Universe in words made a remarkable entry on Dec, 30:
How well read are you?It's a list of 100 books of which "the BBC has predicted that most people would have read only 6 of these 100 books."
hm.. Well, let's see (bolded novels are read by me - green lettering means: I own this books already and I am going to read them soon):
Pride and Prejudice – Jane AustenThe Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien
Jane Eyre – Charlotte BrontëHarry Potter series – JK RowlingTo Kill a Mockingbird – Harper LeeThe King James Bible
Wuthering Heights – Emily BrontëNineteen Eighty Four (1984) – George Orwell
His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman
Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
Little Women – Louisa M AlcottTess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
Catch 22 – Joseph Heller
Complete Works of ShakespeareRebecca – Daphne Du MaurierThe Hobbit – JRR TolkienBirdsong – Sebastian Faulk
Catcher in the Rye – JD SalingerThe Time Traveler’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger
Middlemarch – George Eliot
Gone With The Wind – Margaret MitchellThe Great Gatsby – F. Scott FitzgeraldWar and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas AdamsBrideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Grapes of Wrath – John SteinbeckAlice in Wonderland – Lewis CarrollThe Wind in the Willows – Kenneth GrahameAnna Karenina – Leo TolstoyDavid Copperfield – Charles DickensChronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis
Emma -Jane AustenPersuasion – Jane AustenThe Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe – CS Lewis
The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis De Bernieres
Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
Winnie the Pooh – A.A. MilneAnimal Farm – George Orwell
The DaVinci Code – Dan Brown
One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
A Prayer for Owen Meaney – John Irving
The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins
Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery
Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy
The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret AtwoodLord of the Flies – William Golding
Atonement – Ian McEwan
Life of Pi – Yann MartelDune – Frank Herbert
Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons
Sense and Sensibility – Jane AustenA Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth
The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon
A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon
Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Of Mice and Men – John SteinbeckLolita – Vladimir Nabokov
The Secret History – Donna Tartt
The Lovely Bones – Alice SeboldCount of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
On The Road – Jack Kerouac
Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy
Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helen FieldingMidnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
Moby Dick – Herman Melville
Oliver Twist – Charles DickensDracula – Bram StokerThe Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett
Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson
Ulysses – James Joyce
The Inferno – Dante
Swallows and Amazons – Arthur Ransome
Germinal – Emile Zola
Vanity Fair – William Makepeace ThackerayPossession – AS Byatt
Christmas Carol – Charles DickensCloud Atlas – David Mitchell
The Color Purple – Alice WalkerThe Remains of the Day – Kazuo IshiguroMadame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
Charlotte’s Web – E.B. White
The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan DoyleThe Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton
Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-ExuperyThe Wasp Factory – Iain Banks
Watership Down – Richard Adams
A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute
The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
Hamlet – William ShakespeareCharlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald DahlLes Miserables – Victor Hugo
hm.. makes a total of 22.. - seems that I read the "wrong" classics - at least concerning this list.. :")
There's a lot reading stuff out there waiting for me.. That's great!! Every time I pick a book it leads to several others.
I have some kind of a "reading club" where we read classics and talk about it, so the first arrangements for a higher ranking are made.
Love,
Frl. Irene
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