So everyone can see how little I actually read. And so I can have a list of books TO read.
Apparently the BBC claims that most people have read only 6-10 of these books (I've seen both numbers in different posts). Bold the ones you've read in their entirety, italicize the ones you started but didn't finish. And just to confuse you even more, I underlined the ones I still want to read.
- Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
- The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkein (that's 3)
- Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone - JK Rowling
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets - JK Rowling
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - JK Rowling
- To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
- The Bible
- Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
- Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
- His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
- Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
- Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
- Tess of d'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
- Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
- Complete Works of Shakespeare
- Rebecca - Daphne de Maurier
- The Hobbit - JRR Tolkein
- Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
- Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
- The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
- Middlemarch - George Elliot
- Gone with the Wind - Margaret Mitchell
- The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
- War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
- Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
- Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
- The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
- Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
- David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
- Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
- Emma - Jane Austen
- Persuasion - Jane Austen
- The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe - CS Lewis
- The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
- Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis de Bernieres
- Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
- Winnie the Pooh- A.A. Milne
- Animal Farm - George Orwell
- The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
- One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
- The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
- Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
- Far from the Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
- The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
- Lord of the Flies - William Golding
- Atonement - Ian McEwan
- Life of Pi - Yann Martel
- Dune - Frank Herbert
- Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
- Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
- A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
- The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
- A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
- Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
- Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
- Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
- The Secret History - Donna Tart
- The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
- The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas (currently reading)
- On the Road - Jack Kerouac
- Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
- Bridget Jone's Diary - Helen Fielding
- Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
- Moby Dick - Herman Melville
- Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
- Dracula - Bram Stoker
- The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Notes from a Small Island - Bill Bryson
- Ulysses - James Joyce
- The Inferno - Dante
- Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
- Germinal - Emile Zola
- Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
- Possession - AS Byatt
- A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens (also currently reading)
- Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
- The Color Purple - Alice Walker
- The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
- Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
- A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
- Charlotte's Wed - EB White
- The Five People You Meet in Heaven - Mitch Albom
- Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- The Faraway Tree COllection - Enid Blyton
- Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
- The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
- The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
- Watership Down - Richard Adams
- A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
- A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
- The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
- Hamlet - William Shakespeare
- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
- Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
So I've completed 22 of them, have started 13 others, and want to read about 12. I also want to finish some of the started ones. Anyway, there you go- at least I've read more than 10!
4 comments:
I looove To Kill a Mockingbird. :)
Niiiiiiiiiiiice.
You have to read the Time Traveler's Wife. I haven't seen the movie, but the book is incredible. Philip Pullman's books are excellent, too -- there's a three book series starting with the Golden Compass.
Thats a impressive list although many of them I would swear people only claim to have read. Somehow I hit 23 of them, a good deal of them were assigned so I guess I cant claim them.
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