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How many of these books have you read? (something to do with the BBC, tl;dr)
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 The 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 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 think out of those i dun red...
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
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Confederacy of Dunces being my favourite.
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Four.
Mockingbird, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, On The Road, and Brave New World. I will now attempt to rank these four books in order of personal favour, from most to least.
Factory
Mockingbird
Road
World
Fín
*scrolls down thread*
Sorry, I meant 87
still twice as many as me :(
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Although 'The complete works of Shakespeare' and 'Hamlet'??
PS those lists can fuck off and die
PPS some of those books are shit
PPPS no-one has read Ulysses except lying cunts
35 if you include number 101 on the list
'bamos' Secret Blog'
I still can't believe it didn't make the cut.
Screw you, Tolstoy.
I dont understand this list
why does it make me feel like an ignoramus?
Why isnt stuff like
the odessy
the illiad
beowulf
paradise lost
canterbury tales
etc on there?
It seems quite bbc adaptation (or film) orientated list
i was going to say maybe they're just listing novels
but then shakespeare wouldn't be in there. or the bible. maybe it's just best-selling or most-read books?
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Which I'm quite happy with, you're right, I wouldn't want to read a bunch of the rest, what's the list from? Tell me it's not supposed to be the 100 greatest of all time or I think I'll kill myself.
PS I've read Ulysses twice and it's great. Really appreciated it the second time around after reading secondary texts and studies on it. Wouldn't mean as much to me as a lot of other books but you can recognise there's a genius at work.
I've read Ulysses twice and I love it
Reading it the second time after checking out secondary texts and studies of it really helped my appreciation for it. It wouldn't personally be one of my favourites, but it's undeniably a work of absolute genius.
My replying ability is fecked up at the moment
apologies for the repetition, long lost comments are popping up all over the place :/
I've read that post of yours twice and I love it.
Reading it the second time after checking out secondary texts and studies of it really helped my appreciation for it. It wouldn't personally be one of my favourites, but it's undeniably a work of absolute genius.
(sorry)
Hahahahaha
Don't apologise, I'm actually pissing myself! :'D
if you'd said 'finnegans wake'
you would have been more right.
Half of 8
13
18
25
41
42
59
61
87
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Surely 'Hamlet' is also in The Complete Works of William Shakespoeare
Half books don't count
Sorry
sorry mr 'I've read 35 on the list'
who made you in charge anyway? Pah. I know the ending anyway.
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5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
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
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
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
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
80 Possession - AS Byatt
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White
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
I'm dropping to 39
I read half of Cloud Atlas then I lost it.
But I missed Crime and Punishment and Winnie the Pooh
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It's long gone.
I don't know if I can justify buying it twice.
Yack
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81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
Plus the first 20 pages of Madame Bovary
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what is this list?
38 of em
favourites are Owen Meany and Life of Pi.
The worst on that list is Bridsong, what a godawful book.
Prayer for Owen Meany is an incredible book.
I thought Birdsong was cack, but was shouted down.
I'm glad someone agrees with me.
Has anyone actually finished Birdsong?
I'm in the 'thought it was cack' camp.
Lolita was good
Finished it
but with gritted teeth as it was painfully obvious how it was going to end.
You hate Vernon God Little too don't you?
BOOK BROTHERS
BIBLIO BUDDIES
Can you tell me what you basically thought Life of Pi was about?
because I don't think I got it at all, and it annoyed me. Is it all basically about how religion is good because life is bleak and horrible without it?
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The Harry Potter series?
Birdsong?
Bridget Jones' Diary?!
Weird.
woops 31
I missed Lolita.
I got 17.
I'll take that. I don't really have a huge desire to read a lot of those, to be honest. Rightly or wrongly.
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with another 8 or so waiting to be read.
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Can't be arsed to list them.
Where the hell is the complete works of Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends?
Thomas the Tank Engine never wrote any books
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4 The Harry Potter Series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
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
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
I've also started Wuthering Heights and Birdsong but never actually finished them.
