Stuff!
The BBC believes most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here. How do your reading habits stack up? Instructions: Copy this into your NOTES. Look at the list and put an 'x' after those you have read.
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 [ X]
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee [X ]
6 The Bible [ ]
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte [X ]
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell [ ]
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 [ ]
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare [ ] (probably about 2/3 of them)
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier [ ]
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien [X]
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk [ ]
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger [X]
19 The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger [ ]
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot [ ]
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell [ ]
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald [X]
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens [ ]
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy [ ] (tried to, got about half way through it before losing the will to live)
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams [X]
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh [ ]
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky [ ]
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck [X]
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll [X]
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame [X]
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy [ ] (Again, gave it a go but never finished it)
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens [ ]
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 [ ]
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 [ ]
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving [ ]
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins [ ]
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery [X]
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy [X]
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood [ ]
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding [X]
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 [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 [ ]
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night - Mark Haddon [ ]
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez [ ]
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck [X]
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov [ ]
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt [ ]
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold [ ]
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas [X]
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac [X]
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 [ ]
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens [X]
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker [X]
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnet [X]
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson [ ]
75 Ulysses - James Joyce [ ]
76 The Inferno - Dante []
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome [X]
78 Germinal - Emile Zola [ ]
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray [ ]
80 Possession - AS Byat [ ]
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 Ishiguro [ ]
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert [ ]
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 [X]
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad [ ]
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery [ ]
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks [X]
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams [X]
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 [X]
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo [ ]
I make that 45 and 3 'parts of'... Not bad going. There's a few on that list that are also 'I want to read these' as well.
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 [ X]
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee [X ]
6 The Bible [ ]
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte [X ]
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell [ ]
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 [ ]
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare [ ] (probably about 2/3 of them)
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier [ ]
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien [X]
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk [ ]
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger [X]
19 The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger [ ]
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot [ ]
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell [ ]
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald [X]
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens [ ]
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy [ ] (tried to, got about half way through it before losing the will to live)
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams [X]
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh [ ]
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky [ ]
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck [X]
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll [X]
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame [X]
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy [ ] (Again, gave it a go but never finished it)
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens [ ]
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 [ ]
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 [ ]
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving [ ]
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins [ ]
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery [X]
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy [X]
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood [ ]
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding [X]
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 [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 [ ]
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night - Mark Haddon [ ]
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez [ ]
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck [X]
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov [ ]
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt [ ]
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold [ ]
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas [X]
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac [X]
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 [ ]
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens [X]
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker [X]
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnet [X]
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson [ ]
75 Ulysses - James Joyce [ ]
76 The Inferno - Dante []
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome [X]
78 Germinal - Emile Zola [ ]
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray [ ]
80 Possession - AS Byat [ ]
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 Ishiguro [ ]
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert [ ]
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 [X]
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad [ ]
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery [ ]
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks [X]
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams [X]
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 [X]
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo [ ]
I make that 45 and 3 'parts of'... Not bad going. There's a few on that list that are also 'I want to read these' as well.