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Posted: Aug 13 2009, 07:24 PM
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BBC believes most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here. How do your reading habits stack up?


I have read 13 of them, but I have seen 27 of them as movies. That HAS to count for something. LOL


1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen.........................
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien......................y.
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte ..............................
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling............................y
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee........................y
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.........................y
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.....................................y
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk................................
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger .........................
19 The Time Traveler’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.........................y
34 Emma-Jane Austen......................................
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen....................................
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe...............y
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hossein .....................
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres..
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden ................y
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...........y
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy..
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood...........
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding.....................y
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 - 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 Inferno - Dante.........................................
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome........
78 Germinal - Emile Zola.......................................
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackery.........
80 Possession - A.S. 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 Ishigurox......
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert..................
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry.....................
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White..............................y
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...y
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...y
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo......................
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I have read 21 of them and 2 of those were in French. laugh.gif
Ha, I'm glad my fave Alice in Wonderland is on there, I LOVE that book! cool.gif


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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........................y
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 .........................y
19 The Time Traveler’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...............
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hossein .....................
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 - Mark Haddon....
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez.............
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck .....................y
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...y
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson.............
75 Ulysses - James Joyce........................................
76 The Inferno - Dante.........................................
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome........
78 Germinal - Emile Zola.......................................
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackery.........
80 Possession - A.S. 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 Ishigurox......
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......................


4 books...but the secret garden i read that in 3rd grade with the class...does that count?
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Posted: Aug 13 2009, 08:40 PM
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QUOTE (bluebear @ Aug 13 2009, 10:50 PM)


4 books...but the secret garden i read that in 3rd grade with the class...does that count?

Sure. Didn't ask about how you got it read.

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QUOTE (cameragirl21 @ Aug 13 2009, 10:36 PM)
I have read 21 of them and 2 of those were in French. laugh.gif
Ha, I'm glad my fave Alice in Wonderland is on there, I LOVE that book! cool.gif

geeze. I thought I was doing pretty good with 13!
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4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling............................
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee........................
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte .........................
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell....................
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott.........................
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller......................................
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger .........................
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell..............
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald..................
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams..
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll.....................
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis.........................
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...........
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding.....................
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens.............
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley .....................
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding ..............
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville ...........................
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens..........................
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker......................................
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett...
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens ...............
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker ......................
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White..............................
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle .
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad..................
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas......
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare......................
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl...


I deleted all the ones I haven't read...I've read 32 of them. I do read a LOT though and 8 of them were required reading from high school.

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1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen.........................
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte ..............................
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee........................
6 The Bible--....................................................
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte .........................
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell....................
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens..................
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott.........................
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell..............
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald..................
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck........................
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis.........................
34 Emma-Jane Austen......................................
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe...............
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hossein .....................
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden ................y
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne ..............................
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown .......................
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez........
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving............
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery...........y
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy..
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding.....................
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen....................
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens.............
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night - Mark Haddon....
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez.............
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold.........................
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding ..............
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville ...........................
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens..........................
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett...
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens ...............
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker ......................
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 .
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare......................
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl...

I deleted the ones I haven't read, too. A lot of those were back in high school for AP English and a lot of the others were during a phase I went through when I wanted to be a writer so I was determined to read all the classics laugh.gif
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I've read 17 of them. A least 1/2 dozen or more we read in school, so it's been a long time. thumb.gif


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I've read 39 of them. To be fair though, I was in honors english all through HS and read a lot of them there...then when I would nurse the girls, I'd read a lot. Finally, I found the free ebooks were mostly the classics so I read most of Mark Twains works and Jane Austin on that.


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I've read 37... can't say I LIKED all 37... but I've read em. thumb.gif
I think, as others have pointed out that a good portion were required reading for grade school/high school. We read To Kill a Mockingbird in the seventh grade and it's been a fave ever since.

1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2. The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3. Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
4. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
5. The Bible
6. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
7. Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
8. The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
9. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
10. Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
11. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
12. The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
13. Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
14. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
15. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
16. Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
17. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe
18. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hossein (although does it count if I stopped halfway through because I couldn't stand the book?)
19. Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
20. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
21. A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
22. Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
23. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
24. A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
25. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night - Mark Haddon
26. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
27. On The Road - Jack Kerouac
28. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
29. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
30. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
31. The Color Purple - Alice Walker
32. Charlotte’s Web - EB White
33. The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
34. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
35. The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
36. Hamlet - William Shakespeare
37. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl

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1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen.........................y
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien......................y.
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte ..............................y
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling............................y
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee........................y
6 The Bible--....................................................
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte .........................y
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell....................
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman........................
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens..................y
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott.........................y
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy............
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller......................................
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare.........................y (bits and pieces)
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier ............................
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien.....................................y
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk................................
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger .........................y
19 The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger...
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot.................................
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell..............y
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald..................y
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens.............................
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy................................
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams..y (teacher made me)
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh...................
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky......y
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck........................y
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll.....................y
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame .........
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy...............................y
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens...................y
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis.........................y
34 Emma-Jane Austen......................................y
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen....................................y
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe...............y
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hossein .....................
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres..
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden ................y
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne .............................. y
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell............................
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown .......................y
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...........y
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy..
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood...........
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding.....................y
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan...................................y
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel......................................
52 Dune - Frank Herbert........................................
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons..................
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen....................y
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth..............................
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon......
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens.............y
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley .....................
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night - Mark Haddon....
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez.............y
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck .....................y
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov ..................................y
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt........................
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold.........................
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas........y (myas great great grandfather, not sure how many greats to use..lol)
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac..............................
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy....................
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding ..............y
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie..............
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville ..........................y
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens..........................y
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker......................................y
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett...
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson.............
75 Ulysses - James Joyce........................................y
76 The Inferno - Dante.........................................
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome........
78 Germinal - Emile Zola.......................................
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackery.........y
80 Possession - A.S. Byatt.....................................
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens ...............y
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell.............................
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker ......................y (my favorite ever)
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishigurox......
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert..................y
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry.....................
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White..............................y
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom.......
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ...y
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton........
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad..................
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery...y
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......y
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare......................y
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl...y
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo...................... y


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my friend had this list up on facebook the other day. I read all the time but have somehow only read 4 of the books on that list..well more if you count each harry potter book.
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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
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen.
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hossein
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery - I own a first edition
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens.
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

I've read 37 of them.


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wavey.gif Hi Kelly!


I didn't count very well, but I believe I read 32 of them. It is a good list, I may use it to plan what to read next.


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QUOTE (amymom @ Aug 29 2009, 05:02 AM)
wavey.gif Hi Kelly!


I didn't count very well, but I believe I read 32 of them. It is a good list, I may use it to plan what to read next.

thats a good idea!. I tend to stick to 2 types of books. Memoirs and war/war history. Maybe its time to try out some other books.
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QUOTE (amymom @ Aug 29 2009, 08:02 AM)
wavey.gif Hi Kelly!


I didn't count very well, but I believe I read 32 of them. It is a good list, I may use it to plan what to read next.

Hi, Anne. wavey.gif I lurk a bit any more. I don't spend as much internet time as I used to since the divorce. I spend more real life time, instead. Not as much to run from, I suppose. It is a good list. I liked reading through it.


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