I first saw this meme over at Constance’s Ruminations blog, and as I haven’t done a meme in a while I thought I’d give it a go.
Apparently the BBC believe most people have read only six (any six, I think) of the 100 books on the list below.
Well, I’ll show them!
So here goes! The crosses are next to books I have read.
1. Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen – x
2. The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien – x
3. Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte – x
4. Harry Potter series – JK Rowling – x
5. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee – x
6 . The Bible x (hey, enough to count, I think. Strict Catholic upbringing and all that…)
7. Wuthering Heights – x
8. Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell – x
9. His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman –
10. Great Expectations – Charles Dickens – x
11 . Little Women – Louisa M Alcott – x
12 . Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy – x
13. Catch 22 – Joseph Heller –
14. Complete Works of Shakespeare – (not enough to count…)
15. Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier – x
16. The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien – x
17. Birdsong – Sebastian Faulk –
18. Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger -x
19. The Time Traveler’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger – x
20. Middlemarch – George Eliot – (Half-way! So agonising I have to say no.)
21. Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell – x
22. The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald –
23. Bleak House – Charles Dickens – x
24. War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy – (1/3 of the way)
25. The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams –
27. Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky – (Half way!)
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 – Half way!
32. David Copperfield – Charles Dickens –
33. Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis – x
34. Emma – Jane Austen –
35. Persuasion – Jane Austen – x
36. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – CS Lewis – x
37. The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini –
38. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis De Bernieres – First few chapters
39. Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden – x
40. Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne –
41. Animal Farm – George Orwell – x
42. The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown – x
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 – 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 –
51. Life of Pi – Yann Martel –
52. Dune – Frank Herbert –
53. Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons – x
54. Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen – x
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 – Mark Haddon – x
60. Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez –
61. Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck –
62. Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov – x
63. The Secret History – Donna Tartt – x
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 – x
68. Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helen Fielding – x
69. Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie –
70. Moby Dick – Herman Melville –
71. Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens –
72. Dracula – Bram Stoker – x
73. The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett – x
74. Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson –
75. Ulysses – James Joyce –
76. The Inferno – Dante –
77. Swallows and Amazons – Arthur Ransome –
78. Germinal – Emile Zola –
79. Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray – x
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 – x
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 – x
90. The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton – x
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 – x
99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl – x
100. Les Miserables – Victor Hugo –
How many?
42.
(Unless I added up wrong)
Not bad. Now if only I’d been a bit more persistent with some of the titles, that’d make up a few more…
How about you? What’s your number?
