How many of these 100 books have you read

Yes, another Facebook meme.

According to the BBC, most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here. I’ve read or attempted to read half the books on the list. Of course, my mom was an English teacher. She always had a reading list for me.

Instructions:

• Look at the list and put an ‘x’ after those you have read.
• Add a ‘+’ to the ones you love.
• Star (*) those you plan on reading.
• Put a (?) beside those that you have trouble believing are even on this list.
• Put an (H) beside those that you didn’t like.
• # — attempted to read the book
• % — Think I read the book
• Tally your total at the bottom.

100 Books

1. Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen —  X +
2. The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien  — # H —  Could never get into this one.
   
3. Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte — X
   
4. Harry Potter series – JK Rowling — # H —  Could never get into this one.
5. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee — X + — One of my all time favorites.
   
6. The Bible (all) — X + — In at least the following translations: KJV, NKJV, NIV, NASB, ESV, NLT, LB
   
7. Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte — X
   
8. Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell — X H — Only because Mrs. G made me. It is a big waste of resources & time.
   
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 — X H — Think someone probably Mrs. G. made me read it.
    
14. Complete Works of Shakespeare — X H — Read a lot. Does buying a nice bound copy for my mom count. I did like Charles & Mary Lambs version of Shakespeare
    
15. Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier
16. The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien — #  —  Could never get into this one.
17. Birdsong – Sebastian Faulk
18. Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger — X H — Think someone probably Mrs. G. made me read it.
19. The Time Traveller’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger
20. Middlemarch – George Eliot
21. Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell — #  —  Could never get into this one.
22. The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald — X
23. Bleak House – Charles Dickens — %
24. War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy — X — Made the mistake of telling my English teacher mom I was bored and had nothing to do.
    
25. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams — X+ – Not a Sci Fi fan but liked it.
    
26. Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh —  %
27. Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky — X H — Don’t like Russian authors.
28. Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck — X H — Dr. W. made read this one.
    
29. Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll — — X + — Ok actually my parents read it to me many many times.
    
30. The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame — — X H
31. Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy — X H — Don’t like Russian authors.
    
32. David Copperfield – Charles Dickens — X
    
33. Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis — X
34. Emma – Jane Austen — X+
35. Persuasion – Jane Austen
36. The Odyssey – Home r– XH
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 — X+ Of course.
    
41. Animal Farm – George Orwell — XH — Once again a book I was forced to read.
42. The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown — #  —  Think the book is way over rated.
    
43. One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44. A Prayer for Owen Meany – John Irving
45. The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins
46. Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery — X+ Of course.
47. Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy
48. The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
49. Lord of the Flies – William Golding — XH — Once again a book I was forced to read. UGHHH!
    
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 — 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 — XH — Once again a book I was forced to read.
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 — X
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 — X
71. Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens — X
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 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 — X+
82. Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
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  — XH — Yet another book I was forced to read.
    
88. The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom
89. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle  — X
90. The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton
91. Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
92. The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint Exupery — X
93. The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks
94. Watership Down – Richard Adams — X
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 — X
100. Les Miserables – Victor Hugo

TOTALS

Read: 42

Tried to Read: 4

Think I read: 2

Liked: 13

Hated: 12