Sunday, March 15, 2009

BBC Book Quiz

The BBC believes most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here. How do your reading habits stack up? I've had my bookish nerdiness confirmed to me, with this quiz.

I've read 26, plus 21 more because they were part of the series (I added a '+' after titles that are series!!)

I noticed I've STARTED 12 on this list and put them down. . . I need to do more classic reading. . .the books take longer to read and they stretch my brain. Plus, if they're over 50 years old, chances are. . .they're clean/PG at worst. I hate reading smut. I need a vacation on a beach where I can catch up on my classics. Wouldn't that be nice?

Instructions:
1) Look at the list and put an 'x' after those you have read.
2) Put a % after those you've read a portion of.
3) Add a '+' to the ones you LOVE.
4) Star (*) those you plan on reading.
5) Tally your total read and put it in the title.

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen (%*)
2 The Lord of the Rings+ - JRR Tolkien (%)
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte (%*)
4 Harry Potter+ - JK Rowling (x+)
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee (x)
6The Bible+ (x+)
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte (*)
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell (x)
9 His Dark Materials+ - Philip Pullman (x) I hated these, but read them all. They're evil.
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens (*)
11 Little Women+ - Louisa M Alcott (x+)
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy (%)
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller (x+)
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 (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 (%)
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 ()
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck (x)
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 (x)
34 Emma - Jane Austen (*)
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen (*)
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis (x+)
37 Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini (x) I hated this book, just in case you're wondering.
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres ( )
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden ( )
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne (x)
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 Meaney - John Irving ( )
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins (*)
46 Anne of Green Gables+ - LM Montgomery (x+)
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy ( )
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood ( )
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding (x)
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan ( )
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel (x+)
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 (x)
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov ( )
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt ( )
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold ( )
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas (%I'm reading this right now, it's great!)
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 (x)
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 (x)
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 (x+)
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom (x+)
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 (x+)
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks ( )
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams ( )
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Toole ( )
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas (*)
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare (%)
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory+ - Roald Dahl (x+)
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo (%)

3 comments:

Brandan and Becky said...

I've read 65 books on the list. Not bad for an old biology major, eh?

Becky

Natalie said...

I've read 35. I feel like it should have been more. Maybe I can catch up (somewhat)when I get back. Our library here in Mouscron has 5 books written in english. We don't have much time to read for pleasure right now anyway.

Krystal said...

I missed this post, but Josh was telling me about it...so I had to check it out. I've read about 21 of these classics, and Josh has read about 20. (He says he'll read the "girly ones" when he gets desperate for a book.) But, I do think that Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, Don Quixote by Miguel Cervantes, and a few other classics should be on the list too. But this is a great list of classics...I want to read lots of these books!