I've just noticed that I've not really read those I've been meaning to read for some time now, being immersed in some other kind of books and stories...but I'm glad I've still gone through a bigger percentage of them than what is being said by BBC.
| The BBC estimates most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here. (Actually, am quite surprised by this statement.) |
| Instructions: |
| 1) Look at the list and put an 'x' after those you have read. |
| 2) Add a '+' to the ones you LOVE. |
| 3) Star (*) those you plan on reading. |
| 4) Tally your total at the bottom. |
| 1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen X+ |
| 2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien X+ |
| 3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte X |
| 4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling X+ |
| 5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee X+ |
| 6 The Bible (all the way through) X |
| 7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte X |
| 8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell * |
| 9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman |
| 10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens X |
| 11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott X |
| 12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy X |
| 13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller * |
| 14 Complete Works of Shakespeare X |
| 15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier * |
| 16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien X+ |
| 17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk |
| 18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger * |
| 19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger |
| 20 Middlemarch - George Eliot * |
| 21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell X |
| 22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald |
| 23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens |
| 24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy X |
| 25 The Hitchhiker’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 X |
| 30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame X |
| 31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy X |
| 32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens X |
| 33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis X |
| 34 Emma - Jane Austen X |
| 35 Persuasion - Jane Austen X+ |
| 36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis |
| 37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini |
| 38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres |
| 39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden X |
| 40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne X |
| 41 Animal Farm - George Orwell * |
| 42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown X |
| 43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez |
| 44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving |
| 45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins |
| 46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery X |
| 47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy X |
| 48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood X |
| 49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding X |
| 50 Atonement - Ian McEwan |
| 51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel |
| 52 Dune - Frank Herbert X |
| 53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons |
| 54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen X |
| 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 X |
| 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 X |
| 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 X |
| 71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens X |
| 72 Dracula - Bram Stoker X |
| 73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett X |
| 74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson |
| 75 Ulysses - James Joyce * |
| 76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia 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 X+ |
| 82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell |
| 83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker X |
| 84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro X |
| 85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert X |
| 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 X+ |
| 90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton |
| 91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad |
| 92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery X+ |
| 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 X |
| 98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare X |
| 99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl * |
| 100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo X |
| Total as of today = 44 and counting :-) I'll update this once I get through the others I've marked. |
Dito ko ba gagawin ito o gagawa ako ng sarili kong post? By the way, where's your Total?
ReplyDeleteI this estimate British readers lang or global?
ReplyDeleteits okay with me if you post separately or i fyou want to share here Chito...am always interested to know what others have gone through too :-)
ReplyDeletemine is I think about 44 I think...dapat yata inexcel ko to ng maayos..di bilisan...ulitin ko count nga...
thanks for the reminder..I will update the post above...
Anyway, I think I'll make a separate list: Books and Authors I've Never Heard Of. Mukhang madami-dami kasi, eh. :-)
ReplyDeletehmm..baka sa kanila lang..kc...if you think of it..sa daming English-speakers..parang its weird that only 6 peeps have read? or baka naman kc some of their are classics...
ReplyDeletewhat? I can't believe madami nito ang di mo pa nabasa..ikaw pa.....
ReplyDeleteI can't believe me either. :-) But I'll go through it line by line. Baka naman nama-malik-mata lang ako.
ReplyDeleteyeah...yung ibang titles nga familiar sa akin eh...am just not sure if I read them completely (kc I have this bad habit of scanning books tapos basahin ko lang on some parts to get the gist of the story and the conclusion, tapos voila...iniwan na sa shelf ng bookstore..mwahaha!)
ReplyDeletebtw, I didn't count those which I may have seen as a movie (kc naman adaptations yung iba...some may not be truthful renditions of what the author was going for)...
Wow, you've certainly gone through quite a few of them! Congratulations.
ReplyDeleteonly because I was in an all-girls school in high school, which had a wonderful library of old books which other girls didn't like to read...so they were ripe for the picking :-)
ReplyDeletein my last year in high school, I also belonged to the Library Club...and our mentor loved James Michener books *sobs*
ReplyDeleteI was able to report on a couple of pleasers like Master of the Game by Sidney Sheldon, but try reporting on Hawaii of James Michener...and see how you fare :-)
I'd probably have enjoyed Tales of the South Pacific if it was assigned to me....
sabi ni Ted yata yung English-speaking lang daw...
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