BBC books

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 then number the ones you have read, so by the end, you have your count. Tag other book nerds.

1 Pride and Prejudice -1
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien-2
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte -3
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling - 4
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee - 5
6 The Bible - I've read the first half
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte - 6
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens - 7
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott - 8
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller - 9
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare - All of them? Now that is just B.S. Lame.
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier - 10
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien - 11
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger - 12
19 The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger -
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell - 13
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald - 14
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 -15
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck - I've read half
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll -
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame - 16
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy - 17
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens -
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis - 18
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen -
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis - 19 (why is this on here twice?)
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini -
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres -
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden - 20
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne -
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell - 21
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown - 22
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez - 23
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving -
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins -It's on my list
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery -24
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood -
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding - 25
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan -26
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel - 27
52 Dune - Frank Herbert - 28
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons -
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen - 29
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 - Mark Haddon - 30
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez -31
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck - 32
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov -33
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 - 34 Why is this horrible book on here??
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 - 35
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray - 36 some parts I loved, a lot of parts I hated
80 Possession - AS Byatt –
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens -
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell -
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker - 37
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 - 38
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - 39 (or at least the Hound of the Baskervilles, so I think it counts)
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad -
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery - 40 In spanish boo ya!
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams -
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole - 41
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare - 42
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory -43
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo -

Woo hoo. I'd think 43 is pretty good. And I wasn't counting those that I could not really remember or had only read part of. I always knew I was above average. Just kidding. Actually I am pretty impressed with myself. I wonder if my dad or English teacher auntie can rival me. Anyone who reads, send me a list of the one's you've read, I'm curious. Or you can post it in the comments, which you can do anonymously (for you Old People), but sign your name or something. Too bad this list is mostly biased towards British authors.

1. Dad has read 40, and is in the middle of reading Les Miserables and Lolita. So we shall give him the score of 42 in good confidence.
2. Auntie has read 41. Pretty close. And by the way, I'd vote for Hamlet over Macbeth any day.
3. My BFF, Spanky Bottoms, (her prostitute name according to one randomly generated name thingy, but a classy one no doubt) has a count of 25. Could have been higher but she apparently did not do all her required reading from high school. Silly girl.
4. Gas Monkey has read 5. He needs to get on it. A little under average, making him a little sad.