Mumsnet Talk

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

How many have you read?

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

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

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

I don't really do fiction.

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

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

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

23

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

I've read 70 of them.

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

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

about 53 I think. where is the list from?

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

um 73 at first count through.

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

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

29

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

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

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

33 - I win!

So far..

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

67

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

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

22. I feel v.v.

43

39. Not too bad for a foreigner.

Where/how was the list compiled.

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

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

Oops cross posting madness there.

I've read 87 of them

1. [x] Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen
2. [] The Lord of the Rings JRR Tolkien
3. [x] Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte
4. [x] Harry Potter series JK Rowling
5. [x] To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee
6. [] The Bible
7. [x] Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte
8. [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. [] 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. [] 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. [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. [] 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. [] 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. [ 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. [ ] On The Road Jack Kerouac
67. [x] 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. [ ] 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. [ ] 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. [ ] Les Miserables Victor Hugo

I think it's 58 but not good at counting

Some on the list I really DON'T want to read!

Think I'd better print this off and get to the library.

What's the da vinci code doing on there?

59

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. [x] Birdsong Sebastian Faulks
18. [x] Catcher in the Rye JD Salinger
19. [x] The Time Traveller’s Wife Audrey Niffenegger
20. [x] Middlemarch George Eliot
21. [] Gone With The Wind Margaret Mitchell
22. [] The Great Gatsby F Scott Fitzgerald
23. [] 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. [managed half] 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. [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. [ ] 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. [ ] 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. [ ] 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. [read about half ] 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. [ ] 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

59 and 2 half reads

60.

But obv (like everyone) have only read bits of the Bible, Moby Dick and Ulysses

By far the best on there is the Magic faraway Tree Collection

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. [x] Catcher in the Rye JD Salinger
19. [] The Time Traveller’s Wife Audrey Niffenegger - started it but hated it
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. [ ] 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. [] 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. [ 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. [] 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. [] 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. [ 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. [] 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. [ ] 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. [ ] 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

65 for me. Too much Dickens did for me - I have read some but I find him too turgid.

56/100 for me

some read multiple times

some i could not finish

prayer for owen meany was TOO HARD WORK AND SHOUTY

54

started but abandoned many more

Odd to have the complete Shakespeare and Hamlet separately.

LOL yes have read the first couple of chapters of Ulysses about 6 times and wondered why anyone ever carries on...

66

I've read 66 of them, some of them a long time ago for school. Is it supposed to be a list of classics or books you should read or something else?

How predictable they are, though.

42 or 43 (lost count). Even Ulysses. What list is this exactly and do we HAVE to read them?

I've read 25 of them. I thought I was quite well read but that's not actually a lot I see.

68 - I didn't count the ones I have read part of and then given up. Why is "Hamlet" there AND the complete works? Weird.

kept getting interrupted counting (teach me to count out loud ) by dd2 shouing random numbers, but it is over 60.

Anyone else confuse by the repeats? eg Chronicles of Narnia and Lion, Witch & Wardrobe; Complete works of Shakespeare, and then some listed seperately as well...

I have I have read 68 on the list.

It's a bizarre list though - it has the Complete words of Shakespeare as one, then Hamlet as another. Likewise The Chronicles of Narnia is one, The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe another. Which means if you have read the first, you've read the second so score twice for reading the same book.

Only about 20 of them. Most of the books on that list that I have read, I read because I had to and they bored me to tears.

I've read 53.

i've seen all the Charles Dickens and Jane Austen's as TV or film adaptations, but have never got along with the books, does that count!!!

yeah and like ANYONE has read the COMPLETE works of Shakespeare.
what, even Henry VIII
yeah, RIGHT

I am not sure exactly where the list came from - sorry - my friend emailed it to me and I was interested in where other MN'ers were up to on the list.

LOL

And King John

48
Good list

46 for me. Only included Oliver Twist from Dickens, though I have started a lot of them.

Read 82, read chunks of Shakespeare/Bible but not all, and just could not finish Crime and Punishment

And who has ever read the bible?

Although at 15, I decided I was going to read a chapter a day, so that by the time I was 30 I'd have read it.

But I gave up round about Judges or Kings, I get them mixed up. Some of those chapters were very boring.

36-40 depending on whether I count ones started but not finished. Bit of an odd list though. How come each Jane Auten counts as one book but Shakespeare is "The complete works of" ? How many people have read the whole lot rather than a few of the plays? And there are a fair few triolgies and other collections in there pitted against short books like 'Mice and Men' and 'Hitch-Hiker's Guide'.
Ah well - I could write my own list of "must reads" and have 100% ... maybe I'll do that

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. [] 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. [x] 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. [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. [] 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. [ 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. [] 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. [ 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. [ 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. [ ] 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. [] 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. [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. [] 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. [] The Three Musketeers Alexandre Dumas
98. [x] Hamlet William Shakespeare
99. [x] Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
100. [ ] Les Miserables Victor Hugo

72 and 2 of those I haven't read are on my reading pile by my bedside

23

About 42 for me. If you include books that I've started and given up on it's about 55.

It's the list from the BBC's Big Read. 100 top books as voted for by the public which is why there are repeats.

not enough - and almost none of them recently... I too need to head for the library, I think.

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. [x] Birdsong Sebastian Faulks
18. [x] Catcher in the Rye JD Salinger
19. [x] The Time Traveller’s Wife Audrey Niffenegger
20. [x] Middlemarch George Eliot
21. [] Gone With The Wind Margaret Mitchell
22. [] The Great Gatsby F Scott Fitzgerald
23. [] 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. [managed half] 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. [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. [ ] 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. [ ] 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. [ ] 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. [read about half ] 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. [ ] 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

31.

Does it count if I've seen the film? [snigger]

72/100 but I have read some of them scountless times (like Thos hardy, Jane Austen, Birdsong, Wasp factory, etc) so does that count?

The sad thing is that the vast majority were read before I turned 18.

