Have you read more than 6 of these books?
This is a great quiz by Jamie @ Book Nerd Extraordinaire
The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books here. How do your reading habits stack up?
Instructions: Copy this into your NOTES. Look at the list and put an ‘x’ after those you have read. Tag other book nerds. Tag me as well so i can see your responses!
I have read only 19 out of the 100! This is a surprises as I thought I would have read more. I have most of the books on my shelves so it looks as though I have a lot of reading to do…
1 Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen (X)
2 The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien ()
3 Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte (X)
4 Harry Potter series – JK Rowling ()
5 To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee ()
6 The Bible ()
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 ()
13 Catch 22 – Joseph Heller ()
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare ()
15 Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier()
16 The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien (X)
17 Birdsong – Sebastian Faulk ()
18 Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger ()
19 The Time Traveler’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger (X)
20 Middlemarch – George Eliot ()
21 Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell ()
22 The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald ()
23 Bleak House – Charles Dickens ()
24 War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy ()
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams ()
26 Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh ()
27 Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky ()
28 Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck ()
29 Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll (X)
30 The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame ()
31 Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy ()
32 David Copperfield – Charles Dickens ()
33 Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis ()
34 Emma-Jane Austen (X)
35 Persuasion – Jane Austen (X)
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – CS Lewis ()
37 The Kite Runner – Khaled Hossein ()
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis De Bernieres ()
39 Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden ()
40 Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne ()
41 Animal Farm – George Orwell (X)
42 The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown ()
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 (X)
54 Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen (X)
55 A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth ()
56 The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon ()
57 A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens ()
58 Brave New World – Aldous Huxley ()
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night – 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 (X)
65 Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas ()
66 On The Road – Jack Kerouac ()
67 Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy ()
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helen Fielding ()
69 Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie ()
70 Moby Dick – Herman Melville ()
71 Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens ()
72 Dracula – Bram Stoker (X)
73 The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett ()
74 Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson ()
75 Ulysses – James Joyce ()
76 The Inferno – Dante ()
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 (X)
84 The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro ()
85 Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert ()
86 A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry ()
87 Charlotte’s Web – EB White (X)
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom ()
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ()
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 (X)
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl ()
100 Les Miserables – Victor Hugo ()
NB: Trine @ Bloody Bad noticed that there was not a number 26! I found it and I have now added no.26 to the list. I have read many Evelyn Waugh books but not this one, so unfortunately my count of 19 still stands.
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I think I counted 51. I love these types of lists, even though I sometimes question how in the world they chose the novels that they did. I actually posted this and tied it back to your post. Thanks for sharing!
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I should've read some of these books for school (but didn't) and I also own quite of few on the list below that I haven't read yet, but here's a list of those I've actually read at one point (27 I think):
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
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 Traveler’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger
22 The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – CS Lewis
41 Animal Farm – George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown
46 Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery
48 The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
50 Atonement – Ian McEwan
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 – Mark Haddon
64 The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold
73 The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett
85 Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
92 The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl
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I like this! I am going to post it on my blog if you don't mind.
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I think I counted 14 or 15, with probably another 20 that I have sitting on my shelf or in my Kindle waiting to be read! This would serve as a wonderful TBR list!
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You had me beat by 1 so congrats.
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I read 13 of the books listed.
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I've read 23 on this list, but own 12 that I haven't read yet. And if you count the ones I've seen as movies….
Interesting list. Hope you don't mind, but I posted it on my blog, with a link back here as well as to Jamie's site.
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57 for me. I can't resist these types of lists!
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I've read 26, but there are lots of books on that list which I intend to read sometime.
Best wishes from Germany,
Nina
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Thanks for posting, this is a great list. By my count I have read 33.
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Hi all – thanks so much for all your comments. Glad you liked the list. I think I need to do some reading, I see that many of you have read quite a few of them!
Thanks for stopping by
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Hi, I posted your list in my blog http://juttas-schreibblog.blog.....s-1oo.html
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Hi again,
just wanted to tell you that I posted the list in my blog, too.
http://libromanie.de/2009/08/0.....6-aus-1oo/
Greetings,
Nina
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Most of the vistors on my blog have read more than 20 books from your reading list, even though there is no German author represented. Why is it so, can you explain us?
Best wishes form Germany, dolcevita
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I would like to come back and check this list — at the moment I cant stay, dogs want to go out and son is begging for food LOL
Thank you for the book I won, btw, I'm so pleased to have that!
Take care,
Sassy
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