100 books meme
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The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books here. How do your reading habits stack up?
Instructions:
Copy this. Put an 'x' next to those you have read (watching a movie version doesn't count!) Tag other book nerds.
[x] 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
[ ] 5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
[x] 6 The Bible - God (the whole thing)
[x] 7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
[x] 8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
[ x] 9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
[ x] 10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
Total: 9
[ ] 11 Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
[x] 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 Faulks (got halfway through this and couldn't stop crying :-(
[ ] 18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
[x ] 19 The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger (most overated pile of tosh ever)
[ ] 20 Middlemarch - George Eliot - in the too read pile
Total: 3
[ ] 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
[ x] 25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
[ ] 27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
[ ] 28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
[x] 29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
[ ] 30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
Total: 3
[ ] 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
[x] 37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
[x] 38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
[ x] 39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
[x] 40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
Total: 9
[x] 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 Meany - John Irving
[x] 45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
[ ] 46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
[ ] 47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
[x] 48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood - one of the best books ever!!
[x] 49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
[x ] 50 Atonement - Ian McEwan - god another overated pile of pish
Total: 6
[ x] 51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
[ x] 52 Dune - Frank Herbert
[ ] 53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
[x] 54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
[ ] 55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
[ x] 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 - Mark Haddon
[ x] 60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Total: 7
[ ] 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
[x ] 68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
[x ] 69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
[ ] 70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
Total: 2
[ ] 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 Inferno - Dante
[ x] 77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
[ ] 78 Germinal - Emile Zola
[ ] 79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
[ x] 80 Possession - AS Byatt
Total: 3
[ ] 81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
[ x] 82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell - loved, loved, loved this!
[ ] 83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
[x ] 84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro - although Never Let Me Go is better IMO
[ ] 85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
[ ] 86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mxistry
[ ] 87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White
[x ] 88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom = meh
[ x] 89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
[ x] 90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
Total: 7
[ ] 91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad - been in the to read pile for about 15 years
[ ] 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
[ ] 98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
[x] 99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
[ ] 100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
Total 1
Grand total = 50
Not too bad, just another 50 to go!
The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books here. How do your reading habits stack up?
Instructions:
Copy this. Put an 'x' next to those you have read (watching a movie version doesn't count!) Tag other book nerds.
[x] 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
[ ] 5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
[x] 6 The Bible - God (the whole thing)
[x] 7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
[x] 8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
[ x] 9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
[ x] 10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
Total: 9
[ ] 11 Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
[x] 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 Faulks (got halfway through this and couldn't stop crying :-(
[ ] 18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
[x ] 19 The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger (most overated pile of tosh ever)
[ ] 20 Middlemarch - George Eliot - in the too read pile
Total: 3
[ ] 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
[ x] 25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
[ ] 27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
[ ] 28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
[x] 29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
[ ] 30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
Total: 3
[ ] 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
[x] 37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
[x] 38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
[ x] 39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
[x] 40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
Total: 9
[x] 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 Meany - John Irving
[x] 45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
[ ] 46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
[ ] 47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
[x] 48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood - one of the best books ever!!
[x] 49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
[x ] 50 Atonement - Ian McEwan - god another overated pile of pish
Total: 6
[ x] 51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
[ x] 52 Dune - Frank Herbert
[ ] 53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
[x] 54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
[ ] 55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
[ x] 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 - Mark Haddon
[ x] 60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Total: 7
[ ] 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
[x ] 68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
[x ] 69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
[ ] 70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
Total: 2
[ ] 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 Inferno - Dante
[ x] 77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
[ ] 78 Germinal - Emile Zola
[ ] 79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
[ x] 80 Possession - AS Byatt
Total: 3
[ ] 81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
[ x] 82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell - loved, loved, loved this!
[ ] 83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
[x ] 84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro - although Never Let Me Go is better IMO
[ ] 85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
[ ] 86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mxistry
[ ] 87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White
[x ] 88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom = meh
[ x] 89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
[ x] 90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
Total: 7
[ ] 91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad - been in the to read pile for about 15 years
[ ] 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
[ ] 98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
[x] 99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
[ ] 100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
Total 1
Grand total = 50
Not too bad, just another 50 to go!