the gov says). I haven't counted the bible or works of shakespeare as I haven't read ALL of them and there are a lot on the list I've started but couldn't get into.

How can such an unreadable book become a 'classic'?

I think that anybody who claims to have read "Ullyses" may well be stretching the truth a bit - probably stretching it by at least 300 pages!

If you count the ones where I've read part - 65. Haven't read all the complete works of Shakespeare or all the old testament and I don't get Gabriel Garcia Marquez. If you count seeing the films a few more . But I am addicted to reading.

85 - but then I am an english graduate.....and isn't Ulysses unreadable!

Have to say I thought I wasn't even going to make it to the six but got 10 - very suprised the wasp factory is on there had no idea it would be in a list with the bible!!!!

I have read 56 of them

That would be aristocratic,

Kiwikat - love and hate Donna Tartt IYKWIM? Am reading the Forsyte Saga (Galsworthy) atm. Am loving and hating that as well. Serious detail there ( a bit DT?), but a great social history, and quite a joke as well - the middle classes who think they are aristicratic. Only about 1/8 of huge book read so far, but think I will persist.

Happy Crappy, you have excellent taste! Tell me - I loved A Secret History, but HATED The Little Friend, in fact, didn't even finish it, which is unusual for me. What did you think?

Kiwikat - I like all of those as well, especially Owen Meaney (Christmas Play !!!)

dragonbutter - I bet it was Le Petit Prince by St Exupery - Oui? nul points - c'etait un necessaire d'education secondaire. If it was something else, my most humble apologies.

40, and another 10 books in the list are in my bookcase, waiting to be read. Not likely to be read for a little while though, with the amount of reading I need to do for work.

A Prayer for Owen Meaney, Little Women and Gone With the Wind are amongst my favourites of all time.

I thought there was only one page of responses so foolishly asked about the list!! I'm sorry

only 16 but many more i started and never finished.

i read one in french, do i get extra points?

1. [x] Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen
2. [ ] The Lord of the Rings JRR Tolkien
3. [x] Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte
4. [ ] 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. [x] Complete Works of Shakespeare
15. [x] Rebecca Daphne Du Maurier
16. [ ] 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. [x] Gone With The Wind Margaret Mitchell
22. [x] The Great Gatsby F Scott Fitzgerald
23. [ ] Bleak House Charles Dickens
24. [ ]War and Peace Leo Tolstoy
25. [x] The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Douglas Adams
26. [x] Brideshead Revisited Evelyn Waugh
27. [x] 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. [x] The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini
38. [ ] 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. [x] One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44. [x] A Prayer for Owen Meaney John Irving
45. [ ] The Woman in White Wilkie Collins
46. [x]Anne of Green Gables LM Montgomery
47. [x] Far From The Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy
48. [x] The Handmaid’s Tale Margaret Atwood
49. [x] Lord of the Flies William Golding
50. [x] 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. [x] A Suitable Boy Vikram Seth
56. [x] The Shadow of the Wind Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57. [ ] A Tale Of Two Cities Charles Dickens
58. [x] 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. [x] 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. [x] 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. [x] The Secret Garden Frances Hodgson Burnett
74. [x] 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. [x] Germinal Emile Zola
79. [ ] Vanity Fair William Makepeace Thackeray
80. [ ] Possession AS Byatt
81. [x] A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens
82. [ ] Cloud Atlas David Mitchell
83. [x] The Color Purple Alice Walker
84. [x] The Remains of the Day Kazuo Ishiguro
85. [x] Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert
86. [x] A Fine Balance Rohinton Mistry
87. [x] Charlotte’s Web EB White
88. [ ] The Five People You Meet In Heaven Mitch Alborn
89. [ ] 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. [ ] 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. [ ] The Three Musketeers Alexandre Dumas
98. [x] Hamlet William Shakespeare
99. [x] Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
100. [x] Les Miserables Victor Hugo

A few embarrassing gaps.

janeite - page 6 of Ulysses is good going! Heavy going.

