So I found this meme on Brooke's box of books and decided to try it out :)
I've finished 16 of these 100 books..I'm not counting the books I "read" for school because I most probably read three-quarters of the book myself (or less) and read the rest of the summary off sparknotes (guilty..but seriously..the books they assign SUCK) I've started or read an excerpt from another 14 of these...so that makes it 30 out of 100 that I've actually encountered...I think thats pretty good..especially since I have heard of and at one time planned to read a lot of the rest of the books on the list..
Conclusion:
The BBC are idiots..I'm betting the reporter who wrote this only read 6 of the 100 books on the list..bloody illiterate..dont make generalizations
Also, I am proud to say that most of the books I've read or tried to read on the list have NOT been school assignments, although I expected them to be..only 4 out of all of the books, read and not fully read, were school assignments.
The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books listed here. Click 'READ MORE'!!!
Instructions:
• Copy this list.
• Bold those books you’ve read in their entirety.
• Italicise the ones you started but didn’t finish or read only an excerpt.
Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien
Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
Harry Potter series – JK Rowling
To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee (NOTE: STRONG dislike of this title!)
The King James Bible - (I think I read the lk prologue or something once..I've also read lk separate psalms and stuff if they quote them in a novel..mehh I'm not christian so I think even this amount is surprising enough)
Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
Nineteen Eighty Four (1984) – George Orwell (assigned summer reading..never opened it)
His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman
Great Expectations – Charles Dickens Little Women – Louisa M Alcott (I think my moms been trying to encourage me to read this since I was about 7...I hated it on sight..even more so after I watched the movie )
Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
Catch 22 – Joseph Heller (I read the first 3 chapters of this last year..can I say depressing?)
Complete Works of Shakespeare-
Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier
The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien
Birdsong – Sebastian Faulk
Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger
The Time Traveler’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger (does the movie count? I watched it in french AND english :P)
Middlemarch – George Eliot
Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell
The Great Gatsby- F. Scott Fitzgerald (This was actually pretty interesting...depressing though)
War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll (Also throught the looking-glass..wonderful, though sometimes confusing)
The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame
Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis (NOTE: I lovelovelove this series! I must have read The Horse and his Boy at least 6 times. I raved about it so much as a kid that my dad bought me the entire movie collection [the old 90's british one, not the new series..the old one didn't skip any of the books..*turns nose up at new movies*)
Emma -Jane Austen
Persuasion – Jane Austen
The 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. Milne (do they mean the little kids books? I kinda doubt it..)
Animal Farm – George Orwell
The DaVinci Code – Dan Brown (can I say how much I admire Dan Brown's work??! I love reading his novels, I've also read Angel's and Demons, Digital Fortress and The Lost symbol..)
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 Atwood
Lord of the Flies – William Golding (I hated this...)
Atonement – Ian McEwan
Life of Pi – Yann Martel
Dune – Frank Herbert
Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons
Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
A 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 (my english teacher was reading this..when she told me it was about a down's syndrome kid I just couldn't bring myself to read the back cover...I hate hate HATE sop stories..)
Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez (ON MY TO BE READ LIST!! I have the ebook uploaded onto my ipod! Something like 3 pages in right now :P planning on finishing it after my finals)
Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
The Secret History – Donna Tartt
The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold
Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas (I actually played a "seek-and-find" PC game based on the story and got so engrossed that I downloaded it..sounds awesome..but my computer got formatted within that week :( )
On The Road – Jack Kerouac
Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy
Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helen Fielding
Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
Moby Dick – Herman Melville
Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
Dracula – Bram Stoker
The 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 Thackeray
Possession – AS Byatt
A Christmas Carol- Charles Dickens
Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
The Color Purple – Alice Walker (didnt oprah produce the movie version of this? its supposedly sucky...no thank you)
The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
Charlotte's Web- E.B. White
The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom (my friend read this for a report once...i dont like books about dead people either)
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (I dont know if mine was abridged...im pretty sure it wasnt, so I'll count it..)
The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton
Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery
The 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 Shakespeare
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl
Les Miserables – Victor Hugo
Ever yours~
The Know-it-all
