How many of these books have you read?

[Aster]

I was googling and I came acrossed a thread on another forum about this, sooooo...


The Mothership England's BBC believes most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here. How do your reading habits "stack" up?

Instructionslace an 'x' before those you have read.

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
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
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller’s 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 - John 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
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 Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur 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 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
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 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 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
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 and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

[Sol]

BBC believes most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here.

I suppose they mean those who have English as main. As for books - a strange mix. Also I suspect their compilation is more interesting for F types.

I read:
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
6 The Bible
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery

This or part of a book should be in school, but I did not read it for myself:
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare (something of him)
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy

[lemontrees]

57, but only if you count half-read books

[ashlesha]

Read
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling (except for like the last half of the last book - my son got old enuf to finish it himself, and impatient)


Partially read
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
6 The Bible
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett


a couple others (dracula, lord of the flies) are on my bookshelf but i haven't gotten to them yet.

[Aylen]

I did a quick scan and got 34 but I will look at it again later. Some of these were fresh on my mind since I recently linked my goodreads to fb. It reminded me of books I had forgotten to add too.

[totalize]

34, shade over 33%

1 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
2 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
3 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
4 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
5 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
6 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
7 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
8 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
9 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
10 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
11 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
12 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
13 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
14 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
15 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
16 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
17 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
18 Animal Farm - George Orwell
19 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
20 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
21 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
22 Dune - Frank Herbert
23 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
24 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
25 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
26 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
27 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
28 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
29 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
30 Ulysses - James Joyce
31 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
32 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad s
33 Watership Down - Richard Adams
34 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl

[SongOfSapphire]

I have read these 57:

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 (not cover-to-cover, I should note)
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
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 Bernieres
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
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
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

[Olimpia]

So far, I have read from this list:

• Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
• Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
• Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
• Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
• Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
• Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
• The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
• Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
• Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
• Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
• The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
• Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
• Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
• Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
• Dracula - Bram Stoker

[Persephone]

55. I read a lot of those in English too. I guess I am a monster...

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
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
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
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur 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 Meany - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
70 Moby-Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Inferno - Dante
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

[Emmym]

23, but I have A Suitable Boy and Rebecca on my to-read list (and on my bookcase).

[Moonbeaux Rainfox]

8. I always knew, I was not very well read. Persuasion, Jane Eyre and Sherlock Holmes are the books from that list, where I can say, that I really enjoyed reading them. I liked them so much, that I have the books at home and well... I only own about 4 books. I have other books in epub, that are very dear to me, but idk... people might consider them crappy or weird... idk... but hey, I take my insights, where I can find them... idc... and well... sometimes I just stumbled upon/digged sth. up, started it and... yeah... it resonated deeply with me and really left an impression, impacted me, like I can really feel... it's coming from somebody... idk... likeminded. I reread parts even years after. I don’t even want to tell anyone about them. I like, that they are not on any list. They are mine/belong to me. Note: Started War and Peace 2 years ago, then stopped, someday...