The Facebook meme goes like this:
Have you read more than 6 of these books? I’ve read X
I don’t actually think the BBC list claimed people only had read six – as far as I can tell, the BBC just collected stats on what books were the most read.. The list is nearly identical to this list, but not quite exactly the same.
Still fun to compare/contrast. I’ve read 64 of these books, plus most of the Bible, plus most of “Complete Works of Shakespeare”, plus a couple Classics Illustrated Comics versions.
The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books here. 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—and that would include me. I want to know who’s read what.
And:
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 -nope
5 To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee – X
6 The Bible -a hard one to answer. I’ve probably read it all, but I can say for certain that I didn’t skip over 2 Thessalonians or something?
7 Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte – X
8 Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell -X
9 His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman -nope
10 Great Expectations – Charles Dickens – X
11 Little Women – Louisa M Alcott – X
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy –X
13 Catch 22 – Joseph Heller –x
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare (not all, but most)
15 Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier – X
16 The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien -X
17 Birdsong – Sebastian Faulk – nope
18 Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger – X
19 The Time Traveler’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger-no
20 Middlemarch – George Eliot -X
21 Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell – X
22 The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald -X
23 Bleak House – Charles Dickens -nope
24 War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy -X
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams -X
27 
Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky -X (one of my favorites of all time)
28 
Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck -X (likewise)
29 Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll-X
30 The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame- X
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 –
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – CS Lewis – X
37 The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini – nope
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis De Bernieres -nope
39 Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden -I don’t think so
40 Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne – X
41 
Animal Farm – George Orwell -X
42 The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown -nope
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez – X
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney – John Irving- X
45 The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins -nope
46 Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery- X
47 Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy -X
48 The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood – X
49 Lord of the Flies – William Golding – X
50 Atonement – Ian McEwan- nope
51 Life of Pi – Yann Martel – nope, though its on my shelf
52 Dune – Frank Herbert -X
53 Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons-nope
54 Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen – X
55 A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth -nope
56 The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon -nope
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 – Mark Haddon- nope
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez – X
61 Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck – X
62 Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov-X
63 The Secret History – Donna Tartt -nope
64 The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold –
65 Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas- no (but I did used to own the Classics Illustrated Comic version!)
66 On The Road – Jack Kerouac -X
67 Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy -X
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helen Fielding- nope
69 Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie –X
70 Moby Dick – Herman Melville -X
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 -nope
75 
Ulysses – James Joyce -X (probably my favorite book, at least at one time in my life. Haven’t re-read in a few years)
76 The Inferno – Dante- partial credit. Need a good translation, any suggestions?
77 Swallows and Amazons – Arthur Ransome -nope
78 Germinal – Emile Zola -nope
79 Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray-X
80 Possession – AS Byatt –nope
81 A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens -X
82 Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell -nope
83 The Color Purple – Alice Walker- X
84 The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro -no
85 Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert -X
86 A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry -nope
87 Charlotte’s Web – EB White – X
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom- nope
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle- X
90 The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton-nope
91 Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad – X
92 The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery -X
93 The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks -nope
94 Watership Down – Richard Adams- X
95 A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole – X
96 A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute -nope
97 The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas -nope (but I did used to own the Classics Illustrated Comic version!)
98 Hamlet – William Shakespeare-X
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl -X
100 Les Miserables – Victor Hugo-X