The BBC believes most people will have read only six of the one hundred books here. How do your reading habits stack up?
Instructions: Look at the list, and mark those you have read.
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen (movie)
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien (movie)
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte (X)
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling (never)
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee (X)
6 The Bible (X)
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte (movie)
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell (parts)
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman ( - )
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens (movie)
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott (movie)
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy (parts)
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller (parts)
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare (parts)
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier (parts, movie)
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien (parts)
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk ( - )
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger (X)
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger ( - )
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot (movie)
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell (movie)
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald (parts)
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens (movie)
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy (parts)
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams ( - )
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh (movie)
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky (movie)
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck (parts)
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll (parts)
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame (parts)
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy ( - )
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens (movie)
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis (parts)
34 Emma - Jane Austen (movie)
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen (movie)
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis (parts)
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini ( - )
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres (movie)
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden ( - )
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne (parts)
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell (X)
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 ( - )
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 (X)
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan (movie)
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel (X)
52 Dune - Frank Herbert (movie)
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons ( - )
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen (movie)
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth ( - )
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon ( - )
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 (parts)
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov (X)
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 (movie)
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie (X)
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville (parts, movie)
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens (movie, play)
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker (movie)
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett (X)
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson ( - )
75 Ulysses - James Joyce (X)
76 The Inferno - Dante (parts)
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome ( - )
78 Germinal - Emile Zola ( - )
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray (movie)
80 Possession - AS Byatt ( - )
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens (X)
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell ( - )
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker (movie)
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro (movie)
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert (parts)
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 (never)
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 (movie)
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare (X)
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl (never)
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo (play)
I seem to have read 20? And (parts) of, or seen a (movie) or (play) of 42 more. And (never) want anything to do with a few after that.
Earthling, American, and mis-anGlop that I am, I'd like to see a good international list and an American list.
This is my bit of a blog. Rambling words about rambling days. No focus and nothing ambitious. I seem to write most about local color, nature, and animals, and there is an incomplete chunk about my road trips of 2011.
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