Have you read more than 6 of these books? The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books listed here.
\nWhich I, by the way, think is a ridiculously small number. If you haven’t read at least six, you’d better start reading!<\/i><\/p>\n
Instructions: Copy this into your NOTES. Bold those books you’ve read in their entirety; italicize the ones you started but didn’t finish or from which you’ve read an excerpt. <\/p>\n
1. Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen <\/strong><\/p>\n 2. The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien<\/strong><\/p>\n 3. Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte<\/strong><\/p>\n 4. Harry Potter series – JK Rowling<\/p>\n 5. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee <\/strong><\/p>\n 6. The Bible<\/strong> <\/p>\n 7. Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte<\/strong><\/p>\n There we go–I’ve got six. I can stop now, right?<\/p>\n 8. Nineteen Eighty Four (1984) – George Orwell <\/p>\n 9. His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman <\/p>\n 10. Great Expectations – Charles Dickens<\/em><\/p>\n 11. Little Women – Louisa M Alcott <\/strong><\/p>\n 12. Tess of the D\u2019Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy<\/p>\n 13. Catch 22 – Joseph Heller<\/p>\n 14. Complete Works of Shakespeare<\/em> <\/p>\n 15. Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier<\/p>\n 16. The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien<\/strong><\/p>\n 17. Birdsong – Sebastian Faulk<\/p>\n 18. Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger<\/p>\n 19. The Time Traveler\u2019s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger<\/p>\n 20. Middlemarch – George Eliot<\/strong><\/p>\n 21. Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell<\/strong><\/p>\n 22. The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald<\/strong><\/p>\n 24. War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy<\/p>\n 25. The Hitch Hiker\u2019s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams<\/strong><\/p>\n 27. Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky<\/p>\n 28. Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck<\/strong><\/p>\n 29. Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll<\/strong><\/p>\n 30. The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame<\/p>\n 31. Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy<\/p>\n 32. David Copperfield – Charles Dickens <\/p>\n 33. Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis <\/strong><\/p>\n 34. Emma -Jane Austen<\/strong><\/p>\n 35. Persuasion – Jane Austen<\/strong><\/p>\n 36. The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe – CS Lewis<\/strong> 37. The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini<\/p>\n 38. Captain Corelli\u2019s Mandolin – Louis De Bernieres<\/p>\n 39 Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden<\/p>\n 40 Winnie the Pooh – A.A. Milne<\/strong><\/p>\n 41. Animal Farm – George Orwell<\/strong><\/p>\n 42. The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown<\/p>\n 43. One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez<\/p>\n 44. A Prayer for Owen Meaney – John Irving<\/p>\n 45. The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins<\/p>\n 46. Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery<\/strong> <\/p>\n 47. Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy<\/p>\n 48. The Handmaid\u2019s Tale – Margaret Atwood <\/p>\n 49. Lord of the Flies – William Golding <\/strong><\/p>\n 50. Atonement – Ian McEwan<\/p>\n 51. Life of Pi – Yann Martel<\/p>\n 52. Dune – Frank Herbert <\/p>\n 53. Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons<\/p>\n 54. Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen<\/strong><\/p>\n 55. A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth<\/p>\n 56. The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon<\/p>\n 57. A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens<\/strong><\/p>\n 58. Brave New World – Aldous Huxley<\/p>\n 59. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon <\/p>\n 60. Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez<\/p>\n 61. Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck <\/p>\n 62. Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov<\/p>\n 63. The Secret History – Donna Tartt<\/p>\n 64. The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold<\/p>\n 65. The Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas<\/p>\n 66. On The Road – Jack Kerouac <\/p>\n 67. Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy<\/p>\n 68. Bridget Jones\u2019s Diary – Helen Fielding<\/strong><\/p>\n 69. Midnight\u2019s Children – Salman Rushdie<\/p>\n 70. Moby Dick – Herman Melville<\/p>\n 71. Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens<\/em><\/p>\n 72. Dracula – Bram Stoker<\/p>\n 73. The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett<\/strong><\/p>\n 74. Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson<\/p>\n 75. Ulysses – James Joyce <\/p>\n 76. The Inferno – Dante<\/p>\n 77. Swallows and Amazons – Arthur Ransome<\/p>\n 78. Germinal – Emile Zola<\/p>\n 79. Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray<\/p>\n 80. Possession – AS Byatt<\/p>\n 81. A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens<\/strong><\/p>\n 82. Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell<\/p>\n 83. The Color Purple – Alice Walker <\/p>\n 84. The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro<\/p>\n 85. Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert<\/p>\n 86. A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry <\/p>\n 87. Charlotte\u2019s Web – E.B. White<\/strong><\/p>\n 88. The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom<\/p>\n 89. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle<\/p>\n 90. The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton<\/p>\n 91. Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad<\/strong><\/p>\n 92. The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery<\/p>\n 93. The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks<\/p>\n 94. Watership Down – Richard Adams<\/p>\n 95. A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole<\/p>\n 96. A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute<\/p>\n 97. The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas<\/p>\n 98. Hamlet – William Shakespeare<\/em><\/p>\n 99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl<\/strong> <\/p>\n 100. Les Miserables – Victor Hugo<\/em><\/p>\n So my original 6 out of 7 number doesn’t hold true through the end, but I’ll still say I’m decently well read.<\/p>\n At least I’ve read more than 6.<\/p>\n Interesting side note. I saw this in a friend’s Facebook notes and filled it out. Then, in the same sitting, I was going through my Google Reader and discovered that Hope in Brazil<\/a> had done the same meme. Fun!<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Have you read more than 6 of these books? The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books listed here. Which I, by the way, think is a ridiculously small number. If you haven’t read at least six, you’d better start reading! Instructions: Copy this into your NOTES. 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\nTotally cheating by having The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe count twice (see #33)<\/p>\n