100 Books

It's memetastic!

I saw this one on facebook, and thought I'd play.

The meme says:

"The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books here. How do your reading habits stack up?"

But it's BS. There is nothing of the sort related to the BBC, except a 100 most popular book list, which doesn't look much like this list.

Anyway, it should be interesting.

Instructions:

Look at the list and put an 'x' after those you have read. Tag other book nerds.

1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen -X-
   
2. The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien -X-
3. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte -X-
4. Harry Potter series - JK Rowling -X- (actually 7 books)
   
5. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee -X-
6. The Bible -X-
7. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte -X-
8. Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell -X-
9. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman -X- (actually 3 books)
   
10. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens -X-
    
    10 for 10
    
    
11. Little Women - Louisa M Alcott -X-
12. Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy -X-
13. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller -X-
14. Complete Works of Shakespeare -X- (poems and plays, not really books but OK)
    
15. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier -X-
16. The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien -X-
17. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
    
18. Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger -X-
19. The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger -X-
20. Middlemarch - George Eliot - (seen the miniseries, but never read the book)
    
    18 for 20
    
    
21. Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell -X-
22. The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald -X-
23. Bleak House - Charles Dickens -X-
24. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy -X-
25. The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams -X-
26. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky -X-
27. Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck -X-
28. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll -X-
29. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame -X-
30. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy -X-
    
    28 for 30
    
    
31. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens -X-
32. Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis -X-
33. Emma - Jane Austen -X-
34. Persuasion - Jane Austen
35. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis -X-
36. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hossein -1/2X- (I started it, didn't like it and put it down)
37. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
38. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
39. Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne -X-
40. Animal Farm - George Orwell -X-
    
    34 for 40 (I won't count the half)
    
    
41. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown -X-
42. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
43. A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
44. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
45. Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery -X-
46. Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy -X- (required reading. I hate Hardy)
    
47. The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood -X-
48. Lord of the Flies - William Golding -X-
49. Atonement - Ian McEwan
50. Life of Pi - Yann Martel
    
    39 for 50
    
    
51. Dune - Frank Herbert -X-
52. Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
53. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen -X-
54. A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
55. The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
56. A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens -X-
57. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley -X-
58. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night - Mark Haddon
59. Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez -1/2X- (dropped it)
    
60. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck -X-
    
    44 for 60
    
    
61. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov -X-
62. The Secret History - Donna Tartt
63. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold -X- (overrated, but still good)
    
64. Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas -X- (one of the greatest books of all time)
    
65. On The Road - Jack Kerouac -X-
66. Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy -X- (again, required. I hate Hardy)
    
67. Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding -X-
68. Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
69. Moby Dick - Herman Melville -X-
70. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens -X-
    
    52 for 70
    
    
71. Dracula - Bram Stoker -X-
72. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett -X-
73. Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson -X-
74. Ulysses - James Joyce -X-
75. The Inferno – Dante -X-
76. Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
77. Germinal - Emile Zola
78. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray -X-
79. Possession - AS Byatt
80. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens -X-
    
    59 out of 80
    
    
81. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
82. The Color Purple - Alice Walker -X- (required reading. Crap. Worse than beloved)
    
83. The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
84. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert -X-
85. A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
86. Charlotte’s Web - EB White -X-
87. The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom -X-
88. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle -X-
89. The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
90. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad -X-
    
    65 out of 90
    
    
91. The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery -X- (I love Saint-Exupery)
    
92. The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
93. Watership Down - Richard Adams -X-
94. A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole -X- (good, but overrated)
    
95. A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
96. The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas -X- (one of my favorite books ever)
    
97. Hamlet - William Shakespeare -X-
98. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl -X-
99. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo -X-
    

Total: 72 out of 99

Not sure why they listed 32 and 36 separately, or 14 and 97... plus there are a half dozen different versions of the list out there.; and for some reason what would have been 16 is missing so it's only 99.