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

Instructions: Copy this into your NOTES. Look at the list and then number the ones you have read, so by the end, you have your count. Tag other book geeks.

1 Pride and Prejudice - (1) one of my all time favorites!
2 The Lord of the Rings - i’ve only read a few pages…i can never sit down to really finish it.
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling (2 or 2-8?) I’ve read everything in the series
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee (3)
6 The Bible - (4)
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens - I am halfway through the book but I could never go beyond it…I’m not a fan of Dickens.
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott - (5)
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 - (6) one of my favorite books in college 19 The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger - just watched the movie, but i’m planning to read the book
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchel - i watched the movie though :Pl
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 - (7 or 7-13?) my favorite in the series? the horse and his boy 34 Emma - Jane Austen -
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen - I want to read this book for the longest time but I haven’t done it either.
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - (8)
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini - have been wanting to read this…
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 (9)
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez (10) one of my favorites by Garcia Marquez…
4 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 - I watched the classic movie, but haven’t finished it.
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 - Mark Haddon (11) I LOVE THIS!
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez (12) It took me a year to finish because I kept stopping in the middle of the story but I finally finished it…i don’t like the movie adaptation though
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck (13)
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas (13)
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 - ahhh! i never got to finish this book because my sister had to return it.
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett (14) reminded me of pastries and tea in the garden
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 - (15)
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 - (16)
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 (17)
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 - (18)
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo - (19) one of the best classic novels in my opinion

ahhh! i can’t believe i’m a reading and writing teacher and i’ve only read 19 books on the list! i think i’ve watched half of the books with movie adaptation though. I have to keep reading!