More than 6?

This is doing the rounds on facebook at the moment, but I thought it would be fun to post here.

Apparently, the BBC thinks that most people will only have read 6 of the books on the list here. How do you compare? I've put an X next to those I have read all of. Others on the list I've started or read bits of...

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling - X
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee - X
6 The Bible - not all of it.
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte - X
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman - X
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens - X
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare - most of them
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger - X
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 - X
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll - X
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis - only LW&W
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen - X
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis X
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden - X
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne - X
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown - X
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving - X
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 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan - X
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon - started it!
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon - X
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck - X
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt - X
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold - X
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding - X
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker - X
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett - X
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Inferno - Dante
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 - X
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker - X
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry - X
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom - X
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton - X
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 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 - X
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl - X
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo - X

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible - not all of it.
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare - some of them
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis (they said this one in #33)
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl

34! Really, they think people have only read 6 from that list? There's a good mix of popular and classics, I can't imagine only having read 6 of those.

LadyN, how can you not have read Charlotte's Web??

It's about a spider!!! I'll read it first thing after 11th April!

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible - not all of it.
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

Some of these I have read multiple times. Do I get bonus points for that?

Fun!

3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot (I'm in the middle of it right now!)
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

I'm a little bit ashamed to admit that I have read only 11 of them...well at least it's more than the average of 6 books...

4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis (read the first four)
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

P.S. although I am planning to read many more of them because I know they are classsics and great pieces of literature and I should read some of them...

HA! I have only completely read seven from that list. 8) There are several that I tried to read (around 10 or 11 of them actually) that did nothing for me so I let them go and a few others that I have read bits and pieces of through out high school out of text books. Interestingly enough, I would say there are less than thirty books in my life that I just haven't been able to finish and that list contains almost half of them. 8) I guess I have substandard tastes in fiction.

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl

45. Plus I have 27 more of them on my shelves.

Is there really supposed to be and entry for both the Chronicles of Narnia and The Lion, the Witch, and the Warddrobe? And there's also the complete works of Shakespeare which I can't claim and Hamlet which I can.

In any case, I can claim 13.

2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis - only LW&W
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare

Edited to remove LadyN's Xs.

I've read 16 from the list (no time to put them up now) and several children's classic versions of others on the list.

Can I count half reads? I saw at least 3 I never finished. :o)

Mine's on my facebook page and I've read 71. Pretty decent.

I think there's way too many Dickens' on there. I hate Dickens.

btw, anyone who is on facebook and wants to friend me, drop me a message on my profile with your real name and I'll reciprocate.

I really thought I'd be someone with only six but aparently i'm reader or something...

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible - not all of it.
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare - most of them
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis - only LW&W
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini, (I'm in the middle of it)
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville (most of it)
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl

So a nice even 30.

Ditto #12 -- drop me a comment, as well.

As for this list, I think it's gone through some alterations, and I can't find an original source for the "6 books" figure. I have seen a list of 100 books on the BBC site, with a good bit of overlap to this list, but it doesn't match up exactly. But I figure the fun is in comparing what everybody's read, so . . .

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
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee - X
6 The Bible - X (but I may have missed a few chapters somewhere in the Old Testament)
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte - X
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman - X
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens - X
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott - X
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy - X
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare - most of them
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier - X
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien - X
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 - X
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 - X
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll - X
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame - X
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy - X
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens - X
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis - X
34 Emma - Jane Austen - X
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen - X
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis - X
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne - X
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell - X
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
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 - X
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding - X
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen - X
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 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 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding - X
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville - X
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens - X
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett - X
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Inferno - Dante
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 - X
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro - X
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert - X
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White - X
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - X
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery - X
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams - X
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas - X
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare - X
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl - X
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo - X

So 42 (43 if you count Shakespeare's complete works -- but I don't think I've ever read Timon of Athens or Cymbeline, so I'm not counting it). And there are several that I own and mean to read . . . eventually . . . and several that I've started and never finished. Or started repeatedly and never finished (that would be A Tale of Two Cities -- I know I would like it if I could just get in to it). And there may be some that I've read, but don't remember reading.