Yes, as well as complete Shakespeare and Hamlet separately, it also has The Chronicles of Narnia and The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe separately.

I've read 40.

Iam shocked that there is no PG Wodehouse on the list...

80/100 for me. I particularly enjoyed "The Faraway Tree" when I was 5.

47 - and didn't do an English degree... But some of them are children's books anyway.... and how on earth is there a list with 'The Faraway Tree' collection near Shakespeare, Dumas, Sir ACD etc...

I loved the Faraway Tree! And the Wishing Chair.

65 + some shakespeare and some bible

38

Some read multiple times, others I have tried - but just gave up as life was too short and others for school work ...

Personally, I hate been told what to read - these lists bring out the book snobs ...

24. Loads more than I thought. Thank God for O and A level English, or it would have been a lot less!

36 of the list but am only 24 does that give me extra points

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 - well a significant wedge of it
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. [ ] 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. [ ]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. [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. [ ]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. [ 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. [] 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. [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. [ ] 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. [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. [ ] 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. [ ] 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

74. Like others I have read most of them several times.
What is this list supposed to be? A definitive "well read" list?

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. [ ] 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. [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. [ ] 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. [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. [ ] Animal Farm George Orwell
42. [x] The Da Vinci Code Dan Brown
43. [ ] One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44. [x] A Prayer for Owen Meaney John Irving
45. [ ] The Woman in White Wilkie Collins
46. [ ]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. [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. [ ] 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. [c] 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. [x] Vanity Fair William Makepeace Thackeray
80. [ ] Possession AS Byatt
81. [x] A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens
82. [ ] Cloud Atlas David Mitchell
83. [ ] The Color Purple Alice Walker
84. [ ] The Remains of the Day Kazuo Ishiguro
85. [ ] Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert
86. [ ] A Fine Balance Rohinton Mistry
87. [x] Charlotte’s Web EB White
88. [ ] The Five People You Meet In Heaven Mitch Alborn
89. [x] Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90. [ ] The Faraway Tree Collection Enid Blyton
91. [ ] Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad
92. [x] The Little Prince Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93. [ ] 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. [ ] Hamlet William Shakespeare
99. [x] Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
100. [ ] Les Miserables Victor Hugo

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. [ ] 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. [ ] 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. [ ] 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. [ ] 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. [ ] 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. [ ] 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. [x] Dracula Bram Stoker
73. [ ] 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. [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. [x] Hamlet William Shakespeare
99. [x] Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
100. [ ] Les Miserables Victor Hugo

33 read, haven't read the complete works of Shakespeare but have read quite a few of them.

39 but agree with Bythesee - I'm Canadian and my list would be different [although with a large number of the original list

1. Who has seen the wind W.O. Mitchell
2. Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz - Mordechai Richler
3. Jacob Two-two - Mordechai Richler
4. Dolores Claiborne -Stephen King
5. A day in the life of Ivan Denisovich [sp?]
6. anything by Erma Bombeck
7. Night - Elie Wiesel
8. Survival in Auschwitz - Primo Levi
9. Police Battalion 101 - Christopher Browning
10. Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
11. Stone Angel - Margaret Laurence
12. Beauty Myth
13. North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
14. alice Munro - pretty much anything
15. The Paper Bag Princess -Robert Munsch
16. The Deptford Trilogy - Robertson Davies

Dh would also include:

Henderson the Rain King - Saul Bellow
The Known World - Edward P. Jones
Native Son - Richard Wright
Harriet Jacobs - Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Beloved

31. I do read a lot but not so many of these books it would appear.

Also, why is Hamlet on there as well as complete works of Shakespeare?

Forgot to add - I've read 38 - and the [c] in front of The Lovely Bones was supposed to be an [x].

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. [] 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. [] 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. [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. [] 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. [] 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. [] 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. [ 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. [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. [x] The Secret History Donna Tartt
64. [ ] The Lovely Bones Alice Sebold
65. [x] 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. [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. [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. [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. [] 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

49.

I'm surprised Margaret Atwood doesn't feature on the list.

I have read 47 completely + some Shakespeare, some of the bible.

Some of them I have read and really wished I hadn't - like Germinal.

I thought "The Handmaid's Tale" was there?

I hope Atwood is there because I'm sure I counted her as one of the ones I've read - 69, btw.

And agree with the others who have spotted duplications ie Shakespeare and CS Lewis

I've read 83 of them, buti can't copy and paste on my iPhone, and I could probably read the 84th in the time it takes me to type all that

Atwood is No 48

76, but also noted hamlet there as somehow separate from the complete works, should you include it twice if you have read the lot?

some odd choices there, Zola - why not Thérèse Raquin instead of Germinal? how come no Fontane? am not proud of all the ones I ticked yes to!

IT'S THE LIST FROM THE BBC'S BIG READ. 100 TOP BOOKS AS VOTED FOR BY THE PUBLIC WHICH IS WHY THERE ARE REPEATS.

Sorry for shouting but my post further down has obviously been missed!!!!

64 but none of the hard ones. Consider Bible, Ulysses and Complete Works of Shakespeare, and Da Vinci code impossible. In fact, would truly rather eat them than read them.

