• How Well Read Are You?

    Date: 2009.03.03 | Category: Books, mama | Tags:

    The BBC believes most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here:
    How do your reading habits stack up? BOLD those books you’ve read in their entirety.

    1) Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
    2) The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien– I tried to…
    3) Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
    4) Harry Potter series – JK Rowling
    6) The 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– not quite all, but a lot
    15) Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier
    16) The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien
    17) Birdsong – Sebastian Faulk
    18) Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger
    19) The Time Traveller’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
    26) Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
    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 (I read them in a row right before Spunky was born)
    34) Emma – Jane Austen
    35) Persuasion – Jane Austen— I’ve been trying to get my hands on this one!
    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 (again, halfway through)
    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-time – Mark Haddon
    60) Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez (ugh! another gabriel garcia marquez? sheesh!)
    61) Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
    62) Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
    63) The Secret History – Donna Tartt
    64) 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 Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
    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
    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 (part of the complete works)
    99) Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl
    100) Les Miserables – Victor Hugo

    I’ve read 47.  That’s not bad, I guess.  Although there are several on this list that I want to read- I just never read as much as I would like.

    How well did you do?  Reply in the comments or on your blog!