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien - X
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte - X
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling - X
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible - Entire New Testament and most of the Old Testament
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
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien - X
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 - X
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams - X
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll - X
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis - X
34 Emma - Jane Austen - X
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis - X
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
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 Lord of the Flies - William Golding - X
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert - X
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 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 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
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
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Inferno - Dante
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 - X
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro - X
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 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
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl - X
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

Well, I've read 15 of them. I think I have read the entire Bible, but never straight through, so I'm not going to say I've read it. A lot of those books I own, but I've never read (Dracula and The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes come to mind). At least I can include more than 6... and what's up with Both The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe and The Chronicles of Narnia being on the list? That just seems weird to me.

Interesting list. Thanks for sharing it, LadyN! :)

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl

I've read and completed 24 of them. (Well, the Harry Potter series is technically seven, but counting it as one book.) I think many of us can say we plan to read more on the list than what we have. ;)

I've only read some/parts of:
6 The Bible
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare - (six of them) *
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis - (two of them) *

* = Will read more of.

#15 Espy:
That seemed weird to me, too.

Two dozen! Frankly, I'm surprised. Most of them I read before I was twenty years old.

2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien - at least twice
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible - twice, and then some
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien - at least twice
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - all of them, at least 3 times
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare

#15 They also have the complete works of Shakespeare and then Hamlet.

Good point, LG. Perhaps neither was suspected.

I've read 18 of them completely and ~20 more are on my need to read list.

15, 16, 18 & 19> I made the same points in msg 9.

N, this is great! I love these things I like to laugh at people who assume most people don't read.

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
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee - X
6 The Bible - not all of it. - X
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte - X
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman - X
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens - X
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott - X
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare - (hamlet, Romeo & Juliet, Macbeth, A midsummers night's dream)
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien - X
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger - X
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald - X
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams - X
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky - X
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck - X
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll - X
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens - X
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis - HELLS YEAH - X
34 Emma - Jane Austen - X
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen - X
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis X
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown - X
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez - X
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery - XXXXXXX.....
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding - X
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen - X
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck - X
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold - X
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding - X
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens - X
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens - X
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White - X
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams - X
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare - X

Man! I thought I would have done better (by the time I got to #10 I had 8 or so points) but all I got was 35.

Edited because I can read but I obviously can't count. bah.

#21 jj:
You also edited you post. ;) Kidding! Sorry I missed that. :)

#22 suge:
I noticed #46 has several x's beside it. ;)

My mother's read eleven of the books listed. I was just summarizing Hamlet for her two hours ago so I know that one isn't on her list.

23--> there are indeed many X's.

For those of you not on facebook, I hereby copy mine over:

Title Status
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 +
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee X+
6 The Bible X - (many parts)
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte X
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell X
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman X
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens (I never could get through Dickens.)
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott X
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller X
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare X (many - Just read King Lear)
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier X+
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien X
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger X
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger X
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot X++
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell X
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald X
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy *
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams X
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh X+
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky X+
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck X
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll X
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame X+
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy X+
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis X
34 Emma - Jane Austen X
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen X
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis X
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini X
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De BernieresX
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne X
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell X
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown X
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez X+
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving X+
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins X+
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood X
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding X
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan X
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert X
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen X+
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth *
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley X
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon X
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez X +
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck X
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov X +
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt X
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas *
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac X
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding X
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie X
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville X
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker X
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett X
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce X
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath X
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray X+
80 Possession - AS Byatt X+
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens X (Ok, I read this one Dickens)
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell X
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker X+
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro X+
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White X+
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom (Why is this here?)
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle X+
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad X
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint Exupery X
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams X
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole X+
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute *
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas *
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare X
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl X
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo X (even the Waterloo chapter)

71 total.

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien - x
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling - X
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman - X
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott - x
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien - x
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 - X
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll - X
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis - X
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis X
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell - X
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown - X
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 - X
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 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 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
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
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett - X
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Inferno - Dante
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
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 Charlotte’s Web - EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 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
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl - X
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

14 plus most of the bible (though never straight through) and parts of the complete works.

I think about 30 or 40 others are on my TBR.

#25 LG:
What does * stand for? Congrats on your list! :)

Read (16!):
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare

On my short list to read this year (7):
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden (reading right now!)
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams

Own & intend to read sometime (13):
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad

Likely to borrow from the library in the somewhat near future (7):
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding

I like this list--it makes me feel like I'm on a good track.

Kerian, the * means "I want to read this."

