How well read are you? Well, at least how well read are you as according to the BBC? The BBC believes that most people will have only have read 6 out of the 100 books on the list below. This intrigued me, so I thought I'd see how I stacked up! How do you think you will do? Have you read six or more?*This is a quiz I picked up from Book Chick City, who got it from Book Nerd Extraordinaire.
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen (X)
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien (X)
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 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell (--)
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman (--)
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens (X)
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott (X)
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy (X)
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller (--)
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare (--)
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier(X)
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 (--)
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot (--)
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell (X)
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald (X)
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens (--)
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy (--)
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams (X)
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)
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy (--)
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens (X)
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis (X)
34 Emma-Jane Austen (X)
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen (X)
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis (X)
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hossein (X)
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres (X)
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden (X)
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne (--)
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell (X)
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown (X)
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez (X)
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving (--)
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins (--)
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery (X)
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy (--)
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood (--)
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding (X)
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan (X)
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel (--)
52 Dune - Frank Herbert (--)
53 Cold Comfort Farm (--)
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 (--)
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 (X)
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck (X)
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov (--)
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 (X)
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie (X)
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville (1/2)
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens (--)
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker (--)
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett (X)
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 (X)
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 (X)
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 (--)
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton (--)
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad (X)
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery (X)
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks (--)
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams (--)
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole (--)
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute (--)
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas (--)
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare (X)
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl (--)
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo (X)
If I counted correctly, that makes 51 ½? Actually, I know almost all the stories behind each of these novels, which is why some of them I don’t actually want to read. I think I'm okay with what I've read though.
So, how many have you read?
I saw this on Facebook this week. I've read 45 and have book marks in two others at the moment. You can definitely tell this list came from the BBC!
ReplyDeleteI've read 55, 70 if you can count the books you started but didn't finish.
ReplyDeleteWell, I've read 33. But what about all the others , many others, I read and which are not in the list? :)
ReplyDeleteI did this on facebook and had 39 read and 4 partials.
ReplyDeleteI've read 40 that I can remember. Some seem so familiar that I am not sure whether or not I read them, saw a movie or just knew so much of their content - I didn't include these in my count. My count could be higher but, I am satisfied - there are some books on that list that I do not want to read.
ReplyDeleteHi :)
ReplyDeleteThanks for a great blog post.
Also thanks for Following me on Twitter, which led me here, which led me to become a member of your Blog.
My answer is 51 & I have no inclination in reading any of the others on the list, so I feel good about my score.
:)
Wishing you all the best,
twitter.com/RKCharron
xoxo
I've read 41, but started 3 others that I didn't finish (and will stay unfinished). There are about 25 others from the list that I want to read. The rest, like you, I know the story behind and not interested.
ReplyDeleteAh yes, I saw this list this week, and I counted that I had read "only" 19. Well, it's a lot less than most of you but I'm okay with it! I also have many of my TBR pile.
ReplyDeleteHi Becky,
ReplyDeleteThanks for following my blog!
I've seen this list and I wonder how many of them overlap with the 1001 books list... I feel like I need to have all of these lists of important books so I can be sure to get to all of them, lol!
That's an interesting list. Some of the books are repeated--for example, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe is part of the Chronicles of Narnia, which also appears. Also, if you read a series, shouldn't all those books count as individual books?
ReplyDeleteI've read 25 books on the list.
Wow, 51 is a great number! I only managed 19, so it looks as though I have a lot of reading to do! Thanks for stopping by Book Chick City and I'm glad you liked the post :)
ReplyDeleteI just did a quick count and it was about 30. Much higher than 6. But man, there are a lot on that list that I'd like to read and haven't yet.
ReplyDeleteI got to 61... and I'm just over half way through War and Peace. :)
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