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.
58 read and five partially read :)
ReplyDeleteThat's mighty impressive Kath. Would love to see your list.
ReplyDeletehere's my lot - 54 that I am sure of - parts of 10 or so.
ReplyDelete1. 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.
ReplyDelete1. 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!)
ReplyDeleteI 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.
ReplyDeleteGreat effort Hilary. Why do you think I should read Cold Comfort Farm particularly? Did you like The Wasp Factory?
ReplyDeleteSusan 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.
ReplyDeleteHmmm, that link didn't quite work
ReplyDeletehttp://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2007/mar/01/topstories3.books
Hi Louise,
ReplyDeleteThanks 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.
ReplyDeleteThis 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.
ReplyDeleteSue, 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? ;-)
ReplyDeletehttp://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2007/mar/01/topstories3.books