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Notes: 44 / 2 years ago from caraobrien (originally from parfoislafolie)

ATTN SELF RIGHTEOUS READERS

caraobrien:

wherescoachbombay:

BBC - correct or incorrect? The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books here. How do your reading habits stack up?

01 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen -
02 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien - +
03 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte -
04 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling -
05 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee - +
06 The Bible - +
07 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte -
08 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell -
09 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 - +
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 -
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 Nighttime - 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 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 - +

TOTAL: 39 - Yea, that right bitches. Suck on that BBC!

(via baileylorainepeterson)

24. Not terrible, but I really ought to be reading more.

I blame Tumblr.

I’ve read 34 out of these 100… I feel pretty good. Just wish I had more time to read now.
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  25. I’ve read a bunch of the series (HP, LotR, Narnia) more than twice, though? LOL. XD But yeah, I need to read...
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  9. Yes, nine. Because none of those were required readings in High School. Well, some of them were choices for book...
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  was curious to see what my number would be. Lots...though— I know what I’ll be doing once...
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  Dang… ten behind Jillian. I blame it on Jack. I own many...on the list but haven’t read...
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  16. Perhaps a late New Year’s Resolution?
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  39 if I counted correctly. Maybe tumblrs read more than TV addicts. The collection of books there is a bit odd — why so...
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  My goal is to read most if not all of them. I’ve read 21 so far…
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  38, bitches. I’m so well read.
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  I’ve read 34 out of these 100… I feel pretty good. Just wish I had more time to read now.
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  20. Which totally corresponds to how old I’m going to be this 2010. I still have time, BBC. >_> It’s really sad that...
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  01 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen - 02 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien - 03 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte - 04...
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  6 novels? Bawahahah! Now BBC, clearly you haven’t met me. I’ve read, if I managed to count them correctly, 63 of these...
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  24. Not terrible, but I really ought to be reading more. I blame Tumblr.
35. whereiscoachbombay reblogged this from parfoislafolie and added:
  
  BBC - correct or incorrect?...100 books here. How do your reading habits stack up?
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