6/100

One of Suzanne's friends had this on FB and I though it was interesting.

The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books here. How do your reading habits stack up?Instructions: Copy this into your NOTES. Look at the list and put an ‘x’ after those you have read.

1 Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen – X
2 The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte - X
4 Harry Potter series – JK Rowling – X
5 To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee - X
6 The Bible (I have read most of it, but I can't promise I've read every word.)
7 Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte – X
8 Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell - X
9 His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman -
10 Great Expectations – Charles Dickens -X (Hated it, but had to read it in high school)
11 Little Women – Louisa M Alcott – X
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy - (Supposed to read in high school, didn't!)
13 Catch 22 – Joseph Heller - X
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare -
15 Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier – X
16 The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien -
17 Birdsong – Sebastian Faulk
18 Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger – X
19 The Time Traveler’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger -X (love this one!!!!)
20 Middlemarch – George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell -X
22 The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald – X
23 Bleak House – Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy - (tried...way too boring)
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams -X
27 Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky -(another one I was supposed to read)
28 Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck – X
29 Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll -
30 The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame -
31 Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy -
32 David Copperfield – Charles Dickens - X (and hated every minute of it)
33 Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis – X
34 Emma – Jane Austen –
35 Persuasion – Jane Austen -
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
39 Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden -
40 Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne - X
41 Animal Farm – George Orwell -X
42 The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown – X
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez -X (hated it)
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 - X (hated it)
48 The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood - X
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 -
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 – X
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night – 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 -
64 The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold -
65 Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas-
66 On The Road – Jack Kerouac - X (loved it!)
67 Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy -
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helen Fielding -
69 Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick – Herman Melville - X (hated it)
71 Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens -
72 Dracula – Bram Stoker - X
73 The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett – X (loved it)
74 Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses – James Joyce
76 The Inferno – Dante – X
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 - X
82 Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple – Alice Walker – X
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 – 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
91 Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad - X (hated it)
92 The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint -
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 -X
100 Les Miserables – Victor Hugo

Well, I got 40, which might sound good, but I probably should have read more considering I was an English major....