48…not too bad, I guess!
Have you read more than 6 of these books? The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books listed here. Instructions: Copy this. Bold those books you’ve read in their entirety. I’ve also italiscized those on my ‘to-read’ list…I’m halfway there, right?! 1. Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen 2. The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien 3 Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte 4. Harry Potter series – JK Rowling 5. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee 6. The Bible - Author/s in Debate 7. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte 8. Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell 9. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman 10. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens 11. Little Women - Louisa M Alcott 12. Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy 13. Catch 22- Joseph Heller 14. Complete Works of Shakespeare - I’ve read many, does that count?! 15. Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier 16. The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien 17. Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks 18. Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger 19. The Time Travellers Wife – Audrey Niffenegger 20. Middlemarch – George Eliot 21. Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell 22. The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald 23. Bleak House – Charles Dickens 24. War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy 25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams 26. Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh 27. Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky 28. Grapes of Wrath- Steinbeck 29. Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll 30. The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame 31. Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy 32. David Copperfield – Charles Dickens 33. Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis - Have also read some! 34. Emma – Jane Austen 35. Persuasion – Jane Austen 36. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – CS Lewis 37. The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini 38. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis De Berniere 39. Memoirs of a Geisha - William Golden 40. Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne 41. Animal Farm – George Orwell 42. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown 43. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez 44. A Prayer for Owen Meaney – 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 Handmaids Tale - Margaret Atwood 49. Lord of the Flies – William Golding 50. Atonement - Ian McEwan 51. Life of Pi - Yann Martell 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 59. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon 60. Love in the time of Cholera - Gabriel garcia Marquez 61. Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck 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 67. Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy 68. Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helen Fielding 69. Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie 70. Moby Dick – Herman Melville 71. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens 72. Dracula – Bram Stoker 73. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson 74. Notes from a Small Island - Bill Bryson 75. Ulysses - James Joyce 76. The Bell Jar - Sylivia Plath 77. Swallows and Amazons – Arthur Ransome 78. Germinal – Emile Zola 79. Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray 80. Possession - AS Byat 81. A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens 82. Cloud Atlas - Charles Mitchell 83. The Colour Purple - Alice Walker 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 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 92. 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. Charlie & the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl 100. Les Miserables – Victor Hugo
48…not too bad, I guess!
Have you read more than 6 of these books? The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books listed here. Instructions: Copy this. Bold those books you’ve read in their entirety. I’ve also italiscized those on my ‘to-read’ list…I’m halfway there, right?! 1. Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen 2. The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien 3 Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte 4. Harry Potter series – JK Rowling 5. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee 6. The Bible - Author/s in Debate 7. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte 8. Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell 9. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman 10. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens 11. Little Women - Louisa M Alcott 12. Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy 13. Catch 22- Joseph Heller 14. Complete Works of Shakespeare - I’ve read many, does that count?! 15. Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier 16. The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien 17. Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks 18. Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger 19. The Time Travellers Wife – Audrey Niffenegger 20. Middlemarch – George Eliot 21. Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell 22. The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald 23. Bleak House – Charles Dickens 24. War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy 25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams 26. Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh 27. Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky 28. Grapes of Wrath- Steinbeck 29. Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll 30. The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame 31. Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy 32. David Copperfield – Charles Dickens 33. Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis - Have also read some! 34. Emma – Jane Austen 35. Persuasion – Jane Austen 36. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – CS Lewis 37. The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini 38. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis De Berniere 39. Memoirs of a Geisha - William Golden 40. Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne 41. Animal Farm – George Orwell 42. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown 43. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez 44. A Prayer for Owen Meaney – 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 Handmaids Tale - Margaret Atwood 49. Lord of the Flies – William Golding 50. Atonement - Ian McEwan 51. Life of Pi - Yann Martell 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 59. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon 60. Love in the time of Cholera - Gabriel garcia Marquez 61. Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck 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 67. Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy 68. Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helen Fielding 69. Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie 70. Moby Dick – Herman Melville 71. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens 72. Dracula – Bram Stoker 73. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson 74. Notes from a Small Island - Bill Bryson 75. Ulysses - James Joyce 76. The Bell Jar - Sylivia Plath 77. Swallows and Amazons – Arthur Ransome 78. Germinal – Emile Zola 79. Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray 80. Possession - AS Byat 81. A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens 82. Cloud Atlas - Charles Mitchell 83. The Colour Purple - Alice Walker 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 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 92. 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. Charlie & the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl 100. Les Miserables – Victor Hugo
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