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

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ByThePowerOfGreyskull · 24/02/2009 16:37

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

OP posts:
braveandcrazy · 06/07/2009 19:24

37 for me, because it is an odd mix of classic and non classic eg Faraway Tree and Bridget Jones.

2 started and abandoned aswell.

Interesting list, thanks for posting it.

imaynotbeperfectbutimokmummy · 06/07/2009 19:46
  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. [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. [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. [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. [ ] 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 Alexadre Dumas 98. [] Hamlet William Shakespeare 99. [x] Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 100. [ ] Les Miserables Victor Hugo

16/100 for me - although im not entirely sure what this list is meant to be. I hardly see the da vinci code as classic ficion!

Schulte · 06/07/2009 20:00

ROFL the COMPLETE works of Shakespeare - what idiot has put this list together? Also why is Hamlet on there again further down?

nickelbabe · 03/10/2009 15:08

the problem with this list is that they have a series and then later on have one of the books in the series listed separately.
that makes it an unfair list.
so if you've read the narnia chronicles then of course you've read the lion witch and wardrobe, but what if you've read 3 of the 7 (silver chair, voyage of the dawn treader and the last battle): then you can't sa yyo u've read the chronicles and you can't claim a single book!

and i've read 37 in the list, but add the 3 above, plus harry potter's 7 books, not 1, the faraway tree stories are 3, etc.

busybutterfly · 04/10/2009 13:35
  1. Loved the Five People you Meet in Heaven.
busybutterfly · 04/10/2009 13:47

DH says 20. Says lots of the books are not really what a bloke would read though choice (ie where's Flashman? Clive Barker? Shogun?!)

englishpatient · 05/10/2009 06:29

53

Blackduck · 05/10/2009 07:45

83 and a half - haven't read the Complete works of Shakespeare, but have read an awful lot of them!!!

FourArms · 05/10/2009 08:01
  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. [] To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee
  6. [] The Bible
  7. [x] 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. [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. [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. [] 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. [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. [ ] 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. [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. [ ] 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. [] 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. [] 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

42 I think. I've read a lot of books over the years though, and there are some 'worthy' authors who aren't on there.

MissWooWoo · 05/10/2009 12:25

only 27. Much more if we're counting books started but not finished, but I guess we're not!

JustAnotherManicMummy · 05/10/2009 12:45
  1. [o] Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen
  2. [o] The Lord of the Rings JRR Tolkien
  3. [x] Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte
  4. [D] Harry Potter series JK Rowling
  5. [x] To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee
  6. [o] The Bible
  7. [o] Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte
  8. [x] Nineteen Eighty Four George Orwell
  9. [D] His Dark Materials Philip Pullman
10. [x] Great Expectations Charles Dickens 11. [ ] Little Women Louisa M Alcott 12. [o] Tess of the D?Urbervilles Thomas Hardy 13. [o] Catch 22 Joseph Heller 14. [o] Complete Works of Shakespeare 15. [ ] Rebecca Daphne Du Maurier 16. [x] The Hobbit JRR Tolkien 17. [D] 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. [D]War and Peace Leo Tolstoy 25. [ ] The Hitch Hiker?s Guide to the Galaxy Douglas Adams 26. [D] Brideshead Revisited Evelyn Waugh 27. [D] 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. [D] Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy 32. [ ] David Copperfield Charles Dickens 33. [ ] Chronicles of Narnia CS Lewis 34. [o] 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. [ ] Captain Corelli?s Mandolin Louis De Bernieres 39. [o] 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. [D] 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. [o] 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. [ ] Life of Pi Yann Martel 52. [ ] Dune Frank Herbert 53. [o] Cold Comfort Farm Stella Gibbons 54. [ ] Sense and Sensibility Jane Austen 55. [D] 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. [D] Love In The Time Of Cholera Gabriel Garcia Marquez 61. [x] Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck 62. [x] Lolita Vladimir Nabokov 63. [o] The Secret History Donna Tartt 64. [x] The Lovely Bones Alice Sebold 65. [D] Count of Monte Cristo Alexandre Dumas 66. [D] On The Road Jack Kerouac 67. [o] Jude the Obscure Thomas Hardy 68. [x] Bridget Jones?s Diary Helen Fielding 69. [o] Midnight?s Children Salman Rushdie 70. [ ] Moby Dick Herman Melville 71. [o] 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. [o] 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. [o] 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. [o] 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. [ ] 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. [D] The Three Musketeers Alexandre Dumas 98. [o] Hamlet William Shakespeare 99. [x] Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 100. [ ] Les Miserables Victor Hugo