1. [x] Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen
2. [] The Lord of the Rings JRR Tolkien
3. [x] Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte
4. [x] Harry Potter series JK Rowling
5. [x] To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee
6. [x] The Bible (Quite a lot of it)
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. [x] Complete Works of Shakespeare A fair bit
15. [] Rebecca Daphne Du Maurier
16. [] 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. [] Bleak House Charles Dickens
24. [x]War and Peace Leo Tolstoy In progress
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. [ ] 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. [] 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. [] 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. [] 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. [] 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. [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. [x] Watership Down Richard Adams
95. [x] 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

62/100 score
Lots of ideas about new things to read!

da vinci code is shit anyway, it's one of the ones I hate admitting to

1. [x] Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen
2. [] The Lord of the Rings JRR Tolkien
3. [x] Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte
4. [x] Harry Potter series JK Rowling
5. [x] To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee
6. [] The Bible
7. [x] Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte
8. [] Nineteen Eighty Four George Orwell
9. [x ] His Dark Materials Philip Pullman
10. [x] Great Expectations Charles Dickens
11. [] Little Women Louisa M Alcott
12. [] 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. [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. [] 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. [] Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy
32. [] 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. [ x] The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini
38. [x] Captain Corelli’s Mandolin Louis De Bernieres
39. [x] Memoirs of a Geisha Arthur Golden
40. [] Winnie the Pooh AA Milne
41. [] Animal Farm George Orwell
42. [x] The Da Vinci Code Dan Brown
43. [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. [] 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. [] 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. [ ] 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. [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. [ x] 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. [] 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

45. Others I feel I should have read or would like to read !

[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. [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. [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. [ ] 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. [ ] 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. [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. [ x] Lord of the Flies William Golding
50. [ ] Atonement Ian McEwan
51. [x] 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. [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. [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. [ ] 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. [ 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. [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'm missing 31 books out of 100

48 - I'm not happy; I thought I was quite "well-read"

Is there some kind of implied scale whereby anything below x means you're a thicko?

Some of these I would regard as garbage I'm not interested in reading tbh, so I don't particularly want to try more than 4 or 5 others. Interesting exercise though!

45

What an odd selection. Some classics and some lightweight books. I did remember a notable absence but it's gone

Why isn't any Noelle Streatfield on there, or Nina Bawden?

Does watching BBC adaptions count?

16 1/2 for me (I never could finish The Bell Jar).

That's shocking... there are loads on there that I have meant to read!!

85 for me. Some more recent (Ian McEwan/Kite Runner/Time Traveller's Wife) I haven't read. Don't like McEwan and find reading harder now am more tired and emotional about children/sad stories (i.e. Kite runner was a no no).

Also, - haven't classed myself as having read The Bible, though have read fair amount of the OT. Also - works of Shakespeare, have read loads but not all.

Should have read lots of them - read English Lit. at University after all!

Only about 20. However I have read other books not listed by some of these authors (e.g have read Animal Farm but not 1984 - Orwell).

Hey pooka, you only have to read one crap one to catch up with ShowOfHands, I've got three Please don't make me do Dan Brown though...

69 not counting Shakespeare of which I've read a sod of a lot

But then not reading these doesn't mean people aren't reading anything

It's not like a complete list of everything decent ever written -- you can have read a lot of decent books and only six of these

I couldn't finish the Bell Jar either

and thank God there's no Virginia Woolf

58. But it's a strange list - complete works of Shakespeare but Hamlet listed separately??

Yes I didn't count shakespeare - have read several shakespeare plays but not all. Are there many people who have read all of them? And the whole bible? Again I didn't count as haven't read from cover to cover.

16 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. [ ] 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. [] 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. [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. [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. [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. [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. [] 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. [ ] Love In The Time Of Cholera Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61. [x] 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. [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. [ ] 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. [x] Hamlet William Shakespeare
99. [x] Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
100. [ ] Les Miserables Victor Hugo

Right, time to get hold of:

birdsong (not keen on author)
Prayer for Owen whatshisname

And to actually read Time Traveller's Wife which is somewhere upstairs, but couldn't bring myself to read.

45 but why the list?

Only 49 but its an odd list. All the Austens, but Shakespeare as one? And Hamlet separate? And only a selection of Dickens?

Oh dear, only 27/100 and 2 started which I gave up on (Catch 22 and Anna K)

77. But why put Hamlet and Complete Works of Shakespeare in?

94/100
and yes I have been told I should get out more.

26/100. DaDaDa must do better. See me.

Actually I have read the Complete works of shakespeare and the Bible. Set myself both those tasks as an underemployed teenager .

I don't think I'm competitive enough to catch up, Cham!

Only 31 for me.

<excuse hijack> How are you doing beanieb? Was worried you might be upset and/or fuming last night...

36. Plus bits and pieces of 6 or 7 more. But I agree, odd list! The 5 People You Meet in Heaven? I loved it, but it's odd as most of the list seem to be classics.

I've read 87, but I got too bored to finish Ulysses (load of crap imo, though lots of people will argue with me).

59 for me.

Quite a lot of those books I wouldn't want to read though and some of them I have read and they weren't terribly good.

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. [ ] Nineteen Eighty Four George Orwell
9. [x] His Dark Materials Philip Pullman
10. [x] Great Expectations Charles Dickens
11. [ ] Little Women Louisa M Alcott
12. [x] Tess of the D’Urbervilles Thomas Hardy
13. [x] Catch 22 Joseph Heller
14. [] Complete Works of Shakespeare
15. [] Rebecca Daphne Du Maurier
16. [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. [ ] Alice in Wonderland Lewis Carroll
30. [ ] The Wind in the Willows Kenneth Grahame
31. [ ] Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy
32. [x] David Copperfield Charles Dickens
33. [ ] Chronicles of Narnia CS Lewis
34. [x] Emma Jane Austen
35. [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. [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. [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. [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. [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. [ ] 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. [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. [x] The Color Purple Alice Walker
84. [ ] The Remains of the Day Kazuo Ishiguro
85. [ ] Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert
86. [ ] A Fine Balance Rohinton Mistry
87. [ ] Charlotte’s Web EB White
88. [ ] The Five People You Meet In Heaven Mitch Alborn
89. [ ] 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. [ ] Hamlet William Shakespeare
99. [x] Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
100. [ ] Les Miserables Victor Hugo

keep losing count but about 51. so so.

48 but there are a few more on there I really do want to 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. [x] Catch 22 Joseph Heller
14. [] Complete Works of Shakespeare
15. [] Rebecca Daphne Du Maurier
16. [x] The Hobbit JRR Tolkien
17. [] Birdsong Sebastian Faulks
18. [x] Catcher in the Rye JD Salinger
19. [x] The Time Traveller’s Wife Audrey Niffenegger
20. [x] Middlemarch George Eliot
21. [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. [] 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. [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. [x] 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. [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. [x] Lolita Vladimir Nabokov
63. [] 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. [ ] 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. [ ] 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. [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. [ ] 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. [] 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 80 but mostly before I had the boys!

