Friday, September 25, 2009

How do your reading habits stack up?

Stolen from my brother's (www.vinniecosta.com) blog, I took the challenge and lost to him by a mere 3 books read. I am sure that I totally beat him in reality because I actually read the WHOLE series of Harry Potter books and The Dark materials saga, so ha!


The BBC believes most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books listed here. How do your reading habits stack up?

I read 50 out of 100, some were read a really long time ago (like the classics in HS) but Audrey Niffeneggers "The Time Travelers Wife" was fairy recent for me, so...I wonder also how the list was compiled.

1 Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen [X]
2 The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien []
3 Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte [X]
4 Harry Potter series – JK Rowling [X]
5 To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee [X]
6 The Bible – [X]
7 Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte [X]
8 1984 – George Orwel [X]
9 Philip Pullman His Dark Materials Series- [X]
10 Great Expectations – Charles Dickens []

Running Total: 8/10

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 – [/]
15 Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier []
16 The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien [X]
17 Birdsong – Sebastian Faulk []
18 Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger [X]
19 The Time Traveler’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger [X]
20 Middlemarch – George Eliot []

Running Total: 13

21 Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell [X]
22 The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald [X]
23 Bleak House – Charles Dickens [X]
24 War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy [ ]
25 The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams [X]
26 Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh []
27 Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky []
28 Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck [X]
29 Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll [X]
30 The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame [X]

Running Total: 20

31 Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy []
32 David Copperfield – Charles Dickens [X]
33 Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis [x]
34 Emma-Jane Austen []
35 Persuasion – Jane Austen []
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe [X]
37 The Kite Runner – Khaled Hossein []
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis De Bernieresx []
39 Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden [X]
40 Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne [X]

Running Total: 25

41 Animal Farm – George Orwell [X]
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 []
47 Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy []
48 The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood [X]
49 Lord of the Flies – William Golding [X]
50 Atonement – Ian McEwan []

Running Total: 29

51 Life of Pi – Yann Martel [X]
52 Dune – Frank Herbert []
53 Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons []
54 Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen [X]
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 [X]
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night – Mark Haddon []
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez []

Running Total: 33

61 Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck [X]
62 Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov [X]
63 The Secret History – Donna Tartt []
64 The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold []
65 Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas [X]
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 [X]

Running Total: 37

71 Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens [X]
72 Dracula – Bram Stoker [X]
73 The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett []
74 Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson []
75 Ulysses – James Joyce [X]
76 The Inferno – Dante [X]
77 Swallows and Amazons – Arthur Ransome []
78 Germinal – Emile Zola []
79 Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackery []

Running Total: 41

80 Possession – AS Byatt []
81 A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens [X]
82 Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell []
83 The Color Purple – Alice Walker [X]
84 The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro []
85 Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert []
86 A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry []
87 Charlotte’s Web – EB White [X]
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom []
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle [X]
90 The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton []

Running Total: 45

91 Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad []
92 The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery [X]
93 The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks []
94 Watership Down – Richard Adams [X]
95 A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole []
96 A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute []
97 The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas [X]
98 Hamlet – William Shakespeare [X]
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl [X]
100 Les Miserables – Victor Hugo []

Total: 50/100

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I would totaly rock if we were talking about movies............
I can't remember any of the books I read in high School but I'm sure that I must have.

Maria