A friend of mine posted this on her facebook page. I thought it was pretty cool. I also wanted to prove that I have surpassed BBC's view of me :)
BBC Book Challenge
Have you read more than 6 of these books? The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books listed here.
Instructions: Copy this into your NOTES.
• 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. Tag me as well so I can see your responses! (Or not, after all reading is not a competition!)
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 Lord of the Rings - Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5.To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens*
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
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
19 The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger*
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
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*
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
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
34 Emma -Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden*
40 Winnie the Pooh - A.A. Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 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 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
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-time - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 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 Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens*
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
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 - A S Byatt
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 Charlotte’s Web - E.B. White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
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
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 - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
I asterisked the books that I saw the movie instead. I think it should count if it was a BBC production. :) Dickens is great but so much better or should I say more concise in movie form. If my counting is correct I've read 39 of the books listed here in their entirety.
7 comments:
I saw this one too, and have SO been meaning to do it. [It won't be as high as yours - you've proven the BBC very wrong! :)]
I surpass BBC's prediction too, but not as well as you do! At least 7 of the books on that list were required reading in my highschool English class. It is rather difficult to read some of the books on the list when BBC has done such a fine job of making them into movies instead.
Well read Sharon! You beat me on this list but there aren't many of the science fiction or fantasy books that I would prefer.
Sharon just found your blog..so I'm not sure you'll remember me you were my brothers age {{Leif fredriksen}}..I was around ardie's age but just wanted to say hi and what a cute family you have!! Your little girl reminds me of you when you were little time goes by so fast eh! I take it you lived/live in Saskatoon because you have alot of the same people I know we lived there too while my husband got his masters! anyway just wanted to say hi!
Sharon Thanks so much! I love that I find so many people via my blog and facebook so fun!
So we lived in Saskatoon in 2002-2004 when we were there people were just starting to come it was basically us and Brett bevans {who is Darren's first cousin} and ken and Natalie wright we had a blast! But now there are so many!! It would be a lot funner. Darren got his masters in agriculture and runs the church ranches here in Canada its his dream job pretty much.... keeps us all busy thats for sure! so we live in Raymond Alberta we've been blessed our children as you probably gathered from my blog are all adopted through lds family services.. they are so fun and we are pretty lucky since they are 9,6,4,1! Life is good!
Wow Vernon that feels like a lifetime ago but how nice that you can go back what does your husband do? How is your family? I know your parents were on a mission and it looks like they are doing good from what Amelia has said through facebook! Well I won't bore you with a novel but it so fun to find you!! Your family is beautiful! Hope your start to 2011 is great ! ttys
I did this a while ago and had 41 books read completely. I wish it included the partially read books, too, because there were several that I read half way (over 400 pages in Anna Karenina) and then gave up because the story was either to depressing or to boring. I also agree that watching BBC versions of Dickens should count. Dickens is great in movie form, but very boring to read...in my opinion.
About your snowpants...yes, I recall that they did fit me. :)
Ardie beat me. I could only claim 40 because I too had many that I couldn't finish. Sadly, The Bible is one of those. Who has the courage and stamina to wade through the Old Testamant?!
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