How Well Read Are You?
Irena found this at Life After Jane and as she is my special helper, I feel it is only fair that I join in.
Apparently..."The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books listed here."
Instructions:
•Copy this list.
•Bold those books you’ve read in their entirety.
•Italicise the ones you started but didn’t finish or read only an excerpt.
•Tag other book nerds.
•Highlight the ones that you have but haven't read.
I think this is so funny, I am going to put the books in purple which I own but haven't read... yet...
Irena had read 24 of these titles. Check out which ones here.
Now, I feel this could be very embarrassing but here goes:
Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien
Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
Harry Potter series – JK Rowling
To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
The King James Bible
Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
Nineteen Eighty Four (1984) – George Orwell
His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman
Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
Little Women – Louisa M Alcott
Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
Catch 22 – Joseph Heller
Complete Works of Shakespeare (Are there really people that have finished his complete works? I bow down to their literary superiority)
Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier (My namesake... how can I have failed to read this? Tut tut)
The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien (At least I read The Lord of the Rings)
Birdsong – Sebastian Faulk
Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger
The Time Traveler’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger
Middlemarch – George Eliot
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
Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame (I own about five copies of this. Love!)
Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis (Way too nicey-wicey)
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 (Awww... childhood obsession)
Animal Farm – George Orwell
The DaVinci 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 (I have only read one book by Ian McEwan - Enduring Love and that was for A Level LOL)
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 Tartt (I asked for this for my birthday and I cannot wait to read it... I may have to treat myself to reading this over Christmas)
The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold
Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
On The Road – Jack Kerouac
Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy
Bridget Jones’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
Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
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 Web – E.B. 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 have read
16!!! LOL! Oh my goodness, I really feel that I don't deserve the title of The Bookette anymore.
So funny... On the up side it was more than the BBC expected.... *laughs*
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19 comments:
Oh I love this list and how it seems to show up in cycles every once in awhile. After I saw your number I feel a little bit bad sharing mine.. :) (unless you really wanted to know?)
*hangs head in shame*
7.
Oh dear...
You did better than I did!
I think these will be on my to do list for 2011.
Clover, oh go on ... I can take it! ;-)
Sammee, LOL!
Rebecca, that is one more than the BBC expected :-D
Gina, you are not alone. I hope I at least read three of these next year.
Oooh, I'm so going to do this myself. My total is not that bad, but considering that I have a BA and an MA in English Lit, I probably should've read them all.
Seriously though, you haven't read The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe? How is that even possible, Bookette?!
I think that I have read about 8 scrolling down the list quickly. I suppose that's not bad considering I'm only 13! I would definitely reccommend that you put Little Women and Anne of Green Gables at the top of the books to be read from this list. Little Women is a lovely one to read around Christmas time. They both have equally loveable films too :)I've seen this list around on several blogs recently so I might post about it too.
Also, I'm glad that I helped you discover The Goose Girl and Shannon Hale. I hope you enjoy it when you get round to reading it!
OMG! It's so weird. I have seen the movies and the series of some books, but not read them. I read some, but not all. :)
I ADORE The Secret History. Honest to God, if you can only read one...
I've read 19 of those. I'm quite proud of myself!
Woohoo! I've read 32 of those. I feel so good about myself right now!
I have read 27!
I loved "Confederacy of Dunces" when I read it but it is definitely not everyone's cup of tea!
(and I haven't read Lion, With and the Wardrobe either!)
I only got 8 :( Lol.
I think 16 is a very decent number! Besides, it all depends on one's personal reading taste.
I need to check out The Wind in the Willows! If you own 5 copies, it must be good.:)
I don't know anyone (yet) who has read ALL of Shakespeare's works. No, wait, maybe my professor for Elizabethan drama has, haha.
You don't want to know how many I've read. High numbers. When I was sixteen I was obsessed with Shakespeare. I carried the "Complete Works" around with me and I have read it cover to cover. I haven't seen them all acted - the wonder of Shakespeare is really seen, in the theatre.
Lauren, I tried the first Narnia - the Silver Chair, is it? I thought it was boring LOL. So I didn't carry on. I've seen the film LOL. It is all rather Godly for my taste. When they cut off off Azlan's (sp?) fur... waaaay too close to the cruxifiction. *shudders*
Stephanie, You've already read 8. I think that is pretty awesome.
Nina, movies!!!
Kay, I knew there was a monumental reason that I had to have that book.
Sophie, you put me to shame.
Sybil, I'm IMPRESSED!
Library Mice, again, I am IMPRESSED.
Jo, hey that it two more than the BBC expected.
Irena, I was re-reading The Wind in the Willows when my husband proposed so people like to gift me copies. Awww...
Elaine, someone who has read all of Shakespeare... You deserve a medal. I am in AWE!
Lauren, I tried the first Narnia - the Silver Chair, is it? I thought it was boring LOL. So I didn't carry on. I've seen the film LOL. It is all rather Godly for my taste. When they cut off off Azlan's (sp?) fur... waaaay too close to the cruxifiction. *shudders*
Stephanie, You've already read 8. I think that is pretty awesome.
Nina, movies!!!
Kay, I knew there was a monumental reason that I had to have that book.
Sophie, you put me to shame.
Sybil, I'm IMPRESSED!
Library Mice, again, I am IMPRESSED.
Jo, hey that it two more than the BBC expected.
Irena, I was re-reading The Wind in the Willows when my husband proposed so people like to gift me copies. Awww...
Elaine, someone who has read all of Shakespeare... You deserve a medal. I am in AWE!
Because you asked .. erm, 53.
I've read over 50 of these, and started, but never finished, another 20.
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