100 Books Meme
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on Aug. 11, 2009
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Susie sent me this. She’s read 110 of these books. 
The BBC believes most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here. How do your reading habits stack up?
Instructions: Look at the list and put an ‘x’ after those you have read. Tag other “Book Nerds”.
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen ?
2 The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien xm
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte x
4 Harry Potter series - J.K. Rowling xm
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee xm
6 The Bible +
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte x
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell xm
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman +m
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens x
Total: 7 read + 1 maybe + 2 partials + 5 movies
11 Little Women - Louisa M. Alcott m
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy ?
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller x
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare +m
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier m
16 The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien xm
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger x
19 The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
Total: 10 read + 2 maybes + 3 partials + 9 movies
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell m
22 The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald xm
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens xm
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams xm
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck +
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll xm
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame x
Total: 15 read + 2 maybes + 4 partials + 14 movies
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens xm
33 Chronicles of Narnia - C.S. Lewis xm
34 Emma - Jane Austen x
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36
A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess xm
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hossein
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres m
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - A.A. Milne xm
Total: 20 read + 2 maybes + 4 partials + 18 movies + replaced 36 with a non-duplicate book, see 33 + wtf is with all the Jane Austen?
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell xm
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown x
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez x
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving x
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - L.M. Montgomery xm
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood xm
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding xm
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
Total: 27 read + 2 maybes + 4 partials + 22 movies + LOTS of versions of Anne of Green Gables, that little minx
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 Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens x
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley xm
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez ?
Total: 29 read + 4 maybes + 5 partials + 23 movies + yes, I’ve never seen or read Dune, Clint and Rob.
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck xm
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov xm
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas m
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac x
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy x
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville x
Total: 34 read + 4 maybes + 5 partials + 26 movies + if I knew Bridget Jones’s Diary was on this list I would not have bothered. I mean, what is this, a buzz marketing stunt for several book-club books?
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens xm
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker xm
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson x
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 ?
Total: 37 read + 5 maybes + 5 partials + 28 movies + yay Bill Bryson on the same list as Shakespeare + only two people have ever read Ulysses, so unfair
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens xm
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker x
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert +m
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte’s Web - E.B. White xm
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle xm
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton x
Total: 42 read + 5 maybes + 6 partials + 32 movies + I read all the Noddy books, so I’m counting Enid Blyton anyway
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad xm
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery x
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams xm
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole x
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas x
98
The Stranger - Albert Camus x
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl xm
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo m
Grand total: 49 read + 5 maybes + 6 partials + 36 movies (yes, both C&TCFs) + ditched another duplicate: 98 and 14
OK, dudes. Drop some Dickens and include some humor, some mystery, some biography… Seriously, I so doubt this was a BBC list, unless BBC stands for “Barry’s Book Club.”
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