The BBC believes most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here. How do your reading habits stack up?"I've augmented the commenting slightly with these instructions:
Instructions:
1) Look at the list and put an 'x' after those you have read.
2) Add a '+' to the ones you LOVE.
3) Star (*) those you plan on reading.
- Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen x
- The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien x+
- Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
- Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
- To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee x+
- The Bible x+
- Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
- Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell x
- His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman x
- Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
- Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
- Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
- Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
- Complete Works of Shakespeare
- Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
- The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien x
- Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks x
- Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger x
- The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger x
- Middlemarch- George Eliot
- Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
- The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
- Bleak House - Charles Dickens *
- War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy x
- The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy -
Douglas Adams x - Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh *
- Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky x
- Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck x
- Alice in Wonderland- Lewis Carroll x
- The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth
Grahame x - Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy x
- David Copperfield - Charles Dickens x
- Chronicles of Narnia -CS Lewis x
- Emma - Jane Austen
- Persuasion- Jane Austen
- The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe -CS Lewis x
- The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini x
- Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
- Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden x (mostly)
- Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne x
- Animal Farm - George Orwell x
- The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown x
- One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez x
- A Prayerfor Owen Meaney - John Irving
- The Woman in White -Wilkie Collins
- Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
- Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
- The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood x
- Lord of theFlies - William Golding x
- Atonement - Ian McEwan *
- Life of Pi - Yann Martel
- Dune - Frank Herbert x
- Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
- Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
- A Suitable Boy - Vikram
Seth - The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
- A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
- Brave New World - Aldous Huley x
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon x*
- Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Of Mice and Men -John Steinbeck x
- Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
- The Secret History - Donna Tartt
- The Lovely
Bones - Alice Sebold - Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
- On The Road - Jack Kerouac
- Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
- Bridget Jones’s Diary
- Helen Fielding - Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie *
- Moby Dick - Herman Melville
- Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens x
- Dracula - Bram Stoker
- The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Notes FromA Small Island - Bill Bryson
- Ulysses - James Joyce
- The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
- Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome x
- Germinal - Emile Zola x
- Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
- Possession - AS Byatt x
- A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens x
- Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
- The Color Purple - Alice Walker
- The Remains of theDay - Kazuo Ishiguro
- Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
- A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
- Charlotte’s Web - EB White
- The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
- Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle x
- The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
- Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad *
- The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Eupery x
- The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks *
- Watership Down - Richard Adams x
- A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
- A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
- The Three
Musketeers - Aleandre Dumas - Hamlet - William Shakespeare x
- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory -Roald Dahl
- Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
I make that 41 out of the 100.
I must look at the css for this blogger style it removes numbers from ordered html lists, which (IMHO) is just perverse!
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