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1richardderus Apr 5, 2009, 12:44pm aquascum of the German language LT loosed this list on the English threads, and I can't resist passing it on. Please copy and paste your bolded books read, italicized books not completed, and then sum up with a head count, so to speak. What does the list say about your reading habits?



Who's first?



The BBC apparently believes most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here:



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

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 - read some, but not others...

15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier

16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien

17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk

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

34 Emma - Jane Austen

35 Persuasion - Jane Austen

36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe

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

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 Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath

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

100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo



2momom248 Apr 5, 2009, 12:53pm Oh wow I feel inferior as I've only read 14 of the above. I have several of them in my TBR so plan on reading.



ok Richard I can't figure out how to bold my selections on this list. I'm not that computer savvy. Thanks for this post--very interesting and I must start reading many of these selections.

3SqueakyChu Edited: Apr 5, 2009, 1:08pm 26 finished

1 not finished (The Lovely Bones)



Didn't want to copy the whole list!



ETA:



What does the list say about your reading habits?



I've read more books that others have also read than I would have thought! Over a quarter of that list? That's a lot!

4DeltaQueen50 Apr 5, 2009, 1:04pm Sorry I am also a computer dunce! I have read 28 of the above and another two are in my TBR pile. One of my next year goals is to read more of the classics that I have missed over the years.

6mckait Apr 5, 2009, 1:20pm 38... cooking and can't post list right now...... :)

7AHS-Wolfy Edited: Sep 18, 2009, 5:42am Only 15 for me *hides in shame* Though there are a few more included in my TBR pile with a couple more that will probably be added there as well.



2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien

4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling

8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell

9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman

13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller

16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien

25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams

33 Chronicles of Narnia - C.S. Lewis

36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe

39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden

41 Animal Farm - George Orwell

52 Dune - Frank Herbert

58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley

61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck

91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad



I've previously been fairly complacent with sticking to the SF&F genres though I'm attempting to branch out a bit more. That's one of the reasons for joining the 999 challenge this year.

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9kidzdoc Edited: Apr 5, 2009, 1:57pm



2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien

13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller

16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien

18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger

22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald

28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck

29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll

39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden

40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne

41 Animal Farm - George Orwell

49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding

51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel

56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon

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

69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie

76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath

83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker

84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro

87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White

94 Watership Down - Richard Adams

95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole

98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare



6 The Bible

24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy (reading now)



Here is my list:(reading now)

37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini

43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

50 Atonement - Ian McEwan

55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth

62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov

64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold

74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson

91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad



Books read: 24

Books currently being read: 2



Books I currently own but haven't started or finished: 8





10RLMCartwright Edited: Apr 5, 2009, 1:52pm Right i'm perhaps cheating slightly as I'm counting books that i own but have not got round to reading... yet it's on my to-do list.



1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen (owned - not read)

2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien

3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte

4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling

9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman

12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy

15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier (owned - not read)

19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger

33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis

34 Emma - Jane Austen (owned - not read)

35 Persuasion - Jane Austen (owned - not read)

36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe (how odd this is here and #33)

40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne

50 Atonement - Ian McEwan

52 Dune - Frank Herbert (owned - not read)

54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen (owned - not read)

61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck

73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett

99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl



so that's 18 in total but only 13 read - not too shabby considering my age but maybe i'll get through more of them in the future.



*edit* omg i actually got the bold coding to work!!! maybe there is some techno skills in me yet!



11mckait Edited: Apr 6, 2009, 5:35am bold stop? not working... wth?



1/1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen

2/2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien

3/3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte

4/4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling



5/7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte

6/8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell



7/10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens

8/11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott



9/13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller

10/14 Complete Works of Shakespeare - read some, but not others...

