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

[ByThePowerOfGreyskull]

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 - 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

1. Harry Potter series JK Rowling
2. To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee
3. Nineteen Eighty Four George Orwell
4. 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.