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

[Carolineh]

The BBC believes that most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books below. How many have you read?

1 Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen

2 The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien

3 Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte

4 Harry Potter series – JK Rowling (all)

5 To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee

6 The Bible

7 Wuthering Heights

8 Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell

9 His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman

10 Great Expectations – Charles Dickens

11 Little Women - Louisa May Alcott

12 Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy

13 Catch 22 – Joseph Heller

14 Complete Works of Shakespeare

15 Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier

16 The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien

17 Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks

18 Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger

19 The Time Travellers Wife – Audrey Niffenegger

20 Middlemarch – George Eliot

21 Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell

22 The Great Gatsby -- F Scott Fitzgerald

23 Bleak House – Charles Dickens

24 War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy

25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams

26 Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh

27 Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky

28 Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck

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

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 Berniere

39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Willaim Golden

40 Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne

41 Animal Farm – George Orwell

42 The Da Vinci Code - dan brown

43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabrial 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 Handmaids Tale - Margaret Atwood

49 Lord of the Flies – William Golding

50 Atonement - Ian McEwan

51 Life of Pi - Yann Martell

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

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

71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens

72 Dracula – Bram Stoker

73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson

74 Notes from a Small Island - Bill Bryson

75 Ulysses - James Joyce

76 The Bell Jar - Sylivia 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

82 Cloud Atlas - Charles Mitchell

83 The Colour Purple - Alice Walker

84 The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro

85 Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert

86 A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry

87 Charlotte's Web - EB White

88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom

89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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

98 Hamlet – William Shakespeare

99 Charlie & the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl

100 Les Miserables – Victor Hugo

I'm at 25 (would have been 28 but 3 of them I couldn't finish!) New reading list for me to work through though!

[GotThatSwing]

Just 23 But I have some of them waiting patiently on my bookshelf to be next.

[Fran]

66 ... it's a good list though very eclectic.

Catch 22 is still on my shelf - don't know what it is about that book but I just can't get to reading it.

[Tip the Bottle]

Hmmm only 18 and here I thought I was an avid reader.

[StephenKingman]

Only five

I really need to catch up on my classic collection.

[Elphaba]

50 I read completely and a few more I started but didn't finish.
Some of them are on my list (Grapes of Wrath, Dracula)
Some of the ones I read were wonderful but others didn't impress me too much - I wouldn't take this list as a "must read", or make any conclusion on myself or others by the number of books read from this list...

[Mairin]

Only 24 of them, but The Lady in White is coming up on my TBR list!!!

[Annaintheworks]

Only 24 of them, but The Lady in White is coming up on my TBR list!!!

37, me.
I would recommend The Lady in White highly. It has a few draggy bits but it's totally worth sticking with till the end.
Enjoy!

[Carolineh]

Only 24 of them, but The Lady in White is coming up on my TBR list!!!

37, me.
I would recommend The Lady in White highly. It has a few draggy bits but it's totally worth sticking with till the end.
Enjoy!

The lady in White is second then! Far from the Maddening Crowd is in my pile to be read so it'll be first!

[Annaintheworks]

Hope you like it. I have not read much Orwell, only 1984. I think I was too young and didn't get it. That might have spoilt it for me a little at the time. Might give it another go, though.

Question: How many Shakespeare plays do you think you need to have read for it to qualify as 'The Complete Works'?
And does watching the play count?
I know watching the movie doesn't, but if it's actually a play in the first place?

[Carolineh]

Hope you like it. I have not read much Orwell, only 1984. I think I was too young and didn't get it. That might have spoilt it for me a little at the time. Might give it another go, though.

Question: How many Shakespeare plays do you think you need to have read for it to qualify as 'The Complete Works'?
And does watching the play count?
I know watching the movie doesn't, but if it's actually a play in the first place?

Sorry I think you have to read them all to count this one! What is there, over 30 plays? Do you think the complete works also includes hs Poetry?
I think this will be my challenge for 2011, I am sad to say I don't think I have read any!

[Fran]

Hope you like it. I have not read much Orwell, only 1984. I think I was too young and didn't get it. That might have spoilt it for me a little at the time. Might give it another go, though.

Question: How many Shakespeare plays do you think you need to have read for it to qualify as 'The Complete Works'?
And does watching the play count?
I know watching the movie doesn't, but if it's actually a play in the first place?

Sorry I think you have to read them all to count this one! What is there, over 30 plays? Do you think the complete works also includes hs Poetry?
I think this will be my challenge for 2011, I am sad to say I don't think I have read any!

I have a 'Complete Works' it's like a concret block & the text is so small I need a magnifying glass to read it but it has all the text numbers etc so it's very handy for quotes.

[Mairin]

Only 24 of them, but The Lady in White is coming up on my TBR list!!!

37, me.
I would recommend The Lady in White highly. It has a few draggy bits but it's totally worth sticking with till the end.
Enjoy!

The lady in White is second then! Far from the Maddening Crowd is in my pile to be read so it'll be first!

Oh how I loved that book!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thomas Hardy is such a wonderful author and I don't think he gets enough deserved attention! Far From the Maddening Crowd was the first of his I read and I was stuck ever since.

[Annaintheworks]

Argh, I don't know why I keep thinking Far From the Madding Crowd was Orwell. I have made that mistake lots of times. I've not read it, the only Hardy I read was A Pair of Blue Eyes (or something) and it was quite boring. Not a fan of Tess, either, only saw the mini series, though.

Anyway, Shakespeare is probaby worth reading all of, he is after all a genius, but the Bible? I used to read the Old Testament in comics when I was a kid. Does that count?

[Andy1750]

Hey people,

First post so hello. Not really one for classics but have read 17 of these book on this total. Unfortunately I've already seen a lot of the resulting films. Books are normally better but not when you know how they end!

Cheers,

Andy