100 Books- How do you stack up? (pun intended!)

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Don't feel bad CatsCritters. I've had 41 years to do all that reading. Plus, I'm a reading nerd. I read all the time. I dont' watch tons of TV or movies, but I almost always have at least two books going at any given moment. Yup. I'm a nerd.
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Wolftracks- so now I'll have to go find 100 Years of Solitude.
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I just printed out the list so I can take it to the liberty and get the books (or at least some of them), so I can be above 6 books.
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Don't feel bad CatsCritters. I've had 41 years to do all that reading. Plus, I'm a reading nerd. I read all the time. I dont' watch tons of TV or movies, but I almost always have at least two books going at any given moment. Yup. I'm a nerd. smile

I'm trying not to but, I can on average read 2 novels a day
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I give people the creeps sometimes.​
 
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Start with Douglas Adams The Hitchhikers Trilogy (if you like weird British humor and sci-fi). Can't go wrong with "To Kill a Mockingbird" and "The Hobbit". Try "The Hobbit" before you try to tackle "The Lord of The Rings". "The Great Gatsby" and "Little Women" are also good starter books (although I like Little Men and Jo's Boys more than I like Little Women).
 
I have read 16 and bits and pieces of many more. I find the list interesting. I have read both but there is a world of difference between the works of Shakespeare or the
Bilbe and Harry Potter.
And if you have read the complete works of course you have read Hamlet.
 
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurie
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 The Diary of Anne Frank - Anne Frank
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26 Mansfield Park - Jane Austen
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
34 Emma -Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
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
40 Winnie the Pooh - A.A. Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
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
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
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
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
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
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Inferno - Dante
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 Dickens82 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
87 Charlotte’s Web - E.B. White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

That totals to be 22 out of 100 and the majority of those I was required to read in high school. However I usually read 2-3 books a week but those are mainly urban fantasy/paranormal books.
 
I came up with 27, mostly when I was in high school.

Was this list assembled with any particular theme in mind?

Where's Twain, Cooper, Vonnegut, Hemingway, Camus, or Cervantes, while other authors have multiple entries?
 
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I searched around trying to find an answer to my question and found that this an internet meme with no basis in the BBC having published this. It seems there are many different lists floating around having been edited by different posters to up their totals.
 
Have you read more than 6 of these books? The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books listed here.

Instructions: Copy this into your post. BOLD those books you've read in their entirety, ITALICIZE the ones you started but didn't finish or read an excerpt.



Have Read

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
23 The Diary of Anne Frank - Anne Frank
26 Mansfield Park - Jane Austen
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
34 Emma -Jane Austen
40 Winnie the Pooh - A.A. Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown (and the others too)
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
87 Charlotte’s Web - E.B. White
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

Have, but haven't completed

2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
6 The Bible (have a few, among other religious texts... we're a mythos family)
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
36 The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe - CS Lewis
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens


Don't Own
*** = Added To My List. Half Price Books is having a thing on Black Friday!!
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8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurie ***
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
19 The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger ***
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell ***
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald ***
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams ***
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll ***
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen ***
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden ***
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
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
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Inferno - Dante ***
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
80 Possession - AS Byatt
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
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas ***

I would add Red Pony... oh and Green Mile and of course Wheel of Time... it's an amazing series... I also think some good can come from reading Grisham, and Twain... probably in the minority there but still... of course I'm still VERY peeved with how they altered the script in Hannibal so take that with a grain of salt.

But moving on... I own 43/100 and have actually read through 32/100

Not BAD per se, but no so fabulous either... if I read the 11 I've got... plus the 10 ***'s I'll feel a little better.
 
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