Incidentally if I were to pick my favourite ten from the list in no particular order:
Actually 11:
Great Expectations
Catch 22 (hard to get into but brilliant by the end)
The Time Traveller's Wife
The Great Gatsby (another that you wonder why you're reading but then the ending makes the entire book worthwhile)
The Kite Runner
The Woman in White
A Tale of Two Cities
The Five People You Meet in Heaven (excellent book)
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
The Three Musketeers (more for the sequels though)
Les Miserables
Further to this:
Birdsong's my least favourite on the list, I actually can't remember much about Brave New World (I assume I finished it but can't be sure) and the Lovely Bones is decent but overrated.
Does watching the film count?
If so, LOADS of them.
harry potter
1984
great expectations
catcher in the rye
hitchhikers guide
the lion the witch and the wardrobe
lord of the flies
the life of pi
the curious incident
of mice and men
bridget jones diary
charlottes web
the magic faraway tree
the little prince
charlie and the chocolate factory
alice in wonderland
also
his dark materials
wind in the willows
also
his dark materials
wind in the willows
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Catch 22 being my favourite, although I do love Confederacy of Dunces
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Read:
6 The Bible
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville (almost done)
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
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Coincidentally, these are also the ones worth reading. :)
Royter says you're a lying cunt.
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ASK ME A QUESTION THAT ONLY SOMEONE WHO HAD READ THOSE BOOKS WOULD KNOW! I'LL SHOW YOU. I'LL SHOW YOU ALL.
Good work on reading Ulysses
I didn't make it past the preface
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We had to read it for school, using the method I'm pretty sure the government made up purely to make children hate books: You sit in silence in the classroom, and the teacher designates one of your peers to read a passage of the book in their FUCKING RETARDED DIV VOICE as you read along. Then after a while, the teacher stops them and commands another one of your classmates to read - in their STUPID MONGOLOID STUTTER as you read along. Then eventually, you are the one who is assigned to read, but you can't because you've been reading at the speed of someone who is READING as opposed to TALKING and are therefore 12 pages ahead of anyone who has been doing what they're told; so now you look like a fucking idiot asking the teacher what page you're on.
I still look back in anger at all the books this has ruined.
how would you organise it?
Serious question.
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Well you see, I understood that the method had a purpose in that it ensured that we were at least reading some of the material, as opposed to taking it home it home and having the book lie in our bag as we played Playstation. And of course, it ensured you read every word, when unsupervised you may have chosen to let your mind wander and start skimming parts that were boring and not immediately relevant to the plot.
But on the other hand, if the purpose was, in part at least, to instill a love of reading, or even a love of the book being studied - Fail.
How would I organise it? Shit, if I knew that I'd be some sort of genius. Or at least an education czar.
I totally take your point - it can ruin a book
but.... like you say - a lot of students won't (or can't) read it independently so... what alternatives are you left with? The obvious one would be the teacher reading it aloud to the class I suppose but that would get old pretty quick too I imagine.
this is the truest post ever writte
written
My favourite is 'Wind in the Willows' by the way
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You have to stop saying THREADSMASH, cheers
^ political correctness gone mad
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2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 The Harry Potter Series - JK Rowling
6 The Bible
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
so....you've read the bible eh?
really which bits? how much? which bible?
tried to
i couldn't quite get into the language, it was far too pissy for my liking. i tried to approach it like a novel. i think it was the old testament, though it was a while ago and when i was in my wacky sutdent days. my other mate got through it all and came out the other side gay. take from thay what you will.
what the hell do they mean by
'the bible'
its a selection of texts that varies according to the edition.
Do they specifically mean the king james bible?
wtf is this sort of list....who compiled it?
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Well... they mean the Bible, don't they? It being literally a selection of texts that varies according to the edition - of which the KJV is one.
Yeah, books I like aren't on the list either
There has been a 'Canon' in place since c.330 AD I think
Of which the only real variation is whether the Apocrypha (some "inter-testemental" Jewish writings) are included (Catholics say yes, Protestants say no). So it isn't really accurate to say the list varies according to the edition - whatever Dan Brown would have you believe.
sorry i was only going on what others have told me i suppose
i guess i have read the kjv one, painstakingly so....later on (after schooling) i have gone back to check stuf out when armed with interpretations of what something means historically and thats sort of better, but often damned difficult to do cos bits that are meant to be there (according to other books and treatises on it) actually arnt in the bible in the places that its said they should be.
