How many of these have you Read?

I have come across this snippet from browsing some of my favorite blogs and couldn't resist making a post of it. BBC apparently has believes most people have read at least 6 out of these 100 books. Let me see how I score up -

Taking a cue from other sites, here is what I think can be done if you are going to post it and move it along -

Instructions:

1. Look at the list and bold the ones you love.
2. Add a '+' to the ones you LOVE.
3. Star (*) those you plan on reading

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen *

2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR 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 - read some, but not others...

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

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

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 - AA 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 Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath

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

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*

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

That makes my count as 17. Great, I passed the test. Now, let's see the ones I want to read -

• Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen *
• Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell*
• Great Expectations - Charles Dickens*
• Animal Farm - George Orwell *
• Lord of the Flies - William Golding*
• A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth.*
• Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez*
• Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck*
• Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie*
• The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom*

Total books planning to read - 10.

To be honest, there are good number of books among the list for which I have seen the film versions but I guess it doesn't count. Going back to the list again, though there are so many I have missed out, there are some I definitely would not want to read for sheer abstractness of the contents in the novel. Here it goes -

• Anna Karanina - Leo Tolstoy
• Gone with the Wind - Margaret Mitchell (I couldn't sit through the movie and I am not sure how long I will stand with the book)
• War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy ( Have read it 3 times, haven't gone past 10 pages)
• Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky (Have read it 5 times. Maximum pages reached -35 pages. Have also been challenged by Adi that he would give anything if I can complete the book. I certainly bow down to his word.)
• Then there are Children's books like - Narnia, Winnie the Pooh, Alice in Wonderland,Charlie and the Chocolate Factory etc. (These books are past my age and I know I won't enjoy them. As simple as that.)

Writing this post has rekindled the spirit in me to pick up the reading habit again. It's such a great feeling just thinking about it.

Let me know your score folks either here or in FB. :)