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!
Unfortunately, I’ve probably only read 10 on that list…
I think my count was up to about 14 or 15~not just 6, but not that great either! You did very well!
So many books, so little time! I didn’t count, but have enjoyed several of the books from the list. Your son might enjoy you reading Swallows and Amazons aloud in another few years. I read it to Peregrine a year or so ago. It’s great- all the adventure and intrigue of pirates on the high seas, only it’s just a couple of families playing on a lake during their summer holidays. Very fun.
Glad to hear that your days are getting a bit better! Fourteen weeks! Yeah!
Hmm – I think 8 which were all in two novel classes I took in high school.
It gets confusing (as I am not a movie person), because I think there are several others that I have seen in movie form. Oh, I did take a Shakespeare class too.
I’ve read 56.
Lots more I would like to read
I’m also at 47. I’m working on “The Three Musketeers” right now. You are so an English teacher, you rock!
and, yay about feeling better.
I have read 54. BTW…”Love in the time of Chlorea” was on Oprah’s book list and it’s a GREAT book.
Congrats on #3 and glad to hear that you are feeling better.
I continually pray for your mom. Thanks for the update as my folks have been asking.
53 for me, but I’m currently reading three more… that is, if I can find them…
The Shadow of the Wind is a must-read! I’ve read many on the list & this one captivated me…