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  • Have you read more than 6 of these books? The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books listed...

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    Bold those books you’ve read in their entirety.

    Italicize the ones you started but didn’t finish or read only an excerpt.

    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
    The Bible
    7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
    8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
    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 Hitchhiker’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

    15 not bad :)

    43!!!

    40

    54. I am damn proud of myself right now. 

    Only 14, but that’s counting from this list. Go look at my book case and tell me I don’t read.

    41!

    52!!! :DD

    Uh…more than six I think. That’s all that matters.

    1. alifrazier reblogged this from dukegenocide and added:
      Bold those books you’ve read in their entirety. Italicize the ones you started but didn’t finish or read only an...
    2. creepycreepycreeper reblogged this from caboosee
    3. gloriouslily reblogged this from progressivedisco and added:
      ____________________________________ A lot in here that...probably have in my house...
    4. halocreed reblogged this from dai-nerevarine and added:
      Yeah… Not really...big reader, but this list seems to show otherwise, sort of..
    5. dai-nerevarine reblogged this from progressivedisco and added:
      Well that’s mine. I’m...rather well read person. I feel bad for not reading
    6. progressivedisco reblogged this from neonpinkmoron and added:
      Bold those books you’ve read in their entirety. Italicize the ones you started but didn’t finish or read only an...
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    10. missnomer reblogged this from peacelovemusic09 and added:
      I’ve read 37 in their entirety. And excerpts of 9. Which places me squarely above most people, according to the BBC. If...
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    15. sweet-bana-and-hella-octo reblogged this from fortress7 and added:
      Look at all of those books I read and also the ones I didn’t finish because Jane Austen is boring and Les Miserables is...
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    17. evevalynn reblogged this from sexandsatan6669 and added:
      This shows me how much i dont finish things i start.
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    22. devilpod reblogged this from khareen and added:
      lost count half-way. i think i’ve read 45 of them.
    23. erinltompkins reblogged this from khareen and added:
      never finished (Moby Dick was just crazy with those tangents…)
    24. wunderrbar reblogged this from aislinnclaire and added:
      Bold those books you’ve...in their entirety. Italicize
    25. theproperstudyofmankind reblogged this from dharbin and added:
      More than six, but these are really the only books I read. Must continue!
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