Thanks, LG. :)

Seeing as how I only have 4 "I want to read" I think that's pretty good.

Anyone want to lobby for my reading any of those I haven't starred?

It is kinda weird because I always think of myself: 1. I read a lot of books and 2. I read a lot of classics, but it's nice to see that it's actually true.

Alas, LG. I haven't read any of the ones you "want to read" so I should be added to the "lobby for me" list.

#31 LG:
It looks like you've read most of them but one you haven't that I want to read is Great Expectations nevermind that I don't care for Dickens, either. I would love to read a bunch of classics used in Jasper Fforde's TN series and then reread the TN series. (ETA: I do remember you'd have prefered if he had Trolloppe in his works somewhere.)

#33 suge:
Anne of Green Gables. Tell her why you love it. It's not starred by LG and you love it. :)

I think L.M.Montgomery is well worth reading

2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare - Some of them
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
76 The Inferno - Dante- Partly. I think I reached the 4th or 5th circle of Hell.
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens - AND I saw Patrick Stewart read it.
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle-Some of them
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl

Heh. I counted wrong this morning. So not a morning person.

Same here JP, I'm a total BEAST in the mornings.

Well, AoGG is a really great coming of age story its heart warming and very funny. And one of my favorite literary HEG's (well he's Canadian) is in the series, so that's an added plus. I cry like a baby every time I read it. It was so wonderful to grow up with Anne. I have no idea how I even got into the series but I am thankful for that day.

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis - 4 out of 7.
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville- I read a graphic novel version, does that count?
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery- I think I read this a really long time ago.
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

Books I've only read part of:
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien- I only read the first book and 3/4 of the second. I'll have to get back to it.
6 The Bible
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare - Some of them. I plan to read more.
76 The Inferno - Dante- I have to get back to this one as well.

Books I have got but haven't read yet:
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens- I'm a little afraid to read this one, since I know how it ends...

So, 26 books in all. There were a bunch on the list that I want to read, though.

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare - most of them
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis - only LW&W
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
76 The Inferno - Dante
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

I got about 27. However, some of the books are on my tbr pile, so the number should go up sometime.

41. And why does the BBC say 6? What was that in reference to?

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen -X
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien - X
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling - X
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
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens - X
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott - started it...
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien - X
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger - X
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger - X
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald - X
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams - X
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll - X
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis - X
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis - X
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini - X
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden - X
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown - X
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 - X
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding - X
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen - X
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon - X
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 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding - X
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker - X
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Inferno - Dante - X
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 - X
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 Charlotte’s Web - EB White - X
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom - X
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - X
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams - X
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 - X
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl - X
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

If I counted right I'm at 34. And yes, I have read the Bible in it's entirety.

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
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee - X
6 The Bible - X
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte - X
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman - X
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens - X
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy x
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller x
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare - Not King John or Henry VIII
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 Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger - X
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot ( I have started 3 times)
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald x
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 x
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll - X
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame x
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis - x
34 Emma - Jane Austen x
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen - X
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis X
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres x
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden - X
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne - X
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell x
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown -
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez x
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins x
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery x
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding x
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons x
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen x
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley x
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon -
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez x
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck -
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov (only got part way through)
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt - X
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas (only the first 3 chapters)
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 x
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville Only excerpts
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker - X
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett - X
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson x
75 Ulysses - James Joyce x
76 The Inferno - Dante x (twice no less)
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome x (brilliant book)
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray x
80 Possession - AS Byatt x
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens - X
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker - X
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White x
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle x (yes all the adventures even)
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad x
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery x (in French)
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams x
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 - X
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl - X
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

Wow 54 not counting any that I've only read just parts and pieces, yes the Bible in it's entirety as well.

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare

I've read 30. Several I've read parts of, such as The Bible and Moby Dick, and several others on either on my TBR shelves or lists. I once had a goal of reading at least one classic for every two non-classics, but I let that go...looking over this list, I'm thinking perhaps I should pick that up again.

#40 - I truly have no idea where the number 6 came from! I think that's a ridiculously low figure. OK, so chances are the majority of us here will have read many more than that, given the nature of the site we're all on, but even so!!! I'd be very surprised if anyone anywhere had read less then 6 of these.

I also think it's ridiculous that Chronicles of Narnia and L,W&W are listed separately. It threw me on my first look at the list.

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis - only LW&W
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl

34 read. We seem to all be close.

