{"id":418,"date":"2010-12-06T20:54:07","date_gmt":"2010-12-06T20:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leirdal.net\/blog\/?p=418"},"modified":"2010-12-06T20:54:07","modified_gmt":"2010-12-06T20:54:07","slug":"have-you-read-more-than-6-of-these-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.leirdal.net\/blog\/archives\/418-have-you-read-more-than-6-of-these-books.html","title":{"rendered":"Have you read more than 6 of these books?"},"content":{"rendered":"

This might make some people think me to be a bit … pretentious. But I am too curious not to share it anyways. I got this from Eirik Newth’s blog<\/a>. Please share your reading lists, either on Facebook or on your blogs.<\/p>\n

\ufeffHave you read more than 6 of these books? The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books listed here. Instructions: Copy this into your notes. Bold<\/strong> those books you\u2019ve read in their entirety, italicise<\/em> the ones you started but didn\u2019t finish or read an excerpt. Tag other book nerds.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

1 Pride and Prejudice \u2013 Jane Austen
\n<\/em>2 The Lord of the Rings \u2013 JRR Tolkien
\n<\/strong>3 Jane Eyre \u2013 Charlotte Bronte
\n<\/em>4 Harry Potter series \u2013 JK Rowling
\n<\/strong>5 To Kill a Mockingbird \u2013 Harper Lee
\n6 The Bible (Big parts of it)
\n<\/strong><\/em>7 Wuthering Heights \u2013 Emily Bronte
\n8 Nineteen Eighty Four \u2013 George Orwell
\n9 His Dark Materials \u2013 Philip Pullman
\n10 Great Expectations \u2013 Charles Dickens
\n<\/strong>11 Little Women \u2013 Louisa M Alcott
\n12 Tess of the D\u2019Urbervilles \u2013 Thomas Hardy
\n13 Catch 22 \u2013 Joseph Heller
\n<\/strong>14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
\n<\/em>15 Rebecca \u2013 Daphne Du Maurier
\n16 The Hobbit \u2013 JRR Tolkien
\n<\/strong>17 Birdsong \u2013 Sebastian Faulk
\n18 Catcher in the Rye \u2013 JD Salinger
\n19 The Time Traveller\u2019s Wife \u2013 Audrey Niffenegger
\n<\/strong>20 Middlemarch \u2013 George Eliot
\n21 Gone With The Wind \u2013 Margaret Mitchell
\n22 The Great Gatsby \u2013 F Scott Fitzgerald
\n23 Bleak House \u2013 Charles Dickens
\n<\/strong>24 War and Peace \u2013 Leo Tolstoy
\n<\/em>25 The Hitch Hiker\u2019s Guide to the Galaxy \u2013 Douglas Adams
\n<\/strong>26 Brideshead Revisited \u2013 Evelyn Waugh
\n27 Crime and Punishment \u2013 Fyodor Dostoyevsky
\n<\/em>28 Grapes of Wrath \u2013 John Steinbeck
\n29 Alice in Wonderland \u2013 Lewis Carroll
\n30 The Wind in the Willows \u2013 Kenneth Grahame
\n<\/strong>31 Anna Karenina \u2013 Leo Tolstoy
\n<\/em>32 David Copperfield \u2013 Charles Dickens
\n<\/strong>33 Chronicles of Narnia \u2013 CS Lewis
\n<\/em>34 Emma \u2013 Jane Austen
\n35 Persuasion \u2013 Jane Austen
\n36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe \u2013 CS Lewis
\n37 The Kite Runner \u2013 Khaled Hosseini
\n38 Captain Corelli\u2019s Mandolin \u2013 Louis De Bernieres
\n39 Memoirs of a Geisha \u2013 Arthur Golden
\n40 Winnie the Pooh \u2013 AA Milne
\n<\/strong>41 Animal Farm \u2013 George Orwell
\n42 The Da Vinci Code \u2013 Dan Brown
\n<\/strong>43 One Hundred Years of Solitude \u2013 Gabriel Garcia Marquez
