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

65...but I don't tend to read anything written after 1950....!!!!
I prefer the old stuff.
And Count of Monte Cristo...well, I've read it many many times, it is fantastic.

39, but I must say a lot of them I didn't enjoy. And I love fiction, read quite widely I think, and always have my nose in a book.

I've read 30 of them.

I've read over half at least - I stopped counting at 50!

Some of them were for exams though.

Have only read 28 of these.

Can people suggest their top 5
and Bottom 5, best avoided?

Thanks

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. [x] Birdsong Sebastian Faulks 18. [x] Catcher in the Rye JD Salinger 19. [x] The Time Traveller?s Wife Audrey Niffenegger 20. [x] Middlemarch George Eliot 21. [x] Gone With The Wind Margaret Mitchell 22. [x] The Great Gatsby F Scott Fitzgerald 23. [x] Bleak House Charles Dickens 24. [x]War and Peace Leo Tolstoy (in Russian & English 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. [x]Anne of Green Gables LM Montgomery 47. [x] Far From The Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 48. [x] The Handmaid?s Tale Margaret Atwood 49. [x] Lord of the Flies William Golding 50. [x] Atonement Ian McEwan 51. [x] Life of Pi Yann Martel 52. [ ] Dune Frank Herbert 53. [x] Cold Comfort Farm Stella Gibbons 54. [x] Sense and Sensibility Jane Austen 55. [x ] A Suitable Boy Vikram Seth 56. [x] The Shadow of the Wind Carlos Ruiz Zafon 57. [x] A Tale Of Two Cities Charles Dickens 58. [x ] Brave New World Aldous Huxley 59. [x ] The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time Mark Haddon 60. [x ] Love In The Time Of Cholera Gabriel Garcia Marquez 61. [x] Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck 62. [x ] Lolita Vladimir Nabokov 63. [x] The Secret History Donna Tartt 64. [ ] The Lovely Bones Alice Sebold 65. [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. [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. [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. [] Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 90. [ ] The Faraway Tree Collection Enid Blyton 91. [ ] Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad 92. [x] The Little Prince Antoine De Saint-Exupery 93. [x] The Wasp Factory Iain Banks 94. [x] Watership Down Richard Adams 95. [ ] A Confederacy of Dunces John Kennedy Toole 96. [x] A Town Like Alice Nevil Shute 97. [x] The Three Musketeers Alexandre Dumas 98. [x] Hamlet William Shakespeare 99. [x] Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 100. [x ] Les Miserables Victor Hugo

I think that's 83. Only 17 left to go!!

The list is meaningless. In the last month alone I have read 5 books including Barack Obama's "Dreams of my Father" and "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell. Currently reading concurrently Andrea Levy's "Small Island", Obama's "Audacity of Hope" and Malcolm Gladwell's "Blink". Why isn't Levy on that list?

The other glaring omission from that list is the Nought and Crosses series by Malorie Blackman. If Harry Potter or Da Vinci Code can make that list, then more superior books like Nought and Crosses plus others I mentioned earlier, especially Chinua Achebe's "Things fall apart" should be there too. Also, what about Mark Twain's "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" or Jonathan Swift's "Gulliver's Travels or even Hardy's "Mayor of Casterbridge"?

Like Nork, I am surprised to see Confederacy of Dunces in that list. 'Tis a great book, quite unique in its kind. Did not think many people knew about it.

ah, he of the 'measured, springless walk'

I had severe horn for Henchard when I was young

Only 13 from that list, all the French ones + a few others (I did not grow up in the UK).

I still have a my old copy of "The little prince" (french version) and will start reading it to the dcs at bedtime. It is one of my all times favourite.

I've read 56 (one of which is Crime and Punishment so I think I get extra points for that) but I agree with spokette - you could still be considered well-read without having read even a quarter of these books.

My nan bought me The complete works of William Shakespeare as a child.
Anne of green gables was my favourite of them all.

A paltry 37 out of 100 (plus a few false starts) - and this from someone with a 1st in Eng Lit from Oxford. I suppose I have read all kinds of very hard things like the Canterbury Tales and Beowulf to make up for it though.

But this thread has made me want to read Confederacy of Dunces.

it would be nice to know what the selection criteria were
i don't think it's intended to be a comprehensive list of the best fiction ever, is it supposed to be the most widely read?

and why are we only meant to have read 6 of them

I would have added books from Patrick Suskind and Albert Camus to the list as well as the authors spokette mentionned.

