The Beeb Book Meme

[przed]

Gacked from kortirion

Apparently the Beeb reckons most people will only have read 6 of these books...

Bold those books you've read in their entirety, italicize the ones you started, but didn't finish

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 Faulk
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 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
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 managed an even 50, which isn't bad.

Comments

[callistosh65.livejournal.com]

Well that's mighty dismissive of Auntie Beeb there, I counted up 44. Hell, I read more than 6 at school just because we had to.*g*

[przed.livejournal.com]

I thought it was a bit harsh of Auntie Beeb myself. And yeah, there's a ton on the list that we read in highschool.

BTW, a belated happy birthday! I was totally planning on doing a birthday pic for you, but RL has been utterly insane. (I've got this neverending video project that's sucking up all my time at work, and Ros has been in high maintenance mode for weeks. By the time we get her to bed, I usually pass out on the couch in the middle of trying to watch an hour of something or other. So sad.) Hope you had a great day.

[callistosh65.livejournal.com]

Aw thanks, and don't worry about the birthday pic, this kind thought here is more than enough - especially with how nuts your life can be at times. Hope Ros is being a little more low maintenance for you now:)))

[przed.livejournal.com]

Ros isn't unpleasantly high maintenance, but she's definitely in need of a lot of attention. Which is fine, since she's also getting to be even more fun to be around.

But exhausting.

[sooguy.livejournal.com]

I don't think I've read 50, but probably 20 or more.

I am going to go repost it in my journal.

[przed.livejournal.com]

There's a lot here that we had to read in high school. There's also more than a few that made me go "whu?" Bridget Jones' Diary? I ask you.

[kanders07.livejournal.com]

Don't know who Beeb is but I've read 29 of these. A couple I have and just haven't read yet.

Apologies to Charles Dickins: I've started a number of his books and never finished them. They put me to sleep.

[przed.livejournal.com]

That would be the BBC.

I have to say I adore Dickens, but not always the usual ones. I loathe A Tale of Two Cities, but adore Little Dorritt.

[heliophile-oxon.livejournal.com]

I thought maybe 52, but then I have to admit there are 7 cases where I honestly can't remember whether I finished the book or not (way to be a philistine!) - so, say maybe 45 actually read all the way through. Was 6 supposed to be an average across the whole UK population? Could be a reflection of changing school syllabi, maybe.

[przed.livejournal.com]

There were a couple I think I might have read (Rebecca? Charlie and the Chocolate Factory?) but have honestly no idea, so I left 'em off the list.

I didn't see where this originally came from, so I have no idea how they arrived at the 6 number. Does seem a bit low, though, considering a lot of these books must be standard on syllabi.