BBC's 100 books tag

No tag for too long. Interested folks can take this up!

The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books here. How do your reading habits stack up? I dug around couldn't find the info about that number 6. But here is the original post.

Instructions: Copy this. Look at the list and put an 'x' after those you have read. Tag other book nerds.

1. Pride and Prejudice - X
2. The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien - X
3. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte - X (Long time ago. Don't remember!)
4. Harry Potter series - JK Rowling - X
5. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee - X (Absolute gem!)
6. The Bible - / (parts of it counts?)
7. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte - X (Ditto as the other Bronte's book)
8. Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell - X (Cold shivers still run when I think about this one)
9. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman - (Errr???)
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 - (Have it, haven't read it)
14. Complete Works of Shakespeare - / (Many, not all)
15. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier -
16. The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien - X (Re-read it last month)
17. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk -
18. Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger -  (Have it, haven't read it)
19. The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger - (Need to get hold of this one)
20. Middlemarch - George Eliot -
21. Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell - (The thickness puts me to sleep!)
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 -
27. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky - 
28. Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck - 
29. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll - X
30. The Wind in the Willows -
31. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy - X
32. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens -X
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 - (Gifted the copy I had to a friend, never managed to read it after that)
38. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres -
39. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden - (Another one on my to do list)
40. Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne - (Does the cartoon count? :P)
41. Animal Farm - George Orwell - X
42. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown - X
43. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez - (Started it, lost track. Need to get started again.)
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 - (Another one on my to do list)
50. Atonement - Ian McEwan - X
51. Life of Pi - Yann Martel - X
52. Dune - Frank Herbert - (Bought it a few months back. Still lying on the shelf. I hope so!)
53. Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons -
54. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen -X
55. A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth -
56. The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon -
57. A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens - X
58. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley - (Should kill myself for having a copy since 2 years and not reading this.)
59. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night - Mark Haddon - (Curiosly not read it. I have a copy and its right next to me!)
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 - (Want to read this. Especially after reading about the upcoming movie.)
65. Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas - X
66. On The Road - Jack Kerouac - X
67. Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy -
68. Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding - X (Can't find a copy anywhere!)
69. Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie – (I have several Rushdie books. Read only one!)
70. Moby Dick - Herman Melville -
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 -
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 - 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 - X
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 -
89. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle -X
90. The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton - (Don't remember, but I am almost certain I haven't)
91. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad -
92. The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery - X
93. The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks - X (I think so!)
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 - X
98. Hamlet - William Shakespeare - X
99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - X
100. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo -

36, unless I miscounted. Long way to go. Long way to go!

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