Just to kill a bit of time, I'm going to do the BBC's Book List thing that's been floating around some book blogs. Tomorrow I'll be finishing off my review for Shame On You and taking part in my first Weekly Geeks task :-) (and anything else that distracts me).
From what I can gather with this list of books the BBC have compiled, they predict that most people will only have read about 6 from this list of 99. Yikes! Knowing me, I've probably only read 4. I've seen a million different versions of this though so I'm just grabbing the last one I read.
Well, here goes ...
I'm gonna put an (X) next to those I've read and a (TBR) next to those I own but have yet to read.
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001 Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen (X)
002 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
003 Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte (X)
004 Harry Potter Series - JK Rowling (TBR)
005 To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee (X)
006 The Bible
007 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte (X)
008 Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell (X)
009 His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman
010 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
011 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
012 Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
013 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
014 Complete Works of Shakespeare (TBR)
015 Rebecca - Daphne De Maurier
016 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
017 Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks
018 Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger (X)
019 The Time Traveller’s Wife- Audrey Niffenegger (X)
020 Middlemarch – George Eliot
021 Gone With the Wind - Margaret Mitchell (TBR)
022 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
023 Bleak House – Charles Dickens (Tried and failed this one two years ago)
024 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
025 The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
026 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
027 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
028 Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck (X)
029 Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll (X)
030 The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame
031 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
032 David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
033 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
034 Emma – Jane Austen (X)
035 Persuasion - Jane Austen (X)
036 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis (Isn't that the same as number 33?)
037 The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
038 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis De Berniere
039 Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden (X)
040 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
041 Animal Farm - George Orwell
042 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown (X)
043 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
044 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
045 The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins (X)
046 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
047 Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy (X)
048 The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
049 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
050 Atonement – Ian McEwan (X)
051 Life of Pi – Yann Martel
052 Dune - Frank Herbert
053 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
054 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen (TBR)
055 A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth
056 The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon
057 A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
058 Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
059 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon (X)
060 Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez (TBR)
061 Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck (X)
062 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov (TBR)
063 The Secret History – Donna Tartt
064 The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold (X)
065 Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
066 On The Road – Jack Kerouac (X)
067 Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy
068 Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helen Fielding (X)
069 Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
070 Moby Dick – Herman Melville
071 Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
072 Dracula – Bram Stoker (X)
073 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
074 Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson (X)
075 Ulysses – James Joyce
076 The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath (X)
077 Swallows and Amazons – Arthur Ransome
078 Germinal – Emile Zola
079 Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
080 Possession - AS Byatt
081 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
082 Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
083 The Color Purple – Alice Walker (X)
084 The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro (X)
085 Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
086 A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
087 Charlotte's Web - EB White
088 The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom
089 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
090 The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton
091 Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad (X)
092 The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery
093 The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks
094 Watership Down – Richard Adams
085 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
096 A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute
097 The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
098 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
099 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl (X)
100 Les Miserables – Victor Hugo
28/100
That's not bad considering I learned how to read twenty years ago :-D By the time I'm 90, I'll finally make it to 100.
How many have you read?
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8 comments:
At this point, I'm at 39 and 4 partials (one's I've read part of and gave up). I did this on facebook awhile back, and I find the list a bit suspicious considering The Chronicles of Narnia is included as well as a separate entry of The Lion etc. Same thing with Shakespeare - an entry for his complete works, and then some separate ones for individual plays.
28 is good! I agree with Amanda about the separate entries, but I think they probably listed only the most popular works. A lot of people have probably read The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe but not the rest of the series. I would have thought Romeo and Juliet would have been the most popular of Shakespeare's works though...
I did this list too, I've read around 15 I think. But I do have at least 10 in my TBR :)
28 is cool :)
For the moment, I've only read 13 of them learned how two read about 22 years ago so I guess, I'll need about 200 years to read them all ;-)
Not bad at all! I have an award for you HERE!
Amanda - I totally agree. It looks like some people have swapped around a lot of the books.
Susan - Me too! I thought Romeo and Juliet was the more known play so it was quite surprising to not see that on this list.
Violet - 15's a very good number. :-D I've yet to see anyone only hit the '6' mark that the BBC predicted.
LN - Haha! Knowing the bunch of us bookworms that's probably what we'd end up doing if we lived for 200 years! ;-)
Jaime - Thank you so much, hun. :-D That is such a cool award.
I'm so sad... there are only 17 on the list I haven't read! Do I have a life?
Anon - Haha, no, I'm jealous. I wish I was a fast reader so i could get through books much much quicker.
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