Have You Read More Than 6 of These Books?

Rumor has it that the BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books listed here.

Instructions:

▪  Copy this.

▪  Bold those books you've read in their entirety.

▪  Italicize the ones you started but didn't finish or read only an excerpt.

▪  Post.

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 DuMaurier

16. The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien

17. Birdsong -Sebastian Faulk

18. Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger 

19. The Time Traveler’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

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 - CSLewis

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 - A.A. 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 Meaney - 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 - E.B. 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  (Wasn't this included in the complete works?)

99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl

100. Les Miserables -Victor Hugo

No Poe? No Twain?

At least I've read 14 of these books (not 6), although I think this list clearly shows that I have a hard time finishing the classics. I'll have to work on that!