Saturday, February 21, 2009

How many have you read?

Apparently the BBC reckons most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here.

Instructions:
1) Look at the list and put an 'x' after those you have read.
2) Add a '+' to the ones you LOVE.
3) Star (*) those you plan on reading. (Let's just say everything I haven't read is *ed) :)
4) Tally your total.Then, post your total read at the bottom.

1. [ ] Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen
2. [] The Lord of the Rings JRR Tolkien (Trent read)
3. [x] Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte
4. [X+ ] Harry Potter series JK Rowling (Trent read)
5. [x] To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee
6. [X] The Bible (Trent read)
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 (Trent read)
12. [ ] Tess of the D'Urbervilles Thomas Hardy
13. [ ] Catch 22 Joseph Heller
14. [ ] Complete Works of Shakespeare (Trent said he has read quite a few but not all)
15. [ ] Rebecca Daphne Du Maurier
16. [X] The Hobbit JRR Tolken (Trent read)
17. [ ] Birdsong Sebastian Faulks
18. [] Catcher in the Rye JD Salinger
19. [ ] The Time Traveller'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
26. [ ] Brideshead Revisited Evelyn Waugh
27. [] Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28. [ ] Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck
29. [] Alice in Wonderland Lewis Carroll (Trent read)
30. [x] The Wind in the Willows Kenneth Grahame (Trent read)
31. [x] Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy
32. [] David Copperfield Charles Dickens
33. [X] Chronicles of Narnia CS Lewis(SOME OF THE BOOKS BUT NOT ALL) (Trent read all)
34. [] Emma Jane Austen
35. [] Persuasion Jane Austen
36. [X] The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe CS Lewis (Trent read)
37. [ ] The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini
38. [ ] Captain Corelli's Mandolin Louis De Bernieres
39. [] Memoirs of a Geisha Arthur Golden
40. [X] Winnie the Pooh AA Milne (Trent read)
41. [x] Animal Farm George Orwell (Trent read)
42. [X] The Da Vinci Code Dan Brown (Trent read)
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. [X] Lord of the Flies William Golding
50. [ ] Atonement Ian McEwan
51. [ ] Life of Pi Yann Martel
52. [ ] Dune Frank Herbert (Trent read)
53. [ ] Cold Comfort Farm Stella Gibbons
54. [] Sense and Sensibility Jane Austen (Trent read)
55. [ ] A Suitable Boy Vikram Seth
56. [ ] The Shadow of the Wind Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57. [] A Tale Of Two Cities Charles Dickens
58. [x] 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. [x+] Count of Monte Cristo Alexandre Dumas (Trent read)
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 (Trent read)
71. [ ] Oliver Twist Charles Dickens (Trent read)
72. [X] Dracula Bram Stoker
73. [X] The Secret Garden Frances Hodgson Burnett (Trent read)
74. [ ] Notes From A Small Island Bill Bryson
75. [ ] Ulysses James Joyce
76. [ ] The Bell Jar Sylvia Plath
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 (Trent read)
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. [X] Charlotte's Web EB White (Trent read)
88. [ ] The Five People You Meet In Heaven Mitch Alborn
89. [] Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90. [ ] The Faraway Tree Collection Enid Blyton
91. [ ] Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad
92. [x] 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(Trent read)
99. [] Charlie and the Chocolate Factory(Trent read)
100. [] Les Miserables Victor Hugo

I have read 18. I was interested in how many Trent has read so I put it after. He has read 23.

1 comment:

Verity said...

Fun list. I'd read 33 on the list--I was surprised how many I'd read! :)