BBC Book List Challenge

[Jud]

The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books here. How many have you read?

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible - Various
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 1984 - George Orwell
9 Northern Lights (The Golden Compass) - 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 Romeo and Juliet - William 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 Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
25 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
26 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
27 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
28 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
29 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
30 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
31 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain
32 Emma - Jane Austen
33 Persuasion - Jane Austen
34 The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe - CS Lewis
35 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
36 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
37 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
38 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
39 Animal Farm - George Orwell
40 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
41 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
42 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
43 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
44 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
45 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
46 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
47 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
48 Atonement - Ian McEwan
49 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
50 Dune - Frank Herbert
51 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
52 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
53 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
54 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
55 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
56 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
57 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
58 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
59 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
60 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
61 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
62 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
63 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
64 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
65 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
66 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
67 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
68 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
69 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
70 Dracula - Bram Stoker
71 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
72 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
73 Ulysses - James Joyce
74 The Inferno - Dante
75 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransom
76 Germinal - Emile Zol
77 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackera
78 Possession - AS Byatt
79 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
80 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchel
81 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
82 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
83 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
84 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
85 Charlotte’s Web - EB White
86 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
87 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
88 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
89 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
90 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
91 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
92 Watership Down - Richard Adams
93 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
94 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
95 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
96 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
97 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
98 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
99 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
100 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh

[Maureen (Mews)]

28 for me. Although there are about another 6 or 7 I either already own or intend to read.

[eastwood (do you feel lucky punk,well do ya)]

1 out of that lot

[Elle]

15 according to facebook :P

[Jud]

Oh I've managed to post this twice... PATTI!!! HELP ME!

[Elle]

Patti has read 58 according to FB too! GL : 37

[Jud]

I've read 59 :o)

[Jane]

15!

[Rosemary (grooving with the Picts)]

I've read 67. And the rest I won't be, as I am not a masochist. I tried Ulysses and couldnae hack it ditto Love in the Time of Cholera!

[Elle]

I'm intrigued to try them as I've been finding out since I got my Kindle that I actually don't mind the odd classic (where as before I would of NEVER read them for pleasure)

[Jud]

Ulysses is a nightmare. I marked it as read as I flicked through each page and read most of it (I listened to some pages hoping that would help but it didn't) but I still feel I cheated a little bit cause I really don't have a clue what it was about.

I think it's one to read in small chunks when you have time to think about it.

[Jay-me (Janet)]

That is a different list to the one I saw, I haven't read as many of them - & of the rest there are only a couple that I might read - if I have nothing better to do.

[Darren]

A rather poor 23 for me , but there are another half a dozen that I started and gave up on.

[Philip (sarah)]

32 for me.Most of them many years ago.There are a few on my bucket list.

[Jud]

I did the BBC top 200 one just for my own interest and I have read 71 out of them, a load of them are Terry Pratchett ones.

[Desley (Cat fosterer)]

14 at the moment, there are a couple i am not sure i have read or just know the story from watching. a couple are on my Classics list for next month though

[Joo]

About 12-ish

[Lorraine]

Yay ! THREE ! I am officially culturally retarded !

[Kath]

37

BUT

quite a lot of them i was FORCED to read at school and HATED...

so not really a true reflection of my reading tbh...

[Pat ()]

Hmm... 21 maybe the odd one or two more, but the rest never, ever.

[Fred]

13 for me a lot of reading still to do. However so; many more not on the list that would be on mine.

[Patti (baconater)]

Fred wrote: "13 for me a lot of reading still to do. However so; many more not on the list that would be on mine."

Agreed Fred.

So many wonderful books not on that list.

[Sonic]

14 for me. Quite a few were read during primary and secondary school.

[Kath]

40 for me. Only just seen this - it came up while I was away.

[Jud]

I used this as a TBR back in the pre-Goodreads days in fact it was even in the pre-kindle days!! I used to take it to the library and just take out 3 books that I could find from the list. That's why I've read so many. Part of me wants to read them all and I do have some more on the list either in DTB form or on kindle.

[Katy]

I've only read 59 of those (:

[Jud]

only?? Katy, I think you need to revise that sentence.

[Katy]

Jud (Disney Diva) wrote: "only?? Katy, I think you need to revise that sentence."

I suppose so, Jud! My brother has only read 1, haha

[Jud]

There, that is proper use of the word only!

You finished your exams yet?

[Katy]

Not yet ): 12th, 15th and 22nd, then I'm done for good!

I cant complain.. I'm on holiday for a week on the 28th, and another holiday for a week on the 7th of July ;)

[Jud]

AH! Well good luck for those. They'll be over in no time now!

[Katy]

Thanks! (:

[Mo]

56 and that will probably not be improved on as I have no real interest in the others. If I haven't read them by now I won't be.

[Jud]

There's still a couple I'd like to read on that list

[Elle]

I have quite a few I want to read although my hatred of most classics I've read puts me off.

[Jud]

See I love classic's

[Patti (baconater)]

Ah now.

Can anyone pick just one best book out of that list? Your favourite of those in the list.

I've just been rereading it and I can't. I thought I had a couple of times, then I see another title I adored!

[Rosemary (grooving with the Picts)]

The Da Vinci Code, of course.

No just joking! I'm swithering between the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, because it made such a huge impression on me as a child (but haven't actually read again for years), and LotR, which I reread regularly - more often than any of the others.

[Emma]

Nope can't do it!!
For me it is between, Handmaid's Tale, Little Women, The Kite Runner and Northern Lights! Seriously could not pick one!

[Patti (baconater)]

Rosemary wrote: "The Da Vinci Code, of course.

No just joking! I'm swithering between the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, because it made such a huge impression on me as a child (but haven't actually read again..."

The DaVinci Code should not be on that list, in my opinion.

[Jud]

I loved Jane Eyre, Count of Monte Cristo, Tess of the D'Ubervilles, Les Mis.... and a few others.

[Elle]

HP Without a doubt.

[Katy]

There are so many that I enjoyed. I rather enjoyed 'To Kill a Mockingbird', but it's difficult to choose!

Totally agree with you, Patti, about the Da Vinci Code!

[Gingerlily - The Full Wild]

Louise-Lesley (Elle) wrote: "HP Without a doubt."

HP... hewlett packard? HP sauce?

[Elle]

*glares*

[Helen]

I've read 32 although there are a few I think I read in school but can't remember. There are some on my TBR. Seems strange that people are only supposed to have read 6.

[Elle]

Helen wrote: "I've read 32 although there are a few I think I read in school but can't remember. There are some on my TBR. Seems strange that people are only supposed to have read 6."


I'd believe it definitely.

We are a group of readers here and some of us have hardly read any so think of the people who wouldn't consider them-self a reader..

[Aoibhínn]

I've read 26 of those books and I've brought another 23 but not had a chance to read them yet.


I think the BBC are right about most people only reading 6 of them. I know a lot of people that haven't picked up a book since they left school.

[Weenie]

24, maybe a few TBR to make it around 30 at some point.

Can't see it getting much beyond that really.

[Patti (baconater)]

I've just done a recount.

I've read 69 of them.