Sad to say only 10. I do read - while I'm waiting for my allergy shot - but not the classics listed here.
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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 love to read. |
I haven't read any of them :oops: I read all the time. Debbie Macomber is my favorite along with Harlequin Intrique (mystery/romance) I also read Mary Higgins Clarke, and Cassie Edwards
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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:
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I grew up reading the classics, from huge anthology books of Dickens, Shakespeare, and such. I read the Bible cover to cover several times, looking for things I never found there. JRR Tolkein and CS Louis were my junior high favorites. Folks in my crowd wrote as easily in runes as English. The newer stuff I am not so well acquainted with.
I recently came across Acrobat's free book reader, (Adobe Digital Editions) well worth the download. Also, Project Gutenberg has been mentioned several times here already, and that has free e-books on every subject. the reader allows you to zoom so you can see the text better, so no excuses about reading glasses are needed! |
I'v read 20 of them Twice. Some more. I read almost any thing I get my hands on.
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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:
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Originally Posted by Pats8e8
Does it count if you've seen the movie?? :lol:
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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: As I stated with some of the books I didn't make it all the way through, so I counted the books that got at least halfway through. There were some books on that list that I just couldn't read from beginning to end. One of them being Nineteen Eighty Four by Orwell. I just couldnt finish it. |
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 :)
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