August 1, 2009

BBC 100

I saw this on Trin's Bloody Bad Book Blog. I thought it would be fun to try.

Have you read more than 6 of these books?

This is a great quiz by Jamie @ Book Nerd Extraordinaire

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. Tag other book nerds. Tag me as well so i can see your responses!

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) (Does is count if I've read most of it??)
7. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte (X)
8. Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell ()
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 ()
13. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller ()
14. Complete Works of Shakespeare ()
15. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier(X)
16. The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien (X)
17. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk ()
18. Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger ()
19. The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger ()
20. Middlemarch - George Eliot ()
21. Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell ()
22. The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald (X)
23. Bleak House - Charles Dickens ()
24. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy ()
25. The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams (X)
26. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky ()
27. Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck ()
28. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll (X)
29. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame ()
30. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy ()
31. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens ()
32. Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis (X)
33. Emma-Jane Austen (X)
34. Persuasion - Jane Austen ()
35. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis (X)
36. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hossein (X)
37. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres ()
38. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden ()
39. Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne (X)
40. Animal Farm - George Orwell ()
41. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown (X)
42. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez ()
43. A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving ()
44. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins ()
45. Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery ()
46. Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy ()
47. The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood ()
48. Lord of the Flies - William Golding ()
49. Atonement - Ian McEwan ()
50. Life of Pi - Yann Martel ()
51. Dune - Frank Herbert ()
52. Cold Comfort Farm ()
53. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen (X)
54. A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth ()
55. The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon ()
56. A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens ()
57. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley ()
58. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night - Mark Haddon ()
59. Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez ()
60. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck ()
61. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov ()
62. The Secret History - Donna Tartt ()
63. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold ()
64. Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas (X)
65. On The Road - Jack Kerouac ()
66. Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy ()
67. Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding ()
68. Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie ()
69. Moby Dick - Herman Melville ()
70. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens ()
71. Dracula - Bram Stoker (X)
72. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett (X)
73. Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson ()
74. Ulysses - James Joyce ()
75. The Inferno – Dante ()
76. Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome ()
77. Germinal - Emile Zola ()
78. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray ()
79. Possession - AS Byatt ()
80. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens ()
81. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell ()
82. The Color Purple - Alice Walker ()
83. The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro ()
84. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert ()
85. A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry ()
86. Charlotte’s Web - EB White (X)
87. The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom ()
88. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ()
89. The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton ()
90. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad ()
91. The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery ()
92. The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks ()
93. Watership Down - Richard Adams ()
94. A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole ()
95. A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute ()
96. The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas ()
97. Hamlet - William Shakespeare ()
98. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl (X)
99. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo ()
Ah, ha there were only 99 if you go to the other sites 26 is missing.

Woo hoo. I have read 26 of the 99 listed. Okay, I'll take off a half point for the Bible. Hey, it's a big book. Still, I am less than 50%. It looks like I have more reading to do. I have The Three Musketeers and Persuasion audiobooks ready to listen to. I just haven't finished them so I can't count them yet.

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6 Comments:

Candi said...

I got 32. Phew. I'm not dumb or completely uninformed according to the BBC.

Haiku Amy said...

Candi- Wow, look at you! That is pretty good.

Suey said...

My count... 61... not counting the Bible... and I'm half way through War and Peace! :)

Haiku Amy said...

Suey- I am most impressed.

Anonymous said...

I have read 27 but does watching the movie count?

Angela the mother said...

anonymous is me because I can't remember my password or user name....maybe I have read more of the books on the list and can't remember that also.