The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books here. How do your reading habits stack up?
I cannot believe that this is true. I mean, I have 7 out of the first 10. But then, I attend weekly meetings of Bookworms Anonymous (at the Library!) haha.
I copied this from Longbrake Living. I couldn’t resist doing this myself. How do you measure up?
Instructions: 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-
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 – X
8. Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell -X
9. His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman –
10. Great Expectations – Charles Dickens -X
Total: 7
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 -
15. Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier -
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 -
20. Middlemarch – George Eliot-X
Total: 3
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 -
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 -X
Total:3
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 -X
38. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis De Bernieres -
39. Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden -
40. Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne –
Total: 5
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 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 -
48. The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood -
49. Lord of the Flies – William Golding –
50. Atonement – Ian McEwan -
Total: 1
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 Night–Mark Haddon –X
60. Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez-
Total: 2
61. Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck –
62. Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
63. The Secret History – Donna Tartt –
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 – X
69. Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
70. Moby Dick – Herman Melville -
Total: 2
71. Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens -X
72. Dracula – Bram Stoker -
73. The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett – X
74. Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson -X
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 -
Total: 2
81. A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens –
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 -
Total: 3
91. Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad –
92. The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery -
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 -
98. Hamlet – William Shakespeare – X
99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl – X
100. Les Miserables – Victor Hugo –
Total: 2
Final total: 30/100
I think that’s not too bad. I was hoping for more. But I’m keeping this list and checking them off as I read them. Maybe I’ll post in the future how far I’ve gotten.
What are you reading right now?
At the moment I am reading an Advance Reader Copy of A Supremely Bad Idea by Luke Dempsey. It’s a very funny book about birdwatching. I never in a million years thought I’d put those two words together. But there they are.
Alright folks. Get reading & get telling me about it!