11/15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier

12/16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien



13/18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger

14/19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger



15/21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell

16/22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald



17/24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy

18/25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams



19/29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll

20/30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame

21/31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy

22/32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens

23/33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis

24/34 Emma - Jane Austen



25/36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe

26/37 The Kite Runner - Khaled

27/39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden

28/40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne

29/41 Animal Farm - George Orwell

30/42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown

31/44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving

32/45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins

33/46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery



34/49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding



35/52 Dune - Frank Herbert



36/54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen



37/57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens

38/58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley





12aviddiva Edited: Apr 5, 2009, 2:37pm Sorry I'm not good with html, but here are my lists:



Read and completed: (45)



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

8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell

9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman

10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens

11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott

13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller

15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier

16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien

18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger

19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger

28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck

29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll

32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens

33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis

34 Emma - Jane Austen

35 Persuasion - Jane Austen

36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe

40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne

48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood

49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding

52 Dune - Frank Herbert

53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons

54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen

58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley

65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas

68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding

73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett

77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome

80 Possession - AS Byatt.

81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens

83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker

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

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

100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo



Read portions but have not completed: (14)



6 The Bible

14 Complete Works of Shakespeare - read some, but not others... -- I've read quite a few completely, but not all does that mean this should go in the "REad" column?

25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams

38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres

45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins

51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel

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

70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville

72 Dracula - Bram Stoker

84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro

89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (same as Shakespeare -- I haven't read all the stories, but have read many)

98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare (I've seen the whole thing performed -- does that count?



13frithuswith Edited: Apr 5, 2009, 2:40pm </b>

I'm mostly doing this out of a need to kill the ever-open bold tag. I've only left in the ones I've read. But this is clearly a slightly dodgy list, as we have things like the complete works of Shakespeare and then Hamlet further down, and the Chronicles of Narnia followed shortly by The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe... But anyway. I did surprisingly (to me!) well out of it. 56 read and four partially read. I feel like this mostly says that I'm British and have read quite a few of the "standard classics"!



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

7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte

8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell

10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens

11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott

12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy

14 Complete Works of Shakespeare

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

24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy

25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams

26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh

29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll

30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame

33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis

34 Emma - Jane Austen

36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe

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

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

52 Dune - Frank Herbert

54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen

55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth.

56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon

58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley

59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon

63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt

67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy

68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding

69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie

72 Dracula - Bram Stoker

73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett

74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson

76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath

77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome

79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray

82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell

83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker

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

97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas

98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare

99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl

100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

14lkernagh Edited: Apr 5, 2009, 2:35pm This was fun! Below is my list of books read:



5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee

7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte

10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens

11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott

12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy

21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell

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

34 Emma - Jane Austen

35 Persuasion - Jane Austen

40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne

46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery

49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding

54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen

56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon

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

89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery

97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas



So that makes 25 read out of 100 listed, which I am quite happy with.



What does it say about my reading habits? Varied in content and not surprising, above BBC's idea of what is considered the norm.

15Persevoni Apr 5, 2009, 2:36pm Well I thought I had read a lot but only manages 12 of the books although I have read other titles by some of the authors. Does this count?

16Persevoni Apr 5, 2009, 2:43pm JUST READ THROUGH THE LIST AGAIN AND FOURN FIVE MORE THAT i HAVE READ SO FEEL A BIT BETTER

17rebeccanyc Apr 5, 2009, 3:03pm



1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen

3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte

5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee

6 The Bible

7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte

8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell

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

18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger

20 Middlemarch - George Eliot

22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald

24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy

26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh

27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll

31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy

33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis

34 Emma - Jane Austen

36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe

40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne

41 Animal Farm - George Orwell

43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins

48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood

49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding

50 Atonement - Ian McEwan

52 Dune - Frank Herbert

53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons

54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen

55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth.

57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens

58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley

60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov

66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac

67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy

69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie

70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville

71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens

73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett

76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath

81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens

83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker

85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert

87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White

89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad

92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery

95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole

98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare



If I counted right, that adds up to 52 read and 3 partially read. Many of these books I read decades ago and don't remember very well, and there are others I was surprised to realize I've never read. But I repeat that it's a strange mixture of books. This is a strange list, as there are books on it I'm proud NOT to have read, like The DaVinci Code and The Five People You Meet in Heaven . That said, a list of the ones I've read, with italics for ones I've read part of.1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger20 Middlemarch - George Eliot22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis34 Emma - Jane Austen36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne41 Animal Farm - George Orwell43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding50 Atonement - Ian McEwan52 Dune - Frank Herbert53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth.57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery98 Hamlet - William ShakespeareIf I counted right, that adds up to 52 read and 3 partially read. Many of these books I read decades ago and don't remember very well, and there are others I was surprised to realize I've never read. But I repeat that it's a strange mixture of books.

