Have You Read More Than Six of These Books?
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Have You Read More Than Six of These Books?
The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books listed.
I am ashamed to say I have only read 32 of the 100!
1 Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series – JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell
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
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch – George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House – Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis
34 Emma – Jane Austen
35 Persuasion – Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – CS Lewis
37 The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne
41 Animal Farm – George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown
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
49 Lord of the Flies – William Golding
50 Atonement – Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi – Yann Martel
52 Dune – Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
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
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
62 Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History – Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
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
71 Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
72 Dracula – Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses – James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons – Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal – Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession – AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas – David Mitchel
83 The Color Purple – Alice Walker
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
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
92 The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery
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
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables – Victor Hugo
I am ashamed to say I have only read 32 of the 100!
1 Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series – JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell
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
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch – George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House – Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis
34 Emma – Jane Austen
35 Persuasion – Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – CS Lewis
37 The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne
41 Animal Farm – George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown
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
49 Lord of the Flies – William Golding
50 Atonement – Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi – Yann Martel
52 Dune – Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
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
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
62 Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History – Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
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
71 Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
72 Dracula – Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses – James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons – Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal – Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession – AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas – David Mitchel
83 The Color Purple – Alice Walker
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
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
92 The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery
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
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables – Victor Hugo
"…I hate how I don’t feel real enough unless people are watching." — Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
Have You Read More Than Six of These Books?
Interesting collection.
I've read quite few. but not even half of them.
I am curious about how they made the choices on the list.
Some are obvious, of course, but others are not.
I've read quite few. but not even half of them.
I am curious about how they made the choices on the list.
Some are obvious, of course, but others are not.
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Have You Read More Than Six of These Books?
43 for me. What were the criteria for a book to be on the list? Since so many of them are classics, you would think the average person would have read more than 6 of them just to have gotten through 12 years of education if not for pleasure reading.
Have You Read More Than Six of These Books?
tabby;1380169 wrote: 43 for me. What were the criteria for a book to be on the list? Since so many of them are classics, you would think the average person would have read more than 6 of them just to have gotten through 12 years of education if not for pleasure reading.
Good point.
I had read nine of them just in High School.
Good point.
I had read nine of them just in High School.
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Have You Read More Than Six of These Books?
tabby;1380169 wrote: 43 for me. What were the criteria for a book to be on the list? Since so many of them are classics, you would think the average person would have read more than 6 of them just to have gotten through 12 years of education if not for pleasure reading.
Since the advent of the Internet kids don't read books. Sad but true!
Since the advent of the Internet kids don't read books. Sad but true!
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Have You Read More Than Six of These Books?
I have read several of them and many more that are not on that list.
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Have You Read More Than Six of These Books?
Quite a few of them. Some in school but more later in life after I had heard of them for whatever reasons. A lot of them you can find free to read over the net.
Have You Read More Than Six of These Books?
I have read 6 of these books and have seen quite a few TV and Film adaptations of the others.
I have read many more not on the list though
I have read many more not on the list though
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Have You Read More Than Six of These Books?
Whilst I have respect for the BBC ... it's is my third favorite broadcaster after CNN & Sky ... I do question them including these rather mediocre offerings ...
Harry Potter series – JK Rowling
The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown
... which should not be mentioned in the same breath as these classics ...
Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
Little Women – Louisa M Alcott
Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
Complete Works of Shakespeare
Harry Potter series – JK Rowling
The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown
... which should not be mentioned in the same breath as these classics ...
Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
Little Women – Louisa M Alcott
Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
Complete Works of Shakespeare
"…I hate how I don’t feel real enough unless people are watching." — Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
Have You Read More Than Six of These Books?
jones jones;1380343 wrote: Whilst I have respect for the BBC ... it's is my third favorite broadcaster after CNN & Sky ... I do question them including these rather mediocre offerings ...
Harry Potter series – JK Rowling
The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown
... which should not be mentioned in the same breath as these classics ...
Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
Little Women – Louisa M Alcott
Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
Complete Works of Shakespeare
I've read a goodly percentage of them but I do question including the Complete works of Shakespeare as a single work - I've read several but by no means all of his plays.
Harry Potter series – JK Rowling
The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown
... which should not be mentioned in the same breath as these classics ...
Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
Little Women – Louisa M Alcott
Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
Complete Works of Shakespeare
I've read a goodly percentage of them but I do question including the Complete works of Shakespeare as a single work - I've read several but by no means all of his plays.
Have You Read More Than Six of These Books?
Hey friend..
It's an amazing collection of very special books. I have read some books but not all. I love reading books. It's my favorite past time. By reading books, I get a huge amount of knowledge as well as it gives a new point of view to see life and other people. They say books are your best friends and I agree with it. Mostly I like to read love stories. Nut the books related to psychology are also my favorite. I always buy online as it's the most time saving option. In this way I get all the books at a single place. Online shopping has always been my favorite. Now I will read these books too.
It's an amazing collection of very special books. I have read some books but not all. I love reading books. It's my favorite past time. By reading books, I get a huge amount of knowledge as well as it gives a new point of view to see life and other people. They say books are your best friends and I agree with it. Mostly I like to read love stories. Nut the books related to psychology are also my favorite. I always buy online as it's the most time saving option. In this way I get all the books at a single place. Online shopping has always been my favorite. Now I will read these books too.
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Have You Read More Than Six of These Books?
Vaishali;1435422 wrote: Hey friend..
It's an amazing collection of very special books. I have read some books but not all. I love reading books. It's my favorite past time. By reading books, I get a huge amount of knowledge as well as it gives a new point of view to see life and other people. They say books are your best friends and I agree with it. Mostly I like to read love stories. Nut the books related to psychology are also my favorite. I always buy online as it's the most time saving option. In this way I get all the books at a single place. Online shopping has always been my favorite. Now I will read these books too.
Good for you! Nothing better than a good book, especially one you actually still hold in your hand. I can think of nothing worse than lying in bed reading a novel on a tablet ... yuk?
It's an amazing collection of very special books. I have read some books but not all. I love reading books. It's my favorite past time. By reading books, I get a huge amount of knowledge as well as it gives a new point of view to see life and other people. They say books are your best friends and I agree with it. Mostly I like to read love stories. Nut the books related to psychology are also my favorite. I always buy online as it's the most time saving option. In this way I get all the books at a single place. Online shopping has always been my favorite. Now I will read these books too.
Good for you! Nothing better than a good book, especially one you actually still hold in your hand. I can think of nothing worse than lying in bed reading a novel on a tablet ... yuk?
"…I hate how I don’t feel real enough unless people are watching." — Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters