Proving the BBC Wrong Meme

[Auleliel]

Books I am certain I have read: (26)
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 (all of it, including most of the Apocrypha)
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare (not all, but a great many)
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
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
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl

Books I may have read, but don't remember: (5)
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett

Books I own but have never read (or been able to finish): (8 )
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens

I've seen the movie (or at least part of it) but never read the book (or at least don't remember reading it): (9+)
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding (only in part)
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens (in musical form)
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo (Not yet, but I will see it this weekend when my brother and sister perform in the musical)
I've also seen several of the others on the TV show Wishbone, but I'm not sure that really counts...

Books I will happily continue to avoid: (30)
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen (I didn't like the movie at all, why would I like the book?)
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell (I couldn't get past page 10 with this one, and didn't like the movie either.)
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald (Didn't like the movie.)
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck (Wasn't even able to open the book.)
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy (Started this one twice, but never finished.)
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez (A friend read it and described it to me. I'm not interested.)
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath (A friend read it and described it to me. I'm not interested.)
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams (The movie scares me. I don't know why.)

Books I want to read but haven't yet: (4)
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare (The bits I haven't gotten to yet.)
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas

[I'm Murrin]

Okay, time to give it a go. I expect I've nt read many. I'm going to mark X for have read, * for own but haven't read, + for want to read.

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
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
6 The Bible - X (A lot of it, anyway, mostly New Testament.)
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell - X
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 a few for school, of course)
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien - X
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
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 - 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
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
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
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
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez - X
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 Dicken
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon - X
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 - + (Read Never Let Me Go, liked it)
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 - X (Had them as a child)
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks - X
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


So, that's only 13 I've read, a couple I own, and a few more I intend to read.

[dANdeLION]

The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
The Bible
The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
Dune - Frank Herbert
A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
Moby Dick - Herman Melville

Looks like I've read nine of them.

[sgt.null]

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
4 The Bible
5 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
6 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
7 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
8 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
9 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
10 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
11 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
12 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
13 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
14 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
15 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
16 Animal Farm - George Orwell
17 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
18 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dicken
19 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
20 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
21 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
22 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
23 Dracula - Bram Stoker
24 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
25 Charlotte’s Web - EB White
26 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
27 Watership Down - Richard Adams
28 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
29 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
30 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dah