Have you read more than 6 of these books?
The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books here. How do your reading habits stack up?
Instructions: Copy this into your NOTES. Look at the list and put an 'x' after those you have read. Tag other book nerds. Tag me as well so i can see your responses!
I have read 32 out 99. Not bad but not good either.
# Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen (X)
# The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien ()# Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte (X)# Harry Potter series - JK Rowling (X)# To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee (X)# The Bible ()# Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte (X)# Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell (X)# His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman ()# Great Expectations - Charles Dickens (X)# Little Women - Louisa M Alcott (X)# Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy (X)# Catch 22 - Joseph Heller (X)# Complete Works of Shakespeare ()# Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier(X)# The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien ()# Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk ()# Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger ()# The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger ()# Middlemarch - George Eliot ()# Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell (X)# The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald ()# Bleak House - Charles Dickens ()# War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy ()# The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams ()# Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky (TBR)# Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck (TBR)# Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll (X)# The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame ()# Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy ()# David Copperfield - Charles Dickens (X)# Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis ()# Emma-Jane Austen ()# Persuasion - Jane Austen ()# The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis ()# The Kite Runner - Khaled Hossein (X)# Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres ()# Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden ()# Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne ()# Animal Farm - George Orwell (X)# The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown (X)# One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez (TBR)# A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving ()# The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins ()# Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery ()# Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy (X)# The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood (X)# Lord of the Flies - William Golding ()# Atonement - Ian McEwan ()# Life of Pi - Yann Martel ()# Dune - Frank Herbert ()# Cold Comfort Farm ()# Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen ()# A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth ()# The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon ()# A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens (X)# Brave New World - Aldous Huxley (X)# The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night - Mark Haddon ()# Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez (TBR)# Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck ()# Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov ()# The Secret History - Donna Tartt ()# The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold ()# Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas (X)# On The Road - Jack Kerouac ()# Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy (X)# Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding ()# Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie (X)# Moby Dick - Herman Melville ()# Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens (X)# Dracula - Bram Stoker (X)# The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett ()# Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson (X)# Ulysses - James Joyce ()# The Inferno – Dante ()# Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome ()# Germinal - Emile Zola ()# Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray (X)# Possession - AS Byatt ()# A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens ()# Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell ()# The Color Purple - Alice Walker ()# The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro ()# Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert ()# A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry ()# Charlotte’s Web - EB White ()# The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom ()# Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (X)# The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton (X)# Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad (X)# The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery ()# The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks ()# Watership Down - Richard Adams ()# A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole ()# A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute ()# The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas (TBR)# Hamlet - William Shakespeare (X)# Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl (X)# Les Miserables - Victor Hugo ()
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15 comments:
You've read more than many people! But I look at it this way: the less I've read, the more great literature I have in my future!
I counted 18 that I have read, but I do have about another 10 waiting to be read in my collection.
Haha! I think that this is the list from the top 100 summer reads. (I commented on them in a post yesterday). Too funny. :)
If I counted right, I've read 30 of them.
I read 19 of them, but I recognized many titles of my TBR pile! I don' know what it says about my reading though.
For a moment there I thought someone had finally come up with a list without 'doubles', but alas. They persist. (Drives me mad, really.) Anyway, of the original list I have 26 read and 4 partially read. Curiously, given my preferred reading genre, most of those 26 books weren't read for course requirements. That does surprise me as I wasn't expecting it.
I'd really love to see a list like this purely with author names, though. That seems like an interesting one.
I just finished my 30th book on this list yesterday. Interesting how they list the complete works of Shakespears (check) AND Hamlet.
I've read 39. I linked to your post at http://boardinginmyforties.blogspot.com. Thanks for a fun quiz!
I've read 30 and I'm okay with that.
I've read 79 of them. There were four more that I started but did not finish. Honest. I think maybe I'm just older than the rest of your commenters. I do think this list is a little random.
Why does Harry Potter count as one book? It should count as six. It's very long.
If I counted right, I've read 64 in full, abandoned a handful of others, refuse to read at least two because I didn't like other books by the authors, and read parts of others (several of Shakespeare's plays and sonnets but not the complete works, for example), and read a handful of the other authors, but not the specific works listed here.
I am sitting not-so-pretty at 21 out of 99 - darn that wily BBC! Here's a link to my list.
That is a fascinating list.
I've read these:
# Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
# The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
# Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
# To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
# The Bible
# Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
# Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
# Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
# Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
# Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
# Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
# Complete Works of Shakespeare
# Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
# The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
# Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
# Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
# The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
# War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
# Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
# Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
# Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
# Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
# David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
# Emma-Jane Austen
# Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
# Animal Farm - George Orwell
# The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
# Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
# Lord of the Flies - William Golding
# Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
# A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
# Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
# Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
# The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
# Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
# Moby Dick - Herman Melville
# Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
# Dracula - Bram Stoker
# The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
# Ulysses - James Joyce
# The Inferno – Dante
# A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
# The Color Purple - Alice Walker
# Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
# Charlotte’s Web - EB White
# Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
# The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
# Hamlet - William Shakespeare
# Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
49 of 99 is not bad, right?
My number is 55. The fact that some of those were repeated drives me insane.
I did this on Facebook and I can't remember my actual number but it was around your number.
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