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

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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

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

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

46/100

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

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

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

I do think Everyone should read Germinal. Amazing book.

1. Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen
2. Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte
3. Harry Potter series JK Rowling

in part....6. The Bible

1. Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte

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

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

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

Instructions:

1. Look at the list and put an ?x? before those you have read.

How many have you read?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Only 45 for me.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

30 of them

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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