Wednesday, November 24, 2010

How Many Of These Books Have You Read?

I just picked this up off the internet.
According to the BBC, "most" people will have read less than 6 of the books on this list.  I have NO idea why these books in particular were selected.......
Here's the list:


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 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 Faulks


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


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 Berniere


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-time – 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 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


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




2 comments:

  1. I think I have read 38 of them. An odd mixture in this list.

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  2. I agree. I think that I have read about 48 or so. But I'd really like to know what the criteria was for selecting these.....and whether reading Hamlet + all of Shakespeare's works (separate entries) isn't really 1 point instead of 2??????

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