This is stolen from Dan's Facebook page.
The BBC believes most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here.How do your reading habits stack up?
Instructions:
Look at the list and put an 'x' after those you have read once. Enter a number for the number of times you read something. Make sure you delete my x'S!
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen- X
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien –X
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte- X
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling - 6
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee - X
6 The Bible- X
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte - X
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell -4
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman –
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens – X
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott – X
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy -
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller – X
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare –
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier-
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien - 2
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk -
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger - 3
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger - X
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot -
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell - 2
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald - 3
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens -
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy -X
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams -
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh -
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky - X
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck - 2
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll – X
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame -
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy - X
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens -X
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis - X
34 Emma - Jane Austen - X
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen - X
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis - 3
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini - X
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres -
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden - X
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne – X
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell -X
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown – X
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez - X
44 A Prayer for Owen Meany - 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 -2
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan - X
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel - X
52 Dune - Frank Herbert -
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons -
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen - X
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth -
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon -
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens - X
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley-X
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon - X
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez - X
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck - 3
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov - 2
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt -
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold - X
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 – X
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie -
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville - X
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens - X
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker -
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett - 3
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson -
75 Ulysses - James Joyce - X
76 The Inferno - Dante - X
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome -
78 Germinal - Emile Zola -
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray – X
80 Possession - AS Byatt - X
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens - X
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell -
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker - X
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishigu
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert - 3
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry -
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White - X
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven, Mitch Albom -
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle-X
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton -
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad - 3
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery -X
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks -
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams - X
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole-X
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute -
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas - X
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare - X
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factoy - Roald Dahl - X
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo – X
6 comments:
What I want to know, is why does the BBC think some of these are worth reading? The DaVinci code is nothing better than an action flick written into a book. The Harry Potter series, while excellent, is by no means on its way to the classics list with Hemingway and Austen.... and shouldn't exactly make a "top 100" reading list :P
These Facebook memes are a little too democratic for my taste ;)
I just can't believe that the average is 6! Do people not read anymore :)
The DaVinci Code is pure pulp fiction so I would agree that it is not worthy of being included in a 'top 100 books you should read' list. The story was okay but the writing was horrific. But I can't agree with your assessment of the Harry Potter series. It shouldn't be devalued just because it is a children's book. If you consider that books like Little Women, The Chronicles of Narnia, and Alice in Wonderland are usually found on such lists, it isn't a big leap to say that Harry Potter deserves such a place. That series will stand the test of time, as evidenced by its enormous appeal to peoples of all ages.
6? I think I could pick 10 of those that were required reading by the end of high school.
Which makes it all the more pathetic that I have only read 22 of them.
My question is how do you remember how many times you've read some of those books? I must have a really bad memory.
Those are best guest estimates. A lot I remember reading both in high school and college. Frankly, as an English Lit major I'm surprised I didn't get through all of them. I think I've read every play by Shakespeare but since he has other writings as well, I didn't check of that one.
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