29/100 (poor)... and can I count the children's bible all the way through otherwise confess haven't read it cover to cover? I do have a fair few of the others sitting on my bookshelf & some far off good intentions of reading them ONEday, (except Ulysses, which I couldn't make head nor tale of!)

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. [ ] 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. [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. [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. [] 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. [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. [1/2 ] The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini
38. [started 3 times] 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. [] 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. [] 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. [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. [started twice] 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. [ ] 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. [] 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. [x] Vanity Fair William Makepeace Thackeray
80. [ ] Possession AS Byatt
81. [] A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens
82. [started ] Cloud Atlas David Mitchell
83. [x ] The Color Purple Alice Walker
84. [ ] The Remains of the Day Kazuo Ishiguro
85. [ ] Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert
86. [ ] A Fine Balance Rohinton Mistry
87. [] Charlotte’s Web EB White
88. [ ] The Five People You Meet In Heaven Mitch Alborn
89. [] 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. [] The Three Musketeers Alexandre Dumas
98. [x] Hamlet William Shakespeare
99. [] Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
100. [ ] Les Miserables Victor Hugo

Finished 47 of them - started some more and half way through one of them.

83 for me. I was obsessed with books as a child/in my twenties. My best friend still brings up the first time she came round to play at my house (30 years ago) and I asked her what book she had brought with her to read...

47...

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44 and first couple of chapters of ulysses!

45 for me

62

I have read 32 of the 100, and seen a few more as films! Might challenge myself to read a few more this coming summer

85

. [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. [] 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. [] 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. [] 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. [ 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. [] 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. [] 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. [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. [ ] 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. [ 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. [] 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. [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. [x ] 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. [ x] 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

I make that about 51 - what a great list - lots more on my "to read before I die".

54

43, and several halves. Life's too short to finish a book you don't enjoy reading.

73.... and have started but not finished a few more! how many people have read the WHOLE bible... and ALL of shakespeare?

i recognise the list as i saved it at beginning of last year with a resolution to read the whole list before i die... it is from the observer/independent and is the 100 greatest modern literature or something like that - incidently i've now read 60 plus of them so not doing to bad...

I've read 75. And most of The Bible & Shakespeare, 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. [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. [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. [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. [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. [x] 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. [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. [ ] 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. [x ] The Bell Jar Sylvia Plath
77. [x] Swallows and Amazons Arthur Ransome
78. [] 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. [ ] 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. [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. [] The Three Musketeers Alexandre Dumas
98. [x] Hamlet William Shakespeare
99. [x] Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
100. [ ] Les Miserables Victor Hugo

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. [ ] 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. [ ] 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. [ ] 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. [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. [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. [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. [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. [ ] 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. [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. [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. [ ] 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

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. [] 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. [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. [] 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. [ ] 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. [] 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. [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. [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. [ ] 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. [] 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. [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. [ ] 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. [x] Hamlet William Shakespeare
99. [x] Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
100. [ ] Les Miserables Victor Hugo

49 and have the intention to read some of the others. Not bloody Harry Potter or Lord of the Rings though....Though i guess as dd gets older I might not avoid it....

69 but like the OP, some that I really must get around to reading!

about 30ish

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97. Haven't read the Rohan Mistry, Dune or the Mitch Alborn.

or the Bible all the way through - so, actually 96.

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 (not cover to cover)
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. [x] Birdsong Sebastian Faulks
18. [x] Catcher in the Rye JD Salinger
19. [] The Time Traveller’s Wife Audrey Niffenegger (on my bedside table)
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. [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. [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. [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. [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. [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. [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. [ ] 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. [ ] Les Miserables Victor Hugo

I make that 64.

53. I just can't sit down and read Shakespeare and I don't like Dickens.

45. But I own many more- studiously ignored on a daily basis in favour of Heat magazine...

Who has read the complete works of Shakespeare, anyone? I studied Shakespeare at university for an entire year and can't claim to have read them all.

about 50, some others on my 'must read' list, not all of them though, some weird ones there

It's rather a bizarre list (which I'm sure has been said before but I've not read the whole thread). I don't know a single man who has read the Time Traveller's Wife.

71

but do you count ones you started and hated (ie all Dickens?) and if you read Chronicles of Narnia do you also get a point for Lion Witch and Wardrobe?

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. [ ] 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. [] 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. [] Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy
32. [x] David Copperfield Charles Dickens
33. [x] Chronicles of Narnia CS Lewis
34. [] 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. [x] 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. [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. [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. [ ] Jude the Obscure Thomas Hardy
68. [x] Bridget Jones’s Diary Helen Fielding
69. [ ] Midnight’s Children Salman Rushdie
70. [ ] Moby Dick Herman Melville
71. [x] Oliver Twist Charles Dickens
72. [x] Dracula Bram Stoker
73. [] The Secret Garden Frances Hodgson Burnett
74. [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. [] 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. [ ] 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. [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. [] 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 56....

but I did this on fb and counted less...

i'm obviously losing my marbles.

I'm having trouble keeping track, either 40 or 50 of them. I was born & raised outside the UK, too.
I have read portions of many of those (like the Bible, & just one of the Harry Potter books). The Kite Runner I bought 2 weeks ago, lying unread with several others by my bed as I type.

Why are Hamlet and "Complete works of Shakespeare" both listed? Surely one is encompassed in the other?

No Ernest Hemingway, Saul Bellow, Dom Delilo, Norman Mailer, many other American 'masters'.

I've read 57, but I'm very dubious about any list that has Harry Potter and Bridget Jones ranked alongside Hamlet.

23 for me

I have read 45

Only 21 for me. Mind you I have started and given up on a fair few.