85 for me but I am ancient , I'm a grandmother as well as a mum. I worked in libraries for ages so I had access to lots of books and I'm addicted to reading. I am also a really fast reader, I read probably 3 or 4 books every week.

What's the story about the list, who compiled it and to what end?

Only 36, but it would be more interesting to ask which ones were actually enjoyed? I enjoyed most of the ones I read, mainly because I only read the ones I knew I would like. Does this make sense?

Agree re "Ullyses" - I did try once but didn't get much beyond about page six iirc. Another English teacher here!

34

20, but I have seen the film/TV series of 70 arf. <illiterate oik emoticon>

missed off!

Oops! That should be 37 - I'd missed of The Faraway Tree - another example of great literature.

36, but it is a bizaree collection of books. There is no way that I am ever going to read The Da Vinci Code!

63,a couple I have and haven't read yet,and a lot don't appeal (Moby Dick-no).

61 but I read nearly all of them over 10 years ago, these days I'm a pleb.

I'm with Heated as Ullyses is hideous. Are we all English teachers on mumsnet

93 - OMG! Mind you I am an English teacher and I LOVE Ulysses!

Think I can honestly say 38 but could push for 47 if 'not finished'were counted. But strange choices!!!

67/100

There are some embarrassing gaps for an English teacher! But I'd rather stick pins in my eyes than suffer through Ullyses.

Have read all Will's plays but confess to having skipped a fair few sonnets.

i think including the works of shakespeare as one isnt fair, as i have read a lot of shakespeare, but not everything he has written, so couldnt tick that box.
same with the narnia lot.

34. but some istarted and didnt finish, so havent included them

I've read 75 of them. I'll keep the list for ideas of what to read next, when I'm stuck. I will never read "Lovely Bones" though, it just does not appeal at all, so will never have read all of them.

Aaargh! This list is driving me mad!

A friend sent it to me via FB and so I put up my list and tagged a few other friends I thought might like to do it...and now it's turned into a debate about how the list came about, why Hamlet is listed twice, who decided which books to included, what does it all "mean", etc etc etc with one friend rather pompously refusing to do it because it doesn't fit her "criteria"!

As I said, AAARRGGGHH! I just thought it might be FUN! You know, something without any real purpose or meaning or whatever, just for you to go through and go "oooh, read that, read that, read that, haven't read that" etc NO BIG DEAL!

Sorry, I am just so and about why anyone would bother getting a bee in their bonnet about this stupid list!

45, but quite a few I started and didn't finish such as possession cause I thought it was rubbish.

Why be embarrassed? This is a fairly random list of books. I wouldn't be at all surprised if there was a survey in four or five years to see at least 50% change. How many of the older books were in that list because of films or serialisations I wonder.

31 - but that is quite embarassing since I did both GCSE and A level English literature at school. I suppose I am just one of those people who can't relax enough to read novels unless I am on holiday (either from work, or literally on holiday i.e. away from home). It doesn't make me proud .

1. [x] Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen
2. [] The Lord of the Rings JRR Tolkien
3. [x] Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte
4. [] Harry Potter series JK Rowling
5. [] To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee
6. [] 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. [] Little Women Louisa M Alcott
12. [] 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. [] Birdsong Sebastian Faulks
18. [x] Catcher in the Rye JD Salinger
19. [] The Time Traveller’s Wife Audrey Niffenegger
20. [] Middlemarch George Eliot
21. [] Gone With The Wind Margaret Mitchell
22. [] The Great Gatsby F Scott Fitzgerald
23. [] 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. [] The Wind in the Willows Kenneth Grahame
31. [] Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy
32. [] David Copperfield Charles Dickens
33. [x] Chronicles of Narnia CS Lewis
34. [x] Emma Jane Austen
35. [] Persuasion Jane Austen
36. [x] The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe CS Lewis
37. [ ] The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini
38. [] Captain Corelli’s Mandolin Louis De Bernieres
39. [] Memoirs of a Geisha Arthur Golden
40. [] Winnie the Pooh AA Milne
41. [x] Animal Farm George Orwell
42. [] The Da Vinci Code Dan Brown
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. [x]Anne of Green Gables LM Montgomery
47. [x] Far From The Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy
48. [x] The Handmaid’s Tale Margaret Atwood
49. [x] Lord of the Flies William Golding
50. [ ] Atonement Ian McEwan
51. [] Life of Pi Yann Martel
52. [ ] Dune Frank Herbert
53. [] Cold Comfort Farm Stella Gibbons
54. [x] 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
58. [x] 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. [] 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. [] Bridget Jones’s Diary Helen Fielding
69. [ ] Midnight’s Children Salman Rushdie
70. [ ] Moby Dick Herman Melville
71. [x] Oliver Twist Charles Dickens
72. [] Dracula Bram Stoker
73. [x] The Secret Garden Frances Hodgson Burnett
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. [x] A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens
82. [ ] 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. [x] Charlotte’s Web EB White
88. [ ] The Five People You Meet In Heaven Mitch Alborn
89. [] Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90. [x] The Faraway Tree Collection Enid Blyton
91. [ ] Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad
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
98. [x] Hamlet William Shakespeare
99. [x] Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
100. [ ] Les Miserables Victor Hugo

