Sticking it to the BBC

Accordingg to the BBC,  most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books listed here. I'd just like to say that not only have I read more, but I'm an American who's read more than 6.

Ha, so THERE!


Stick that is your pipe and smoke it!

Anyway, see how you guys measure up so we can all prove them wrong...

• Copy this list.


• Bold those books you’ve read in their entirety.


• Italicize the ones you started but didn’t finish or read only an excerpt.



1.Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen


2.The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien (I know, flog me for this NOT being in bold.)


3.Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte


4.Harry Potter series – JK Rowling


5.To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee


6.The Bible When I went from Baptist to Catholic, I read to find all of the passages and books that I hadn't seen up to age 12. For those wo do not know there are differences...Oh yeah. Ole King James and his people took out a bunch of stuff.)


7.Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte


8.Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell (FAV!!)


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 ( I was 14 and didn't get it. Sue for not getting back around to it yet.)


14.Complete Works of Shakespeare


15.Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier


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.War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy


24.The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams


25.Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh


26.Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky


27.Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck


28.Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll


29.The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame


30.Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy (It's on my Kindle awaiting me.)


31.David Copperfield – Charles Dickens*


32.Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis (Yep, another reason to beat me.)


33.Emma -Jane Austen


34.Persuasion – Jane Austen


35.The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe – CS Lewis


36.The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini


37.Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis De Bernieres


38.Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden


39.Winnie the Pooh – A.A. Milne


40.Animal Farm – George Orwell


41.The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown


42.One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez


43.A Prayer for Owen Meaney – John Irving


44.The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins


45.Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery


46.Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy


47.The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood


48.Lord of the Flies – William Golding


49.Atonement – Ian McEwan


50.Life of Pi – Yann Martel


51.Dune – Frank Herbert


52.Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons


53.Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen


54.A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth


55.The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon


56.A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens


57.Brave New World – Aldous Huxley


58.The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon


59.Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez


60.Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck


61.Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov (Waiting for me on my Kindle.)


62.The Secret History – Donna Tartt


63.The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold


64.Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas (Can I add that I read it in French for extra credit.)


65.On The Road – Jack Kerouac


66.Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy


67.Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helen Fielding


68.Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie


69.Moby Dick – Herman Melville


70.Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens


71.Dracula – Bram Stoker


72.The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett


73.Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson


74.Ulysses – James Joyce (Don't feel the need to ever finish this one. Really.)


75.The Inferno – Dante


76.Swallows and Amazons – Arthur Ransome


77.Germinal – Emile Zola


78.Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray


79.Possession – AS Byatt


80.Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens*


81.Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell


82.The Color Purple – Alice Walker (ALL time favorite!!)


83.The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro


84.Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert


85.A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry


86.Charlotte’s Web – E.B. White


87.The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom


88.Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


89.The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton


90.Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad


91.The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery


92.The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks


93.Watership Down – Richard Adams


94.A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole (Should have read it for Southern  lit, but wasn't a fan so it didn't get finished.)


95.A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute


96.The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas


97.Hamlet – William Shakespeare


98.Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl


99.Les Miserables – Victor Hugo (Bonus points once again for reading it in French. Just saying.)


100.??? (For you observant types, yes the list does appear to be missing book no. 100)


What can I say...I'm a huge, phenomenal dork. And perhaps I read too much...what do you guys think?


How do you guys measure up?