The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books here. How do your reading habits stack up?
Instructions: Copy this into your NOTES. Look at the list and put an 'Yes' after those you have read. Tag other book nerds. Tag me as well so i can see your responses!
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen - no-but it's on my to-do-someday list. :) Does that count?
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien- no *snore* Movie is SOOOO much simpler!
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte - Yes-personal fave.
4 Harry Potter series - no-but really like the movies.
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee - Yes-freshman English, oh joy... Omigosh you HAVE to watch the movie-Gregory Peck as Atticus and Robert Duvall as Boo Radley. It DOES NOT get any better than that! Seriously...classic American Cinema.
6 The Bible - yes, and in it's entirety-aren't you proud of me?
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte - no-Cathy and Heathcliff are looney tunes :/ I got enough looneys in my world, thank you very much.
8 1984 - George Orwell- no-not interested in the whole "Big Brother" thing...
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman - no, but I think this is being made into a movie...wait, ain't this a series? Like "Golden Compass" and whatnot? Methinks so.
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens - Yes-freshman english yet again. But this one I actually liked.
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott - Yes-'92 movie w/ Wynona Rider rox my sox HARDCORE. And makes me want to copulate with Christian Bale. 0_o
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy – no
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller -no
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare - no-but I've read LOTS of shakespeare. That should count for something.
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier - no
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien - no-it creeps me out a little bit-don't ask me why.
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk - no
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger -Yes-American Lit, Jounior Year. Why in the world is the American education system still requiring impressionable American youth to read a book that has been found in the possession of at least two famous murderers? And you think money's the issue here?
19 The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger – no-DAGNABIT! If only I was filling this out 8 weeks from now, it could be a yes-gotta finish Julie & Julia, and tackle EW Ives epic tome on Anne Boleyn before I get to this one. Grrrrr.....
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot - No
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell - No, but watching the movie so many times that you can quote the dialouge in your sleep should count for something, right?
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald - no-but I know the story backwards and forwards. That's ALL my brother talked about spring of Junior year. His lit class read it. Mine was subjected to the deep fried insipidness that is "Where The Heart Is"-gag me with a large spoon, please.
But OH MY GOSH. Robert Redford and Mia Farrow will frickin' steam up your TV screen if you watch the movie. And Sam Watterston pre-Law & Order? YES, please. I have SUCH a crush on him, even though he's practically old enough to be my grandparent. I mean, come ON. Just watch it. you'll see what I'm talking about.
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens - no
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy - no-that requires brain cells which I no longer have, and will never regain.
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams - no-um, no. Just no.
26a Lonesome Dove - Larry McMurtry - NO. OMIGOSH. DO NOT get me started. UGH.
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky - no-again, the brain cell thing.
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck - no-not a Steinbeck fan.
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll - no
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame - no-but I loved the Disney Cartoon as a kid. I miss "Mr. Toad's Wild Ride"...*sigh*
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy - no-stupidness. and depressing. No thank you.
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens - Yes-that's like a ten-hankie book. Awwwwww.....
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis - Yes
34 Emma - Jane Austen - no-but on my to-do list.
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen - no-see above.
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis - yes-but isn't this part of CoN? Hmmmm...
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hossein - No-not my taste.
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres - no-but i vaguely remember the movie...
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden – no-on my to-do list.
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne - Yes, I think.
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell - no-using farm Animals as a semi-metaphorical symbol of communism? I have better things to read, thank you.
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown -no-again, don't get me started. Okay, one word-SACRILEGE.
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez - no
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving - no
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins - no
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery -Yes. I absolutely LOVE the whole series!
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy - no
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood - no
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding - yes-Sophmore english-UGH. HATRED. I swear my teacher was Satan incarnate...
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan – Yes. WONDERFUL Book. The movie absolutely tarnished it though.
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel – no-maybe someday.
52 Dune - Frank Herbert -no-giant sand worms and freaky silver and gold clad alien people.?That's why I don't fo sci-fci.
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons -no
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen - no-again, on my to-do. Movie is great, though. A fave.
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth - no
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon - no-sounds like a Disney song, LOL.
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens - no
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley -Yes, unfortunately. World Lit, Senior Year. Loved my teacher, HATED the book. My stomach is turning just thinking about it. *GACK*
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night - Mark Haddon - no-at least, I don't think so...maybe...
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez -Yes-LURVE that book.
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck - yes-another one of Satan's required readings. ICK.
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov - no
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt - no
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold - no-too violent for my taste. Movie looks interesting though.
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas - no
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac - no
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 -no
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens - no
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker - no
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett - Yes. Another fave.
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson - no
75 Ulysses - James Joyce - yes, parts of it. Does that count?
76 The Inferno - Dante - I want to say yes (another high school english thing) but i'm not sure...
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 - no-but I've seen pretty much every movie version one can conjure up. That should count.
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell - no
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker - no
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-I don't like him.
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - no
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton - no
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad – no..I think I've read parts, though.
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery - Yes
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks - no
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams - no
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. Lit, 2nd semester college. Good Stuff. Movie w/ Kenneth Branagh & Kate Winslet is good, too.
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - yes
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo -no-started to, but did not like it.
21. BOOYA. I love you, BBC, but you can totally SUCK IT.
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