BBC Book Meme

I don’t usually post memes, but I saw this on Celestina Carmen and haven’t been able to stop thinking about it. Mainly because I’m adding more books to my book list now that I have more time to catch up on reading: it looks like a great list of books to choose new titles from. (But also because I need a break in-between concepting for an annual report.)

So apparently, the BBC believes most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here. How do your reading habits stack up? Instructions (if you want to play): Look at the list and put an ‘X’ after those you have read once. Enter a number for the number of times you read something. (Make sure you delete my X’s!) When you’ve finished put your total at the bottom.OK, fellow bookworms, let’s fight dirty!

1 Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen: approx. 3x
2 The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien: at least 4x
3 Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte: at least 3x (one of my favorites)
4 Harry Potter series – JK Rowling: x (too many times to count)
5 To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee: 2x (once in English and once in German)
6 The Bible: (unless you count in church?)
7 Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte: x
8 Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations – Charles Dickens: x
11 Little Women – Louisa M Alcott: x
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy: maybe?…
13 Catch 22 – Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien: at least 4x (once for each time for LotR)
17 Birdsong – Sebastian Faulk
18 Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger: x
20 Middlemarch – George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald: x (loved it!)
23 Bleak House – Charles Dickens: x (highly recommended: my favorite 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: x
33 Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis: x
34 Emma – Jane Austen: 2x
35 Persuasion – Jane Austen: x
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – CS Lewis: x
37 The Kite Runner – Khaled Hossein
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 -
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: 3x
47 Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies – William Golding: x
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: 2x
55 A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zifon
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: x (waaay better than the movie…)
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: x
72 Dracula – Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnet: 6+ x (too many to count: was my favorite as a kid)
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: 2x
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: 2x
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: 2x
90 The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery: x
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: x
98 Hamlet – William Shakespeare: x
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factoy – Roald Dahl: x
100 Les Miserables – Victor Hugo: x (I think? Was a looong time ago…)

TOTAL :: approx. 44 out of 100 if you count the multiple reads…approx. 30 if each book counts only once

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