Tuesday 16 November 2010

The Big Read!

BBC booklist: Apparently the average Brit has only read 6... how many have you read?!Prize to whomever has read the MOST books! Submit your answer to londongbclub@gmail.com

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen -  2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien - 3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte - 4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling -  5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee – 6 The Bible 7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte -  8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell - 9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman - 10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens - 11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott - 12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy- 13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller - 14 Complete Works of Shakespeare - 15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier - 16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien - 17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk - 18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger- 19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger - 20 Middlemarch - George Eliot - 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 - 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 - 30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame - 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 – 41 Animal Farm - George Orwell - 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 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 - 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 Zifon 57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens - 59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon - 60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez - 61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck- 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 - 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 - 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 - 88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom - 89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur  Conan Doyle - 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 –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 - 99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl - 100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo –

14 comments:

  1. Gosh, I've only read 15 of these... guess I should get reading!

    ~Bex

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  2. Marnie: 18 for me!

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  3. I've managed to read 27, though if you count having seen the movie/play, I can add another 15 :)

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  4. I've read 37!!! WOW! Take that BBC

    Beth

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  5. I've read 32... and a lot of them a long time ago! But that's not so bad!

    ~Anne

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  6. I've got to be the winner!!!!! I've read 58 of them.. mind you I am a bit of a classic fan.

    ~Serena

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  7. Erin - Brilliant idea. You're such a star!

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  8. 15 - I am quite impressed with myself as I've found more titles to ask Santa for.

    Ro

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  9. Only 22...but now I am so tempted to tackle this list. Love you and miss you in Canada Erin!!!

    Crystal

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  10. I have read 32 out of the lot but have the majority of them on my TBR shelf! :)

    ~Tina

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  11. Only 23! And I only do marginally better on the Australian version.

    Time to get reading....
    Nicole

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  12. I read 20 of these! OMG...

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  13. catching up on older posts here, but I've read 34! Can only assume they questioned people who don't enjoy reading!

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