75 out of 100 for me, but like others joint honours degree with English Literature as one half. Like another poster I also read some in the original French, I think I had read less of the modern literature. Love Harry Potter though

Significantly more than I realised! 43.

30,but read part of a lot of the others and never got around to finishing them.

I've read 88 but then I did do an Eng Lit degree.

Ulysses was just hard work though. No fun at all but I forced my way through it just to prove a point.

45 but an odd list, I failed on the Shakespeare and Dickens.
There was a BBC thing about 5 years ago called the 100 best books. Obviously any such list would be open to debate but it was IMO a more balanced list than this one. Anyway I had read about 70 on that list and worked my way through a good many more that I had missed.

44

A lot more than 6 but no where near all of them.

I have got very lazy in my middle years and adore listening to Hardy and Austen on CD but cant be arsed to read them.

Love watching Dickens on tv but not so keen on reading him.

I dont have the concentration anymore. Sad but true.

I blame Radio 7 (and the sadly defunct oneword). Who needs to read when you can lie back and listen?

60. Not bad. Most of them a VERY long time ago.

DD1 who is 15 has read 18 (all Harry Potter counting as 1). Dh who is older, PhD from Cambridge reckons he has finished 6 but started many more. He reads obscurer classics.

68

56 at first count. at average being 6.

And Harry Potter's 7.

That's ttrue, surely HDM should count as three?

only 17 for me, tho to be fair a few of them are more than one book and i have read maybe one or two, (dark materials, shakespeare) and quite a few ive read ALOT by the same author (enid blyton, roald dahl)

what a perculiar list!

1. [ ] Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen
2. [ ] The Lord of the Rings JRR Tolkien
3. [ ] Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte
4. [x] Harry Potter series JK Rowling
5. [ ] To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee
6. [x] The Bible
7. [ ] Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte
8. [ ] Nineteen Eighty Four George Orwell
9. [ ] His Dark Materials Philip Pullman
10. [ ] Great Expectations Charles Dickens
11. [x] Little Women Louisa M Alcott
12. [ ] Tess of the D’Urbervilles Thomas Hardy
13. [ ] 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. [ ] Catcher in the Rye JD Salinger
19. [ ] The Time Traveller’s Wife Audrey Niffenegger
20. [ ] Middlemarch George Eliot
21. [ ] Gone With The Wind Margaret Mitchell
22. [ ] The Great Gatsby F Scott Fitzgerald
23. [ ] 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. [ ] Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck
29. [x] Alice in Wonderland Lewis Carroll
30. [x] The Wind in the Willows Kenneth Grahame
31. [ ] Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy
32. [ ] David Copperfield Charles Dickens
33. [x] Chronicles of Narnia CS Lewis
34. [ ] Emma Jane Austen
35. [ ] Persuasion Jane Austen
36. [x] The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe CS Lewis
37. [ ] The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini
38. [ ] Captain Corelli’s Mandolin Louis De Bernieres
39. [ ] Memoirs of a Geisha Arthur Golden
40. [x] Winnie the Pooh AA Milne
41. [x] Animal Farm George Orwell
42. [ ] The Da Vinci Code Dan Brown
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
47. [ ] 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. [ ] Life of Pi Yann Martel
52. [ ] Dune Frank Herbert
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
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. [ ] 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. [ ] Bridget Jones’s Diary Helen Fielding
69. [ ] Midnight’s Children Salman Rushdie
70. [ ] Moby Dick Herman Melville
71. [ ] Oliver Twist Charles Dickens
72. [ ] Dracula Bram Stoker
73. [x] The Secret Garden Frances Hodgson Burnett
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
82. [ ] 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. [x] Charlotte’s Web EB White
88. [ ] The Five People You Meet In Heaven Mitch Alborn
89. [ ] Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90. [x] The Faraway Tree Collection Enid Blyton
91. [ ] Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad
92. [ ] The Little Prince Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93. [ ] The Wasp Factory Iain Banks
94. [x] 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. [ ] Hamlet William Shakespeare
99. [x] Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
100. [ ] Les Miserables Victor Hugo