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. [x] 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. [ ] 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. [ ] 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. [ ] 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. [ ] 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. [ ] Animal Farm George Orwell
42. [x] The Da Vinci Code Dan Brown
43. [ ] One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44. [x] A Prayer for Owen Meaney John Irving
45. [ ] 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. [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. [ ] Bridget Jones’s Diary Helen Fielding
69. [ ] Midnight’s Children Salman Rushdie
70. [x] Moby Dick Herman Melville
71. [ ] 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. [ ] A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens
82. [x] 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. [ ] 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. [x] 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

and the point is?

14 for me

55
What kind of list is this?

44

am 30 if it makes a difference

59 and I've got an Eng Lit degree.

Apparently it's the BBC's Big Read list - voted for by the public. Which accounts for its weirdness.

Blimey - I've read 62!!

Note to self - go out more and make some friends

22

i've read 61 not counting abandoned attempts.

About 60. I don't like Victorian writers very much, although I've ploughed my way through P&P and a bit of Dickens. Wish I'd read more of the Russians, though. I'll put them on my wish list!

I've read 47 of them.

sadly have read 84 - I really wasted my youth...

40 for me - and studied engineering.

But some of them I have not read because I dont feel that they merit the time.

62/100
at least 20 of those re-read several times

another 5-7 unfinished (either hated them, or had to give the book back)

Only a handful that I haven't heard of.

62 for me .. most of them a long long time ago!

read 14, and love reading, but half just not my cup of tea. Although have joined a reading group to encourage me to read books I wouldn't normally touch. Saying that none of last 12 books on this list???

76 for me! Yeah! I do have too many books though... And no life at all.

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. [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. [ ] 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. [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. [ ] 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. [ ] Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy
32. [ ] David Copperfield Charles Dickens
33. [ ] Chronicles of Narnia CS Lewis
34. [ ] 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. [x] Memoirs of a Geisha Arthur Golden
40. [ ] Winnie the Pooh AA Milne
41. [ ] Animal Farm George Orwell
42. [x] The Da Vinci Code Dan Brown
43. [ ] One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44. [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. [ ] 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. [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. [x] Love In The Time Of Cholera Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61. [x] 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. [ ] 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. [ ] 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. [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. [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. [x] 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

Wow - only 36 read for me. Do we could ones we started but couldn't finish???

It's not the Big Read list. It's kind of inspired by it, but it was actually composed by a woman who runs a Jane Austen fan site. Do things start to fall into place now?!

DP- 59 (Obviously needs more chores around the house)
Me - 12

43.

Some on that list I would hardly call worthy of suggesting some great intellect is required though(!)

Can I count the ones on my bookshelf I have not yet read? No? Thought not.

I've read 51, plus some of the Bible and Shakespeare.

45

completed that is - a few more i didn't bother finishing.

Only 17.

45, plus a few I started and didn't finish.

Tbh, 6 probably is average. I know plenty people who never read and wouldn't manage to cross off one of these. Your MN demographic is above average for these sort of things, innit?

52 - but what an odd list.

have read 27 of them

23

How can books like Harry Potter, Bridget Jones Diary and even the Da Vinci Code be considered a must read when books like "Things fall apart" or "Broken Arrow" by Chinua Achebe, "Beloved" or "Tar Baby" by Toni Morrison or "Half of a yellow moon" by Chimanda Ngozi Adichie or even "Go tell it to the mountain" by James Baldwin, which are profound, challenging and insightful, are not included on the list?

The list is largely Eurocentric with a couple of token ethnic efforts thrown in. Glad to Alice Walker made it with Color Purple - the author of list probably included it because Steven Spielberg directed the film.

72, plus most of Shakespeare. I have to admit to very little of the Bible though

Why do they think we will only have read six of the list? Is this some kind of national average?

45

I don't think it's claiming to be a big intellectual list is it? I agree with a lot of the classics: even though personally I don't like Dickens, I think it's right that he's on there. Don't see why "Attonement" is on it though - perhaps the list came out near to the time of the film?!

I under-counted - missed "Heart Of Flipping Darkness" - a book I have read but will certainly never read again!

Yes, it is very odd.
I wonder what the criteria for chosing was? I mena, some of them are readable classics, some totally unreadable classics and some are Richard and Judy level crap. [book snob]

It is the top 100 as voted for by the public, I am sure Mr Spielberg may have voted but I am not sure how influential he would have been

there's a fair amount of stuff on there that won't be remembered in 50 years' time.

11 I think

29

+ some Shakespeare, not all
+ 4 false starts, mainly Dickens

...bit rubbish really

Watching them on TV (BBC or not) so doesn't count!

Well - 79 - Didn't count the ones I started and didn't finish - The Da Vinci Code, (FFS) couldn't get past about p20 it was so badly written. And didn't even get as far as that with Possession, truly terrible.

Strange mix of classic and very contemporary of the time the list was compiled. Full of things people think they should have read (complete Shakespeare?) and things they had to read for school.

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. [] Catch 22 Joseph Heller
14. [x] Complete Works of Shakespeare
15. [] 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. [] 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. [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. [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. [ ] 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. [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. [ 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. [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. [ ] 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. [ ] 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

63 I think but I have had a gin and tonic and my counting might be out

I make mine 54, but must admit I can't remember some of them! Been meaning to read a couple of the others for ages, hopefully this will remind me.

49 in total - have started going to a book club recently so will hopefully increase my numbers!

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. [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. [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. [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. [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. [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. [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. [ ] 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. [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. [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. [ 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. [] Germinal Emile Zola
79. [] Vanity Fair William Makepeace Thackeray
80. [x ] Possession AS Byatt
81. [x] A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens
82. [ x] Cloud Atlas David Mitchell
83. [ ] The Color Purple Alice Walker
84. [ ] The Remains of the Day Kazuo Ishiguro
85. [ ] Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert
86. [ ] A Fine Balance Rohinton Mistry
87. [x] Charlotte’s Web EB White
88. [ ] The Five People You Meet In Heaven Mitch Alborn
89. [x] Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90. [ ] The Faraway Tree Collection Enid Blyton
91. [ ] Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad
92. [x] The Little Prince Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93. [] 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

6 is probably about right for me! But have seen allot of the film/play versions.....does that count

Early 20s then I got bored counting

i wonder how they picked those books?

