I’ve stayed away from blog memes but just felt like this one. Via DovBear, here are 100 books. Bold for those you’ve read fully, italics for partially read. The BBC thinks the average person’s read 6/100. I got 30/100 so I’m obviously in dire need of a life. If you like procrastinating then you will consider yourself tagged whether I say so or not, so in a way you’re tagged!
What’d others get?
- Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen
- The Lord of the Rings JRR Tolkien
- Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte
- Harry Potter series JK Rowling
- To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee
- The Bible
- Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte
- Nineteen Eighty-Four George Orwell
- His Dark Materials Philip Pullman
- Great Expectations Charles Dickens
- Little Women Louisa M Alcott
- Tess of the d’Urbervilles Thomas Hardy
- Catch-22 Joseph Heller
- Complete Works of Shakespeare William Shakespeare
- Rebecca Daphne Du Maurier
- The Hobbit JRR Tolkien
- Birdsong Sebastian Faulks
- Catcher in the Rye JD Salinger
- The Time Traveler’s Wife Audrey Niffenegger
- Middlemarch George Eliot
- Gone With The Wind Margaret Mitchell
- The Great Gatsby F Scott Fitzgerald
- Bleak House Charles Dickens
- War and Peace Leo Tolstoy
- The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Douglas Adams
- Brideshead Revisited Evelyn Waugh
- Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck
- Alice in Wonderland Lewis Carroll
- The Wind in the Willows Kenneth Grahame
- Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy
- David Copperfield Charles Dickens
- Chronicles of Narnia CS Lewis
- Emma Jane Austen
- Persuasion Jane Austen
- The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe CS Lewis
- The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini
- Captain Corelli’s Mandolin Louis de Bernières
- Memoirs of a Geisha Arthur Golden
- Winnie the Pooh AA Milne
- Animal Farm George Orwell
- The Da Vinci Code Dan Brown
- One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- A Prayer for Owen Meaney John Irving
- The Woman in White Wilkie Collins
- Anne of Green Gables LM Montgomery
- Far From The Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy
- The Handmaid’s Tale Margaret Atwood
- Lord of the Flies William Golding
- Atonement Ian McEwan
- Life of Pi Yann Martel
- Dune Frank Herbert
- Cold Comfort Farm Stella Gibbons
- Sense and Sensibility Jane Austen
- A Suitable Boy Vikram Seth
- The Shadow of the Wind Carlos Ruiz Zafon
- A Tale Of Two Cities Charles Dickens
- Brave New World Aldous Huxley
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time Mark Haddon
- Love In The Time Of Cholera Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck
- Lolita Vladimir Nabokov
- The Secret History Donna Tartt
- The Lovely Bones Alice Sebold
- Count of Monte Cristo Alexandre Dumas
- On The Road Jack Kerouac
- Jude the Obscure Thomas Hardy
- Bridget Jones’s Diary Helen Fielding
- Midnight’s Children Salman Rushdie
- Moby Dick Herman Melville
- Oliver Twist Charles Dickens
- Dracula Bram Stoker
- The Secret Garden Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Notes From A Small Island Bill Bryson
- Ulysses James Joyce
- The Bell Jar Sylvia Plath
- Swallows and Amazons Arthur Ransome
- Germinal Emile Zola
- Vanity Fair William Makepeace Thackeray
- Possession AS Byatt (FOR HIGH SCHOOL NOT PLEASURE!!1!)
- A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens
- Cloud Atlas David Mitchell
- The Color Purple Alice Walker
- The Remains of the Day Kazuo Ishiguro
- Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert
- A Fine Balance Rohinton Mistry
- Charlotte’s Web EB White
- The Five People You Meet In Heaven Mitch Albom
- Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- The Faraway Tree Collection Enid Blyton
- Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad
- The Little Prince Antoine de Saint-Exupery
- The Wasp Factory Iain Banks
- Watership Down Richard Adams
- A Confederacy of Dunces John Kennedy Toole
- A Town Like Alice Nevil Shute
- The Three Musketeers Alexandre Dumas
- Hamlet William Shakespeare
- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Roald Dahl
- Les Misérables Victor Hugo




6 comments ↓
I’ve read more – does that make me nerdier than you? =P
Don’t feel bad. I had 30 total, 3 of which are partial reads since the are collections and I have read quite a bit of them. (the bible, Sherlock Holmes, and Shakespeare)
1.The Lord of the Rings JRR Tolkien
2.Harry Potter series JK Rowling
3.To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee
4.The Bible
5.Nineteen Eighty-Four George Orwell
6.His Dark Materials Philip Pullman
7.Catch-22 Joseph Heller
8.Complete Works of Shakespeare William Shakespeare
9.The Hobbit JRR Tolkien
10.Catcher in the Rye JD Salinger
11.The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Douglas Adams
12.Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck
13.Alice in Wonderland Lewis Carroll
14.Chronicles of Narnia CS Lewis
15.The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe CS Lewis
16.Winnie the Pooh AA Milne
17.Animal Farm George Orwell
18.The Da Vinci Code Dan Brown
19.The Handmaid’s Tale Margaret Atwood
20.Lord of the Flies William Golding
21.Dune Frank Herbert
22.A Tale Of Two Cities Charles Dickens
23.Brave New World Aldous Huxley
24.Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck
25.Dracula Bram Stoker
26.Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
27.Watership Down Richard Adams
28.The Three Musketeers Alexandre Dumas
29.Hamlet William Shakespeare
30.Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Roald Dahl
This is how I scored.
I read 5 and have about 20 of them on my shelf.
I’ve read, or partially read, um, 70. What does that make me?
Wow, I think that’s record-breaking! I guess the rest of us are just smallscale nerds then.
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