Wednesday, February 18, 2009

The BBC Needs To Get A Grip (aka Book Meme)

The BBC believes most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here. How do your reading habits stack up?

Instructions: Look at the list and put an 'x' after those you have read.
  • 1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen ()
  • 2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien (x)
  • 3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte ()
  • 4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling (x)
  • 5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee (x)
  • 6 The Bible - (x)
  • 7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte (x)
  • 8 1984 - George Orwell (x)
  • 9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman ()
  • 10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens (x)
  • 11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott ()
  • 12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy (x)
  • 13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller (x)
  • 14 Complete Works of Shakespeare (x)
  • 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 Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger ()
  • 20 Middlemarch - George Eliot ()
  • 21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell (x)
  • 22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald (x)
  • 23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens ()
  • 24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy ()
  • 25 The Hitchhiker’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 ()
  • 32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens ()
  • 33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis (x)
  • 34 Emma - Jane Austen ()
  • 35 Persuasion - Jane Austen ()
  • 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 ()
  • 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 Meany - 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 ()
  • 49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding (x)
  • 50 Atonement - Ian McEwan ()
  • 51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel ( )
  • 52 Dune - Frank Herbert (x)
  • 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 (x)
  • 58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley (x)
  • 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 (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 ()
  • 67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy ()
  • 68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding ()
  • 69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie ()
  • 70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville (x)
  • 71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens (x)
  • 72 Dracula - Bram Stoker (x)
  • 73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett (x)
  • 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 ()
  • 80 Possession - AS Byatt ()
  • 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 ()
  • 91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad (x)
  • 92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery (x)
  • 93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks ()
  • 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 (x)
  • 98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare (x)
  • 99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl (x)
  • 100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo (x)
46 out of 100... hmmm. (Thanks to Mike Siggins for pointing this out.)

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