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' before those you have read. Tag other book nerds.
1 ( ) Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 ( ) The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 ( ) Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 (X)Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 (X)To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 ( ) The Bible >>not all of it!
7 ( ) Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 (X) Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 ( ) His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 ( ) Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
Total: 3
11 ( ) Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 ( ) Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 ( ) Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 ( ) Complete Works of Shakespeare >>again, too many
15 ( ) Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 ( )The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien X
17 ( ) Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 (X) Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 (X) The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 ( ) Middlemarch - George Eliot
Total: 5
21 ( ) Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 (X) The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 ( ) Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 ( ) War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 (X) The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
27 ( ) Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 (X) Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 ( ) Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30 ( ) The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
Total: 8
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 (X)The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis (Isn't this the same as 33?)
37 (X)The Kite Runner - Khaled Hossein
38 ( ) Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 (X) Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 ( ) Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
Total: 11
41 (X)Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 (X)The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43 ( )One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 ( ) A Prayer for Owen Meany - 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
Total: 13
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 (X) Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 (X) The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night - Mark Haddon
60 ( ) Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Total: 15
61 ( ) Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 ( ) Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 ( ) The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 (X) 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
Total: 16
71 ( ) Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 ( ) Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 (X) The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
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
80 ( ) Possession - AS Byatt
Total: 17
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 (X)Charlotte’s Web - EB White X
88 (X) 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
Total: 19
91 ( ) Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 (X)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 (X) Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 ( ) Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
Total: 21
Notable omissions:
( ) Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
( ) All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
( ) The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
( ) Beowulf
( ) Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
( ) Don Quixote by Miguel Cervantes
( )Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
( ) The Illiad by Homer
( )The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
( ) Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham
(X) The Odyssey by Homer
( ) The Once and Future King by T.H. White
( ) The Portrait of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
( ) The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
( ) Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
( ) The Stranger by Albert Camus
( ) Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
( )The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
Extra Points: 5
Total: 35
Copy this into your Notes. Look at the list and put an 'X' before those you have read. Tag other book nerds.
1 ( ) Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 ( ) The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 ( ) Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 (X)Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 (X)To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 ( ) The Bible >>not all of it!
7 ( ) Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 (X) Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 ( ) His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 ( ) Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
Total: 3
11 ( ) Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 ( ) Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 ( ) Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 ( ) Complete Works of Shakespeare >>again, too many
15 ( ) Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 ( )The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien X
17 ( ) Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 (X) Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 (X) The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 ( ) Middlemarch - George Eliot
Total: 5
21 ( ) Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 (X) The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 ( ) Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 ( ) War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 (X) The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
27 ( ) Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 (X) Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 ( ) Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30 ( ) The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
Total: 8
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 (X)The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis (Isn't this the same as 33?)
37 (X)The Kite Runner - Khaled Hossein
38 ( ) Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 (X) Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 ( ) Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
Total: 11
41 (X)Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 (X)The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43 ( )One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 ( ) A Prayer for Owen Meany - 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
Total: 13
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 (X) Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 (X) The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night - Mark Haddon
60 ( ) Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Total: 15
61 ( ) Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 ( ) Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 ( ) The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 (X) 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
Total: 16
71 ( ) Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 ( ) Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 (X) The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
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
80 ( ) Possession - AS Byatt
Total: 17
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 (X)Charlotte’s Web - EB White X
88 (X) 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
Total: 19
91 ( ) Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 (X)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 (X) Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 ( ) Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
Total: 21
Notable omissions:
( ) Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
( ) All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
( ) The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
( ) Beowulf
( ) Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
( ) Don Quixote by Miguel Cervantes
( )Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
( ) The Illiad by Homer
( )The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
( ) Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham
(X) The Odyssey by Homer
( ) The Once and Future King by T.H. White
( ) The Portrait of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
( ) The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
( ) Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
( ) The Stranger by Albert Camus
( ) Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
( )The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
Extra Points: 5
Total: 35
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