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Friday, February 27, 2009


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

Instructions:
1) Look at the list and put an 'x' after in the brackets of those you have read.
2) Star (*) those you plan on reading.
3) Tally your total at the bottom.
4) Put in a note with your total in the subject

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

Pitstop Count: 3

11 () Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 ( ) Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 (X) 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 Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 ( ) Middlemarch - George Eliot

Pitstop Count: 4

21 () Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell <- I actually plan to watch this more than read this
22 (* ) The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 ( ) Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 ( ) War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 (X) The Hitch Hiker’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 (X) Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carrol
30 () The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame

Pitstop Count: 6

31 ( ) Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 (X) David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 (X) Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34 ( ) Emma - Jane Austen
35 ( ) Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 (X) The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37 (*) The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 ( ) Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 (X) Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 (*) Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne

Pitstop Count:10

41 (X) Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 (X) 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 Collin
46 ( ) Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47 ( ) Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 (X) The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 (X) Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 ( ) Atonement - Ian McEwaN

Pitstop Count: 14

51 (X) 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 (X) Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 (X) The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60 ( ) Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Pitstop Count: 17

61 (X) Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 (*) Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 ( ) The Secret History - Donna Tart
64 (X) 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's Dick - Herman Melville

Pitstop Count: 19

71 (X ) Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 (X) 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

Pitstop Count: 21

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 (X) Charlotte’s Web - EB White
88 (*) The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 (X) Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 (X) The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton

Pitstop Count:24

91 ( ) Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 (X) The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint EXupery
93 (X) The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 ( ) Watership Down - Richard Adams
95 ( ) A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 ( ) A Town Like Alice - Neil Shute
97 (X) The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 (X) Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 (X) Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Roald Dahl
100 (*) Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

Pitstop Count:29