BBC Book List – how many have you read?

Apparently the BBC reckons most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here.

How many did you read, and which ones?

Instructions:

• Look at the list and put an ‘x’ after those you have read. 
• Add a ‘+’ to the ones you LOVE. 
• Star (*) those you plan on reading. 
• Put ? on the ones you’ve never heard of. 
• Tally your total at the bottom. 

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

Carole’s total read: 48

Absolute favorite on this list: Lord of the Rings/Emma/Pride and Predjudice (as judged by the number of times of read them)

Most embarrassing absences – All the Charles Dickens. Luckily for me there is no category for the ones I’ve read but can’t now remember. Another category could be movies based on the books.