Have you read more than 6 of these books?
Written by Scath on August 11, 2009 – 12:49 pm
Apparently, the BBC believes that most people will have only read six books on the following list.
Yeah, right.
Instructions: Copy this into your blog. Look at the list and put an ‘x’ next to those you have read. Tag other book nerds. Link to me so I can see your response!
- 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
- 5 To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
x 6 The Bible –
x 7 Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
- 8 Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell
- 9 His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman
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 Faulk
- 18 Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger
- 19 The Time Traveler’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger
- 20 Middlemarch – George Eliot
x 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
- 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
- 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 (also read the rest of them!)
- 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
- 42 The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown
- 43 One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- 44 A Prayer for Owen Meany – 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
x 48 The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
X 49 Lord of the Flies – William Golding
- 50 Atonement – Ian McEwan
- 51 Life of Pi – Yann Martel
x 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 – Mark Haddon
- 60 Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- 61 Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
- 62 Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
- 63 The Secret History – Donna Tartt
x 64 The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold
x 65 Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
- 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
x 70 Moby Dick – Herman Melville
x 71 Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
x 72 Dracula – Bram Stoker
- 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
- 80 Possession – AS Byatt
x 81 A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
- 82 Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
x 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
x 87 Charlotte’s Web – EB White
- 88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom
x 89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- 90 The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton
- 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
- 95 A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
- 96 A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute
x 97 The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
x 98 Hamlet – William Shakespeare
X 99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl
- 100 Les Miserables – Victor Hugo
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August 11th, 2009 at 5:28 pm
Hmm. I’ve seen this before, but not really thought about it. Let me see what I can come up with. Oh, and WOW. I’m impressed.
(I really mean that in a nice way hon, pwomise)
August 11th, 2009 at 7:16 pm
I’m wondering if they’re only counting the series as one book? Because I’ve read all the Narnia books and all the Harry Potter books. I don’t think I’ve read ALL of Shakespeare’s works, but I’ve read several. And some of those titles (ex. Jane Eyre) I *think* I’ve read, but can’t remember for certain.
And Beowulf’s not on there? The Canterbury Tales? Read those.
August 11th, 2009 at 7:48 pm
Also, LOL!
I bet you thought I read strictly fantasy, scifi and thrillers, huh?
August 28th, 2009 at 2:11 am
Well there’s the ones I’ve read and the ones I’ve started, and the list of will-never-read…
http://sirensgate.wordpress.com/2009/08/28/have-you-read-more-than-6-of-these-books/