#44 -- Yeah, as I said, I can't find the original source for this list, so I think its provenance is questionable.

Here's a list of 100 books from the BBC:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/bigread/top100.shtml
There's considerable overlap, but it's not identical (and it doesn't have the duplications seen on the list above). Also, I can't find anywhere where it says that people will have read 6 of them -- it's just a list of popular favorites. So who knows?

4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman -
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White
94 Watership Down (reading right now) - Richard Adams
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl

Pretty good considering thats more than most of kids my age have read.

Why is it they are only counting some series as one book? And why separate others? LWW and Narnia, Hamlet and Shakespeare's Complete Works. If I count the individual books, I've read much more.

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen X
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte X
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling - X
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee - X
6 The Bible - not all of it.
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte - X
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell X
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman - X
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
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 - most of them
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 Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
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 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky X
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll - X
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy X
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens X
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34 Emma - Jane Austen X
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen - X
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden - X
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne - X
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell X
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown - X
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez X
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery X
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy X
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood X
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert X
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen X
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens X
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley X
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 - X
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov X
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas X
66 On the Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding - X
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Inferno - Dante X
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 - X
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert X
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle X
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery X (in French!)
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 X
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas X
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare - X
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

Almost but not quite half. I'm assuming the higher number than expected by the BBC is owing both to my age and the fact that I have a Master's in English Lit, so I read a lot of these for classes. But I expect that most LT members would exceed the BBC's estimate by quite a bit, given that we are by definition readers.

>25 littlegeek:, 31

LG, I'd lobby for a couple even though you have them starred--A Town Like Alice is a wonderful story (and there's a dramatization of it out there that's pretty darned good, but read the book first, of course). And The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo, both great fun, though I like the latter better.

Anne of Green Gables, definitely. Memorable characters, especially Anne herself.

Madame Bovary is interesting (and there's a good movie with Jennifer Jones!).

If you decide to tackle Dickens again at some point, one of my favorites is Bleak House. And did I mention there's a wonderful BBC miniseries?!

Notice I didn't mention any of the dramatizations of Monte Cristo; there's one with Richard Chamberlain, I think it was, that was okay, but the relatively recent one with Jim Cavaziel was a joke, IMHO.

Edited to add, and of course there's a terrific miniseries of Anne of Green Gables, too.

I've read 60. Most of them would have been read in my teens and early 20's. Being the pedantic person I am, I now need to read the rest (except for Ulysses; )

I do have a number of the ones I haven't read on my TBR list.

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
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee no
6 The Bible x
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte x
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell x
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman x
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens x
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott x
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy no
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller no
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare – (Most)
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier x
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien x
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks no
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger x
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger no
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot no
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 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh no
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky x
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck no
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll x
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame x
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy x
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens x
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis - only LW&W x
34 Emma - Jane Austen x
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen no
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis x
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini x
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres no
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden no
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne x
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell x
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown x
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez no
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving no
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins no
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery x
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy no
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood x
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding x
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan no
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel no
52 Dune - Frank Herbert x
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons no
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen x
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth x
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon no
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens x
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley x
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon - x
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marque no
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck no
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov x
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt no
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold x
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas x
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac x
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy no
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding x
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie no
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville x
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens x
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker x
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett x
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson no
75 Ulysses - James Joyce started it never finished
76 The Inferno – Dante no
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome no
78 Germinal - Emile Zola no
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray x
80 Possession - AS Byatt no
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens x
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell no
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker x
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro no
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert no
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry no
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White x
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom no
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle x
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton ?
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad x
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery no
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks x
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams x
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole no
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute no
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas x
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare x
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl x
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo x

Ah, I don't care anymore guys. I'm not putting any stock on this list. I think that many many significant tomes are missing from this list. I have no idea what they based this list on, or how they chose the books on the list.

What books do you guys think SHOULD have been on this list?
I nominate A room with a view if that's not a classic, then I dont know what is. And it is absolutely marvelous. The movie is excellent too.

#51 Ulysses is really excellent, but I read it in my 20's. I don't think I could reread it now.

Like I tried rereading Gravity's Rainbow a few years ago and couldn't get through it, although I read it several times back in the day.

It's weird how patience for "experiment" goes south as time passes.

>52 suge:
I agree about A Room with a View, but my book club decided it was "too hard" and we should just watch the movie instead.