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. [ ] 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. [ ] 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. [ ] 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. [ ] 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. [ ] 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. [ ] 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. [ ] 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. [ ] 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. [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

Onlyy 21 for me!

I've started to read 85 on the list, but only finished 73.

Do I get extra points for reading the Dumas, Hugo, Flaubert and Zola in French? Hmm... probably not.

Funny mix of my favourite ever books and ones I lost all patience with (Da Vinci Code, Time Travellers Wife, Possession, Lolita - hated all of them, gave up.)

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. [ ] 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. [ ] 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. [ ] 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. [x ] 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. [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. [ ] 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. [x ] 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. [x] Dracula Bram Stoker
73. [ ] 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. [ ] 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. [ ] The Three Musketeers Alexandre Dumas
98. [x] Hamlet William Shakespeare
99. [x] Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
100. [ ] Les Miserables Victor Hugo

49/100
what a strange list - the grapes of wrath, 1984, swallows and amazons (all good books) then the lovely bones, and dune???? and are you meant to have read the WHOLE bible?! many, many very devout christians I know havent made it through leviticus or kings!!
AND, how much austen do they think we should read!!
mind you, a good book list to go through...

47, at some point in my life. given english is my second language and I didn't learn until 13, i think i deserve extra brownie points do i win something????

Yes - you win a free copy of "Heart Of Darkness" and Dickens' back catalogue. Lucky you.

can someone who is not as utterly discalculic (hope that is a word) as me work out the mumnset average so far?

dickens i can take, but heart of darkness..... thanks janeite!

I am going to change my score to 59/100 to include those I started but was too damn bored to finish ;)

still stand by thinking it is a bloody weird list. I reckon we could do a lot better ourselves...

I've read 35 of them.

41 - agree it is a strange list.

I think I am a true middlebrow in these terms, I am too much of a snob to read The Kite Runner and Notes From A Small Island but too lazy to read Flaubert and Thomas Hardy. Having said that I have read lots of the crap ones like B. Jones and The Lovely Bones.

I didn't count all the ones I have started and abandoned like Midnight's Children and Middlemarch.

It does have some of my all time faves on it though - Brideshead, Woman in White, LOTR.

I've read 71 and have just started no. 72 (Birdsong).

very strange list, though! Clearly the great British public have eclectic tastes.

50.Some were under sufferance like Dickens and Conrad Others I have no idea WHY I actually read to the end....Blardy "Da Vinci Code"worst book ever,and that Time Traveller]s wife one.Aaargh.

does anyone know how the list was compiled?

lol janeite

65 completed. It's a very book clubby list and since i have been in book clubs for 8 years or so, that bumps up my numbers, plus the jane austen factor.

I would love to see a list on similar lines from 50 years ago - would undoubtedly be a shamingly huge number of proper classics, but also loads of stuff we've never/barely heard of. Bet it would be stiff with Somerset Maugham and erm Upton Sinclair and Forsyte Galsworthy or whatever he was called.

38 for me, I think.

Oh yes - "The Jane Austen" factor is always a help in life, I find.

It has been explained several times, it is a voted for list, ie voted for by the public. Which accounts for its strangeness and repetitivity.

Cor, some of those books take me back...

60 I think. Clearly could do better. Not the whole of Shakespeare, and thankfully no Proust (tried and failed) It would be nice to complete the list but these days I'm lucky to complete my shopping list. Best stick to Heat magazine instead

Maybe we could do a Mumsnet list?

kingcanute - thanks
I did scan the rest of the thread, but there are so many other lists, it is hard going
[not really lazy emoticon]

I counted the ones I hadn't read as it was quicker. I've read 94 (96 if you count large parts of the Bible and Shakespeare.)
I've never read 'The Magic Faraway Tree', 'The Count of Monte Cristo', 'The Three Musketeers' and 'Dune'.

Yes - all the copying and pasting makes it difficult to read.

Where is the link to say that the BBC thinks the average person has read only six of them?

30 for me.

62

on my list there will be angela carter (true UEA english studies graduate)

Wow singersgirl, respect to you!

Agree with Angela Carter, MitchyInge.

43 for me too

4. Harry Potter series JK Rowling
5. To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee
8. Nineteen Eighty Four George Orwell
9. His Dark Materials Philip Pullman
13. Catch 22 Joseph Heller
18. Catcher in the Rye JD Salinger
19. The Time Traveller’s Wife Audrey Niffenegger
23. Bleak House Charles Dickens
28. Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck
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
38. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin Louis De Bernieres
39. Memoirs of a Geisha Arthur Golden
40. Winnie the Pooh AA Milne
41. Animal Farm George Orwell
49. Lord of the Flies William Golding
50. Atonement Ian McEwan
55. A Suitable Boy Vikram Seth
59. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time Mark Haddon
63. The Secret History Donna Tartt
64. The Lovely Bones Alice Sebold
68. Bridget Jones’s Diary Helen Fielding
73. The Secret Garden Frances Hodgson Burnett
82. Cloud Atlas David Mitchell
83. The Color Purple Alice Walker
87. Charlotte’s Web EB White
88. The Five People You Meet In Heaven Mitch Alborn
90. The Faraway Tree Collection Enid Blyton
92. The Little Prince Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93. The Wasp Factory Iain Banks
94. Watership Down Richard Adams
97. The Three Musketeers Alexandre Dumas
99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

35 in total

60 - so could do better but not too shabby either!

