How many have you read? BBC believe only 6 out of the 100.

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Re: How many have you read? BBC believe only 6 out of the 100.

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Only 21, but there are a lot titles there that I want to read. Also, a couple of those that I watched, but haven't read yet. So much things to do and so little time! Anyone here with little kids to give advice on how to squeeze more reading time into my day (without passing out on the couch)?
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Post by Sakilunamermaid »

I have read 13 of these and of the other 87, there are 35 I do not own or plan on reading or have even heard of before.
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I've read 28 out of the 100!
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I've read 49, so just shy of half!
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Only 13! But I have a bunch more waiting to be read at least!
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36 of them!! This is a great list, better than some others I've found, this year my goal is to read a lot of classics. I'll be saving this and adding them to my bookshelves!
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The BBC believes that most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books below. How many have you read?

I have finished 37

Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien
Harry Potter series – JK Rowling (all)
To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
The Bible
Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell
Complete Works of Shakespeare
The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien
Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger
The Time Travellers Wife – Audrey Niffenegger
The Great Gatsby -- F Scott Fitzgerald
War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis
The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – CS Lewis
Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne
Animal Farm – George Orwell
The Da Vinci Code - dan brown
Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
Moby Dick – Herman Melville
Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
Dracula – Bram Stoker
The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson
A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
Charlotte's Web - EB White
The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
Hamlet – William Shakespeare
Charlie & the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
Ulysses - James Joyce


I still need to read 62
Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
Wuthering Heights
His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman
Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
Catch 22 – Joseph Heller
Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier
Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks
Middlemarch – George Eliot
Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell
Bleak House – Charles Dickens
The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame
Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
Emma – Jane Austen 35 Persuasion – Jane Austen
The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis De Berniere
Memoirs of a Geisha - Willaim Golden
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabrial Garcia Marquez
A Prayer for Owen Meaney – John Irving
The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins
Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery
Far from the Madding Crowd -- Thomas Hardy
The Handmaids Tale - Margaret Atwood
Atonement - Ian McEwan
Life of Pi - Yann Martell
Dune – Frank Herbert
Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth
The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon
Love in the time of Cholera - Gabriel garcia Marquez
Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
The Secret History - Donna Tartt
The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
On the Road - Jack Kerouac
Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy
Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helen Fielding
Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
Notes from a Small Island - Bill Bryson
The Bell Jar - Sylivia Plath
Swallows and Amazons – Arthur Ransome
Germinal – Emile Zola
Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
Possession - AS Byatt
Cloud Atlas - Charles Mitchell
The Colour Purple - Alice Walker
The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
The Faraway Tree collection - Enid blyton
Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint Exupery
The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
Watership Down - Richard Adams
A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute
Les Miserables – Victor Hugo

I am currently trying to read 1
Lord of the Flies – William Golding
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StephenKingman wrote: 02 Dec 2010, 14:24 Only five :oops:

I really need to catch up on my classic collection.
Me too! I have only read eleven of these...
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I felt like I shouldn't even comment. :?
I've just read 4. Not even the average. :lol:
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44 - kinda average I suspect. But there's stuff on that list that I have no interest in reading!
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Only 9 :) I am familiar with most of the titles since my partner reads a lot. Will definitely try those, too :)
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