How many of the BBC top 100 books have you read?

[Bluemooninmyeyes1]

I came across this list yesterday and I’m ashamed to say I’ve only read about 15 and most of them are the Roald Dhal books and Harry Potter I’ve obviously read more than 15 books in my life but they just don’t appear on this list! I’m making a conscious effort to read more classics this year.

How many have you read?

www.bbc.co.uk/arts/bigread/top100.shtml

Read the OP and thought 'Yes, this is a good challenge'.
Read the list and have already read 83 of them and cannot see myself reading Tracey Beaker at my age. I too have never read LOTR or the whole of The Hobbit. Find them far more tedious than Dickens' wordy descriptions!

85 of them.
Bookworm.
English teacher.

27 and I have an English degree! Bit of a strange list in my opinion and many of those I have no interest in reading, BBC list or not!

I’d argue the hunger games should be on there. And ann frank.

46 and I'm too old to have read any Harry Potter or Jacqueline Wilson.

46 and I'm too old to have read any Harry Potter or Jacqueline Wilson

You’re never too old to read anything.

I’m older than you and have read Harry Potter. Not JW though as I don’t like her style of books. I did give a couple a go when my dc read them.

I’ve read 26 of them, most as a child; Roald Dahl and Jacqueline Wilson.
I read, on average, 1 book a week but I prefer crime fiction & thrillers to the classics.

47 but found the list rather relative and not inclusive ref physiological thrillers, sci fi, plays etc.

I'm no fan of Jeffrey Archer but he is a good storyteller. Kane and Abel was a great yarn, very entertaining. Unlike, in my view, Emma, which I read for A level and hated with a passion. We all like different things, but I'd rather read Archer than Pratchett or Tolkien.

Couldn't be arsed after seeing the Harry Potter books on there, hardly great literature!

49

24. Quite a few of them were for English at high school

@JaninaDuszejko

The thing that surprises me most about some of the comments are those who found Captain Correlli's Mandoljn boring. The film was awful, but I love the book.

If I remember rightly people don't like CCM because it's a bad pastiche of the magic realism style.

Is it? I confess I'd never heard of 'magic realism' but having now looked it up I wouldn't have thought that CCM was an example of it, pastiche or otherwise.

I was commenting on a few people's posts here that said they thought it was boring.

47

36 but to be fair there are loads there that are in genres I don't enjoy so why would I? Life's too short for books you don't enjoy.

Some absolute corkers there, mind!

@bluebluezoo

I’d argue the hunger games should be on there. And ann frank.

The Hunger Games books are very enjoyable, but not sufficiently good to make people vote for them several years before their publications.

34

I've got several of the classics on my Kindle in the hope that I will read them one day...

It's been about 15 years since I've seen this list. It's very dated now and is badly in need of a refresh.

I've read 35.

Suspect HP is there individually because the whole series had not yet been published.

I've read 65. I was expecting it to be higher as I'd read 40 on the first page so expected another 40 on the second. I hadn't anticipated so many Jacqueline Wilson (too old for her) or Terry Pratchett (never got it).
Whilst I've always been a keen reader, I think I'm probably also the perfect age for this list as I would have been mid 20s when it came out and had a couple of stints of backpacking under my belt. Thorn Birds & Cain & Abel were both books I picked up in youth hostels and dropped off again when I'd finished them rather than classes which I wanted to keep forever.

40
Lots started and never finished

Oh the magus is my all time favourite book. Have read it many times an each time it's a completely different book

35

62, plus a few that I've started (Ulysses!) but didn't finish. But it's a very unbalanced list and nobody of my age will have read those children's books.

54 but the list is quite odd