Wow I surprised myself at 22. Mostly forced whilst at school. Some of those were on my Eng lit a level syllabus (did via correspondence) but I never read them

Read the revision guides the night before
Still got a D, am such a great bluffer

Not all of those were proper read throughs though. I hate reading since my entire family were obsessive readers and never played with me

Btw do ladybird versions count?

32 I think, one or two of those under sufferance at school. Some of them, though, are amongst my favourites.

57 - could do better (but not a Dickens fan, so that knocks out a load for me). Cold go to 59 if permitted large sections of the Bible and lots of Shakespeare. Off to read the rest of the posts now (and find out how unlettered I really am compared to you lot).

I have read lots of shakespeare though didn't count that.

73. And probably almost all before I had DD. I never read now [sigh]

only 5. Some of them I started...

AM much more of a science biology minded person than a book person.

(except for trashy books)

MitchyInge I did my MA at the UEA and had to give a presentation on Angela Carter. Very much an air of Not Allowed to Dislike. Fortunately I didn't. Loved/love in fact.

21 best get reading I think!!!

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. [] 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. [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. [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. [] 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. [] 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. [x ] 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. [x ] 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. [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. [ ] 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. [ ] 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. [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. [] 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. [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

44/100, I own a couple of the others but have never got round to reading them

Yes the whole Bible is a bit unlikely, isn't it? I wonder what percentage we could reasonably get away with?

Also, am I dreaming this or was the complete works of Shakespeare there along with Hamlet separately? WTF is that about?

38!

Did this on Facebook - 73 for me and two of the unread ones are in the "to read" pile in the spare bedroom!

Wouldn't have put Possession on the top 100 - big pile of rubbish, I thought! Some of the others a bit suspect too....

There are only 3 on that list that I haven't skim-read and one of them is harry fuckin' potter

Interestingly there are at least 80 of them in my house including War and Peace (which I took on holiday to Crete and skim-read for one afternoon and then fell asleep)

There are 64 on that list that I've actually enjoyed

only 10 for me.

I've read 59/100, but there an awful lot of others that I was very tempted to cross because I feel I ought to have read by now!

I'm sure there's at least 20 I haven't read that dh has, but I don't know whether he will have read all the ones I have!

I have read about 80 of them. I haven't read the complete works of Shakespeare or the whole of the bible.

67 and I didn't count the Bible or the complete works of Shakespeare because I have only read bits of those.

About 60, none of them recently.Had read all the Hardy and Austen but few of the interesting new fiction. Think I will keep the list and head off to the library.

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. [] 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. [ ] 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. [ ] 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 Alexandre Dumas
98. [] Hamlet William Shakespeare
99. [] Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
100. [ ] Les Miserables Victor Hugo

12/100

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. [] 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. [] 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. [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. [] 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. [] 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. [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. [] 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. [ 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. [ ] 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. [x] 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. [] 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. [] 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

58/100 for me but others on the list that I really do want to read

47.
a bit of an odd list....if I didn't like Jane woud have scored much lower...
what's the basis of the list?
can't really see why the 5 people you meet in heaven and the lovely bones deserve a place.

60, and I own some of the others but haven't got round to reading them

54 if I counted right - makes me want to read more!

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. [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. [] 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. [x ] 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. [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. [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. [ ] 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. [x] Cold Comfort Farm Stella Gibbons
54. [] Sense and Sensibility Jane Austen
55. [x ] A Suitable Boy Vikram Seth
56. [] The Shadow of the Wind Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57. [x] A Tale Of Two Cities Charles Dickens
58. [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. [ ] 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. [] 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. [ ] 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. [ ] 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. [] Hamlet William Shakespeare
99. [x] Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
100. [ ] Les Miserables Victor Hugo

28/100, need read more,

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. [ ] 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. [] 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. [] 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. [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. [x] 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. [x] 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. [] 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. [ ] 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. [ 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. [ 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. [ ] 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. [x] Les Miserables Victor Hugo

Not too much of a misspent life there!

I'm doing ok, i have read:

1. Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen
2. The Lord of the Rings JRR Tolkien
4. Harry Potter series JK Rowling
6. The Bible (not sure how to classify this one - read all new testament but not all old)
8. Nineteen Eighty Four George Orwell
9. His Dark Materials Philip Pullman
11. Little Women Louisa M Alcott
12. Tess of the D’Urbervilles Thomas Hardy
13. Catch 22 Joseph Heller
16. The Hobbit JRR Tolkien
17. Birdsong Sebastian Faulks
25. The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Douglas Adams
28. Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck
29. Alice in Wonderland Lewis Carroll
30. The Wind in the Willows Kenneth Grahame
33. Chronicles of Narnia CS Lewis (all of them??)
34. Emma Jane Austen
35. Persuasion Jane Austen
36. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe CS Lewis
38. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin Louis De Bernieres
40. 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
49. Lord of the Flies William Golding
50. Atonement Ian McEwan
51. Life of Pi Yann Martel
52. Dune Frank Herbert
54. Sense and Sensibility Jane Austen
55. A Suitable Boy Vikram Seth
56. The Shadow of the Wind Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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
63. The Secret History Donna Tartt
64. The Lovely Bones Alice Sebold
68. Bridget Jones’s Diary Helen Fielding
72. Dracula Bram Stoker
73. The Secret Garden Frances Hodgson Burnett
74. Notes From A Small Island Bill Bryson
77. Swallows and Amazons Arthur Ransome
82. Cloud Atlas David Mitchell
87. Charlotte’s Web EB White
91. Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad
94. Watership Down Richard Adams
98. Hamlet William Shakespeare
99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Where did the list come from? It's a strage mix of old classics and modern classics... some food for thought in the ones i haven't read.

I count about 66

70

I started to go a bit crosseyed half way down the list.

I skim read 'the Bible'.

22.
Can't be arsed to tick but mostly the light weight ones (Harry Potter, Bridget Jones) Although a few odd ones - The Wasp Factory, Hitchhikers guide in there too.

well, if i'm allowed to count the bible & shakespeare,which i've read over 50% of, then i've read about 85 of these. some i'm not sure,e.g know i've read gabriel whatsit, but can't remember which one.
know, defintiely that i've read 80, ther's about 5 maybes
i think 6 is really low & bbc just made that up

Have read 77, but can't remember most of them.

