Don’t normally got for these meme thingies – but why not, eh?!
Apparently the BBC reckons most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here.
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
- Tally your total at the bottom
How many have you read?
- Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
- The Lord of the Rings( the film doesn’t count) – Tolkien x
- Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
- Harry Potter series – JK Rowling x+
- To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee x
- The Bible x
- Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte x
- Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell x
- His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman x
- Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
- Little Women – Louisa M Alcott
- Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
- Catch 22 – Joseph Heller +
- Complete Works of Shakespeare
- Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier x
- The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien x
- Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks *
- Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger x
- The Time Traveller’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger x
- Middlemarch – George Eliot
- Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell
- The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald
- Bleak House – Charles Dickens
- War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
- The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams x
- Brideshead Revisited
- Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
- Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll x
- The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame x
- Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
- David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
- Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis x+
- Emma – Jane Austen
- Persuasion – Jane Austen
- The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – CS Lewis x
- The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
- Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis De Bernieres x
- Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden *
- Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne x
- Animal Farm – George Orwell x
- The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown x
- One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- A Prayer for Owen Meaney – John Irving
- The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins
- Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery x
- Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy
- The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
- Lord of the Flies – William Golding x
- Atonement – Ian McEwan
- Life of Pi – Yann Martel x
- Dune – Frank Herbert x
- Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons
- Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
- A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth *
- The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon
- A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
- Brave New World – Aldous Huxley +
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon x
- Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez x
- Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
- Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
- The Secret History – Donna Tartt +
- The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold +
- Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
- On The Road – Jack Kerouac
- Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy
- Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helen Fielding x
- Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
- Moby Dick – Herman Melville
- Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens x
- Dracula – Bram Stoker
- The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett x
- Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson *
- Ulysses – James Joyce
- The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
- Swallows and Amazons – Arthur Ransome x
- Germinal – Emile Zola
- Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray x
- Possession – AS Byatt
- A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens x
- Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
- The Color Purple – Alice Walker
- The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
- Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
- A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
- Charlotte’s Web – EB White
- The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Alborn
- Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle x
- The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton
- Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
- The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery x
- The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks
- Watership Down – Richard Adams x
- A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
- A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute
- The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
- Hamlet – William Shakespeare x
- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl
- Les Miserables – Victor Hugo