How many have you read?

1. [ ] 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. [ ]To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee
6. [x] The Bible
7. [x] Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte
8. [ ] Nineteen Eighty Four George Orwell
9. [ ] His Dark Materials Philip Pullman
10. [ ] Great Expectations Charles Dickens
11. [x] Little Women Louisa M Alcott
12. [ ] 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. [ ] Birdsong Sebastian Faulks
18. [ ] Catcher in the Rye JD Salinger
19. [ ] The Time Traveller’s Wife Audrey Niffenegger
20. [ ] Middlemarch George Eliot
21. [] Gone With The Wind Margaret Mitchell
22. [ ] The Great Gatsby F Scott Fitzgerald
23. [ ] Bleak House Charles Dickens
24. [x ]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. [ ] Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck
29. [x] Alice in Wonderland Lewis Carroll
30. [x] The Wind in the Willows Kenneth Grahame
31. [ ] Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy
32. [ ] David Copperfield Charles Dickens
33. [ ] Chronicles of Narnia CS Lewis
34. [ ] Emma Jane Austen
35. [ ] Persuasion Jane Austen
36. [x] The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe CS Lewis
37. [x ] The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini
38. [ ] Captain Corelli’s Mandolin Louis De Bernieres
39. [ ] Memoirs of a Geisha Arthur Golden
40. [x] 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. [ ] The Woman in White Wilkie Collins
46. [ ]Anne of Green Gables LM Montgomery
47. [ ] Far From The Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy
48. [ ] The Handmaid’s Tale Margaret Atwood
49. [x] Lord of the Flies William Golding
50. [ ] 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. [ ] A Suitable Boy Vikram Seth
56. [ ] The Shadow of the Wind Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57. [ ] 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. [ ] Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck
62. [ ] Lolita Vladimir Nabokov
63. [ ] 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. [x] Moby Dick Herman Melville
71. [x] Oliver Twist Charles Dickens
72. [ ] Dracula Bram Stoker
73. [x] The Secret Garden Frances Hodgson Burnett
74. [ ] 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. [ ] Germinal Emile Zola
79. [ ] 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. [ ] The Little Prince Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93. [ ] The Wasp Factory Iain Banks
94. [x] Watership Down Richard Adams
95. [ ] A Confederacy of Dunces John Kennedy Toole
96. [ ] A Town Like Alice Nevil Shute
97. [x] The Three Musketeers Alexandre Dumas
98. [ ] Hamlet William Shakespeare
99. [ ] Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
100. [ ] Les Miserables Victor Hugo

