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canadiangoddess and interested to see what I've read (and/or taught) on the list...
The BBC apparently believes most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here: BOLD THE ONES YOU’VE READ!
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien (and not the wimpy divided into 3 books version either)
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee (not until I was a teacher though and I seriously need to break myself of the habit of referring to it as Tequila Mockingbird)
6 The Bible (my donor is a minister--nuff said)
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens (actually no, but I've read others by him)
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott (the whole series actually)
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare (um, English major?)
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien (yes because I was informed I had to read it before reading LOTR)
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger (it sucked. it was confusing. and i hated it)
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald (high school English...win)
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams (and the rest of the series through to "So Long and Thanks for all the Fish--I need to finish it)
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck (taught never read myself before that and not all that fond of it)
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 (my mother and i have an on-going argument about this. I swear she read it to me. She swears she didn't. Whichever, I've read it numerous times.)
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 (the book was surprisingly good...the movie surprisingly sucky)
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell (high school English--fail in advanced placement it made no sense to me)
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
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
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy.
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood (I know I've read it, I know I've read it more than once. I don't remember WHY I read it)
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding (read it so I could see the movie, I've never seen the movie *face palm*)
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert (I'm still trying to figure out what all the fuss is about)
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 (yes, high school English, and I did enjoy this one)
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
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--haha! To this day my advisor things I read it...NOPE! Did an awesome job of bullshitting him though.
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker (my twisted mind...yeah...)
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett (I don't think the people who made the movie read the book)
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
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 (book, movie, play--read it, watched it, taught it, acted it out...can I move on now?)
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert (fucking college English course and we didn't even read it in ENGLISH! she read it to us and translated it!)
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White (This one mother DID read to me!)
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (counting it, even though I think I might have missed a couple stories here and there)
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 (and weirdly was talking about this with someone a few days ago)
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare (*points to above* Seriously?!)
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl (I'm just going to point out that anything by Dahl...needs to be read drunk...it makes it so much less weird)
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo (If I could find out who played the kid when we saw it. He was fabulous and about 9 at the time. He must be spectacular now.)
There are some repeats on there...
35/100
Not as many as I thought, but there's a couple I might have read and just can't remember right now...
canadiangoddess and interested to see what I've read (and/or taught) on the list...The BBC apparently believes most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here: BOLD THE ONES YOU’VE READ!
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien (and not the wimpy divided into 3 books version either)
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee (not until I was a teacher though and I seriously need to break myself of the habit of referring to it as Tequila Mockingbird)
6 The Bible (my donor is a minister--nuff said)
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens (actually no, but I've read others by him)
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott (the whole series actually)
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare (um, English major?)
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien (yes because I was informed I had to read it before reading LOTR)
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger (it sucked. it was confusing. and i hated it)
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald (high school English...win)
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams (and the rest of the series through to "So Long and Thanks for all the Fish--I need to finish it)
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck (taught never read myself before that and not all that fond of it)
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 (my mother and i have an on-going argument about this. I swear she read it to me. She swears she didn't. Whichever, I've read it numerous times.)
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 (the book was surprisingly good...the movie surprisingly sucky)
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell (high school English--fail in advanced placement it made no sense to me)
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
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
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy.
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood (I know I've read it, I know I've read it more than once. I don't remember WHY I read it)
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding (read it so I could see the movie, I've never seen the movie *face palm*)
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert (I'm still trying to figure out what all the fuss is about)
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 (yes, high school English, and I did enjoy this one)
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
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--haha! To this day my advisor things I read it...NOPE! Did an awesome job of bullshitting him though.
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker (my twisted mind...yeah...)
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett (I don't think the people who made the movie read the book)
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
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 (book, movie, play--read it, watched it, taught it, acted it out...can I move on now?)
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert (fucking college English course and we didn't even read it in ENGLISH! she read it to us and translated it!)
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White (This one mother DID read to me!)
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (counting it, even though I think I might have missed a couple stories here and there)
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 (and weirdly was talking about this with someone a few days ago)
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare (*points to above* Seriously?!)
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl (I'm just going to point out that anything by Dahl...needs to be read drunk...it makes it so much less weird)
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo (If I could find out who played the kid when we saw it. He was fabulous and about 9 at the time. He must be spectacular now.)
There are some repeats on there...
35/100
Not as many as I thought, but there's a couple I might have read and just can't remember right now...
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