The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books here. How do your reading habits stack up?
Instructions: Reblog this list with all of this books BOLD, which you have read… (Optional: add MOVIE when you have seen the movie…)
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen -
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien -
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte -
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling -
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee -
6 The Holy Bible -
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte -
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell -
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame -
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy -
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens -
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis -
34 Emma - Jane Austen -
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen -
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis -
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 -
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 -
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 -
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel -
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 -
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 -
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold -
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 -
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville -
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens -
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 –
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens -
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 -
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 -
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 -
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo -
already done this, but oh well.
Bleak House - Charles Dickens 24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy 25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams 27...
13. Grave non aver letto Winnie the Pooh e solo un romanzo di Jane Austen su 4
I think i’v read 53..i’m tired and cant really count aha. oh and i counted harry potter as 7 and narnia as 7
Meh, I’ve only read 8.
I think I counted 29. Normally I’m horribly sad that I haven’t read more, but right now I’m just thinking about how...
Well then. Ahahaha. I miss some of those books and I have to admit, some I didn’t even get to finish =(
Problematisch an der Sache ist, dass ich keine englischen Bücher mag. Wäre dies eine deutsche Liste, hätte ich mit...
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen - 2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien - 3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte - 4 Harry...
italics: movies i watched and books i read i agree with bcaptured, there is a lot of crap on this list. and many many...
41 for me. I agree that this list pretty much leaves out a lot of more important books. It’s interesting that there’s so...
7. but im young so i got time.
Mockingbird - Harper Lee - 6 The Holy Bible - 7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte - 8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George...
30 for me. The ones I put in italics are ones of which I have seen the movies, though I didnt count those in my 30.
if i counted correctly (it’s late and i’m tired) i...on the list. i can’t even believe the...
12. ugh. i need to get a replacement library card and start reading. screw reality give me my books!
can’t bother to count but i do read too much,an yeah bunch of awesomeness is missing here;]
31 *sigh* so many books to read, so little time. Yea, @streetsoftheworld I agree- it may not be graffiti, but it’s worth...
I wont bother to bold - but even though this list favours the English native speakers ( I am not one of them), I managed...
Poo, only 21. All the ones ‘on my list’ are on my bookshelf waiting to be read however so hopefully I’ll have cleared...
43 - i guess i read too much :S
This is a troll. Literary list shenanigans! A typically anemic list. I’ve read the complete works of Shakespeare, but...
48%. this list needs a little more variety.
yeah, got 24%!!!
Strange compilation, I agree. I’ve always preferred German classics.
Better be my reading list since I’m not even a 10% :s
mmmm i feel as though this doesn’t really say much about my reading habits.
what you’ve read
These are the ones...can recall….most were read in high school….
Bleak House - Charles Dickens - 24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy - 25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas...
Mi pare evidente che tendo a vedere...film di cui ho letto il libro :D
24. but all this dickens and austen, goddamn!
100, still 41 is way
i miss german literature! :D
33 for me..1/3…not bad but I agree the list is strange.
43 o 44 faccio fatica...contare…pensavo peggio eh… :) ah…e ho letto pure “piccole donne”...
Bleak House - Charles Dickens - 24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy - 25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas...
books. I think this is quite good...an 17-years-old one.
23 for me. I still miss a lot...writers. oO Strange list.
27%. I think I read a few others in school but only counted the ones that I read recently enough to remember.
even more if i add...movies (which i didnt). more than...it...