28 Books
Thanks to velvetpage for this great list!
Apparently the BBC reckons most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here.
Instructions:
1) Look at the list and put an 'x' after those you have read.
2) Tally your total at the bottom.
3) Put in a note with your total in the subject
.... 1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
X... 2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
.... 3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
X... 4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
X... 5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
X... 6 The Bible
.... 7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
.... 8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
.... 9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman (Three books!)
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
..... 15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
X.... 16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
..... 17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
..... 18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
..... 19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
..... 20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
..... 21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
..... 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
..... 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
..... 34 Emma - Jane Austen
..... 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 Berniere
..... 39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
X.... 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
..... 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
X.... 61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
..... 62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
..... 63 The Secret History - Donna Tart
..... 64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
X.... 65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas (In French!)
..... 66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
..... 67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
X.... 68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
..... 69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
..... 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
X.... 85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert (In French! Extra points!)
..... 86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
X.... 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
..... 90 The Faraway Tree Collection
..... 91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
X.... 92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupéry (In french!)
..... 93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
*.... 94 Watership Down - Richard Adams (Half an X for this one, perhaps? I'm in the middle of it right now)
..... 95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
..... 96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
X.... 97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas (In French!)
X.... 98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
..... 99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
X.... 100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo (In French!)
28 books total...so far! ;)
Apparently the BBC reckons most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here.
Instructions:
1) Look at the list and put an 'x' after those you have read.
2) Tally your total at the bottom.
3) Put in a note with your total in the subject
.... 1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
X... 2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
.... 3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
X... 4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
X... 5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
X... 6 The Bible
.... 7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
.... 8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
.... 9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman (Three books!)
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
..... 15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
X.... 16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
..... 17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
..... 18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
..... 19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
..... 20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
..... 21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
..... 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
..... 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
..... 34 Emma - Jane Austen
..... 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 Berniere
..... 39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
X.... 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
..... 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
X.... 61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
..... 62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
..... 63 The Secret History - Donna Tart
..... 64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
X.... 65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas (In French!)
..... 66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
..... 67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
X.... 68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
..... 69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
..... 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
X.... 85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert (In French! Extra points!)
..... 86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
X.... 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
..... 90 The Faraway Tree Collection
..... 91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
X.... 92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupéry (In french!)
..... 93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
*.... 94 Watership Down - Richard Adams (Half an X for this one, perhaps? I'm in the middle of it right now)
..... 95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
..... 96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
X.... 97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas (In French!)
X.... 98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
..... 99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
X.... 100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo (In French!)
28 books total...so far! ;)