Meme: Which ones have you read?

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The BBC predicts most people have only read 6 out of 100 of these books.


        01 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen (seen the movie, tv series and read the book)
        02 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien (of course)
        03 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
        04 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
        05 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
        06 The Bible (assorted chapters...)
        07 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
        08 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
        09 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman (read The Golden Compass. didn't like it)
        10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens (maybe, don't remember)

        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 (seen the movie)
        16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
        17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
        18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
        19 The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
        20 Middlemarch - George Eliot (seen the tv series)

        21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
        22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald (yes, had to for school, but liked it)
        23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens (seen the tv series, great)
        24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
        25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams (saw some of the movie, hated it)
        27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky (had to for school, hated it)
        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 (maybe, don't remember)
        33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis (and the movie.)
        34 Emma - Jane Austen (and the movie and/or tv series)
        35 Persuasion - Jane Austen (one of my favorites)
        36 The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - CS Lewis (and the movie.)
        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 (had to for school)
        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 (sort of for school, hated it)
        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 (will read some day)
        57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
        58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
        59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime - Mark Haddon
        60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez (liked it, except for one chapter at the beginning and one at the end)

        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 (don't remember, maybe)
        70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville

        71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
        72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
        73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett (and at least one movie.)
        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 (seen the tv series)
        80 Possession - AS Byatt

        81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens (probably saw it as a movie)
        82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
        83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
        84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro (had to for school, didn't like it)
        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 (most of them)
        90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton (no, but many others)

        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 (and the movie)
        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