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Thursday 30 April 2009

BBC Booklist

So apparently, the BBC believes most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here. How do your reading habits stack up?

Instructions (if you want to play):

Look at the list and put an 'X' after those you have read once.
Enter a number for the number of times you read something.
Make sure you delete my X's!

OK...

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen - X8(maybe more!)
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien - X
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte - X5
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling - X 3
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee (in my pile to read)
6 The Bible - X
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte - X3
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell - X
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman - (half)
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens - X2
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott - X4
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy - X
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller - (half)
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare - X
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier - X2
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks - in my pile
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger - X
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot - X
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell - X2
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald - (half)
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens - X
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh - in my pile
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck - X
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll - X
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame - X
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy - in my pile
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens - X
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis - X5
34 Emma - Jane Austen - X2
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen - X4 (or more)
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis - X4
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hossein
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden - in my pile
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne - X
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell - X
42 The Da Vinci Code - X
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving - X
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins - X2
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery - X4
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy - X
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood - X
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding - in my pile
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan - X
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons - X
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen - X5
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth - in my pile
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zifon
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 - X
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt - X2
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold - X
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas - X3
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding - X2
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens - X
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker - X2
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett - X4
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson - X
75 Ulysses - James Joyce - in my pile
76 The Inferno - Dante
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray - X2
80 Possession - AS Byatt - half x 2 (too boring)
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens - X2
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro - half
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
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
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton - X4
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 - X2
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare - X10 (studied for A'Level!)
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factoy - Roald Dahl - X4
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

50 books! Not bad...

2 comments:

Hannah said...

Hmmm... interesting. I have read 25 of those, not too good considering I was a librarian for a few years. oh well, in my defence I started probably about 10 more but never finished them, opps ;)

x vInTaGe VioLeT x said...

i've completed 17 of those books but started and tired of a handful of the rest - embarrassingly though most of the ones i've completed are the kids books!