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

Also, why is Hamlet on there as well as complete works of Shakespeare?

Forgot to add - I've read 38 - and the [c] in front of The Lovely Bones was supposed to be an [x].

1. [] Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen
2. [x] The Lord of the Rings JRR Tolkien
3. [] Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte
4. [x] 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. [ 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. [] 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. [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. [ ]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. [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. [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. [ ] 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. [ x] Lord of the Flies William Golding 50. [ ] Atonement Ian McEwan 51. [] Life of Pi Yann Martel 52. [x] 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. [x] 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. [x] Count of Monte Cristo Alexandre Dumas 66. [ ] On The Road Jack Kerouac 67. [x] Jude the Obscure Thomas Hardy 68. [] 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. [] 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. [ x] The Color Purple Alice Walker 84. [x ] 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. [ 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. [ ] 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. [ ] Les Miserables Victor Hugo

I'm surprised Margaret Atwood doesn't feature on the list.

I thought "The Handmaid's Tale" was there?

I hope Atwood is there because I'm sure I counted her as one of the ones I've read - 69, btw.

And agree with the others who have spotted duplications ie Shakespeare and CS Lewis

I've read 83 of them, buti can't copy and paste on my iPhone, and I could probably read the 84th in the time it takes me to type all that

Atwood is No 48

76, but also noted hamlet there as somehow separate from the complete works, should you include it twice if you have read the lot?

some odd choices there, Zola - why not Thérèse Raquin instead of Germinal? how come no Fontane? am not proud of all the ones I ticked yes to!

IT'S THE LIST FROM THE BBC'S BIG READ. 100 TOP BOOKS AS VOTED FOR BY THE PUBLIC WHICH IS WHY THERE ARE REPEATS.

Sorry for shouting but my post further down has obviously been missed!!!!

64 but none of the hard ones. Consider Bible, Ulysses and Complete Works of Shakespeare, and Da Vinci code impossible. In fact, would truly rather eat them than read them.

1. [x] Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen
2. [] 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 (Quite a lot of it)
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. [x] Complete Works of Shakespeare A fair bit 15. [] Rebecca Daphne Du Maurier 16. [] The Hobbit JRR Tolkien 17. [] Birdsong Sebastian Faulks 18. [] 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. [] The Great Gatsby F Scott Fitzgerald 23. [] Bleak House Charles Dickens 24. [x]War and Peace Leo Tolstoy In progress 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. [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. [] 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. [x] Dune Frank Herbert 53. [] 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. [] 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. [] Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck 62. [x] 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. [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. [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. [] 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. [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. [x] Watership Down Richard Adams 95. [x] 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

62/100 score
Lots of ideas about new things to read!

da vinci code is shit anyway, it's one of the ones I hate admitting to

1. [x] Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen
2. [] 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. [] 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. [] 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. [x] Catcher in the Rye JD Salinger 19. [x] 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. [] 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. [] Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy 32. [] 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. [ x] 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. [] Animal Farm George Orwell 42. [x] 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. [] 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. [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. [x] Sense and Sensibility Jane Austen 55. [ x] 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. [x] Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck 62. [x] 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. [ ] 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. [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. [ x] Possession AS Byatt 81. [ 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. [] 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

45. Others I feel I should have read or would like to read !

[x] Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen

1. [x] The Lord of the Rings JRR Tolkien
2. [x] Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte
3. [x] Harry Potter series JK Rowling
4. [x] To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee
5. [x] The Bible
6. [x] Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte
7. [x] Nineteen Eighty Four George Orwell
8. [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. [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. [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. [ ] 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. [ ] 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. [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. [ x] Lord of the Flies William Golding 50. [ ] Atonement Ian McEwan 51. [x] 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. [x] 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. [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. [ ] 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. [ 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. [ ] 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

I'm missing 31 books out of 100

48 - I'm not happy; I thought I was quite "well-read"

Is there some kind of implied scale whereby anything below x means you're a thicko?

Some of these I would regard as garbage I'm not interested in reading tbh, so I don't particularly want to try more than 4 or 5 others. Interesting exercise though!

45

What an odd selection. Some classics and some lightweight books. I did remember a notable absence but it's gone

Why isn't any Noelle Streatfield on there, or Nina Bawden?

Does watching BBC adaptions count?

16 1/2 for me (I never could finish The Bell Jar).

That's shocking... there are loads on there that I have meant to read!!

85 for me. Some more recent (Ian McEwan/Kite Runner/Time Traveller's Wife) I haven't read. Don't like McEwan and find reading harder now am more tired and emotional about children/sad stories (i.e. Kite runner was a no no).

Also, - haven't classed myself as having read The Bible, though have read fair amount of the OT. Also - works of Shakespeare, have read loads but not all.

Should have read lots of them - read English Lit. at University after all!

Only about 20. However I have read other books not listed by some of these authors (e.g have read Animal Farm but not 1984 - Orwell).