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I stole this from a friend, who stole it from a friend, who stole it from and friend, and who started this thing anyhow? Since I too enjoy reading, I’m playing…

“The BBC believes most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here. How do your reading habits stack up? Instructions: Copy and paste, then put an ‘x’ after those you have read. Tally your total at the bottom.”

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen (x have it)

2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien (x have it)

3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte (x have it)

4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling (x have it)

5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee(x have it)

6 The Bible (x have it)

7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte (x have it)

8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell ()

9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman ()

10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens ()

11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott (x)

12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy ()

13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller ()

14 Complete Works of Shakespeare (attemted)

15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier ()

16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien (x have it)

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 (x)

23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens ()

24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy ()

25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams (x)

26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh ()

27 Crime and Punishment- Fyodor Dostoyevsky ()

28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck (x)

29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll (x)

30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame ()

31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy ()

32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens ()

33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis (x have it)

34 Emma - Jane Austen (x have it)

35 Persuasion - Jane Austen (have it...have not read it yet)

36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis (x have it)

37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini (x have it)

38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres ()

39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden (x have it)

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 (x have it)

47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy ()

48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood (x)

49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding (x)

50 Atonement - Ian McEwan ()

51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel ( dad has it...always meant to pick it up...)

52 Dune - Frank Herbert (x)

53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons ()

54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen (x have it)

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 (x)

62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov ()

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 ()

69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie ()

70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville (attempted)

71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens ()

72 Dracula - Bram Stoker ()

73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnet (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 ()

82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell ()

83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker ()

84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro ()

85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert (x)

86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry ()

87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White (x have it)

88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom ()

89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (x have it)

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 have it)

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 in theater??)

99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl (x)

100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo (x complete and unabridged!!)

35 and one attempted... not too bad! But I still have a bunch to read and now I have a list to choose from!