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Tuesday, March 31, 2009

kitty: "The BBC reckons most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books listed here."

















A dear friend recently posted a post about the top 100 books that BBC viewers voted on in 2003. Recently though the "The BBC reckons most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books listed here."

She was interested in hearing which ones her friends had read and loved.

Instructions:
Copy and paste the list to your notes page
Review the list and put an 'X' after those you have read.
Add a '+' to the ones you LOVE.
Star * those you plan on reading.
Tally your total at the bottom.

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
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte X+
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens X+

RUNNING TOTAL 8

11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott X+
12 Tess of the D'Ubervilles- Thomas Hardy X
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller X
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare X
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier X
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien X
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger X+
19 The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger X
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot

RUNNING TOTAL 16

21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell X+
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald X+
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens X
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy X
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams X+
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh X
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky X +
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck X
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll X+
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame X+

RUNNING TOTAL 26

31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy X+
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens X+
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis X+
34 Emma - Jane Austen X+
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen X+
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis X+
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini X+
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden X
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne X

RUNNING TOTAL 35

41 Animal Farm - George Orwell X
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown X
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins X
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery X+
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood X
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding X
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan

RUNNING TOTAL 41

51 Life of Pi - Yann Marte X
52 Dune - Frank Herbert X
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen X+
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens X
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley X
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon X
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

RUNNING TOTAL 47

61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck X+
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov X
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
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville X+

RUNNING TOTAL 54

71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens X+
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker X+
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett X+
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce X
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray X+
80 Possession - AS Byatt

RUNNING TOTAL 59

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 X
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert X+
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
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+
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton X

RUNNING TOTAL 66

91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad X
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery X
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams X+
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole X+
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas X+
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare X
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Facory - Roald Dahl X++++
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo X+

TOTAL: 74

So which ones have you read and which are your favorites. I think it is really sad to think that people may have only read 6 titles from this amazing list of books. Though most of them I read in highschool, so maybe that also says something about modern education.

So pleases consider yourself tagged if you are reading this list.

4 comments:

  1. I totaled 80, but my mother was an English major :) More importantly, I enjoyed only 26 of them. There was a famous book written years ago by a group of English teachers called something like "50 Works of English Literature We Could Do Without." It was hilarious! Good riddance :)

    Oh, found the link! Enjoy!

    http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/b/brigid-brophy/fifty-works-of-english-literature-we-could-do-with.htm

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  2. Alice in Wonderland is on that list of "50 works we could do without"? Awww...
    Sadly I think I've only read about 45 out of the list.. but that's a heck of a lot better than SIX!

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  3. I totaled 49 read and another 20 sitting on bookshelves waiting to be read.

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  4. I had read 64 of these, but was surprised at the number of great books that weren't on the list. Frankenstein anyone? Primary Colors?

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