Read 31 but have personally owned and not read a further 19 . DH currently owns a further 13 that I have not read from this list.

There are however quite a few books on there I would not want to read.

Think I'll keep this list so when I'm saying "there's nothing to read" I can go back and refer to this and see just how many books we have that I haven't even looked at.

EverySingleStar · 06/10/2009 11:20

I completely agree with whoever said these are more read by the British folk than those of us across the pond. I'm American, 22, and have read about 30 of them. We didn't have a lot of them shoved down our throats lovingly taught to us at school, and I haven't chosen to read a lot of what I consider tosh.

Had never heard of Cold Comfort Farm before Mumsnet. And Americans would never read a book by a guy called Nevil Shute

exexpat · 06/10/2009 11:32

About 75, I think - though I'm a bit hazy about exactly which Dickens and Hardy I had shoved down my throat - sorry, was encouraged to read - at school. Read too much, me? When there's deadlines to meet and washing up and laundry to be done? Never....

AnnVan · 06/10/2009 11:53
  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. [] 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. [] 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. [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. [] 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. [] 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. [ ] 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. [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. [ ] 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. [] 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. [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. [] The Three Musketeers Alexandre Dumas 98. [x] Hamlet William Shakespeare 99. [x] Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 100. [ ] Les Miserables Victor Hugo

so 36 for me not too good then.
Mind you there's quite a few books on here that I have no interest whatsoever in reading.

Sourdough · 06/10/2009 12:13

A quick scan and 23.

I would love to have time to read more - I have a backlog of about 4 books that I want to read and have acquired, but find no time to do so. They are gathering dust on my bedside table.

overthemill · 06/10/2009 12:22

I'm impressed with myself (or maybe that should be unimpressed with the wideness of the list?) I seem to have read 70 of them, but then I read a huge amount and did do an English degree so the classics are mainly from then!

  1. [x] Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen
  2. [x book 1] 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
  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 most i reckon 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. [] 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. [] Alice in Wonderland Lewis Carroll 30. [] 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. [] 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. [] 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. [] 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. [ 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. [ ] Moby Dick Herman Melville 71. [x] Oliver Twist Charles Dickens 72. [] Dracula Bram Stoker 73. [x] The Secret Garden Frances Hodgson Burnett 74. [xxx] 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. [x] 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. [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. [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. [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
WoTmania · 06/10/2009 14:05

54 - I would be intersted in how they camo to assemble this list though

flyingcloud · 06/10/2009 17:34

48 - although there are some stories I know so well that I am unsure if I have read them or not (in which case I put a no).

A few omissions that I will rectify I think and a few that need to be re-read.

Littlepurpleprincess · 07/10/2009 17:56

I've read 8 but I read all the time, just not these books....

Tortington · 07/10/2009 18:00

10.5 - am quite chuffed with that read half of mice and men with dd1 for GCSEs

Chica31 · 07/10/2009 18:12

45

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Littlepurpleprincess · 08/10/2009 12:53

Actually I've read 10, apparently I can't count....

mackerel · 08/10/2009 12:56
  1. How did they put this list together? Or was that explained earlier?
itsbeingsofearful · 08/10/2009 12:58

75 but I did do an Eng lit degree