I have read all of the bible!

I had a 'bible in 365 days' which gives you a bit of the old testament, bit of the new, a psalm and some proverbs every day

(wonder where it is now?)

58 but I'm another Eng Lit graduate so probably ought to have read more. But what is this list about anyway?

18. Some of them I have no desire to read. I can't stand Harry Potter and The Time Travellers Wife sent me to sleep.

1. [x] Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen
2. [x] The Lord of the Rings JRR Tolkien
3. [x] Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte
4. [x] Harry Potter series JK Rowling
5. [] To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee
6. [x] The Bible
7. [x] Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte
8. [x] Nineteen Eighty Four George Orwell
9. [] His Dark Materials Philip Pullman

10. [x] Great Expectations Charles Dickens 11. [x Little Women Louisa M Alcott 12. [] Tess of the D?Urbervilles Thomas Hardy 13. [] Catch 22 Joseph Heller 14. [x] Complete Works of Shakespeare 15. [] Rebecca Daphne Du Maurier 16. [x] The Hobbit JRR Tolkien 17. [] Birdsong Sebastian Faulks 18. [] Catcher in the Rye JD Salinger 19. [] The Time Traveller?s Wife Audrey Niffenegger 20. [] Middlemarch George Eliot 21. [x] Gone With The Wind Margaret Mitchell 22. [x] The Great Gatsby F Scott Fitzgerald 23. [x] Bleak House Charles Dickens 24. []War and Peace Leo Tolstoy 25. [x] The Hitch Hiker?s Guide to the Galaxy Douglas Adams 26. [] 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. [] Captain Corelli?s Mandolin Louis De Bernieres 39. [] Memoirs of a Geisha Arthur Golden 40. [x] Winnie the Pooh AA Milne 41. [x] Animal Farm George Orwell 42. [] The Da Vinci Code Dan Brown 43. [] One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel Garcia Marquez 44. [] A Prayer for Owen Meaney John Irving 45. [] The Woman in White Wilkie Collins 46. []Anne of Green Gables LM Montgomery 47. [] Far From The Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 48. [] The Handmaid?s Tale Margaret Atwood 49. [] Lord of the Flies William Golding 50. [] Atonement Ian McEwan 51. [] Life of Pi Yann Martel 52. [] Dune Frank Herbert 53. [] Cold Comfort Farm Stella Gibbons 54. [x] Sense and Sensibility Jane Austen 55. [] A Suitable Boy Vikram Seth 56. [] The Shadow of the Wind Carlos Ruiz Zafon 57. [x] A Tale Of Two Cities Charles Dickens 58. [] Brave New World Aldous Huxley 59. [] The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time Mark Haddon 60. [] Love In The Time Of Cholera Gabriel Garcia Marquez 61. [x] Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck 62. [] Lolita Vladimir Nabokov 63. [] 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. [] Notes From A Small Island Bill Bryson 75. [] Ulysses James Joyce 76. [] The Bell Jar Sylvia Plath 77. [] Swallows and Amazons Arthur Ransome 78. [] Germinal Emile Zola 79. [] Vanity Fair William Makepeace Thackeray 80. [] Possession AS Byatt 81. [x] A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens 82. [] Cloud Atlas David Mitchell 83. [] The Color Purple Alice Walker 84. [] The Remains of the Day Kazuo Ishiguro 85. [] Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert 86. [] A Fine Balance Rohinton Mistry 87. [x] Charlotte?s Web EB White 88. [] The Five People You Meet In Heaven Mitch Alborn 89. [x] Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 90. [x] The Faraway Tree Collection Enid Blyton 91. [] Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad 92. [] The Little Prince Antoine De Saint-Exupery 93. [] The Wasp Factory Iain Banks 94. [x] Watership Down Richard Adams 95. [] A Confederacy of Dunces John Kennedy Toole 96. [] A Town Like Alice Nevil Shute 97. [x] The Three Musketeers Alexandre Dumas 98. [x] Hamlet William Shakespeare 99. [x] Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 100. [] Les Miserables Victor Hugo

13. Is a bit of a mixed bag though.

61. There are a few on there that I would like to read, but I think I've done OK on the whole. That said, I did a joint honours degreee with English Lit, so would be a bit ashamed if I hadn't covered a good few!

