Book Meme
From corrielle
The BBC thinks most people will have only read 6 of these 100 books. (Anyone know where that statistic came from?)
Put an X next to the ones you've read.
Count them up at the end.
01 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen x
02 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien - x
03 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte - x
04 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling - x
05 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee -
06 The Bible -
07 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte - x
08 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell - x
09 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman x
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
Total: 7
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott -
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller - (does it count if I got a few pages in? Probably not.)
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare -
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier - x (This book is AWESOME, btw)
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien -
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk -
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger - x
19 The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger - x
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot -
Total: 10
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 -
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams - x
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky -
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck -
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll - x
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame -
Total: 13
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy -
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 - (Started it... Saw the movie.)
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres -
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden - x (This book SUCKS.)
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne -
Total: 18
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell -
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown - x (I'm not sure which book I hate more, this or Memoirs.)
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 -
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy -
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood - x
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding -
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan - (Good movie.)
Total: 20
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel -
52 Dune - Frank Herbert -
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons -
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 -
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley -
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime - Mark Haddon - (Tried it. Got like 5 pages in and gave up.)
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez -
Total: 21
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- x
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 -
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville -
Total: 22
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens -
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker - (Reading as we speak.)
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett -
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson -
75 Ulysses - James Joyce -
76 The Inferno - Dante -
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome -
78 Germinal - Emile Zola -
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray - (Got halfway through, gave up.)
80 Possession - AS Byatt -
Total: 22
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens - x (Just read! Yay for me!)
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 -
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 - X (Sherlock Holmes FTW.)
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton -
Total: 24
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad -
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery - x (In French. What? I am super cool.)
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 - (I may have read this. I don't remember.)
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo -
Total: 27
Well, I fail miserably compared to corrielle, who got 51. But I'm more than 4 times the average, according to the BBC. It's a weird list, I feel. Some of the books are bestsellers, some are classics, and some I've never heard of. Where's "Frankenstein?" Why is Shakespeare's "Complete Works" listed and then "Hamlet?"
I imagine someone who reads more classics and less trashy fantasy would do better on this...
The BBC thinks most people will have only read 6 of these 100 books. (Anyone know where that statistic came from?)
Put an X next to the ones you've read.
Count them up at the end.
01 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen x
02 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien - x
03 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte - x
04 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling - x
05 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee -
06 The Bible -
07 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte - x
08 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell - x
09 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman x
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
Total: 7
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott -
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller - (does it count if I got a few pages in? Probably not.)
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare -
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier - x (This book is AWESOME, btw)
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien -
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk -
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger - x
19 The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger - x
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot -
Total: 10
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 -
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams - x
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky -
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck -
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll - x
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame -
Total: 13
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy -
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 - (Started it... Saw the movie.)
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres -
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden - x (This book SUCKS.)
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne -
Total: 18
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell -
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown - x (I'm not sure which book I hate more, this or Memoirs.)
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 -
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy -
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood - x
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding -
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan - (Good movie.)
Total: 20
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel -
52 Dune - Frank Herbert -
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons -
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 -
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley -
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime - Mark Haddon - (Tried it. Got like 5 pages in and gave up.)
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez -
Total: 21
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- x
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 -
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville -
Total: 22
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens -
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker - (Reading as we speak.)
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett -
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson -
75 Ulysses - James Joyce -
76 The Inferno - Dante -
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome -
78 Germinal - Emile Zola -
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray - (Got halfway through, gave up.)
80 Possession - AS Byatt -
Total: 22
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens - x (Just read! Yay for me!)
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 -
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 - X (Sherlock Holmes FTW.)
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton -
Total: 24
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad -
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery - x (In French. What? I am super cool.)
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 - (I may have read this. I don't remember.)
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo -
Total: 27
Well, I fail miserably compared to corrielle, who got 51. But I'm more than 4 times the average, according to the BBC. It's a weird list, I feel. Some of the books are bestsellers, some are classics, and some I've never heard of. Where's "Frankenstein?" Why is Shakespeare's "Complete Works" listed and then "Hamlet?"
I imagine someone who reads more classics and less trashy fantasy would do better on this...