Got this list from Dr Steph - the average person has ready 6 books from the list.
My number is 78
My father was an English teacher. I guess he rubbed off on me
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen - Many times over - I was 13 the first time
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien – Read it in University and re-read it when the first movie came out
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte - Read it, watched it, love it
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling – All but the last one which I couldn't get in to
5. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee - Yes
6 The Bible - bits and pieces but not lately
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte - Studied it in High School. Loved it
8 1984 - George Orwell - Yes
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman - First 2 - still sitting by my bed for the 3rd
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens - Yes
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott - Yes
12 Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy – Yes - cried buckets
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller – Yes
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare – Not all of them but all the biggies (Hamlet, The Scottish Play, R & J, Julius Caesar, Lear, Midsummer Nights Dream...
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien - Yes
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks - Part - its on my bookshelf waiting
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger - Yes - am I the only one in the world who thought it was sophomoric?
19 The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger - Yes, - cried buckets
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot- Yes
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell - Yes
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald - Yes and everything he wrote
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens- Yes- read it last summer
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy - Yes - in my ambitious University days
25 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams - 42
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh - Yes
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Yes
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll - Yes
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame - Yes
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy - Yes
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens - Yes
33 The Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis - only Lion Witch and Wardrobe
34 Emma - Jane Austen - Yes
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen - Dozens of times
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - Yes - see above
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini - No
38 Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres- No but saw the movie. THis one doesn't seem to belong on the list
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden - Yes, - fabulous
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne – Yes - my father read it to me and I read it to my kids
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell -Yes
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown - No
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez - Yes
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving - Yes
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins - Yes and saw the BBC series - its great
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery - Yes
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy - Yes - in high school
48 The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood - Yes
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding - Yes
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan - Yes- are all of Ian McEwen's mothers dysfunctional?
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel - Yes
52 Dune - Frank Herbert- Yes
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons - No
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen - Yes
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth - No
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon - No and haven't heard of this one
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens - Tis a far far better thing I do... um Yes
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley - Yes
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon - Yes
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez - No
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck – Yes. Why not The Grapes of Wrath
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov - Yes
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt - Tried and failed
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold – If Heather says its worth reading then it must be ... right?
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas - No
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac - Yes
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy - Yes
68 Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding - Yes
69 Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie - Yes
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville - Tried
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens - Yes
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker - Yes
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett - Yes
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson - No
75 Ulysses - James Joyce - Has anyone read this?
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath - Yes and now I am depressed
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome - Yes
78 Germinal - Emile Zola - No
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray - Yes
80 Possession - AS Byatt- Yes - twice
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens - Bah Humbug - Yes
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell - No
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker -No
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro - Yes
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert - Yes
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry - Yes - fantastic book
87 Charlotte's Web - EB White - Yes
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom - No
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Yes
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton – No
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad - Yes
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery – Yes in english and French
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks - No
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams - Yes
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole - Yes
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute - LOVE LOVE LOVE this book - YES
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas - Yes
98 Hamlet – Shakespeare – Yes
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl - yes
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo - Yes
So where is the Hemingway? Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls, The Sun Also Rises - all missing. Puzzling
I read a lot! I have a pile of books beside my bed at all times and one of my favourite activites is scouring the used book stores for deals.
How did you do?
Arthur snuffling in the ground looking for something interesting:
