100 Books

Because I plan on delaying my "Emily Freaks Out About Student Teaching" post until next week, I'm going to post something fun.

Apparently the BBC reckons most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books listed here.

Instructions:
1) Look at the list and put an 'X' after those you have read.
2) Add a '+' to the ones you LOVE.
3) Star “@” those you plan on reading.
4) Tally your total at the bottom.

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen_X
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte_X
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling_X
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee_X
6 The Bible_ @
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell_X
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott_X+
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller_X+
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_X
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_X
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck_X+
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_X
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini_X
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne_X
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell X
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown_X
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_X
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_X
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley_X
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon_X
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck_X
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_X
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_X
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath_X
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_X+
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_X
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_X
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery_X
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_X+
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl_X
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

First of all, I think this list is slightly unfair (why put The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe AND the Chronicles of Narnia on the same list? Why do the same with Hamlet AND the Complete Works of Shakespeare?). Also it's a little heavy on certain authors (Dickens and Austen, for example). I did enjoy that there were a few childrens' books thrown in there, though.

However, my total is 29, which beats the expectations of 6 but is pretty lame for a future English teacher.