18AMQS Edited: Aug 6, 2010, 12:00am Bold are books I've read, italics are books I own, and WILL read. There are others on this list I don't own, but plan to read.



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 (I've read some of the Bible)

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 - read some, but not others...

15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier

16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien

17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk

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

34 Emma - Jane Austen

35 Persuasion - Jane Austen

36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe

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

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 Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath

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

100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo



If I counted right, I've read 33 books on this list (some for school way back when...) and another 23 I own.

19kabrahamson Apr 5, 2009, 3:22pm



43 read, 5 waiting patiently in my TBR pile. Poor

Let's see...43 read, 5 waiting patiently in my TBR pile. Poor Les Miserables has been waiting very, very patiently. Several years at least. Hopefully this summer I'll have time to give it the attention it deserves.

20LouisBranning Apr 5, 2009, 3:27pm I thought it was a pretty squirrely list too, but I've read 58 of them.

21tiffin Edited: Apr 8, 2009, 5:31pm The BBC apparently believes most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here:



How do your reading habits stack up? bold those books you've read in their entirety, italicize the ones you started but didn't finish



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

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

17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk

18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger

19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger {NEVER WILL READ THIS}

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 (in progress)

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

34 Emma - Jane Austen

35 Persuasion - Jane Austen

36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe

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 {*blush* yes, I read this...and bought it in hardcover too...last time I'm getting sucked in by hype}

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

64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold {NEVER WILL READ THIS}

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 Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath

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 {I think I've read this...not quite certain}

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 {don't think I'll read this one}

96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute {will check this out one day}

97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas

98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare

99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl

100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo



I've read 81 of them, Richard. Maybe 82...can't remember about the Enid Blyton.

22mckait Apr 5, 2009, 3:36pm Thanks for killing the bold, liz!

23karenmarie Apr 5, 2009, 3:46pm I've read 45 of them. Read most of Narnia but couldn't count it. Started 5 or so.

24RLMCartwright Apr 5, 2009, 3:50pm *blushes* I think the endless bold might have been my fault. Apparently i am still technologically inept :( sorry guys.

25Moomin2009 Edited: Apr 5, 2009, 3:56pm This is slightly experimental as I don't know how to do bold/italics but we'll see how it goes...



1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen - not yet but I own it and it's on my list!

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 (a LONG time ago)

6 The Bible

7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte - not yet (again) but I do have it on my list.

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

17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk

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 - again I own this, it's on the list.

26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh

27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck - I *think* so, but I can't remember...

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

34 Emma - Jane Austen

35 Persuasion - Jane Austen

36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe

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

64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold

65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas

66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac - another one on the list...

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 Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath

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 - and I own this too.

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

100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo



So 32 read, 5 begun and a few more that I own and are on the TBR pile but I haven't read yet. I don't think that's too bad.



The list confuses me though. Why all of the Harry Potter, His Dark Materials, Faraway Tree and Chronicles of Narnia as one? Why, if the Chronicles of Narnia are one there, does The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe get its own? And I always find the inclusion of Shakespeare odd - they're plays, surely they're meant to be seen?

26jfetting Edited: Nov 22, 2009, 9:03pm 1 Pride and Prejudice

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

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

17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk

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

34 Emma - Jane Austen

35 Persuasion - Jane Austen

36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe

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

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 Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath

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

100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo



77 read

27bell7 Edited: Oct 8, 2010, 10:50am 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

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

17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk

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

34 Emma - Jane Austen

35 Persuasion - Jane Austen

36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe

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

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 Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath

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

100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo



As of Nov. 12 - I've read 44. Re: my reading habits, I guess it would show I'm rather varied in my tastes from children's lit to classics. Also, that I'm a compulsive book list nut and will go back to various lists just to check off a title here and there (the first time I did this I had read 37).

28Storeetllr Edited: Apr 5, 2009, 4:20pm Hmm, only 30 33 for me. Not great, but not too shabby either.



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 (most of it)

8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell

11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott

13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller

14 Complete Works of Shakespeare - read some, but not others...

16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien

22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald

25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams

26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh

29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll

39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden

41 Animal Farm - George Orwell

42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown

43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins

48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood

52 Dune - Frank Herbert

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

61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck

64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold

72 Dracula - Bram Stoker

89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery

94 Watership Down - Richard Adams

98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare



Edited to correct total. Apparently I cannot add today.

