Have you read these books?

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<p>From: BBC</a> Meme: How Many of These 100 Books Have YOU Read? | What Are You Reading Now? | LibraryThing
The BBC apparently believes most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here:</p>

<p>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 </p>

<p>How many books have you read from this list and which ones?</p>

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<p>I’ve read 35 (+/- a few) of them, but I don’t want to take the time to copy/paste each. One of my freshman English teachers handed out a very similar list, and I plowed through most of the books that I’ve read from this list then. </p>

<p>Most notable omission is the oeuvre of Jane Austen, which… uh… yeah.</p>

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<p>I’ve only read around 10 of them. With Jane Eyre being the. Worst.</p>

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<p>I have read about 8 of them in my freshman and sophmore years so far and about 4 or 5 of them on the side for pleasure.</p>

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<p>I’ve read 18 of them, I’d say that around 7 or so as assigned reading and 11 or so for enjoyment.</p>

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<p>I’ve read 32-38, depending on whether you count reading parts of books or parts of series as reading them (read first two LotR but not the last, read large portions of Old Testament but not the New, read various Shakespeare but not all of it, and so on). About 10-11 were assigned at some point in school, and the rest I read for fun.</p>

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<p>I’ve read 18, 19 if you count Great Gatsby (reading now), and 20-21 if you count a few of Shakespeare’s plays and a few Sherlock Holmes books. out of the 18 confirmed, I’d only want to reread five (LOtR, HP, Dune, Hitchiker’s, The Hobbit0
The only way you could get me to read Jane Austen is if there were zombies, but we’d never read that in school.</p>

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<p>I’ve read about 15/16 of them (about half I read for school) and there’s a couple on the list that I want to read at some point.</p>

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<p>In my former middle school and current high school, most of these books are assigned reading, so a lot of the students in my school have read most of these.</p>

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<p>Most of them are assigned at your school? That’s surprising. The only book on the entire list assigned to everyone at my school is Of Mice and Men, and I’d say that 75% of the kids didn’t actually read it.</p>

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<p>none…</p>

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<p>56, with 2 more being part of my assigned reading for ap English lit this year.</p>

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<p>So far I think I’ve only read about 22 of the listed books.</p>

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<p>17, not including the ones I started to read but never finished.</p>

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<p>26 on this list. I still have a ways to go.</p>

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<p>I’ve only read 5 and few more if you count reading parts of it. It might be a little sad, but I have a good number of these books on my personal reading list.</p>

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<p>12… kinda sad for a prospective English major. But a lot of them are on my “to read” list.</p>

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<p>About 5… none of them I read critically so about Zero.</p>

<p>Kind of pathetic for an aspiring author. I’m a bit late to the game as I didn’t find out that I wanted to write until a couple months ago…</p>

<p>But it’s not how much you’ve read, it’s how well you’ve read em’</p>

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<p>45.</p>

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<p>about twenty, give or take a few</p>