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Are you smarter than the BBC thinks you are?
- Nov 12, 2009 at 1:47 AM
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The BBC believes most people will have only read 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 and Publish. Put your total in brackets in the title!
1 The Bible X
2 The Lord of the Rings x (4 times, one of my all time faves)
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling x
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee x
6 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen X
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte X
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell, No _ Animal Farm? X
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens X
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott X
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy X Hardy is another of my faves, I've read all his books.
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare No, but in my opinion Shakespear should be seen, not read.
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien X
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger X twice, and I still don't get it. Guess you have to be born American.
19 The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot X Hated it. But LOVED Silas Marner!
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell X
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald X Loved it. Love Fitzgerald!
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy X plus every thing else Douglas Adams has written including Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency.
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh X
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck X OMG Love Steinbeck. East of Eden IS the best book ever!
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll X
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame x
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy - Fail! I read this book for 3 weeks and Anna Karenina's name hadn't come up yet. couldn't take it.
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens X "TROT!!"
33 Chronicles of Narnia X
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe X UMMM isn't that in the Chronicles of Narnia? I think so!
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini (I saw the movie!)
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden x
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne X and all the others
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell X
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown X lame
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 X
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy. X3 my fave Hardy novel. Love this one and the movie
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood X
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding X Great book!
50 Atonement- Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons X
54 Sense and Sensibility -Jane Austen X
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 X goodie
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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 X Fucking Brilliant!! Love Dumas!
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac X - My son's adoptive mother gave it to me :)
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy X like I said - His entire works
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding X but why are these books on this list?
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville X
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens X
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker x
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett X aww! Is Black Beauty here too?
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 X
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens X
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker x God gets pissed if you don't notice the color purple
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro X
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 x
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
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 x Read all of his books too. Loved "Miah"
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 X
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo X Fabulous, but not as good a "Hunchback"
But what about The rest of Alexanda Dumas' masterpieces? White Fang by Jack London, Rudyard Kipling? D.H. Lawrence? Henry Miller? The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy? Moliere? Robert Louis Stevenson? Uncle Toms Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe? Jules Verne! H.G Wells? Oscar Wilde!!!! The Crucilbe by Arthur Miller? Mark Friggin Twain? The Jungle by Upton Sinclair? And on and on?!?!?
Stupid BBC!
Comments:
You are an avid reader! I am glad to see you share my love of Hardy! I posted this on my journal. You have to read Dostoyevsky and Hugo. Oh and, read The Little Prince, it's barely a novella so it will take you no time at all.
I agree with you wholeheartedly, many of the greats were left off and some on the list made me, like you, wonder why they made it. Harry potter novels? Best-selling does not equal cannon of literature. Nothing against them, I think they probably got some kids into reading that weren't otherwise, but they cannot stand next to many of these other titles.
I want to read some greats again. I think I will start with some of the ones you had exed that I had to erase from my list. Thank you!
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Loved this list! I got a 24 HAHAHA I reposted it on my journal as well!
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