29richardderus Apr 5, 2009, 4:21pm



Hi Tui!



My 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

6 The Bible

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 - read some, but not others...

15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier

16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien

17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk

18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger

19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger

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

33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis

34 Emma - Jane Austen

35 Persuasion - Jane Austen

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

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

52 Dune - Frank Herbert

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

60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck

62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov

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

72 Dracula - Bram Stoker

73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett

75 Ulysses - James Joyce

76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath

77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome

78 Germinal - Emile Zola

79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray

80 Possession - AS Byatt

83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker

84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro

85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert

87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White

89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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

97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas

98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare

99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl

100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo rebeccanyc & LouisBranning, I completely agree that this is a weird assortment of titles...why, for example, is The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe listed separately from The Chronicles of Narnia ?...but it's just another one of those oddball book-memes I run across and can't resist perpetuating.Hi Tui!My list:77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome

30msf59 Apr 5, 2009, 4:27pm I thought I was going to do a bit better but ended up with 37 read and I own at least 6 or 7 that I have not attempted.



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

10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens

13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller

15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier

16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien

18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger

22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald

26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh

27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck

37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini

39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden

41 Animal Farm - George Orwell

42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown

44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving

49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding

51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel

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

61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck

62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov

63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt

64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold

66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac

70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville

83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker

84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro

89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad

95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole



Thanks for doing this Richard. A pleasing way to spend on a rainy chilly day in the midwest!

31FicusFan Apr 5, 2009, 4:28pm

It looks like most of the books are classics that you read in school, and then some trendy books.



Books I have read (completed): 41



2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien

3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte

7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte

8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell

10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens

11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott

13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller

15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier

16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien

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

28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck

30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame

32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens

37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini

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

45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins

48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood

49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding

51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel

52 Dune - Frank Herbert

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

61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck

64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold

71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens

72 Dracula - Bram Stoker

74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson

76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath

83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker

87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White

94 Watership Down - Richard Adams

95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole



Series I have started but not completed: 4



4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling

6 The Bible

9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman

14 Complete Works of Shakespeare



Books I own, but have not read yet: 15



1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen

5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee

12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy

26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh

31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy

43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

50 Atonement - Ian McEwan

62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov

63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt

65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas

66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac

75 Ulysses - James Joyce

82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell

84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro

91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad



Books I don't own and haven't read 40



17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk

20 Middlemarch - George Eliot

23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens

24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy

27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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

38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres

44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving

46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery

47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy.

53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons

54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen

55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth.

60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy

68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding

69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie

70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville

73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett

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

85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert

86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry

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

92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery

93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks

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

100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo



32sanja Apr 5, 2009, 4:59pm These messages are entirely too long for me, so I'm just going to leave the books I've read:



1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen

4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling

5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee

7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte

8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell

11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott

13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller

15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier

19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger

21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell

22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald

24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy

25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams

34 Emma - Jane Austen

35 Persuasion - Jane Austen

37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini

38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres

39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden

41 Animal Farm - George Orwell

42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown

43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood

49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding

54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen

56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon

58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley

60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez (reading right now)

61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck

62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov

73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett

81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens

85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert

89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery (in French!)

97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas



I count 35. Several others I own or plan to read, but only 35 out of 100 read.

33koalamom Apr 5, 2009, 4:55pm 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

10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens

11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott

13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller

14 Complete Works of Shakespeare - read some, but not others...

15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier

16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien

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

28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck

29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll

30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame-will soon

33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis

36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe

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

46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery

47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy.

49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding

52 Dune - Frank Herbert

55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth.

57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens

58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley

61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck

67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy

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

92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery

94 Watership Down - Richard Adams

98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare

99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl



I was surprised. I have actually read all the ones listed here (except for the one in italics which I plan to read for my 999 Challenge) - at some point in my life - read 43 out of the 100 - though I do think that 36 is really part of 33, so did they mean have read the entire series for 33, which I have. I have also read all the the books after Anne of Green Gables too.