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. [x] His Dark Materials Philip Pullman
10. [x] Great Expectations Charles Dickens
11. [x] Little Women Louisa M Alcott
12. [-] Tess of the D’Urbervilles Thomas Hardy
13. [x] Catch 22 Joseph Heller
14. [-] Complete Works of Shakespeare
15. [x] Rebecca Daphne Du Maurier
16. [x] 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. [] Middlemarch George Eliot
21. [] Gone With The Wind Margaret Mitchell
22. [x] The Great Gatsby F Scott Fitzgerald
23. [] Bleak House Charles Dickens
24. []War and Peace Leo Tolstoy
25. [x] The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Douglas Adams
26. [x] Brideshead Revisited Evelyn Waugh
27. [] Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28. [] Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck
29. [x] Alice in Wonderland Lewis Carroll
30. [x] The Wind in the Willows Kenneth Grahame
31. [] Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy
32. [] 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. [x] The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini
38. [] 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. [] A Prayer for Owen Meaney John Irving
45. [x] The Woman in White Wilkie Collins
46. [x]Anne of Green Gables LM Montgomery
47. [] Far From The Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy
48. [] The Handmaid’s Tale Margaret Atwood
49. [x] 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. [] The Shadow of the Wind Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57. [] 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. [x] 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. [x] 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. [] 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. [] 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. [x] 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. [x] 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. [] 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

I have marked with a "-" those I started but didn't manage to finish (5)
35 unread.
Some I wouldn't want to read though - I find Charles Dickens very hard going, for e.g. and I have read other Dostoevsky books but I don't think Crime and Punishment was one. I have also read some Solzhenitsyn though!

51 but what an odd list - there's some highbrow classics there and some classic kids books, but also some total rubbish, as well as several series books duplicated with individual books in that series (Narnia and The Lion The Witch and The Wardrobe for example).

66 including EVERY SINGLE WORD of the Narnia books out loud and in the right order. And no, this wasn't for an audio book.

I never want to see a silver chair again in my life.

1. [x] Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen
2. [x] The Lord of the Rings JRR Tolkien
3. [ ] Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte
4. [ ] Harry Potter series JK Rowling
5. [ ] To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee
6. [ ] The Bible
7. [x] Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte
8. [ ] 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. [ ] Tess of the D’Urbervilles Thomas Hardy
13. [ ] Catch 22 Joseph Heller
14. [x] Complete Works of Shakespeare
15. [ ] Rebecca Daphne Du Maurier
16. [x] The Hobbit JRR Tolkien
17. [ ] Birdsong Sebastian Faulks
18. [ ] Catcher in the Rye JD Salinger
19. [ ] The Time Traveller’s Wife Audrey Niffenegger
20. [ ] Middlemarch George Eliot
21. [ ] Gone With The Wind Margaret Mitchell
22. [ ] The Great Gatsby F Scott Fitzgerald
23. [] 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. [ ] Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck
29. [x] Alice in Wonderland Lewis Carroll
30. [x] The Wind in the Willows Kenneth Grahame
31. [ ] Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy
32. [ ] 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. [ ] Captain Corelli’s Mandolin Louis De Bernieres
39. [ ] Memoirs of a Geisha Arthur Golden
40. [x] Winnie the Pooh AA Milne
41. [ ] Animal Farm George Orwell
42. [ ] The Da Vinci Code Dan Brown
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
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. [x] 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
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. [ ] Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck
62. [ ] Lolita Vladimir Nabokov
63. [ ] 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. [ ] Dracula Bram Stoker
73. [x] 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. [x] Swallows and Amazons Arthur Ransome
78. [x] Germinal Emile Zola
79. [ ] 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. [ ] Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90. [x] The Faraway Tree Collection Enid Blyton times about a zillion!!
91. [ ] Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad
92. [ ] 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. [ ] 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

theres lots on there i would like to read!

42, but some of them are multiples. Quite shamed that I haven't read some of those, really...

55

44.

I notice that Dickens and Austen are well represented, so if you are a fan of them, you clock up the points. Shakespeare only counts for one and then only if you have read the 'whole works'!

18 but I have read a few of them more than once, I've read alot of Shakespear but didn't think that counted

51 give or take things I've forgotten and things I think I've read but haven't.

By Christ there some shit on there though eh?

Anyone else find Hardy impenetrably dull?

Frankly I hate these things, anyway. I could produce a list of 100 books that I'd read all of, proving precisely nothing at all.

No Bulgakov on there either. Peasants.

