BBC Book Meme (from sunnyd_lite

[garnigal]

The BBC believes most people will have only read 6 of these.


[ ] 1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
[x] 2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
[x] 3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
[x] 4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
[ ] 5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
[x] 6 The Bible - God (most of it)
[x] 7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
[ ] 8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
[x] 9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman - Just the Golden Compass
[ ] 10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens

Total: 6

[ ] 11 Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
[ ] 12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
[x] 13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller I keep meaning to
[x] 14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
[ ] 15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier Half
[x] 16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
[ ] 17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
[x] 18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
[x] 19 The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
[ ] 20 Middlemarch - George Eliot

Total: 5

[ ] 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
[x] 25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
[ ] 27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
[ ] 28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
[ ] 29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll LOVE IT
[x] 30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame

Total: 2

[ ] 31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
[x] 32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
[x] 33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
[ ] 34 Emma - Jane Austen
[ ] 35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
[x] 36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
[ ] 37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
[ ] 38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
[x] 39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
[x] 40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne

Total: 5

[x] 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 Meany - John Irving
[ ] 45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
[x] 46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
[ ] 47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
[x] 48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
[ ] 49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
[ ] 50 Atonement - Ian McEwan

Total: 4

[ ] 51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
[x] 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
[ ] 57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
[x] 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

Total: 2

[ ] 61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
[x] 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
[ ] 70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville

Total: 1

[ ] 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 Great kidlit
[ ] 78 Germinal - Emile Zola
[ ] 79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
[ ] 80 Possession - AS Byatt

Total: 1

[x] 81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
[ ] 82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
[ ] 83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
[ ] 84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
[ ] 85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
[ ] 86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mxistry
[x] 87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White
[x] 88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
[x] 89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
[ ] 90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton

Total: 4

[x] 91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
[x] 92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery in French and English
[ ] 93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
[x] 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
[x] 98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
[x] 99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
[ ] 100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

Total: 5

For a grand total of 35.

Comments

[whatawookie.livejournal.com]

I've read 35 too but not the same ones as you.
And Chronicles of Narnia includes Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe, so that's an error there.

Dune is on my shelf, so I should really get around to that. I'm also realizing I have read none of the Victorian era chick books. Bronte, Austen et al. Horrified that I have not read the proper version of the Three Musketeers or Count of Monte Cristo. Obviously need to remedy that! And I'm sure I've read something by Enid Blyton, I just can't for the life of me remember what it was.

[garnigal.livejournal.com]

There's definitely a few on that I want to read that I haven't yet. I've tried Melville about 3 times and given up each time. I've got no interest in attempting Austen again, though I've read most of the Bronte sisters.

I'd be up for trying to read Three Musketeers or Count of Monte Cristo at the same time as you, just to have someone to discuss it with.

[garnigal.livejournal.com]

Their list is certainly strange...