I'm doing better than I thought!



34Morphidae Apr 5, 2009, 5:17pm Read 39:



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

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

28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck

29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll

33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis

36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe

37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini

41 Animal Farm - George Orwell

42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown

48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood

49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding

51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel

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

64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold

65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas

72 Dracula - Bram Stoker

81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens

84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro

87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White

88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom

92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery

94 Watership Down - Richard Adams

99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl



Currently Reading:

13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller



Gave up on:

6 The Bible

7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte

35snash Apr 5, 2009, 5:24pm Let's see how well I've done on this list. Those I've read are:



1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen

3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte

7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte

8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell

10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens

11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott

12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy

16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien

17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk

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

24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy

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

37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini

40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne

41 Animal Farm - George Orwell

43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy.

49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding

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

66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac

67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy

79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray

81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens

85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert

91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad

92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery

95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole

98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare

99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl



I count 41. I'm okay with that. A few I plan to read and a few others I have no intention of reading.

37Tid Apr 5, 2009, 5:31pm 1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen

2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien (aaargh never again!)

3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte

6 The Bible (parts)

7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte

8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell

9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman

10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens

12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy

13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller

14 Complete Works of Shakespeare - read some, but not others...

16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien

24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy (not finished!)

25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams

26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh (or was it the TV series...?)

28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck

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

34 Emma - Jane Austen

35 Persuasion - Jane Austen

36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe

37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini

38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres

40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne

41 Animal Farm - George Orwell

49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding

50 Atonement - Ian McEwan

52 Dune - Frank Herbert

54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen

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

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

68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding

73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett

74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson

77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome

79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray

81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens

84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro

89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

94 Watership Down - Richard Adams



Actually, a reading childhood accounts for a third of my list! Some of the omissions make me feel a bit ashamed while others (Harry Potter, Da Vinci Code) I have no intention of opening.



(And what is the BBC doing using a synthetic unscientific non-word like "meme"? Mr Darwin will be spinning in his centenary grave).



38lilisin Apr 5, 2009, 5:48pm 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

11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott

12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy

14 Complete Works of Shakespeare - have read quite a few

18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger

22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald

27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis

36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe

39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden

41 Animal Farm - George Orwell

43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding

54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen

57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens

65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas

73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett

91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad

92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery

94 Watership Down - Richard Adams

98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare

99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl

100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo



28 books off of this list.





40maryqueenofscotts Apr 5, 2009, 6:02pm I've read 29 of the books and never finished 10 of them. At least I have finished more than not finished. What is really sad is I have seen 37 of these in their movie form!



42IaaS Apr 5, 2009, 6:28pm This message has been deleted by its author.

43IaaS Edited: Apr 5, 2009, 6:47pm I counted this 52 from the list



2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien

3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte

4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling

6 The Bible

8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell

9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman

13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller

14 Complete Works of Shakespeare - read some, but not others...

15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier

16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien

21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell

22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald

24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy

25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams

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

36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe

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

49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding

51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel

55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth.

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

65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas

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

83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker

89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery

94 Watership Down - Richard Adams

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

100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo



36: thekoolaidmom, how do you get blue, fat and cursiv into here.



And about the bible, I have not read every chapter, I took a bible-cource once too know what it was about.

44cindysprocket Apr 5, 2009, 6:56pm I've read 15 books on the list and most of them were during high school or many years ago. I own 20 others that have yet to be read. I should read those before going to the library or buying more.

45lamplight Edited: Apr 5, 2009, 7:26pm 1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen *

3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte *

5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee *

7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte *

8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell *

10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens *

11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott *

14 Complete Works of Shakespeare - read some, but not others... *

15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier *

20 Middlemarch - George Eliot *

22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald *

23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens*

28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck *

32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens *

33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis *

34 Emma - Jane Austen *

36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe *

37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini *

39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden *

41 Animal Farm - George Orwell *

43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez*

46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery *

48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood *

49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding *

50 Atonement - Ian McEwan *

51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel *

53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons *

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 *

71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens *

81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens *

86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry*

87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White *

98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare *



I've read 35. There are several that I have read excerpts from or seen the movie (!). I've read quite a bit of the Bible, but I'm not sure if it's the whole thing or not.



