Booked myself...

Which of the BBC 100 ‘classic’ books have I read? BBC reckons 6/100 is the usual score. see how you do. The story is here.

Instructions:

1. Look at the list and put an ‘x’ after those you have read.
2. Add a ‘*’ to the ones you LOVE.
3. Star ‘#’ those you plan on reading.
4. Tally your total at the bottom.
5. Tag your bookish friends including the person whose list you saw!

The List:

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 #
   
6. The Bible - Various Artists x (here and there)
   
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 x (some)
15. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier x*
    
16. The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
    
17. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18. Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger x
19. The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger X*
    
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 (reading)
    
26. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh#
27. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28. Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
    
29. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll x*
30. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
    
31. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy x*
    
32. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens x
33. Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis (jeez its boring, i tried)
    
34. Emma - Jane Austen x*
35. Persuasion - Jane Austen#
36. The LionThe Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis ? X
    
37. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini#
38. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres#
39. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden x
    
40. Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne x*
41. Animal Farm - George Orwell
    
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 x
47. Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy x
    
48. The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
    
49. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
    
50. Atonement - Ian McEwan x*
    
51. Life of Pi - Yann Martel
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
    
59. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - 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 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 x* (end of reason too)
    
69. Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie#
70. Moby Dick - Herman Melville x
71. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens x
72. Dracula - Bram Stoker x :-S
    
73. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett#
    
74. Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
    
75. Ulysses - James Joyce X
    
76. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath#
77. Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78. Germinal - Emile Zola
79. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray (really tried)
    
80. Possession - AS Byatt
81. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens x*
82. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell x
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 Alborn
    
89. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle x* (every single one :D)
    
90. The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton x
    
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 x*
98. Hamlet - William Shakespeare x
99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl #
    
100. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo X
     

Read- around 44. pretty good, considering the fact that average is 6. But i really envy those who have read all, or 90+. sigh!

So, tagging everyone. This is a reality check for those who considers themselves bookaholics.