The BBC believes most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here. How do your reading habits stack up??
Instructions:
Look at the list and put an 'x' before those you have read.
(I noticed that there were quite a lot that I had read portions of, so I put a / in front of the ones that I started but didn't, couldn't or haven't finished yet--mainly to make myself feel better.)
( /) 1 The Bible
( ) 2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
( /) 3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
( x) 4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
( x) 5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
( ) 6 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
( x) 7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
( x) 8 1984 - George Orwell
( ) 9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
( x) 10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
( ) 11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
( ) 12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
( x) 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
( x) 18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
( ) 19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
( ) 20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
( x) 21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchel
( x) 22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
( ) 23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
( ) 24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
( ) 25 The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
( ) 26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
( ) 27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
( /) 28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
( x) 29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carrol
( ) 30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
( ) 31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
( ) 32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
( x) 33 The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe - CS Lewis
( ) 34 Emma - Jane Austen
( ) 35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
( ) 36 The Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
( x) 37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
( ) 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
( x) 42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
( ) 43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
( ) 44 A Prayer for Owen Meany - 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 Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
( ) 49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
( ) 50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
( x) 51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
( ) 52 Dune - Frank Herbert
( ) 53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
( ) 54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen-
( ) 55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Set
( ) 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
( ) 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
( x) 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
( x) 73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
( ) 74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
( ) 75 Ulysses - James Joyce
( ) 76 The Inferno - Dante
( ) 77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
( ) 78 Germinal - Emile Zola
( ) 79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
( ) 80 Possession - AS Byatt
( ) 81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
( ) 82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
( ) 83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
( ) 84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
( ) 85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
( ) 86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
( x) 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
( x) 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
( x) 98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
( x) 99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
( /) 100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
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