47dchaikin Apr 5, 2009, 8:58pm 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

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 - read some, but not others...

15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier

16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien

17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk

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

34 Emma - Jane Austen

35 Persuasion - Jane Austen

36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe

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

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 Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath

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

100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo



I count 25, many date from high school or earlier. I've also read parts of the Bible (Old Testament).

48MissTeacher Apr 5, 2009, 9:22pm I Have Read:

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

11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott

14 Complete Works of Shakespeare

16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien

18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger

22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald

25 The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams

28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck

33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis

36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe

37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini

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

46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery

49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding

51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel

58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley

60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck

62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov

66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac

73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett

76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath

87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White

89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare

99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl

100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo



I have read some of, or own and will read:

13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller

15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier

24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy

29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll

30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame

32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens

94 Watership Down - Richard Adams



Not too bad, considering pretty much all the British literature had to be deleted. Take that, BBC!

49alcottacre Apr 5, 2009, 10:30pm Here is mine:



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

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

17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk

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 - I am reading this with the group read for this year

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

34 Emma - Jane Austen

35 Persuasion - Jane Austen

36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - In with #33

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 - I attempted this one a number of years ago and did not care for it, so I will have to give it another go

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

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 Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath

77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome

78 Germinal - Emile Zola - currently reading and it is terrific!

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 - The first book I ever purchased for myself, and I still have my original copy!

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 Isn't this one in the Complete Works?

99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl

100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo



30 unread, 2 currently reading, 68 read

50queen_ypolita Apr 6, 2009, 3:13am Bold for books read, italics for not completed.



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

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

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

34 Emma - Jane Austen

35 Persuasion - Jane Austen

36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe

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

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 Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath

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

100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo



Totals (if I counted correctly) 52 read, 2 partly read

51catherinestead Edited: Apr 6, 2009, 9:11am 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

7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte

8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell (I have a copy in my TBR stack)

9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman

10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens (I finished this one yesterday!)

11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott

12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy (I read parts of this in English at school, but have never got round to the whole thing)

13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller (Copy in my TBR)

14 Complete Works of Shakespeare (Probably read about six or eight plays, plus the sonnets.)

15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier

16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien

17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk

18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger

19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger (Copy in my TBR)

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 (In progress for about the fourth attempt)

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 (Read some of them)

34 Emma - Jane Austen

35 Persuasion - Jane Austen

36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe

37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini

38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres (Copy in my TBR)

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 (Copy in my TBR)

46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery

47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy

48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood (Copy in my TBR)

49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding

50 Atonement - Ian McEwan (Copy in my TBR)

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 (Copy in my TBR)

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 (Gave up on it last year - must try again some time)

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 (At least, I *think* I finished it. I definitely started it.)

66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac

67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy (Copy in my TBR)

68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding

69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie (Copy in my TBR)

70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville (Copy in my TBR)

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 Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath

77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome

78 Germinal - Emile Zola

79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray (Copy in my TBR)

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 (Must have another go at this one again, too. It was quite good, so I can't imagine why I never made it to the end.)

85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert (Copy in my TBR)

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 (The whole thing in English, but only half of it in French.)

98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare

99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl

100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo



I make that 33 read, 7 part-read and 13 of which I have copies on the shelf but which I haven't yet got to.



ETA - Make that 34 read. I missed one.

52koalamom Apr 6, 2009, 8:37am looks like you got us all thinking there, richard!

53richardderus Apr 6, 2009, 9:32am Yeah, k-mom, isn't that the best thing...thinking about books?!

54jhowell Apr 6, 2009, 11:25am I am too lazy to post my whole list, but I have read 59. I wonder what did they say was the purpose of the list? Most commonly read books, I am guessing.

55dchaikin Apr 6, 2009, 11:40am #54 - I was wondering the same thing. I think it's supposed to be 100 books that most define the average (English?, British? BBC Listening?) reader.

57chellerystick Apr 6, 2009, 2:04pm I have seen several versions of this list going around, all with the claim about the BBC saying most people have read 6%. I don't know where the six books number comes from, but as far as I can tell, the lists evolved from the "best-loved" books survey from the BBC's "Big Read" project (list is at http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/bigread/top100.shtml ). Note that best-loved novel in 2003 means a) no nonfiction b) nothing after 2003 c) presumably more British tastes and d) weighted towards stuff many people have read--i.e. "classics" and more children's and genre lit than you'd see on an academic list.

