Friday 13 March 2009


I saw this on A Girl in Winter's blog and could not resist having a go myself. Why not see how many you have read? -

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen - YES
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien – YES
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte - YES
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling – YES
5. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee - YES
6 The Bible – bits of it
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte - YES
8 1984 - George Orwell - YES
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman - YES
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens - YES
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott - YES
12 Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy – YES
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller – NO
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare – some but not all
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier - YES
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien - YES
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks - NO
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger - NO
19 The Time Traveller's Wife - NO
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot- YES
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell - NO
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald - YES
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens - YES
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy - YES
25 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams - YES
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh - NO
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky - YES
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll - YES
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame - YES
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy - NO
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens - YES
33 The Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis - YES
34 Emma - Jane Austen - YES
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen - YES
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - YES
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini - NO
38 Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres - NO
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden - NO
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne – YES
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell -YES
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown - YES (This definitely has no place on this list!)
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez - NO
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving - NO
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins - YES
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery - YES
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy - YES
48 The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood - YES
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding - YES
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan - NO
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel - YES
52 Dune - Frank Herbert- NO
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons - YES
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen - YES
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth - NO
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon - NO
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens - YES
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley - YES
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon - YES
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez - NO
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck – YES
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov - NO
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt - NO
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold – NO
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas - YES
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac - NO
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy - YES
68 Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding - YES
69 Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie - NO
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville - NO
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens - YES
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker - YES
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett - YES
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson - YES
75 Ulysses - James Joyce - NO
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath - NO
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome - YES
78 Germinal - Emile Zola - YES (in French! Do I get an extra point for that?)
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray - YES
80 Possession - AS Byatt - YES
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens - YES
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell - NO
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker -NO
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro - NO
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert - YES
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry - NO
87 Charlotte's Web - EB White - YES
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom - NO
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - YES
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton – YES
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad - NO
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery – YES
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks - NO
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams - YES
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole - NO
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute - YES
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas - YES
98 Hamlet – Shakespeare – YES
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl - YES
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo - NO
A total of 64, not as many as 'A Girl in Winter' but not bad.