BBC. Hmm. I have a new GOAL!

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.


1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen -Own, will read.
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien *
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte - *
4 Harry Potter series *
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee - *
6 The Bible *
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte - *
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell -One day. Haven't gotten that far yet.
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman *
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens -Will read. Classic.

Total: 7 (Already over the most people limit. Hmm.)

11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott - Own, Will Read.
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy -Own, will read
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller - Someday
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare -Many, not all.
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier -This is a new one. Hmm.
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien*
17 Birdsong 2nd new.
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger - I forget, but I think so...*
19 The Time Traveler’s Wife -Will read.
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot -3rd new title.

Total: 1.5

21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell - Own, Will Read
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald - Not yet, but soon-ish.
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens -Will read.
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy * Part of. With Crime and Punishment, that makes one full star.
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy *
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky -Part of, With War and Peace, that makes one full star.
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck - Will read.
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll - Own, Will read.
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame - *

Total: 3

31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy Not yet.
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens *
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis *
34 Emma-Jane Austen -Own, will read.
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen -Own, will read.
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis - *
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hossein -Not yet.
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres -Not yet.
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden - Not yet. Really want to.
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne - *- Duh!

Total: 4

41 Animal Farm - George Orwell -Not yet.
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown -Soonish.
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez -4th new title.
44 A Prayer for Owen Meany - JOhn Irving - -5th new title.
45 The Woman in White - Not yet.
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery - *
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy -One day.
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood - Not yet.
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding - *
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan *Have on borrow, not totally finished, but reading.

Total: 2

51 Life of Pi - Yann Martelx -6th new title
52 Dune - Frank Herbert - Not yet.
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons -7th new title
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen -Own, will read.
55 A Suitable Boy - 7th New Title.
56 The Shadow of the Wind - 8th new title. Sounds fun.
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens -Not yet.
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley - Not yet.
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night - Mark Haddon - Sounds fun, but not yet.
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez - Really want to!

Total: 0

61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck - * Pretty sure.
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov - Not yet
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt -9th new Title
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold -10th new title.
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas -Not yet
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac - Not yet.
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy -11th new title. Obscure indeed. o.O
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding -Not yet.
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie - Not yet, but have on order from the library. Refer to a coming post.
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville *Part of, got dozy.

Total: 1.5

71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens *
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker -Not yet.
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett - *
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson -12th new title.
75 Ulysses - James Joyce -Not yet.
76 The Inferno – Dante - Not yet
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome -13th new title.
78 Germinal - Emile Zola -14th new title.
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray -Not yet
80 Possession - AS Byatt -Not yet.

Total: 2

81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens - *
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell -15th new title
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker -Not yet
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro -Not yet.
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert -Not yet.
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry -Not yet.
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White - *
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom -Not yet.
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle -*Partially.
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton -16th new title.

Total: 1.5

91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad -Not yet.
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery -NOt yet.
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks -17th new title.
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams - *
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole -18th new title.
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute -19th New title.
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas - *Partially
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare *
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl - *
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo -Not yet.

Total:2.5

So, with the several half books, I'm at 25. One quarter of the list and I'm supposed to be at 6. I've heard of over three quarters of the list, own several that I ahven't had time for and... have a new note to post. I have a couple of new goals. I will elaborate the next post.
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