A friend tagged me for this books-read meme that is circulating on Facebook. I liked the list and thought it was a fun meme. If you like it, consider yourself “tagged.”
The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books here. How do your reading habits stack up? (What? No Mark Twain? Cormac McCarthy? Philip Roth? William Faulkner? Ernest Hemingway?)
Instructions: Look at the list and put an ‘x’ after those you have read. Tag other book nerds.
My count is 64. Which ones have you read?
Section 1 = 16
1 Pride and Prejudice -X
2 The Lord of the Rings-X
3 Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte -X
4 Harry Potter series – JK Rowling -X
5 To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee –X
6 The Bible–only partly
7 Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte-X
8 Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell-X
9 His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations – Charles Dickens-X
11 Little Women – Louisa M Alcott -X
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy-X
13 Catch 22 – Joseph Heller-X
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare-much of it-X
15 Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier-X
16 The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien -X
17 Birdsong – Sebastian Faulk
18 Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger-X
19 The Time Traveler’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger-X
Section 2 = 8
20 Middlemarch – George Eliot-X
21 Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell-X
22 The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald-X
23 Bleak House – Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy-X
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams-X
27 Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky-X
28 Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck -X
29 Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll-X
Section 3 = 7
30 The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame-X
31 Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy-X
32 David Copperfield – Charles Dickens-X
33 Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis-X
34 Emma – Jane Austen-X
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – CS Lewis-X
37 The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden-X
Section 4 = 7
40 Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne-X
41 Animal Farm – George Orwell -X
42 The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown-X
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney – John Irving
45 The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins-X
46 Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery-X
47 Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy-X
48 The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies – William Golding-X
Section 5 = 4
50 Atonement – Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi – Yann Martel
52 Dune – Frank Herbert-X
53 Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen-X
55 A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens-X
58 Brave New World – Aldous Huxley-X
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night – Mark Haddon-X
Section 6 = 6
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez-X
61 Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck -X
62 Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History – Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold-X
65 Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road – Jack Kerouac-X
67 Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy-X
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helen Fielding-X
69 Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick – Herman Melville
Section 7 = 4
71 Oliver Twist- Charles Dickens-X
72 Dracula – Bram Stoker-X
73 The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett-X
74 Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses – James Joyce
76 The Inferno – Dante
77 Swallows and Amazons – Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal – Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession – AS Byatt-X
Section 8 = 6
81 A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens-X
82 Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple – Alice Walker-X
84 The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert-X
86 A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte’s Web – EB White -X
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom-X
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle-X
90 The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton
Section 9 = 6
91 Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad x
92 The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery-X
93 The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks
94 Watership Down – Richard Adams-X
95 A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute-X
97 The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet – William Shakespeare-X
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory- Roald Dahl-X
100 Les Miserables – Victor Hugo
A Fondness For Reading 
64 -that is a lot! I’ve read 27. I’m surprised they would think most people have only read 6, there’s at least that many if not more that I was required to read on here. Including The Davinci Code is sort of silly.
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64?!! That is impressive! I’ve read 30 and I was feeling pretty good about it until I saw your number 🙂
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Tara, I agree–much of it was required reading for me, and there are some strange ones thrown in…
Thanks, Stacybuckeye. We should include our ages on a list like this…I’ve been at it for a lot of years and that makes all the difference!
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I read Great Expectations. It was a good book.
Pip and Estella rule.
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When it said Lord of the Rings, all three?
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64! I agree it is impressive. Mine is 11 (not including Lord of the Rings. I’m in the middle of the first book.)but I think it’s not too bad because I’m 12 and I don’t exactly like classics with some exceptions of course.
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mine is 27.5. which ones did you like the most?
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I’ve read 14. (I read a few others, but they were abridged versions). I’m 26. But this list has piqued my interest. I will be reading a confederacy of dunces 😉 once I get through with the 5 I have lined up…
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I have read 21. You might think that’s not very much, but I’m 14.
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I have read 7 and I am only 14 but I am an avid reader
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22 and a half (Les Mis is taking me a while) and I’m only 15.
Think I should point out that Shakespeare’s works are plays, and therefore not meant to be read like books.
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I have read 24. I’m 11.
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i have already read about 32 of them……. i’m now 13.
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i’ve read 41 for sure. i think there were a couple others i read years ago but can’t remember if i’d ever finished them. though i did find it odd that the lion the witch and the wardrobe were listed separately from the chronicles of narnia, of which it is a part. (in any case i’ve read the whole series many times over!)
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Haha… I got 9… After reading this, I have realized I have not read American, English books for too long.
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