BBC's top 100 books
Janvier tagged me with this meme on Facebook but I prefer to do it here. :DAccording to the BBC, the typical adult would have read 6 out of the 100 books on the following list of best-loved novels in Britain, at least. I'm not sure how accurate this list is since some of my favourite books are actually not on the list! But anyway, for the fun of it here goes...
Instructions:
1) Look at the list and put an ‘x’ after those you have read.
2) Add a ‘+’ to the ones you LOVE. (++++ means LOVE a lot..haha)
3) Tally your total.
1) Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen X
2) The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien X
3) Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4) Harry Potter series - JK Rowling X+
5)To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee X ++++
6) The Bible - (some popular excerpts here and there)
7) Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8) Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9)His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10) Great Expectations - Charles Dickens (only read the abridged version, so not counted)
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 (only read Romeo and Juliet, haha, typical girl)
15) Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16) The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien X
17) Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18) Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger X+ (the origins of the "vomity" feeling!)
19) The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger X+
20) Middlemarch - George Eliot
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
25) The Hitch Hiker’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
30) The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31) Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32) David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33) Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis X
34) Emma - Jane Austen
35) Persuasion - Jane Austen
36) The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis X
37) The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini X ++++++++
38) Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39) Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden X
40) Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
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
48) The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
49) Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50) Atonement - Ian McEwan X++++
51) Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52) Dune - Frank Herbert
53) Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54) Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
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
59) The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon X++++
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
66) On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67) Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68) Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding X
69) Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
70) Moby Dick - Herman Melville -(abridged only)
71) Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens X
72) Dracula - Bram Stoker
73) The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett (abridged only)
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 (abridged only)
82) Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83) The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84) The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85) Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86) A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry X ++++++++ (Awesome book, sad though- I cried)
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White X +
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom X+
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle X+
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton X+++++++++ (I always wanted to visit the Land of Tea Parties...hahaha)
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint 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 (abridged only)
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare (abridged only)
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl X+
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
OK, my score is 26. I only read a quarter of the books. Long way to go if I want to complete the list! :D
Labels: Meme
posted by N.J.A.P.F. @ 11:54 PM
3 Comments:
Would you want to complete the list? Some of the books are terrible! :P
Wow. Word verification 'finis'.
wow.
my number doesn't even hit 10 !
*faint*
Nevermind, I shall save up this list and ask JD to accomplish the task instead!
*grins*
Janvier: I would like to read some of the books on the list. Which that you've read that are terrible, then I make sure I don't read those! :D One wonders why they made the top 100 though! Some are good movies! But where's Eddings? Where's Tony Parsons...? Even Nick Hornby also don't have!:( If not my score higher..hahaha ;)
3-seconder: Whoa...JD read all ah!Then he's gonna be one smarty pants kid! :D
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