I saw this on a friend's blog and thought it was very interesting. I thought I would post it too and see how many you guys have read. I can't believe I have only read 8!!! That's terrible!!! What's even more terrible is that I own many of these titles and they are sitting around my house as decoration having never been opened. (This English teacher probably shouldn't admit that!) I plan to update this at the end of the school year and have added more books. Any suggestions on where to begin?!
The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books here. How do your reading habits stack up?
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen -
The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien –
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte –
Harry Potter series - JK Rowling –
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee –YES
The Bible – not in full
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte –
1984 - George Orwell –
His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman -
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens –
Little Women - Louisa M Alcott –
Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy-
Catch 22 - Joseph Heller-
Complete Works of Shakespeare -
Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier –
The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien –
Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk-
Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger –
The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger-
Middlemarch - George Eliot -
Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell-
The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald – YES
Bleak House - Charles Dickens-
War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy-
The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams -
Tess Of The D'Urbervilles-
Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky –
Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck –
Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll –
The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame -
Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy-
David Copperfield - Charles Dickens-
Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis –
Emma - Jane Austen –
Persuasion - Jane Austen-
The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis – YES
The Kite Runner - Khaled Hossein –
Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres-
Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden –
Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne –
Animal Farm - George Orwell – YES
The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown –
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez-
A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving –
The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins –
Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery -
Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy-
The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood -
Lord of the Flies - William Golding – YES
Atonement - Ian McEwan –
Life of Pi - Yann Martel -
Dune - Frank Herbert-
Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons-
Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen-
A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth-
The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon-
A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens-
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley –
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night - Mark Haddon –
Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez-
Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck –
Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov-
The Secret History - Donna Tartt-
The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold –
Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas –
On The Road - Jack Kerouac-
Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy-
Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding -
Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie-
Moby Dick - Herman Melville-
Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens –
Dracula - Bram Stoker-
The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett –
Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson -
Ulysses - James Joyce-
The Inferno - Dante-
Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
Germinal - Emile Zola-
Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray-
Possession - AS Byatt-
A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens – YES
Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell -
The Color Purple - Alice Walker –
The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro-
Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert –
A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry-
Charlotte’s Web - EB White –
The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom – YES
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle-
The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton-
Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad –
The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery –
The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks -
Watership Down - Richard Adams –
A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole –
A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute-
The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas-
Hamlet - William Shakespeare – YES
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory –
Les Miserables - Victor Hugo -
3 comments:
I can say yes to 10 of them. In 84 days, I can say yes to The Bible in full!
Do watching the movies count?! I've seen at least 10 of them. :)
I put this on my FB acct last week. I can't remember how many I had read, but not enough. I plan to get the top 100 books of all time list and head to the library STAT!
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