I've seen it in your eyes, I've read it in books - 100 Books meme

100 books

So, this one is going around, and since I'm sort of a sucker for lists. But doing a little research, it isn't quite what it claims. The list claims to be from the BBC but it seems that it is actually from a list put together by Guardian readers (would be interesting to see how that list would differ from readers of like the Daily Mail or Sunday Times or Evening Standard, etc). The original 100 book from the BBC are below that one here. I went ahead and filled out both. It also makes this claim that the BBC only expects you to have read 6 of the 100, but that is nowhere to be found either on the Guardian page or the BBC. I assume that was added by whoever started this meme so that most people can feel smug about having read a lot more than 6. I would be surprised if most people hadn't read more than 6 of these. But then I'm surprised occasionally to meet people who haven't read more than 1 book a year (or less). That's insane.

But my totals, 49 for the Guardian list (sort of a strange list, listing both Lion Witch and the Wardrobe and the Chronicles of Narnia, and a few other examples like that). Do I get credit for having read probably 90% of the Shakespeare's plays and the 1/2 of Ulysses I read in college (I did turn in a paper on it after all)? The BBC list, I don't do quite as well, only 41 (ok 40 1/2).

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

Instructions: Look at the list and put an 'x' after those you have read
once. Enter a number for the number of times you read something.

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen X
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien X
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling - X
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee X
6 The Bible -
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte X
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell X
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman X
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens X
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller X
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare - Most (probably 90%)
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier X
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien X
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger X
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 X
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams X
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky X
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck X
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll X
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame -
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis X
34 Emma - Jane Austen X
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis - X
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 - X
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown - X
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving X
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 - X
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding - X
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel -X
52 Dune - Frank Herbert -X
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 Zifon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens X
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley - X
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 X
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 X
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding X
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville X
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens X
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker - X
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson X
75 Ulysses - James Joyce - Half(although I did write a paper on it in
college pretending I read the whole thing)
76 The Inferno - Dante - X
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome X
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens X
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert X
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White X
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle X
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad - X
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery X
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams - X
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 - X
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl - X
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

BBC 100 Book Meme RAW List

Instructions:
1) Look at the list and put an ‘x’ after those you have read.
2) Add a ‘+’ to the ones you LOVE.
3) Star (*) those you plan on reading.
4) Tally your total.

How many have you read?

1. [x] - The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien
2. [ ] - Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
3. [x] - His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman
4. [x] - The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
5. [x] - Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, JK Rowling
6. [x] - To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
7. [x] - Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne
8. [x] - Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell
9. [x] - The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis
10. [ ] - Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë
11. [x] - Catch-22, Joseph Heller
12. [x] - Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë
13. [ ] - Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks
14. [x] - Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier
15. [x] - The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger
16. [ ] - The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame
17. [ ] - Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
18. [ ] - Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
19. [ ] - Captain Corelli’s Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres
20. [ ] - War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
21. [ ] - Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
22. [x] - Harry Potter And The Philosopher’s Stone, JK Rowling
23. [x] - Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets, JK Rowling
24. [x] - Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban, JK Rowling
25. [x] - The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien
26. [ ] - Tess Of The D’Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy
27. [ ] - Middlemarch, George Eliot
28. [x] - A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving
29. [x] - The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck
30. [x] - Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
31. [ ] - The Story Of Tracy Beaker, Jacqueline Wilson
32. [ ] - One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez
33. [ ] - The Pillars Of The Earth, Ken Follett
34. [ ] - David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
35. [x] - Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl
36. [x] - Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
37. [ ] - A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute
38. [ ] - Persuasion, Jane Austen
39. [x] - Dune, Frank Herbert
40. [ ] - Emma, Jane Austen
41. [ ] - Anne Of Green Gables, LM Montgomery
42. [x] - Watership Down, Richard Adams
43. [x] - The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald
44. [ ] - The Count Of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
45. [ ] - Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
46. [x] - Animal Farm, George Orwell
47. [x] - A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
48. [ ] - Far From The Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy
49. [ ] - Goodnight Mister Tom, Michelle Magorian
50. [ ] - The Shell Seekers, Rosamunde Pilcher
51. [ ] - The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett
52. [ ] - Of Mice And Men, John Steinbeck
53. [x] - The Stand, Stephen King
54. [ ] - Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
55. [ ] - A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth
56. [ ] - The BFG, Roald Dahl
57. [ ] - Swallows And Amazons, Arthur Ransome
58. [ ] - Black Beauty, Anna Sewell
59. [ ] - Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer
60. [x] - Crime And Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
61. [ ] - Noughts And Crosses, Malorie Blackman
62. [ ] - Memoirs Of A Geisha, Arthur Golden
63. [x] - A Tale Of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
64. [x] - The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCollough
65. [x] - Mort, Terry Pratchett
66. [ ] - The Magic Faraway Tree, Enid Blyton
67. [ ] - The Magus, John Fowles
68. [x] - Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
69. [x] - Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett
70. [x] - Lord Of The Flies, William Golding
71. [ ] - Perfume, Patrick Süskind
72. [ ] - The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Robert Tressell
73. [x] - Night Watch, Terry Pratchett
74. [ ] - Matilda, Roald Dahl
75. [x] - Bridget Jones’s Diary, Helen Fielding
76. [ ] - The Secret History, Donna Tartt
77. [ ] - The Woman In White, Wilkie Collins
78. [1/2] - Ulysses, James Joyce
79. [ ] - Bleak House, Charles Dickens
80. [ ] - Double Act, Jacqueline Wilson
81. [x] - The Twits, Roald Dahl
82. [ ] - I Capture The Castle, Dodie Smith
83. [ ] - Holes, Louis Sachar
84. [ ] - Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake
85. [ ] - The God Of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
86. [ ] - Vicky Angel, Jacqueline Wilson
87. [x] - Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
88. [ ] - Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons
89. [ ] - Magician, Raymond E Feist
90. [x] - On The Road, Jack Kerouac
91. [ ] - The Godfather, Mario Puzo
92. [ ] - The Clan Of The Cave Bear, Jean M Auel
93. [x] - The Colour Of Magic, Terry Pratchett
94. [ ] - The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
95. [ ] - Katherine, Anya Seton
96. [ ] - Kane And Abel, Jeffrey Archer
97. [ ] - Love In The Time Of Cholera, Gabriel García Márquez
98. [ ] - Girls In Love, Jacqueline Wilson
99. [ ] - The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot
100. [ ] - Midnight’s Children, Salman Rushdie