** The Mad Scientist did a quick search on the net for the article where this originated from and well, I did not find it. But if you happen to run across it please send me the link **
BBC MeMe Instructions:
•Copy this list.
•Bold those books you’ve read in their entirety.
•Italicize the ones you started but didn’t finish or read only an excerpt.
•Tag other book nerds.
•Highlight the ones that you own but haven't read. They are probably in your TBR stack/on your shelf at the back because someone said you should read them.
Pride and Prejudice – Jane AustenThe Lord of the Rings – JRR TolkienJane Eyre – Charlotte BronteHarry Potter series – JK RowlingTo Kill a Mockingbird – Harper LeeThe King James BibleWuthering Heights – Emily BronteNineteen Eighty Four (1984) – George OrwellHis Dark Materials – Philip PullmanGreat Expectations – Charles DickensLittle Women – Louisa M AlcottTess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas HardyCatch 22 – Joseph HellerComplete Works of ShakespeareRebecca – Daphne Du MaurierThe Hobbit – JRR TolkienBirdsong – Sebastian FaulkCatcher in the Rye – JD SalingerThe Time Traveler’s Wife – Audrey NiffeneggerMiddlemarch – George EliotGone With The Wind – Margaret MitchellThe Great Gatsby – F. Scott FitzgeraldWar and Peace – Leo TolstoyThe Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas AdamsBrideshead Revisited – Evelyn WaughCrime and Punishment – Fyodor DostoyevskyGrapes of Wrath – John SteinbeckAlice in Wonderland – Lewis CarrollThe Wind in the Willows – Kenneth GrahameAnna Karenina – Leo TolstoyDavid Copperfield – Charles DickensChronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis
Emma - Jane AustenPersuasion – Jane AustenThe Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe – CS LewisThe Kite Runner – Khaled HosseiniCaptain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis De BernieresMemoirs of a Geisha – Arthur GoldenWinnie the Pooh – A.A. MilneAnimal Farm – George OrwellThe DaVinci Code – Dan BrownOne Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia MarquezA Prayer for Owen Meaney – John IrvingThe Woman in White – Wilkie CollinsAnne of Green Gables – LM MontgomeryFar From The Madding Crowd – Thomas HardyThe Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret AtwoodLord of the Flies – William GoldingAtonement – Ian McEwanLife of Pi – Yann MartelDune – Frank HerbertCold Comfort Farm – Stella GibbonsSense and Sensibility – Jane AustenA Suitable Boy – Vikram SethThe Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz ZafonA Tale Of Two Cities – Charles DickensBrave New World – Aldous HuxleyThe Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark HaddonLove In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia MarquezOf Mice and Men – John SteinbeckLolita – Vladimir NabokovThe Secret History – Donna TarttThe Lovely Bones – Alice SeboldCount of Monte Cristo – Alexandre DumasOn The Road – Jack KerouacJude the Obscure – Thomas HardyBridget Jones’s Diary – Helen FieldingMidnight’s Children – Salman RushdieMoby Dick – Herman MelvilleOliver Twist – Charles DickensDracula – Bram Stoker (required)The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson BurnettNotes From A Small Island – Bill BrysonUlysses – James JoyceThe Inferno – DanteSwallows and Amazons – Arthur RansomeGerminal – Emile ZolaVanity Fair – William Makepeace ThackerayPossession – AS ByattChristmas Carol – Charles DickensCloud Atlas – David MitchellThe Color Purple – Alice WalkerThe Remains of the Day – Kazuo IshiguroMadame Bovary – Gustave FlaubertA Fine Balance – Rohinton MistryCharlotte’s Web – E.B. WhiteThe Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch AlbomAdventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan DoyleThe Faraway Tree Collection – Enid BlytonHeart of Darkness – Joseph ConradThe Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-ExuperyThe Wasp Factory – Iain BanksWatership Down – Richard AdamsA Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy TooleA Town Like Alice – Nevil ShuteThe Three Musketeers – Alexandre DumasHamlet – William ShakespeareCharlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl
Les Miserables – Victor Hugo
Read - 26
Started or read excerpts - 8
Own - 18
I found this list at The Wolf's Den and I was intrigued to see where I fall in this.
Who would not want to see where they stand when it came to the BBC and what they think?
As I went through the list and did my directions it is very clear that they should hear some of what I think.
Selections were named more then once, and why would a series count as one entry.
Vicki caught onto this as well.
(I completed my list before I seen what she had to say about all of this.)
Should I even mention the number of books that this brain has never hear of?
Or the books I have no desire to read?
Or what about the number of books I have read.
The Mad Scientist has plenty to think about this!
Dear BBC....
May as it might be, it would be improper of The Mad Scientist to really say what she thinks.
Dears, how do you fair on this list and really what do you think?
Absolutely fabulous post. I'll be doing this and tagging you when I'm finished.
ReplyDeleteJen
72 ... counting the repeats. With a tad liberal an interpretatuion on things like "Complete Works of Shakespeare"
ReplyDeleteAt the same time ... this list should have included different boos, if you ask me.
I've got 35 so far, but I've made it one of my goals to read the whole list. I love book lists!
ReplyDeleteI was at 46, but that was leaving out several things like "the complete works of Shakespeare" because although I've read a lot, i can't definitively say the complete works.
ReplyDeleteI can't remember if it was a commentator on my blog post about this or someone else but apparently this is some kind of bastardized re-do of a BBC article from a few years ago listing peoples top 100 reads. And if you check, that out you'll see there are a handful of changes to the list (like listing the series separately.
Rhiannon
TheDiaryofaBookworm.com
I remember this list floating around about a year ago, and I guess it's making the rounds again. The list is actually from the Guardian (which is British, but not the BBC, for anyone who doesn't know)
ReplyDeletehttp://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2007/mar/01/news
It's 100 "books you can't live without" based on 2,000 people's top ten lists. Which is why some of it is weird, say this group of people put "Chronicles of Narnia" on their favorites list, and another group put "The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe"... etc. No one edited for doubles. Nowhere I've seen has a source for where the "6 books" rumor started.
55/100 baby! :D :D
ReplyDeleteLindsay my dear thanks so much for clearing up the air on that. I'm always weary about lists going around but honestly I couldn't help my hatted head with seeing where I stand.
ReplyDeleteWay to go everyone. I'm so happy to see that everyone has out read me on this list! Hats off to you ladies for sure.
ReplyDeleteSimply marvelous.
Brilliant seriously sexy cool Santa ya got there ;)
ReplyDeleteI count 52 on the list, i can definitely count the complete works of shakespeare, i've read all of his stuff a million times, hes one of my all time favorites :)
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