This list has been doing the rounds for a while. I first saw it on facebook I think, and it's going around for the second time just recently. And now it's now doing the rounds of the blogosphere. The BBC believe most people would have read 6 of these. I've put the ones I've read in red and the ones I've partially read in italics.
I've got 32 in red. And 11 in italics. Pretty good. Last time I did this about 18 months or so ago, I think I had about 35 in total. I'm not frightfully well red, but am working towards it.
So how many have you read?
So how many have you read?
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 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller (OMG incomprehensible)
14 The Complete Works of Shakespeare
14 The Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
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 (gave up after 600 of the 800 pages)
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34 Emma -Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 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 Winnie the Pooh - A.A. 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 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 (see my review)
*50 Atonement - Ian McEwan (never got past 30 pages)
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 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 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 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Inferno - Dante
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 Charlotte’s Web - E.B. White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (on the plan for next year)
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 (I really, really want to read this)
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 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
Update March 2013, I now have 35 in red, 10 in italics. I'm planning on reading Les Miserable in the next few months.
Nov 2013. 36 in red, 10 in italics.
Update March 2013, I now have 35 in red, 10 in italics. I'm planning on reading Les Miserable in the next few months.
Nov 2013. 36 in red, 10 in italics.
13 comments:
58 read and five partially read :)
That's mighty impressive Kath. Would love to see your list.
here's my lot - 54 that I am sure of - parts of 10 or so.
1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien (most of)
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling (first book only)
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible (bits of - for literature study)
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott (pretty sure I've read this)
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
14 The Complete Works of Shakespeare (quite a few of, but not all!)
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34 Emma -Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 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 Winnie the Pooh - A.A. Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell (for school, poss didn't finish!))
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding (for school - again, probably didn't finish)
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons (you should read this Louise!!)
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett (think so but cannot be sure)
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray (90% of)
80 Possession - AS Byatt
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert (some of)
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte’s Web - E.B. White
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery (some of)
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
here's my lot - 54 that I am sure of - parts of 10 or so.
1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien (most of)
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling (first book only)
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible (bits of - for literature study)
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott (pretty sure I've read this)
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
14 The Complete Works of Shakespeare (quite a few of, but not all!)
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34 Emma -Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 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 Winnie the Pooh - A.A. Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell (for school, poss didn't finish!))
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding (for school - again, probably didn't finish)
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons (you should read this Louise!!)
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett (think so but cannot be sure)
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray (90% of)
80 Possession - AS Byatt
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert (some of)
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte’s Web - E.B. White
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery (some of)
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
doh! sorry about the two comments, and the alias. Hilary (reveling in books!)
I ended up with 30 read, a few more partials and a bunch on my TBR list. I wonder how they came up with the list.
Great effort Hilary. Why do you think I should read Cold Comfort Farm particularly? Did you like The Wasp Factory?
Susan the list wasn't actually made up by the BBC, it was a survey of 2000 people for world book day in 2007
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2007/mar/01/topstories3.books
I'm not quite sure how the BBC 6 meme thing started, and can't find an online reference to that, but it is fun, and a great conversation starter.
it's very funny, that's why! And I loved the Wasp Factory - really creepy as I recall. I also loved his Walking on Glass - in fact, they are my two favourite Banks.
Hmmm, that link didn't quite work
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2007/mar/01/topstories3.books
Hi Louise,
Thanks for visiting my list on my blog. The deal with my husband and I reading everything from 73 down meant I had a formatting error. It looked right before I posted, and afterward, I didn't proofread all the way to the bottom. My font switch got stuck. I think it's straightened out now! Thanks for making me aware of the error.
It didn't actually occur to me that it was an error! I just thought it was a bit unusual/funny. Glad it helped anyway.
This list has books in it that I don't feel I should read and I wonder what the BBC was about in compiling it. It sort of makes me not want to count up those that I have read.
Sue, the BBC didn't compile this list. The meme going about book blogs and facebook says that the BBC reckons most people will have read 6 books from the list (although I've never managed to find any reference to the BBC actually saying this). The list itself comes from a survey of 2000 readers (general public I presume) for world book day in 2007, which is why there are some surprising titles. Although P&P did still come out on top so I don't know that you can wholly dismiss it can you? ;-)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2007/mar/01/topstories3.books
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