Books and Reading

While reading another persons blog, I came across a neat list. Apparently, the BBC believes that most people will only have read 6 of 100 books on their list. So, I have decided to take a look at the list, mark those I have read and read all the others. As I finish the book I will write a post about the book. This sounds like a fun project to me.

My cousin, Tim, is doing something slightly similar and he gave me the idea to challenge myself in reading more. I love to read but usually never know what to pick up next. Ill start with this list and see where is takes me.

Corrin, the woman who originally posted this list, put out a challenge:
Instructions:

1. Copy this into your NOTES on Facebook or copy it to your blog
2. Look at the list and put an 'X' in front of those you have read
3, tag other book nerds
4. Publish
5. I've added a step five. Put in Bold those books you want to read by the end of this year.

I will simply show you which ones I have read and tally the total on the list and then begin reading all the rest of them. Feel free to join me in the challenge. The list is broken down in 10s so its easier to count them up.

(X) Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
(x) The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
( ) Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
(x) Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
(x) To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
(x) The Bible
( ) Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
( ) Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
( ) His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
( ) Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
Total - 4

(x) Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
( ) Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
( ) Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
( ) Complete Works of Shakespeare
( ) Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
(x) The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
( ) Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
( ) Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
( ) The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
( ) Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
Total - 2

(X) 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
(X) Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
Total - 0

(x) The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
( ) Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
( ) David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
(x) Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
(X) Emma - Jane Austen
(X) Persuasion - Jane Austen
(x) The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
( ) The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
( ) Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
(x) Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
Total - 4

(x) Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
(X) 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
(x) Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
( ) Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
( ) The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
(x) Lord of the Flies - William Golding
Total - 3

( ) Atonement - Ian McEwan
(X) Life of Pi - Yann Martel
(X) 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
(X) Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
(X) The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night time - Mark Haddon
Total - 2

( ) 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
(X) Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
( ) Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
Total -0

( ) Moby Dick - Herman Melville
( ) Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
( ) Dracula - Bram Stoker
(x) The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
( ) Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
( ) Ulysses - James Joyce
( ) The Inferno - Dante
( ) Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
( ) Germinal - Emile Zola
( ) Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
Total - 1

( ) Possession - AS Byatt
(X) 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
(x) Charlotte’s Web - EB White
(X) The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
(X) Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Total - 2

(X ) The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
(X ) Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
(X) 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
(x) Hamlet - William Shakespeare
(x) Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
Total - 3

Grand total:21/100

Well, I must say I am happy that I have read more than 6 but boy do I ever have a lot of books to read. I guess I better get started. Funny that I have some on my bookshelf I just havent read them.

How many have you read on that list? Anyone near me have any of those books I can borrow??? Please let me know.