How many have you read? BBC believe only 6 out of the 100.
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How many have you read? BBC believe only 6 out of the 100.
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!
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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...
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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 wrote:37, me.Mairin wrote:Only 24 of them, but The Lady in White is coming up on my TBR list!!!
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!
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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?
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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?Annaintheworks wrote: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?
I think this will be my challenge for 2011, I am sad to say I don't think I have read any!
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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.Carolineh wrote: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?Annaintheworks wrote: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?
I think this will be my challenge for 2011, I am sad to say I don't think I have read any!
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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.Carolineh wrote: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 wrote:37, me.Mairin wrote:Only 24 of them, but The Lady in White is coming up on my TBR list!!!
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!
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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?
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