Stolen from my friend Kit

So - this is one of those Facebook things. I'd perfer to do it here, where I don't have to cut my commentary short. :)

The BBC believes most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here. How do your reading habits stack up? Share with your fellow reader friends. Copy, edit and paste into a note of your own.



1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen YES
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien YES
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte YES
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling YES
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee YES
6 The Bible - YES
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte YES
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell YES
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman NO
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens YES
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott YES
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy YES
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller No
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare Some
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier YES
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien YES
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk NO
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger NO
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger NO
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot NO
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell YES
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald YES
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens No
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy YES
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams YES (And the Restaurant at the edge of the Universe)
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh NO
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky NO
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck YES
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll YES (and Through the Looking Glass)
30 The Wind in the Willows - NO
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy NO
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens YES
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis YES (on my own and out loud with Boo)
34 Emma - Jane Austen NO
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen NO
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis YES
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini NO
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres Mais NO
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden NO
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne YES (and the House on Pooh Corner)
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell YES
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown YES
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez NO
44 A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving NO
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins NO
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery NO
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy NO
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood YES
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding YES
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan NO
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel YES (The saddest book I've EVER read)
52 Dune - Frank Herbert OH GOD YES
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons NO
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen YES
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth NO
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon NO
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens YES
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley NO
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time NO
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez NO
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck YES
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov NO
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt NO
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold NO
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas NO
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac YES
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy NO
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding NO
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie NO
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville YES
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens YES
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker YES
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett NO
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson NO
75 Ulysses - James Joyce YES
76 The Inferno - Dante YES
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome NO
78 Germinal - Emile Zola NO
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray NO
80 Possession - AS Byatt NO
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens YES
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell NO
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker YES
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro NO
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert NO
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry NO
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White YES
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom NO
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle NO
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton NO
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad YES
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery NO
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks NO
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams NO (But I read one of the "Adult" novels Adams wrote)
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole NO
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute NO
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas NO
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare YES
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl NO (Which my husband is still shaking his head about - me, the great reader, no Dahl?)
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo YES

So 44 out of 100, that's pretty pathetic. I guess I have my summer reading list already created...