Thursday, February 19, 2009

100 Books

(I don't know if this is true, but it is fun.)

The BBC believes most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here. How do your reading habits stack up? Instructions:1) Look at the list and put an 'x' after those you have read.2) Add a '+' to the ones you LOVE.3) Star (*) those you plan on reading.4) Tally your total at the bottom.

(X+) 1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
() 2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
(X) 3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
(X+) 4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
(X) 5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
(X) 6 The Bible –
(X) 7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
() 8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
(X) 9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
(X) 10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
(X) 11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
( ) 12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
() 13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
() 14 Complete Works of Shakespeare –
(X) 15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
() 16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
() 17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
() 18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
( ) 19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
(X) 20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
(X) 21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
(X) 22 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 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
() 27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
(X) 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
() 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
() 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 - AA Milne
() 41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
(X) 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
(X) 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
() 50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
() 51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
() 52 Dune - Frank Herbert
( ) 53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
(X) 54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
() 55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
() 56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
(X) 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
(X) 70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
(X) 71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
() 72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
(X) 73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
() 74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
() 75 Ulysses - James Joyce
() 76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
() 77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
() 78 Germinal - Emile Zola
() 79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
() 80 Possession - AS Byatt
(X) 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
(X) 87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White
() 88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
() 89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
() 90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
(X) 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
(X) 98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
(X) 99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
(*) 100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

I may have miscounted, but I think I have read 30 of these books. Although why they have some as completed works and then a separate of one of those don't ask me. (Narnia, Shakespeare.) x

6 comments:

Jared Sorensen said...

6 although I haven't read the Bible cover to cover. That might go for Hamlet too. Does watching the movie count?

bethellen said...
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bethellen said...

I think my count is a 19 (I'm not positive on all the Jane Austen books). :)

Stephanie said...

...only 10 for Stephy. I'd like to meet the weirdos that HAVE read the entire works of Shakespeare. Who does that? And I don't think it's fair that there are so many Jane Austen books on there. I hate her. I know that makes me un-womanlike, but all her books are the same and I hate her.

Sam and Amber said...

I was always a little against classics (currently trying to mend my ways) and have only read about 10 of them. I figured Sam had read a lot more of them. He's closer to you--about 26 and started a few more and will be reading a few more for school this semester.

Morgan Lasley said...

Here's my list (31 read, one currently reading):

(X) 1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
(X) 2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
(X) 4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
(X) 5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
(X) 6 The Bible –
(X) 8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
(X) 10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
(X) 13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
(X) 16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
(X) 18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
(X) 22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
(X)25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
(X) 28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
(X) 29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
(X) 32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
(X) 33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
(X) 36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
(X) 41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
(X) 42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
(X) 49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
(X) 52 Dune - Frank Herbert
(X) 57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
(X) 61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
(Currently Reading) 70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
(X) 71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
(X) 81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
(X) 87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White
(X) 89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
(X - In English and German) 92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
(X) 98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
(X) 99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl