Thursday, July 30, 2009

Have you read more than 6 of these books? I'm sure you have if you are a book blogger and lover of books

From For the Love of All Books blog
Have you read more than 6 of these books?The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books here.( This may not actually be from the BBC but it was fun to do anyway-bookmagic) 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.
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen (X)
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien ()
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte (X)
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling ()
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee(X)
6 The Bible ()
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 () half of it
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller ()
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare ()
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier(X)
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien ()
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk ()
18Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger(X)
19 The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger () tbr pile
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 ()
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky (X)
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck(x)
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll ()
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame()
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy (X)
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens ()
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis ()
34 Emma-Jane Austen (X)-
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen (X)
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis ()
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hossein (X)
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden ()
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne(X)
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell ()
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown (X)
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez (X)
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving ()
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins ()
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery (X)
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy ()
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood ()
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding (X)
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan (X)
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel ()
52 Dune - Frank Herbert()
53 Cold Comfort Farm (X)
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen (X)
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon () I'm 1/2way done
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens(X)
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley()
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night - Mark Haddon (X)
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez ()
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck (X)
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov() tbr pile
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt (X)
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold (X)
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas(X)
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac()
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding (X)
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie () tbr pile
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville()
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens()
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker (X)
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett (X)
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson (X)
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Inferno – Dante ()
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray (X)
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens (X)
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker (X)
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert (X)
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry (X)
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White (X)
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom ()
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle(x) some of them
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(X)
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole()
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute ()
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas (X)
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare (X)
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl ()
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo(X)


Well I got less than 50 but that certainly beats the 6 expected of me by the BBC. I definitely need to read more Dickens.

3 comments:

Jaime said...

That's awesome!! A lot more then the 6.

Ryan G said...

You have me beat hands down

Sandra said...

I've read 30 of them. I don't know what that says about me but I'm fine with it. You did very well indeed.

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