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. [ ] 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. [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. [ ] 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. [] 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. [ ] 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. [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. [x] A Suitable Boy Vikram Seth
56. [] The Shadow of the Wind Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57. [x] A Tale Of Two Cities Charles Dickens
58. [ ] Brave New World Aldous Huxley
59. [x] The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time Mark Haddon
60. [ ] Love In The Time Of Cholera Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61. [x] Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck
62. [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. [ ] 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. [] 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. [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. [ ] 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. [ ] 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

67...
Has Ria seen this? she's a serious booklover

54 at first glance but how come it has The Chronicles of Narnia AND The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe listed? Or the Complete Works of Shakespeare AND Hamlet?

I have'nt read any of them I read alot of horror, Dean Koonts, Steven King ect.

6!

how come hamlet is on there as well as complete works?eh?

52

26 That's better than I thought I'd do. considering I have no desire to read most of what's on the list.

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. [x] 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. [] 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. [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. [ ] Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28. [x] Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck
29. [] 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. [x] 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. [x ] 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. [ ] 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. [x ] 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. [ ] 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. [x] Dracula Bram Stoker
73. [] The Secret Garden Frances Hodgson Burnett
74. [] Notes From A Small Island Bill Bryson
75. [ ] Ulysses James Joyce
76. [x ] The Bell Jar Sylvia Plath
77. [] Swallows and Amazons Arthur Ransome
78. [] Germinal Emile Zola
79. [] 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. [] 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. [x] The Three Musketeers Alexandre Dumas
98. [x] Hamlet William Shakespeare
99. [] Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
100. [x ] Les Miserables Victor Hugo

78 for me.

But am VERY surprised to see The Faraway Tree collection and not the Famous Five or the Secret Seven.

Scandalous.

61 for me - I do love a classic though.

What is this list? There's some real trash on here, including stuff I've wasted time reading!

I've read all of them, except the following:

14. [] Complete Works of Shakespeare (I've read about 1/2 of Shakespeare, I'd guess)
21. [] Gone With The Wind Margaret Mitchell
37. [ ] The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini
44. [x] A Prayer for Owen Meaney John Irving
51. [x] Life of Pi Yann Martel
52. [ ] Dune Frank Herbert
55. [ ] A Suitable Boy Vikram Seth
56. [x] The Shadow of the Wind Carlos Ruiz Zafon
74. [x] Notes From A Small Island Bill Bryson
82. [ ] Cloud Atlas David Mitchell
86. [ ] A Fine Balance Rohinton Mistry
88. [ ] The Five People You Meet In Heaven Mitch Alborn
95. [ ] A Confederacy of Dunces John Kennedy Toole
96. [x] A Town Like Alice Nevil Shute

So 86.

I can also honestly say that I've read all the Bible (I was 12, I liked a challenge) - much of it is very boring... And repetitive (begot begot begot); and I've read Ulysses - have to teach it!

23

Have read 64, dont get to read nearly as much as I used to, too tired

Oh dear, only 34 of them.

out of that list, there are only 16 i haven't read.

so i've read 84 out of 100. i don't think that's horrible.

will now put them on my list and make sure to read them this year.

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. [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&#8217;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. [x] Catcher in the Rye JD Salinger
19. [] The Time Traveller&#8217;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&#8217;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. [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. [x] Captain Corelli&#8217;s Mandolin Louis De Bernieres
39. [x] Memoirs of a Geisha Arthur Golden
40. [x] Winnie the Pooh AA Milne
41. [x] Animal Farm George Orwell
42. [x] The Da Vinci Code Dan Brown
43. [ ] One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44. [x] A Prayer for Owen Meaney John Irving
45. [] 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&#8217;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. [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. [] 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&#8217;s Diary Helen Fielding
69. [ ] Midnight&#8217;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. [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. [] 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. [x] The Remains of the Day Kazuo Ishiguro
85. [ ] Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert
86. [ ] A Fine Balance Rohinton Mistry
87. [x] Charlotte&#8217;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. [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. [] The Three Musketeers Alexandre Dumas
98. [] Hamlet William Shakespeare
99. [x] Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
100. [ ] Les Miserables Victor Hugo

41 Not too bad but could do better I suppose, especially as I read most of them yonks ago.

37 for me which I'm really quite proud of. Have read

53

thought I was well read, private education, 0 and A level English set texts and all that guff....and still only got to 36.
I was tempted to include those that I started but never finished, but as this is not RL I didn't bother

73

is that list meant to be full of good books then, cos I don't fancy many of them, and some of the others put me off from when at school.

Can't stand book snobbery.

Where's Roald Dahl and Ian McEwan...oops just noticed Atonement.

45 I have read a few more that I have started and got nowhere.

All of them - except Midnight's Children - I gave up halfway through!

But I am at least 10 years older than everyone else on Mumsnet, so I've had more time!

about 6 or 7, but surely harry potter takes up a LOT - and i did read those.
nto well read tbh

talk about stating the obvious

Most of them. Haven't counted but must be around 90. The ones I haven't read I'm gonna pass on. Apologise for undue swottiness but I am a book worm and i did an english degree.

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 all of it, despite a term of study)
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 (all of these including the sonnets)
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. [] 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. [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. [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. [ ]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. [] 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. [] 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. [] 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. [ ] 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 (we've already had the complete works, haven't we?
99. [x] Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
100. [ ] Les Miserables Victor Hugo

But I know from your name that you designed Norway - so who needs to read books!

I've read 30 I think but surely series should count as each book. There are many by Shakespeare.

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is there Redsocks

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. [ ] 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. [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. [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. [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. [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. [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. [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. [ ] 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. [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. [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. [x ] 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. [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

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I wish I hadn't read the lovely bones tho.