BBC book meme

The BBC believes the majority of people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here 

Instructions:
1) Look at the list and put an 'x' after those you have read.
2) Put a "/" next to those books of which you have read part.
3) Tally your total at the bottom.

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen /  
reading it!

2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien ()
I never will- I am satisfied to have seen the movies, sorry...

3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte x

4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling ) 
Only the first one, sorry again...
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee 
I will as soon as I get my free copy from Military One Source!!

6 The Bible /
Well, not ALL of it...
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte (X)

8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell (X)
Fond memories of my 7th grade teacher, Dr. Ogden, she rented the movie after we read it, for us to watch.  she should have previewed it- too funny when she tried to fast forward through the sex scene- we just saw it (breasts and all) in high speed!
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman /
Only the first one, but I LOVED it

10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens (X)

11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott (X)
My fave author as a girl

12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles X


13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller 


14 Complete Works of Shakespeare /
I'll get to that when I decide to major in Shakespeare...

15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier X

I think?
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien ( )
see number 2
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks

18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger (X)


19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger (X)
love this book

20 Middlemarch - George Eliot

21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell 

22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald (X)

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 X

32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens (X)


33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis (X)


34 Emma - Jane Austen ( )

35 Persuasion - Jane Austen 

36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis (X)


37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini X


38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres

I have not heard of this one...
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden (X)

40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne ( )


41 Animal Farm - George Orwell ( X)

42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown (X)

43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez X

In Spanish too!
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 ( )
It's on my TBR list...

49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding (X)


50 Atonement - Ian McEwan X

NOT my favorite book, ugg
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel ( )

52 Dune - Frank Herbert 

53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons

54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen ()
The British love their Jane Austin, don't they?
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth

56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon X

GREAT book
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens ( )


58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley 

59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon 


60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez 
I have My Melancholy Whores on my bookshelf- does that count?
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck ( )
Why not East of Eden?  It was an Oprah pick after all... *wink
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov 
How about Reading Lolita in Tehran- I read that one and WISHED I had read the actual Lolita beforehand...
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt 

64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold (X)
FREAKED me out.
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas 
I think I read a Reader's Digest version...  anyone remember those books?

66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
It's on my shelf!
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy X

68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding 
Really?  While I am sure it is enjoyable, I don't think it belongs on this list.  If you want a British author- why not Jasper Fforde?  At least he extols the virtues of good English literature.

69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie 


70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville ( )

71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens (X)


72 Dracula - Bram Stoker (  )
It is on my shelf too...

73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett (X)
Loved this book and the Shirley Temple movie...

74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
??75 Ulysses - James Joyce 

76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath 

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 Mitchel


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 ()
It just doesn't sound very interesting to me, sorry again!
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
Who, what?
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

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 (X)


100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo 

I think I remember the song from French class...

A strange list for sure!