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Book meme! Stolen from alivemagdolene 

Where do you fall in the list? The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books here.

Look at the list and put an X before those you have read.

[x] 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
[ ] 6. The Bible
[x] 7. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
[ ] 8. Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
[x] 9. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
[ ] 10. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens

Total: 7

[x] 11. Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
[x] 12. Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
[ ] 13. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
[ ] 14. Complete Works of Shakespeare
[ ] 15. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
[x] 16. The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
[ ] 17. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
[x] 18. Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
[ ] 19. The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
[ ] 20. Middlemarch - George Eliot

Total so far: 11

[ ] 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
[x] 25. The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
[x] 27. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
[ ] 28. Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
[x] 29. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
[x] 30. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame

Total so far: 15

[x] 31. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
[ ] 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

Total so far: 21

[x] 41. Animal Farm - George Orwell
[x] 42. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
[ ] 43. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
[ ] 44. A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
[x] 45. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
[ ] 46. Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
[x] 47. Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
[ ] 48. The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
[x] 49. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
[x] 50. Atonement - Ian McEwan

Total so far: 27

[ ] 51. Life of Pi - Yann Martel
[ ] 52. Dune - Frank Herbert
[ ] 53. Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
[x] 54. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
[ ] 55. A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
[ ] 56. The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
[x] 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

Total so far: 29

[x] 61. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
[ ] 62. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
[ ] 63. The Secret History - Donna Tartt
[ ] 64. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
[x] 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

Total so far: 31

[ ] 71. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
[x] 72. Dracula - Bram Stoker
[x] 73. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
[ ] 74. Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
[ ] 75. Ulysses - James Joyce
[ ] 76. The Inferno – Dante
[x] 77. Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
[ ] 78. Germinal - Emile Zola
[ ] 79. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
[ ] 80. Possession - AS Byatt

Total so far: 34

[x] 81. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
[ ] 82. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
[ ] 83. The Color Purple - Alice Walker
[x] 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
[x] 89. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
[ ] 90. The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton

Total so far: 37

[ ] 91. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
[x] 92. The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Eupery
[ ] 93. The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
[ ] 94. Watership Down - Richard Adams
[ ] 95. A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
[x] 96. A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
[x] 97. The Three Musketeers - Aleandre Dumas
[x] 98. Hamlet - William Shakespeare
[x] 99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
[ ] 100. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo


Complete Total: 42

Seriously, BBC? Six? Um. Well, it would depend what country... there's a strong British bias in this list, let me just say... but six out of these 100? That's not really very good... o_o