I guess I don't think there's any way to come up with a definitive list, just a sampling that is more or less inclusive. This list is mainly British and American authors, with a few nods to France and Australia, but it would certainly be possible to come up with a list that's more global, shall we say (and on which, I'll admit, I would have read a lot fewer of the choices). On the other hand, the traditional Western canon includes a lot of great books.

They should have gone by author. I've read Dostoevsky, but not Crime and Punishment. I read The Brothers Karamazov. I didn't read The Secret Garden, but I read A Little Princess by the same author.

And is it because this is a BBC list that Mark Twain is missing?

Seems a bit odd to me that there aren't any Greeks on the list. I mean, really, you need to read at least one Homer and I think some Sophocles too.

The list that this appears to have morphed from was something like Britain's favourite books. not a list of "must reads" or classics.

I have read:
The Lord of the rings
Jane Eyre
harry Potter
Wuthering Heights
Little Women
The hobbitt
Gone With The Wind
The secret garden
Charlottes web
adventures of Sherlock Holmes
A Christmas carol
The Color Purple
Watership Down \
and part of Hamlet,
and the Bible

#52 - I think that Ender's Game and Picnic At Hanging Rock should definitely be on the list.

#57 - that was the first thing that came to mind for me as well.

>#31 LG: I'd recommend The Wasp Factory. Odd, and unpleasant in parts, but striking and funny... well, if your sense of humour runs that way. *looks sheepish*

The Lovely Bones is ok i suppose, not bad but not especially good. I personally can't recommend it.

Don't bother with The Five Dorks You Meet In Heaven. I can't stress that enough. I'm not even going to touchstone it. Ptueeei! (sp?)

The only Hardy that i've read is Jude The Obscure, I found it surprisingly compelling. Surprising since i didn't think that it would be exactly my thing. It's piqued my interest enough to add Tess and Madding to my want-to-read list.

ETA: Don't think you could go wrong with Bryson either, although i haven't read that particular one. I loved A Walk In The Woods.

Huh. 29. That's more than i expected.

2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien X+
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling X
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell X
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman X
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller X
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien X
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger X
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald X
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams X
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis X
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne X
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell X
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding X
52 Dune - Frank Herbert X
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley X
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon X
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov X
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold X
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac X
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy X
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath X
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White X
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom X
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad X
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint Exupery X
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks X
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams X
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare X
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl X

>61 Mysterion:

When it comes to Hardy, I haven't read Jude but have read Tess and Far from the Madding Crowd. I guess I prefer the latter for the somewhat embarrassing reason that Tess--well, without giving too much away, it's not the most cheerful book I've ever read.

I don't think I have a copy of Jude but I know somewhere in the giant TBR pile is The Mayor of Casterbridge, which I'm planning to read one of these days.

>#63: Are there zombies in Tess ?

Don't bother with Mayor, it's not on the list. Obviously not worthwhile. read The Faraway Tree Collection instead.

((shiver)) zombies . . . not in Tess, though.

The Faraway Tree Collection sounds lovely. But, well, I already own Mayor of Casterbridge, so may as well try it sometime or other.

#64 -- I'm sure that some revisionist author can add zombies into the story...

Thats nice.

#66: That's great! We just read the sample pages. Hysterical! The discussion about it was pretty funny too!

ejj1955 - I really liked The Major of Castorbridge and am planning on reading Jude the Obscure this year if I can fit it in.

>69 karenmarie:

Good to know, I'll have to push Mayor further up my TBR pile (and by pile, I mean several full boxes and many piles stacked on the cedar chest).

6 The Bible - not all of it.
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White - X
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom - Seen movie, very good

Only 3!!

6 The Bible - not all of it.
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White - X
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom - Seen movie, very good

Only 3!!

#61 I didn't like Tess. Though it's been several years. Maybe I just didn't have enough perspective to enjoy it ... or maybe it needed some zombies. Interesting that you liked a different Thomas Hardy book. Maybe I should give it a try.

Ok, fun! Let's do this:

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien X
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling - X
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible - not all of it. X
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte -
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman - X
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens - X
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott X
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
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
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis - X
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis X
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
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 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 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 - X
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold - X
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding - X
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett - X
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Inferno - Dante
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
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 Charlotte’s Web - EB White X
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery X
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
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl - X
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

2- I've only read the first one.
33- I've only read the first 2, but planning on reading the next ones too.

