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Book meme! Stolen from

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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

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Uhm, yeah. I got two... *fails* But I hope that's because I'm danish. We have alot of famous danish writers, and I have read many of their books. So. Here is for hoping? :(

Dude, you're Danish? ~~OMG like Viggo Mortensen!! :D~~

Is it true that you can understand the Swedes but they can't understand you because Danes talk too fast? :)

HahahaXD Jep, I'm danish. I'M SO PROUD OF VIGGO!xD

HahaXD the language is really similair to one another, so sometimes we do understand each other. But it differs from person to person. I'm lost when a swedish person starts to talk, but other people understand right away. I went to shcool with a girl from Norway. I began to understand her pretty quickly. It's easier to understand the reading than the talking though. But it's pretty awesome. And yes, us danes speak waaaay to fastXD Our spelling is messed up as well. We don't spell how we hear the words, so it can be hard to learn.

No fail! No fail! This list is so british-biased (quite apart from the fact that it is nearly all English-language books) it's not funny. I mean, I'm Aussie, we share a lot of sort of cultural literary heritage thingy, so that's why I've read some. And I'd totally fail a Danish list of literary classics :D wouldn't even get two.

Basically it comes down to me letting you know that YOU'RE BILINGUAL YOU CANNOT FAIL. I AM IN AWE OF YOU.

Aww, you are so nice<333 :D Thanks<3^^ I'm sure you have read some stories by Hans Christian Andersen at one point;) I think everyone has. And maybe Karen Blixen? "My farm"

Hans Christian Anderson I have indeed read, and loved. But m'fraid I haven't heard of Karen Blixen.

He was lovely:) Well, I mostly new it from a Meryl Streep movie at firstxD Then we read it at school. Many danish people don't know who she is;)

Holy crap, I misread and thought it meant 6 in every section, and thought that was a little steep. But 6 out of 100? Um.

6 in every section would be wayyyy steep :D

It seems the BBC has little faith in the people of Britain. (This list was obviously designed for the UK, but I figure Aussie=close enough and did it anyway.)

Yeah, I thought 6 in every section seemed a little ~elitist.

Just a bit. :D

Yeah... That is VERY Brit-biased. It also lists some things twice-- the ENTIRE works of Shakespeare and Hamlet; same with Narnia. Unfortunately it doesn't do that with His Dark Materials, as I've read the first and much of the second, but not the third (it was CREEPY).

I got like 20ish, but I may have lost count. I've read more than six of those for SCHOOL, and that's USA high school, and I haven't taken English at school for over a year (I'm now homeschooling).

There's also a handful on there that I'm planning to read but haven't gotten around to it. Rebecca, most specifically, but there's others as well. (I am, apparently, a sucker for anything they've made into a German musical. And there is a German musical of Rebecca. So now I have to read it.) :O

I can think of no better reason to read it.

(I read it because of the film. And I saw the film because of a book. And I read that book because of... ah, I forget now. But it's a long twisted tale of intertextual reference. Follow the pop culture trail to the ~~candy mountain~~ classic literature!)

It's not necessarily Brit-based, though obviously English-speaking based. I think I got 42 as well (it really IS a magical number ^_^) and a good deal of those I read for/during school. Aside from the asinine estimation that (mostly English speaking) people will have only read 6 of these books, it really REALLY annoys me that certain books are repeated as series :-p so the whole list is useless anyway ;-) (Also bugs me that "The Bible" is used, as if there's only one version that anyone reads DX)

A magic number? 42 ain't just any old magical number... clearly we are very in tune with the Meaning of Life.

The repeating is a little annoying though, I agree.

Ooh! I love this meme! I did one very similar to this a couple of years ago. It was one of my first posts at My Journal. :-)

While I admire your choices of excellent classics that you have read, I must express my shock that you have not read "Les Miserables" by Victor Hugo. O_O!
[Sorry, its probably my favorite classic novel!]

PS - I'm sorry that I have not emailed you my pics for the moving TV favs. I've been INCREDIBLY busy this week. But if you're still up for it, I'll email you them tomorrow? *hugs*

There are so, so many books I should have read but that one is high up on my list. In 18 years of life ya would have thought I'd have got around to Les Mis, but no, I FAIL.

Don't apologise, bb! And I'm totally still up for it. Remember to let me know which tv set/frame thing you like best too.