44

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. [] Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte
8. [x] Nineteen Eighty Four George Orwell
9. [ ] His Dark Materials Philip Pullman
10. [] Great Expectations Charles Dickens
11. [x] Little Women Louisa M Alcott
12. [x] Tess of the D’Urbervilles Thomas Hardy
13. [] Catch 22 Joseph Heller
14. [] Complete Works of Shakespeare
15. [] Rebecca Daphne Du Maurier
16. [x] 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. [] Middlemarch George Eliot
21. [] Gone With The Wind Margaret Mitchell
22. [] The Great Gatsby F Scott Fitzgerald
23. [] 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. [] Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck
29. [x] Alice in Wonderland Lewis Carroll
30. [x] The Wind in the Willows Kenneth Grahame
31. [] Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy
32. [] 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. [x] The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini
38. [] 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. [] The Da Vinci Code Dan Brown
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. [x]Anne of Green Gables LM Montgomery
47. [x] Far From The Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy
48. [ ] The Handmaid’s Tale Margaret Atwood
49. [x] Lord of the Flies William Golding
50. [ ] Atonement Ian McEwan
51. [] Life of Pi Yann Martel
52. [ ] Dune Frank Herbert
53. [] Cold Comfort Farm Stella Gibbons
54. [x] Sense and Sensibility Jane Austen
55. [x] A Suitable Boy Vikram Seth
56. [] The Shadow of the Wind Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57. [] 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. [ ] 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. [] 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. [] Germinal Emile Zola
79. [] 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. [] Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90. [x] The Faraway Tree Collection Enid Blyton
91. [ ] Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad
92. [] The Little Prince Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93. [x] 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. [x] The Three Musketeers Alexandre Dumas
98. [x] Hamlet William Shakespeare
99. [x] Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
100. [ ] Les Miserables Victor Hugo

I can't believe I've only read 16 of these. Just finished Da Vinci Code having avoided it for ages & surprised myself by loving it. Will try not to judge books I haven't read in future.

Iklboo - I love Bogwoppit, recently read it
to ds.

31/100 but ive read loads of books that arent on there, my dh has only read 6 but thats because he likes adventure/non fiction/history etc

I've just realise I've got 2 of the books on that list and I've never even read them.

Tbh, half of them I wouldn't choose to read anyway (some set books, some just don't appeal)

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. [x] The Bible
7. [x] Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte
8. [x] Nineteen Eighty Four George Orwell
9. [ ] His Dark Materials Philip Pullman
10. [ ] 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. [x] 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. [ ] Middlemarch George Eliot
21. [x] Gone With The Wind Margaret Mitchell
22. [ ] The Great Gatsby F Scott Fitzgerald
23. [ ] 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. [ ] Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck
29. [x] Alice in Wonderland Lewis Carroll
30. [x] The Wind in the Willows Kenneth Grahame
31. [ ] Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy
32. [ ] 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. [x] The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini
38. [ ] Captain Corelli’s Mandolin Louis De Bernieres
39. [ ] Memoirs of a Geisha Arthur Golden
40. [x] Winnie the Pooh AA Milne
41. [x] Animal Farm George Orwell
42. [ ] The Da Vinci Code Dan Brown
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. [x]Anne of Green Gables LM Montgomery
47. [ ] Far From The Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy
48. [ ] The Handmaid’s Tale Margaret Atwood
49. [x] Lord of the Flies William Golding
50. [x] Atonement Ian McEwan
51. [x] Life of Pi Yann Martel
52. [ ] Dune Frank Herbert
53. [ ] 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. [ ] A Tale Of Two Cities Charles Dickens
58. [x] 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. [ ] Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck
62. [ ] Lolita Vladimir Nabokov
63. [ ] 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. [ ] Bridget Jones’s Diary Helen Fielding
69. [ ] Midnight’s Children Salman Rushdie
70. [ ] Moby Dick Herman Melville
71. [ ] Oliver Twist Charles Dickens
72. [ ] Dracula Bram Stoker
73. [x] The Secret Garden Frances Hodgson Burnett
74. [ ] 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. [ ] Germinal Emile Zola
79. [ ] Vanity Fair William Makepeace Thackeray
80. [ ] Possession AS Byatt
81. [ ] A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens
82. [x] Cloud Atlas David Mitchell
83. [ ] The Color Purple Alice Walker
84. [x] 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. [ ] Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90. [x] The Faraway Tree Collection Enid Blyton
91. [ ] Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad
92. [ ] The Little Prince Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93. [x] 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