\n44 A Prayer for Owen Meany \u2013 John Irving
\n45 The Woman in White \u2013 Wilkie Collins
\n46 Anne of Green Gables \u2013 LM Montgomery
\n47 Far From The Madding Crowd \u2013 Thomas Hardy
\n48 The Handmaid\u2019s Tale \u2013 Margaret Atwood
\n49 Lord of the Flies \u2013 William Golding
\n<\/strong>50 Atonement \u2013 Ian McEwan
\n51 Life of Pi \u2013 Yann Martel
\n52 Dune \u2013 Frank Herbert
\n<\/strong>53 Cold Comfort Farm \u2013 Stella Gibbons
\n54 Sense and Sensibility \u2013 Jane Austen
\n55 A Suitable Boy \u2013 Vikram Seth
\n56 The Shadow of the Wind \u2013 Carlos Ruiz Zifon
\n57 A Tale Of Two Cities \u2013 Charles Dickens
\n<\/em>58 Brave New World \u2013 Aldous Huxley
\n59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time \u2013 Mark Haddon
\n60 Love In The Time Of Cholera \u2013 Gabriel Garcia Marquez
\n61 Of Mice and Men \u2013 John Steinbeck
\n<\/strong>62 Lolita \u2013 Vladimir Nabokov
\n<\/em>63 The Secret History \u2013 Donna Tartt
\n64 The Lovely Bones \u2013 Alice Sebold
\n65 Count of Monte Cristo \u2013 Alexandre Dumas
\n<\/strong>66 On The Road \u2013 Jack Kerouac
\n67 Jude the Obscure \u2013 Thomas Hardy
\n68 Bridget Jones\u2019s Diary \u2013 Helen Fielding
\n69 Midnight\u2019s Children \u2013 Salman Rushdie
\n70 Moby Dick \u2013 Herman Melville
\n71 Oliver Twist \u2013 Charles Dickens
\n<\/strong>72 Dracula \u2013 Bram Stoker
\n73 The Secret Garden \u2013 Frances Hodgson Burnett
\n<\/strong>74 Notes From A Small Island \u2013 Bill Bryson
\n75 Ulysses \u2013 James Joyce
\n<\/em>76 The Inferno \u2013 Dante
\n77 Swallows and Amazons \u2013 Arthur Ransome
\n78 Germinal \u2013 Emile Zola
\n79 Vanity Fair \u2013 William Makepeace Thackeray
\n80 Possession \u2013 AS Byatt
\n81 A Christmas Carol \u2013 Charles Dickens
\n<\/strong>82 Cloud Atlas \u2013 David Mitchell
\n83 The Color Purple \u2013 Alice Walker
\n84 The Remains of the Day \u2013 Kazuo Ishiguro
\n85 Madame Bovary \u2013 Gustave Flaubert
\n86 A Fine Balance \u2013 Rohinton Mistry
\n87 Charlotte\u2019s Web \u2013 EB White
\n88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven \u2013 Mitch Albom
\n89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes \u2013 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
\n<\/strong>90 The Faraway Tree Collection \u2013 Enid Blyton
\n91 Heart of Darkness \u2013 Joseph Conrad<\/em>
\n92 The Little Prince \u2013 Antoine De Saint-Exupery
\n<\/em>93 The Wasp Factory \u2013 Iain Banks
\n94 Watership Down \u2013 Richard Adams
\n95 A Confederacy of Dunces \u2013 John Kennedy Toole
\n96 A Town Like Alice \u2013 Nevil Shute
\n97 The Three Musketeers \u2013 Alexandre Dumas
\n<\/strong>98 Hamlet \u2013 William Shakespeare
\n<\/em>99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factoy \u2013 Roald Dahl
\n100 Les Miserables \u2013 Victor Hugo<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This might make some people think me to be a bit … pretentious. But I am too curious not to share it anyways. I got this from Eirik Newth’s blog. Please share your reading lists, either on Facebook or on your blogs. \ufeffHave you read more than 6 of these books? 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