Originally Posted by henryparrish76

Saw this on a friends blog today and thought this was kinda cool. I have read 84 of these 100 books. But thats not to say I made it to the last page. How many of these books have you read? You dont have to put the x beside them as I did, just tell the number.
The BBC believes most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here.
How do your reading habits stack up?

Instructions:
1) Look at the list and put an 'x' before those you have read.
2) Tally your total at the bottom.

(X ) 1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen

() 2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien

(X ) 3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte

( X) 4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling

(X ) 5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee

(X ) 6 The Bible (I was young and wanted to find out what it said myself)

(X ) 7 Withering Heights - Emily Bronte

(x) 8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell (in jr. high or high school)

( ) 9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman

(X ) 10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens

(X ) 11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott

(X ) 12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy

( x) 13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller

(x ) 14 Complete Works of Shakespeare

( x) 15 Rebbecca - Daphne Du Maurie r

(X ) 16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien

(x ) 17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk

(X) 18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger

( ) 19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger

( ) 20 Middlemarch - George Eliot

(x ) 21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell

(X ) 22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald

(X ) 23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens

(X ) 24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy

() 25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams

( ) 26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh

( X) 27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

(X) 28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck

(X ) 29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll

(x ) 30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame

( X) 31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy

( x) 32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens

(X ) 33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis

(X ) 34 Emma - Jane Austen

( x) 35 Persuasion - Jane Austen

(X ) 36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis

( x) 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

(X) 41 Animal Farm - George Orwell

(X) 42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown

(x ) 43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

( ) 44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - 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

(X) 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

(X ) 54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen

( x) 55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth

() 56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon

(X ) 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-time - Mark Haddon

( ) 60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

(X ) 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 ) 66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac

( ) 67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy

( X) 68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding

( x) 69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie

(X ) 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 ) 74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson

(X ) 75 Ulysses - James Joyce

( ) 76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath

() 77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome

( ) 78 Germinal - Emile Zola

(X ) 79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray

(x ) 80 Possession - A.S. Byatt

(X ) 81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens

( x) 82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell

(X ) 83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker

(X ) 84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro

(X ) 85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert

( ) 86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry

(X) 87 Charlotte’s Web - E.B. 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

( ) 91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad

(X ) 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

(x ) 96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute

(X ) 97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas

(X) 98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare

(X ) 99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

( X) 100 Les Miserables - Victor Hu

Originally Posted by BellaBoo

93 here. I am a book snob. Did you know most new popular fiction novels are written on an 8th grade level? That's the average reading level of adults now. :cry:

Originally Posted by Pats8e8

Does it count if you've seen the movie?? :lol:

Originally Posted by sewaholic

Gee Henry - how do you find time to quilt if you read all them.
Hang on didn't you work in a library??
Are you talking about the whole book or just the cover? :lol:

Originally Posted by Barb M

uhmmm, two????? lol Charlottes web was one of them, and the Bible lol. I was an avid reader when i was young, but i mostly read nancy drew and the hardy boys lol. And as an adult, ive just never read fiction, but i have read lots of health magazines and stuff. Now i just like to look at my quilting magazines sometimes :)