I havnt read the book of thomas, mary magdelin, enoch etc those sort of tings, in fact there are quite a few books that arnt in the kjv....apparently as you say they are in the roman catholic one but not all the books are in that either...its kind of confusing..i suppose my next port of call should be wikipedia....so thats where im off to right now
this list is so annoying!
it doesn't list all the other dickens' books i've read! so i can't claim to have read any of his! and i've read 'ghostwritten' not 'cloud atlas'
aaargggghhhhhhhhhhhhh
You
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have no desire to read some of those though (life of pi, curious incident), and some books that should sooooo be on there aren't (against nature)
planning to read a couple more eventually. really want to read some more hardy, and own crime and punishment. why are complete works AND Hamlet in there? Does having read measure for measure, as you like it, twelfth night, taming of the shrew, othello, macbeth, midsummer night's dream, romeo and juliet and the sonnets not count? grrrarrrrrrr.
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didn't see roald dahl or charlotte's web
pride and prejudice
jane eyre
harry potter
to kill a mockingbird
wuthering heights
1984
tess of the durbervilles
catch 22
catcher in the rye
alice in wonderland
lion witch and the wardrobe (chronicles of narnia?!)
winnie the pooh
brave new world
of mice and men
bridget jones's diary
the bell jar
charlotte's web
charlie and the chocolate factory
19 rite
I have not heard of this:
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
18.5
the 0/5 is because I didn't finish War and Peace due to it being the dullest collection of words ever assembled.
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Absolutely true. Add in the Dosdoevsky as well.
i enjoyed dosdoevsky.
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GK: Eyre
LB: Potter
CB: Mockingbird
RCB: Hitchhikers
RB: Wonderland
LM: Willows
CM: Narnia
RM:Wardrobe
LF: Pooh
CF: Farm
RF: Web
On the subs bench:
Hamlet, Factory and Ulysses.
Wardrobe would be shit on the right side
they'd be better off playing just in front of the back four with Pooh in the hole.
POOH IN THE HOLE! Brilliant
Wardrobe would be shit on the right side
they'd be better off playing just in front of the back four with Pooh in the hole.
POOH IN THE HOLE! Brilliant
Wardrobe would be shit on the right side
they'd be better off playing just in front of the back four with Pooh in the hole.
POOH IN THE HOLE! Brilliant
heh
Haha!
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Cheers
Wardrobe is going on the transfer list.
Hoping to swap him for Dracula.
Just realised I'd missed out Faraway Tree, but he's been on lone to shrewbie.
i've read 42 of them. wahey!
i miscounted! 47! yarrr
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 The Harry Potter Series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
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
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
I think out of those i dun red...
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
copy/paste fail
beatcha
beatcha
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with some of Shakespeare
23 in total
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
4 The Harry Potter Series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
I've got a load of them sat on my shelf in a 'keep meaning to read' context.
Does anyone share my utter hatred of
The Secret History? Bleh.
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Not me
I loved it.
I have an irrational hatred of The Lovely Bones
Never read it, never will - looks fucking awful.
i kind of liked it
it wasn't as dark as i'd expected though
I have never considered it to be dark.
Just more light-reading pap for the Richard & Judy book club.
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i'll make a list cause i'm bored
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
4 The Harry Potter Series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
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
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
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
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
47, counting fail
The complete works of Shakespeare? AND Hamlet. Chronicles of Narnia and LtWatW?
Um, yeah, 38.
There are some horridly middlebrow books in there (Captain Correlli etc), aren’t there?
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I haven't read all of the Bible, or the complete works of Shakespeare. Maybe if I ever get stranded on a desert island.
Although it's not exactly 46 books, because His Dark Materials = three books and the Chronicles of Narnia = seven. One of which is also on the list. So maybe I could legitimately bump the figure up to 54. If I cared that much. Which I don't, obvs.
9
Is is bad that I'm almost pleased with myself?
Actually,
11. Maybe I'm not su uncultured after all.
the only one on that list i liked was Hitchhikers
and is is the only one i'd read (and have read) again.
