BBC Booklist
Sunday, August 02, 2009
Piaroh Cze tagged me on facebook, decided to do this here instead. hope it becomes a motivation for me to read during this 3 weeks. =)
Where do you fall in the list? The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books here. It's always fun to prove them wrong.
Copy this into your NOTES. Look at the list and put an X after those you have read. Tag people equal to the number you checked. Don't forget to tag me back.
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen [X]
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling [never completed even one...]
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible (I'm guessing on-and-off reading and laughing doesn't really count.)
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell [lent the book to my cousin, haven't got it back.]
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens [never passed the first chapter...]
Total: 1
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare (Caught the play, that count?)
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
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
Total: 1
Total so far: 2
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 (Want to, but never found the unabridged version)
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
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
Total: 0
Total so far: 2
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34 Emma-Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
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
Total: 0
Total so far: 2
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown [X]
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meany - 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
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
Total: 1
Total so far: 3
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
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley [X]
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Total: 1
Total so far: 4
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov (Sounds pretty wrong.)
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas (does the abridged version count?)
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
Total so far: 5
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
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
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
Total: 0
Total so far: 5
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 Mistry
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 [X]
Total: 3
Total so far: 8
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad (I must find this.)
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery (I'm sure it's fascinating and I'm missing a lot.)
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
Total: 2
Total read from list: 10
Well, I seem to have my reading cut out for me, haven't I? And I'm absolutely offended that they didn't include works whose value did not majorly lie in prose. Argh, I might had done better otherwise.
It's also a poor list for the modern age, leaving out Terry Prachett, Neil Gaiman, Harry Turtledove and more marginally Jefferey Archer. Why the dunce are they missing while Rowling and Dan Brown both feature, I cannot understand. It's also weighted so heavily in favour the British; no Mark Twain, no Edgar Allan Poe, and it's no coincidence they're Americans.
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i included the post-script as well, for the fun of it. i've always liked literature, but haven't found the time or mood to read widely. ok, maybe those are excuses, but i will definitely try to find them for these great works of art.
well...i shan't talk about the rest. i am TRYING to be optimistic, so much so that it will aid in my recovery.
Where do you fall in the list? The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books here. It's always fun to prove them wrong.
Copy this into your NOTES. Look at the list and put an X after those you have read. Tag people equal to the number you checked. Don't forget to tag me back.
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen [X]
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling [never completed even one...]
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible (I'm guessing on-and-off reading and laughing doesn't really count.)
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell [lent the book to my cousin, haven't got it back.]
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens [never passed the first chapter...]
Total: 1
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare (Caught the play, that count?)
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
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
Total: 1
Total so far: 2
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 (Want to, but never found the unabridged version)
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
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
Total: 0
Total so far: 2
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34 Emma-Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
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
Total: 0
Total so far: 2
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown [X]
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meany - 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
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
Total: 1
Total so far: 3
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
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley [X]
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Total: 1
Total so far: 4
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov (Sounds pretty wrong.)
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas (does the abridged version count?)
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
Total so far: 5
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
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
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
Total: 0
Total so far: 5
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 Mistry
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 [X]
Total: 3
Total so far: 8
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad (I must find this.)
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery (I'm sure it's fascinating and I'm missing a lot.)
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
Total: 2
Total read from list: 10
Well, I seem to have my reading cut out for me, haven't I? And I'm absolutely offended that they didn't include works whose value did not majorly lie in prose. Argh, I might had done better otherwise.
It's also a poor list for the modern age, leaving out Terry Prachett, Neil Gaiman, Harry Turtledove and more marginally Jefferey Archer. Why the dunce are they missing while Rowling and Dan Brown both feature, I cannot understand. It's also weighted so heavily in favour the British; no Mark Twain, no Edgar Allan Poe, and it's no coincidence they're Americans.
_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
i included the post-script as well, for the fun of it. i've always liked literature, but haven't found the time or mood to read widely. ok, maybe those are excuses, but i will definitely try to find them for these great works of art.
well...i shan't talk about the rest. i am TRYING to be optimistic, so much so that it will aid in my recovery.