44/100

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 (not every word I have to say)
7. [x] Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte
8. [x] Nineteen Eighty Four George Orwell
9. [x] 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. [x] Complete Works of Shakespeare (not every word but more than half)
15. [x] Rebecca Daphne Du Maurier
16. [x] 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. [x] 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. [x] Brideshead Revisited Evelyn Waugh
27. [ x] Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoyevsky (well, have read half of it)
28. [x ] Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck
29. [x] Alice in Wonderland Lewis Carroll
30. [x] The Wind in the Willows Kenneth Grahame
31. [ ] Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy
32. [x] David Copperfield Charles Dickens
33. [ ] Chronicles of Narnia CS Lewis (have only read The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe)
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. [ ] Memoirs of a Geisha Arthur Golden
40. [x] Winnie the Pooh AA Milne
41. [x] Animal Farm George Orwell
42. [ ] The Da Vinci Code Dan Brown
43. [x] 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. [x]Anne of Green Gables LM Montgomery
47. [x] Far From The Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy
48. [x] The Handmaid’s Tale Margaret Atwood
49. [x] Lord of the Flies William Golding
50. [x] Atonement Ian McEwan
51. [ ] Life of Pi Yann Martel
52. [x] Dune Frank Herbert
53. [ ] Cold Comfort Farm Stella Gibbons
54. [x] 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. [x] Brave New World Aldous Huxley
59. [x] The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time Mark Haddon
60. [x] 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. [x] Count of Monte Cristo Alexandre Dumas
66. [x] On The Road Jack Kerouac
67. [x] Jude the Obscure Thomas Hardy
68. [x] Bridget Jones’s Diary Helen Fielding
69. [x] Midnight’s Children Salman Rushdie
70. [x] 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. [x] Ulysses James Joyce
76. [x] The Bell Jar Sylvia Plath
77. [ ] Swallows and Amazons Arthur Ransome (tried to read it as a kid but never finished it)
78. [x] Germinal Emile Zola
79. [ ] Vanity Fair William Makepeace Thackeray
80. [x] Possession AS Byatt
81. [x] A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens
82. [ ] Cloud Atlas David Mitchell
83. [x] The Color Purple Alice Walker
84. [x] The Remains of the Day Kazuo Ishiguro
85. [x] 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. [x] The Faraway Tree Collection Enid Blyton
91. [x] Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad
92. [ ] 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. [ ] 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. [x] Les Miserables Victor Hugo

Have read 81 of them, there or thereabouts.

it isn't, chipmonkey. it really isn't.

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 (not every word I have to say)
7. [x] Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte
8. [x] Nineteen Eighty Four George Orwell
9. [x] 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. [x] Complete Works of Shakespeare (not every word but more than half)
15. [x] Rebecca Daphne Du Maurier
16. [x] 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. [x] 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. [x] Brideshead Revisited Evelyn Waugh
27. [ ] Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28. [ ] 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. [ ] The Da Vinci Code Dan Brown (started it but only managed 4 pages)
43. [x] 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. [x]Anne of Green Gables LM Montgomery
47. [ ] Far From The Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy
48. [x] The Handmaid’s Tale Margaret Atwood
49. [x] Lord of the Flies William Golding
50. [x] Atonement Ian McEwan
51. [ ] Life of Pi Yann Martel
52. [x] 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. [ ] A Tale Of Two Cities Charles Dickens
58. [x] Brave New World Aldous Huxley
59. [x] The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time Mark Haddon
60. [x] Love In The Time Of Cholera Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61. [ ] Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck
62. [x] Lolita Vladimir Nabokov
63. [x] The Secret History Donna Tartt
64. [x] The Lovely Bones Alice Sebold
65. [x] Count of Monte Cristo Alexandre Dumas
66. [x] 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. [x] The Secret Garden Frances Hodgson Burnett
74. [x] Notes From A Small Island Bill Bryson
75. [ ] Ulysses James Joyce
76. [x] The Bell Jar Sylvia Plath
77. [x] 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. [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. [x] The Faraway Tree Collection Enid Blyton
91. [x] 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. [ ] 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

I think that's 79/100 but might have miscounted. I have never heard of The five people you meet in heaven.

haven't like ticked them off and counted them up but at a guess have read about 3/4 of them

dyou get any marks for starting and not finishing?

