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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2 responses so far ↓
1 tina // Apr 6, 2009 at 10:05 am
Oooo, I didn’t think about counting the ones I read more than once. My number would definitely look better.
2 Lorraine // Apr 6, 2009 at 10:07 am
I wasn’t sure how to count them! But figured this way made me look more well-read.
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