The Bible and Charlotte's Web are the only two on that list for me
17 or 18
but as a librarian I probably know about 80 well enough to recommend them to borrowers who might be interested in that kind of thing
...
http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a63/arrietty42/borrowers_jim3.jpg
How would
you know if they're boring or not?
30
21
i'm a cultured motherfucker
17
But an embarrassing number of those are children's books...
Properly read 29
Tried to read but never finished 9
I'm surprised and pleased by that figure
Finished 22
read bits of about 6 or 7 others (I mean come on... even most religious people haven't read the bible cover to cover) and own a few others with the intention of reading them at some point in the not to distant future.
24
although i think at least three of those i started, read a substantial amount of, and then never completely finished
1 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
2 The Harry Potter Series - JK Rowling
3 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
4 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
5 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
6 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
7 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
8 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
9 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
10 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
11 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
12 Animal Farm - George Orwell
13 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
14 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
15 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
16 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
17 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
18 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
19 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
20 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
21 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
22 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
23 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
24 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
54 - do I win the thread?
In my defence I am 30 so I've probably had a few years on the rest of you. I also spent 3 years doing an Eng Lit degree, so reading books was something of an occupational hazzard.
29
Do I get bonus points for having read Ulysses?
About 20.
I'm a little disappointed Jurassic Park isn't on the list.
2
i only read books I know i'm going to be interested in
they were harry potter (although I've only read the first 5)
and of mice and men
I just saw the hobbit at 16
I'm up to 3, baby!
About twenty
quite a few of these books have been recommended to me recently though so I should probably get on and read some of them.
blimey! Mrs Knees has read 68 of those books
whereas i have read a paltry 20 odd
I counted
but kept losing track, and then forgot what number I got at the end. About 30 I think, although that seems surprisingly high given the amount of difficulty I had reading just the list of books.
What is this even a list of?
And why are people getting annoyed with what is and isn't on there when they don't know?
Or do they?
Is it just me?
because people like getting annoyed
even over lists that are two years old
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6405737.stm
i like lists
I see
I still find it hard to care though. Surprised how many classics there were on the list if it was survey. Depends who they surveyed though I suppose. That's right, I'm rambling inconsequentially...
Just a few...
4 The Harry Potter Series - JK Rowling
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
41
which is way more than I expected.
13, i started a few others, how are you supposed to know if you've read the whole bible?
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
38
books.
If by "read" you also mean "seen the film adaptation"
then nearly all of them.
23
to be generous to myself. ive read a lot of sherlock holmes and a lot of shakespeare so think i can include both of them
29
And to be honest I don't really want to read most of the others listed.
and I don't even like about half of the ones I have.
12 and a bit
6, 8, 13, 19, some of 33, 36, 40, 48, 49, 59, 66, 88, 99
About 10%
of that list.
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but the Bible.....the whole thing....the complete works of shakespear....all of it
sod all
I just abandoned a lengthy reply that seemed amusing to me, but was a bit preachy and made me sound like I'm having a nervous breakdown.
I've never really been particularly into "English Literature" (as in the kind of books people read when studying it - like that list) so I can't be arsed with most of that stuff. I'm sure if I'd gone to a decent school where you actually have an English lesson rather than a riot where the English lesson's supposed to take place I might have read a few more.
to be precise
I've read:
6 The Bible
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
But I have seen films of a lot of the others and there's quite a few that I've only read bits of (like the Hobbit, which I've tried to read quite a few times but never got past the first chapter).
about 10
37
lame.
1,2,3,4,5,7,9,10,16,22,36,37,42,46,59,64,69,73,87
only 19, but there are a fair few on the list that i want to read but haven't gotten to yet
27
There are some that I've been meaning to read for a while, and some that I've started and not finished...
exactly
a quarter
45
who the fuck has read the complete works of shakespeare?! SRSLY being forced to read several at school put me off for life!
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2
4
5
8
9
13
18
25
31
36
38
41
42
43
51
59
60
61
62
66
67
81
87
99
meh
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which is coincidentally my age. Maybe if I live to be 100, I'll have read them all. Well, maybe 99. I'm not reading The Da Vinci Code on pure principle.