I was wondering if that was you, pmdw!

I done read 68.

purplemunkey??

It did bring back a lot of good memories - and reminded me of how much I used to love reading - and the time I used to have to do it

54 for me

Have quite a few of those listed on the shelf never having read them, feel like I should go and do some worthy reading now and put down crap unworthy fiction. Keep meaning to pick up 100 yrs of solitude....hmmm.

agree re dupications - eg complete works of shakespeare and Hamlet, and Chronicles of Narnia and then Lion, witch and wardrobe.

25 and most of them were at school

What is thge purpose of this thread.Are we doing competitive reading now ?

I've read 15 of these. Some of the older 'classics' are quite predictable but some of the newer ones are interesting to see.

I didn't colunt those that are just sitting on the shelf waiting to be read (a fair number) altohugh I did put in question marks for those that I started and got a fair way through.

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. [] The Bible
7. [x] Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte
8. [x] Nineteen Eighty Four George Orwell
9. [x] His Dark Materials Philip Pullman
10. [x] Great Expectations Charles Dickens
11. [x] Little Women Louisa M Alcott
12. [?] Tess of the D’Urbervilles Thomas Hardy
13. [?] Catch 22 Joseph Heller
14. [] Complete Works of Shakespeare
15. [x] Rebecca Daphne Du Maurier
16. [x] The Hobbit JRR Tolkien
17. [?] Birdsong Sebastian Faulks
18. [] Catcher in the Rye JD Salinger
19. [] The Time Traveller’s Wife Audrey Niffenegger
20. [x] Middlemarch George Eliot
21. [x] Gone With The Wind Margaret Mitchell
22. [] The Great Gatsby F Scott Fitzgerald
23. [] Bleak House Charles Dickens
24. [x]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. [] 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. [] Memoirs of a Geisha Arthur Golden
40. [x] Winnie the Pooh AA Milne
41. [x] Animal Farm George Orwell
42. [] The Da Vinci Code Dan Brown
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. [x]Anne of Green Gables LM Montgomery
47. [x] Far From The Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy
48. [ ] The Handmaid’s Tale Margaret Atwood
49. [x] Lord of the Flies William Golding
50. [ ] Atonement Ian McEwan
51. [] Life of Pi Yann Martel
52. [x] Dune Frank Herbert
53. [] Cold Comfort Farm Stella Gibbons
54. [x] 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
58. [x] Brave New World Aldous Huxley
59. [ ] The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time Mark Haddon
60. [x] Love In The Time Of Cholera Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61. [] Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck
62. [ ] Lolita Vladimir Nabokov
63. [] 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. [ ] 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. [] 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. [] Vanity Fair William Makepeace Thackeray
80. [ ] Possession AS Byatt
81. [x] A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens
82. [ ] Cloud Atlas David Mitchell
83. [x] The Color Purple Alice Walker
84. [ ] The Remains of the Day Kazuo Ishiguro
85. [x] 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. [] 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. [] 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. [x] Les Miserables Victor Hugo

I think that adds up to 48, but I might have miscounted.

Do I get extra points for the fact that 4 of them were read in the original French? I did a French degree but I also used to be a real bookworm. Nowadays, it is all I can do to read one Women's magazine a motnh - I am still reading the February issue of the Good Housekeeping (never finsished the January one) and the April issue is due out next week!

69. I read english at Uni, my parents ran a bookshop and as (miserable) children we weren't allowed to watch any telly apart from newsround, blue peter and doctor who, while melting penguins in front of the fire

interesting selection