How Do You Stack Up?

The BBC believes most people will have only read 6 of these 100 books.

Here is how my reading stacked up:

1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen- Yes
2. The Lord of the Rings - Yes
3. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte- Yes
4. Harry Potter series - JK Rowling – Yes
5. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee- Yes
6. The Bible – Yes
7. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte- Yes
8. Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell- Yes
9. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman- No
10. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens- Yes

Subtotal: 9

11. Little Women - Louisa M Alcott- Yes
12. Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy- Yes
13. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller - Yes
14. Complete Works of Shakespeare- Yes
15. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier- No
16. The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien- Yes
17. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk- No
18. Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger- Yes
19. The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger- No
20. Middlemarch - George Eliot- No

Subtotal: 15

21. Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell- Yes
22. The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald- Yes
23. Bleak House - Charles Dickens- No
24. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy- Yes
25. The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams- Yes
26. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh- Yes
27. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky- Yes
28. Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck- Yes
29. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll- Yes
30. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame- Yes

Subtotal: 24

31. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy- Yes
32. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens- Yes
33. Chronicles of Narnia Series - CS Lewis- Yes
34. Emma - Jane Austen- Yes
35. Persuasion - Jane Austen- Yes
36. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis- Yes
37. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini- Yes
38. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres Mais- No
39. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden- Yes
40. Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne - Yes

Subtotal: 33

41. Animal Farm - George Orwell- Yes
42. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown- Yes
43. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez - No
44. A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving- No
45. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins- No
46. Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery- Yes
47. Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy- Yes
48. The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood- No
49. Lord of the Flies - William Golding- Yes
50. Atonement - Ian McEwan- No

Subtotal: 38

51. Life of Pi - Yann Martel- Yes
52. Dune - Frank Herbert- No
53. Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons- No
54. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen- Yes
55. A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth- No
56. The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon- No
57. A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dicken - Yes
58. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley- Yes
59. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time- No
60. Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez- No

Subtotal: 42

61. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck- Yes
62. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov- Yes
63. The Secret History - Donna Tartt- No
64. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold- Yes
65. Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas- Yes
66. On The Road - Jack Kerouac- No
67. Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy-No
68. Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding- No
69. Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie- No
70. Moby Dick - Herman Melville- Yes

Subtotal: 47

71. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens- Yes
72. Dracula - Bram Stoker- Yes
73. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett- Yes
74. Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson- Yes
75. Ulysses - James Joyce- Yes
76. The Inferno - Dante- Yes
77. Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome- No
78. Germinal - Emile Zola- No
79. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray- No
80. Possession - AS Byatt- No

Subtotal: 53

81. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens- Yes
82. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell- No
83. The Color Purple - Alice Walker- Yes
84. The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro- No
85. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert- No
86. A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry- No
87. Charlotte’s Web - EB White- Yes
88. The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom- Yes
89. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle- Yes
90. The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton- No

Subtotal: 58

91. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad- No
92. The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery- Yes
93. The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks - No
94. Watership Down - Richard Adams- Yes
95. A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole- No
96. A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute- No
97. The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas - Yes
98. Hamlet - William Shakespeare- Yes
99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Ronald Dahl- Yes
100. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo- Yes

Total 63 books (or more if you count the series)

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p.s. Shakespeare wrote Hamlet, so why is there 14 and 98 on this list...
And, it's Roald Dahl not Ronald...