58FionaRobynIngram Apr 6, 2009, 2:20pm Not Completed

4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling (series seemed to change halfway)

25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams (found so boring)



Not read

9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman

17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk

19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger

37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini

38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres

50 Atonement - Ian McEwan

51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel

56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon

59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon

60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt

64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold

69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie

77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome

82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell

86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry

88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom

93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks

95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole



I am proud to say I've read all the rest and re-read some of my favourites regularly. Thanks for putting up such a great list!



59mlfhlibrarian Apr 6, 2009, 2:57pm Read 56, not completed 10.

I am English and have a degree in EngLit, specialising in Victorian novel - no prizes for guessing which titles are in my 'have read' list!

Unfortunately my list wouldn't copy with the bold/italic editing.

60jnwelch Apr 6, 2009, 3:56pm More than 3/4 of them. It pays to be an old guy. :-)

61rocketjk Edited: Apr 6, 2009, 5:19pm



Anyway, here are the books on the list I've read.



2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien

5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee

6 The Bible (Old Testament)

8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell

12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy

13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller

14 Complete Works of Shakespeare - read some, but not others...

16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien

18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger

22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald

25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams

27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame

34 Emma - Jane Austen

41 Animal Farm - George Orwell

43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy.

49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding

52 Dune - Frank Herbert

57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens

58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley

62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov

66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac

70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville

72 Dracula - Bram Stoker

76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath

83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker

85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert

89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad

95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole

97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas

98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare

99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl

33 1/2 for me, as I have never spent much time with the New Testament. But I'm not sure I agree in all cases with whoever put this list together. For example, I'm very glad to have spent my time reading Lord Jim and The Sun Also Rises rather than the Five People You Meet in Heaven. And why am I proud to have read Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, as fun as it was, when, to my embarrassment, I've yet to read Richard Wright's Native Son ? Guess I'm taking it all too seriously.Anyway, here are the books on the list I've read.2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee6 The Bible (Old Testament)8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller14 Complete Works of Shakespeare - read some, but not others...16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame34 Emma - Jane Austen41 Animal Farm - George Orwell43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy.49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding52 Dune - Frank Herbert57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville72 Dracula - Bram Stoker76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl

62whymaggiemay Edited: Mar 15, 2010, 6:33pm Those I've Read:



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

10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens

11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott

13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller

14 Complete Works of Shakespeare - read 10 plays, a few sonnets, nothing else

15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier

16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien

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

28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck

34 Emma - Jane Austen

35 Persuasion - Jane Austen

36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe

37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini

39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden

40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne

45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins

46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery

47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy.

49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding

51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel

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

59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon

61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck

62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov

63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt

64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold

73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett

74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson

81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens

89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle -- read a few

91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad

92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery

94 Watership Down - Richard Adams

96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute

98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare – shouldn’t this be within the collected works?



Those on Mt. TBR:



8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell

14 Complete Works of Shakespeare

29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll

31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy

41 Animal Farm - George Orwell

50 Atonement - Ian McEwan

58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley

66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac

70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville

72 Dracula - Bram Stoker

82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell

83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker

84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro

86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry

87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White

95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole



Updated to move three from TBR pile to "Read" pile.

63dgiovin Apr 6, 2009, 9:54pm 2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien

4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling (partial)

6 The Bible (partial)

8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell

14 Complete Works of Shakespeare (partial)

16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien

18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger

22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald

24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy

27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown

46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery

48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood

58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley (partial)

61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck

70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville

83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker

87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White

91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad

92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery

95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole

98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare



22 total, and I enjoyed all of them except The Bible, Catcher in the Rye, The Da Vinci Code, and The Color Purple.

64emaestra Apr 6, 2009, 10:20pm 5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee

6 The Bible (ok, only parts)

7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte

8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell

10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens

11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott

12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy

15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier

18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger

19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger

22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald

24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy

25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams

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 Tolsto