Grrr, double-post.

Tess was on Masterpiece Theater. We tuned in to the end and my kids were totally caught up in it. They had to go bed before the very end, but somehow just 'happened' to have to get up several times, and just 'happened' to wander into the living room to see what was going on. It was a lot better on TV than in the book! The TV version condensed all the boring parts.

Hey, i haven't posted here yet. How about that.

Strangely, my list is identical to the one in #62. How 'bout that. Spooooooky.

Why that is a puzzler aint it?

I suspect that Mysterion has been following me about, reading books as i finish them. Creep.

I notice that he is very quiet at the moment...

He is probably embarassed that you found out that he stalkes you.

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen - read
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien -read
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte -read
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling -
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee - read
6 The Bible - read
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte - read
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell -read
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman -
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott -read
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller -read
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare - some of them
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien -read
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger - read
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot -read
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald - read
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy -read
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams - read
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky - read
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll - read
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame - read
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis - read all of them
34 Emma - Jane Austen -read
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen - read
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis -read
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini - read
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden - read
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne - read
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell -read
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown - read
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving - read
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery -read
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood -read
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding -read
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan - read
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel -read
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley -read
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon - read
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez - read
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck - -read
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt -
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold - read
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas - read
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac - read
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding - read
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie - read
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker - read
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett - read
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Inferno - Dante
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt - read
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens - read
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell -read
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker - read
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro -read
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry -
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White -read
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom - read
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle -read most of them
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton - read
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad -read
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery - read
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams -read
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute - read
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas - read
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare - read
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl - read
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo - X

Keren7- You have read quite a few of them. I see from your profile that you've made some heavy commitments to reading. 8) I am surprised there are any on this list you haven't read. LOL

hey MrA, is that bet with JP off? I thought u could only do 5 comments on HE a day

>#83 puppet: that was just during February. It's march now, so i can post as much as i like. Yay!

Keren7 - hi!

Yay! MrA's back and typing!

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl

38, not bad. Is it weird that a bunch of the books I owned, but haven't gotten to yet? XD

>86 AmyLynn: Not weird at all, I have at least a half dozen that I haven't read (yet). Planning to read The Time Traveler's Wife really soon.

That's a good book, ejj. :)

TBR pile*
7 Wuthering Heights
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare (several - I've read 6)
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams

* books I own that I haven't read

Thanks, K, I'm looking forward to it. I'll recommend Persuasion, one of my favorite books ever.

I'll dissuade you about Persuasion, if i can - read Watership Down! It's got 50% more bunnies!

Austen sadly neglected the potential of rabbit society *shakes head*

KIK. I just watched Persuasion on dvd the weekend before last. I'm excited to read the book. I bought it on Saturday. :)

Watership Down...I don't know what my problem is with bookcovers. My copy is very old and worn. It makes the book look less appealing to read...I think I'm a book snob. *blushes*

Which version did you watch, Kerian? I highly recommend the Hinds/Root version from the 90's. The PBS version from last year just didn't come close.

>92 compskibook: Totally and completely agree.

#92 compski:
That very version! I had to look it up. I'm happy that I have the same one that you and ejj recommend. :)

Just last week I wondered if I should ask HEers if anyone has a favorite version of Jane Eyre. I've never seen a video of it. Any recommendations?

Oh, wow, there are a lot of versions of this. I don't think one of them is identifiably much better than the others, but that's because I think most of them are pretty good. You've got everyone from Orson Welles (1944) to Timothy Dalton (1983) to William Hurt (1988) to Toby Stephens (2006) as Mr. Rochester.

And that's not all of them. I've seen four or five different versions and one thing I like is that most of them are quite faithful to the original. A minor difference is how much of Jane's early life they show, I think.

Basically, I don't think you can go far wrong. If I had to pick, I suppose I'd suggest seeing if you can get the 2006 version.

edited to add: And there are rumors on IMDB that there's going to be a 2009 version, although there's no information beyond speculation at who might play Rochester.

Thanks very much, ejj! It sounds like you've seen a few of the different versions. :)

You're welcome! As I occasionally mention, I'm relatively old. So I've had time.

The only Jane Eyre version I have seen is an A&E/BBC version from the 90s that also had Hinds starring. I liked it a lot! I had tried to read the book before seeing it and I couldn't make it. After seeing this movie I read right through the book.