I had been wondering why this list was familiar - it looks suspiciously like a list of books the shop I work in had to supply to an English teacher for his class library. I have read 22! I am a qualified librarian, work in a bookshop, but the idea of 'must read' brings out the rebel in me.

1. [Own] Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen
2. [read] The Lord of the Rings JRR Tolkien
3. [Own] Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte
4. [read] Harry Potter series JK Rowling
5. [read] To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee
6. [] The Bible
7. [own] Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte
8. [own] Nineteen Eighty Four George Orwell
9. [read ] His Dark Materials Philip Pullman

10. [] Great Expectations Charles Dickens 11. [read] Little Women Louisa M Alcott 12. [] Tess of the D?Urbervilles Thomas Hardy 13. [Own] Catch 22 Joseph Heller 14. [] Complete Works of Shakespeare 15. [] Rebecca Daphne Du Maurier 16. [read] The Hobbit JRR Tolkien 17. [own] Birdsong Sebastian Faulks 18. [read] Catcher in the Rye JD Salinger 19. own] The Time Traveller?s Wife Audrey Niffenegger 20. [own] Middlemarch George Eliot 21. [] Gone With The Wind Margaret Mitchell 22. [read] The Great Gatsby F Scott Fitzgerald 23. [own] Bleak House Charles Dickens 24. [own ]War and Peace Leo Tolstoy 25. [read] The Hitch Hiker?s Guide to the Galaxy Douglas Adams 26. [] Brideshead Revisited Evelyn Waugh 27. [own ] Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoyevsky 28. [read] Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck 29. [read] Alice in Wonderland Lewis Carroll 30. [read] The Wind in the Willows Kenneth Grahame 31. [] Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy 32. [] David Copperfield Charles Dickens 33. [read] Chronicles of Narnia CS Lewis 34. [own] Emma Jane Austen 35. [own] Persuasion Jane Austen 36. [read] The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe CS Lewis 37. [own ] The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini 38. [managed half] Captain Corelli?s Mandolin Louis De Bernieres 39. [own] Memoirs of a Geisha Arthur Golden 40. [read] Winnie the Pooh AA Milne 41. [read] Animal Farm George Orwell 42. [own] The Da Vinci Code Dan Brown 43. [ own] One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel Garcia Marquez 44. [] A Prayer for Owen Meaney John Irving 45. [] The Woman in White Wilkie Collins 46. [own ]Anne of Green Gables LM Montgomery 47. [own] Far From The Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 48. [own ] The Handmaid?s Tale Margaret Atwood 49. [read ] Lord of the Flies William Golding 50. [own ] Atonement Ian McEwan 51. [ reading] Life of Pi Yann Martel 52. [own ] Dune Frank Herbert 53. [ own] Cold Comfort Farm Stella Gibbons 54. [own] 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. [own] Brave New World Aldous Huxley 59. [own ] The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time Mark Haddon 60. [own ] Love In The Time Of Cholera Gabriel Garcia Marquez 61. [ own] Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck 62. [ own] Lolita Vladimir Nabokov 63. [ ] The Secret History Donna Tartt 64. [own ] The Lovely Bones Alice Sebold 65. [ ] Count of Monte Cristo Alexandre Dumas 66. [ read] On The Road Jack Kerouac 67. [] Jude the Obscure Thomas Hardy 68. [read] Bridget Jones?s Diary Helen Fielding 69. [ ] Midnight?s Children Salman Rushdie 70. [ ] Moby Dick Herman Melville 71. [] Oliver Twist Charles Dickens 72. [own ] Dracula Bram Stoker 73. [own] The Secret Garden Frances Hodgson Burnett 74. [] Notes From A Small Island Bill Bryson 75. [ ] Ulysses James Joyce 76. [own ] 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. [read] The Color Purple Alice Walker 84. [own] The Remains of the Day Kazuo Ishiguro 85. [own ] Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert 86. [ ] A Fine Balance Rohinton Mistry 87. [own] Charlotte?s Web EB White 88. [ ] The Five People You Meet In Heaven Mitch Alborn 89. [own] Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 90. [ ] The Faraway Tree Collection Enid Blyton 91. [ own] Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad 92. [ ] The Little Prince Antoine De Saint-Exupery 93. [own ] The Wasp Factory Iain Banks 94. [own] 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. [read] Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 100. [ ] Les Miserables Victor Hugo

Only read about 19 so far withy 1 on the go, but do have another 40 on my bookshelf that I am working my way through.