Sunday, November 21, 2010

Have you read more than 6 of these books?

Have you read more than 6 of these books? The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books listed here.

Bold those books you've read in their entirety. Italicize the ones you started but didn't finish or read an excerpt.

1.Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen2.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 (i wonder who can finish that!)
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
15.Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier
16.The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien
17.Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks
18.The Time Traveller’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger
19.Middlemarch – George Eliot
20.Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell
21.The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald
22.Bleak House – Charles Dickens
23.War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
24.The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
25.Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
26.Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
27.Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
28.Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
29.The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame
30.Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy (unabridged audio book)
31.David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
32.Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis
33.Emma – Jane Austen
34.Persuasion – Jane Austen
35.The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – CS Lewis
36.The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
37.Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis De Berniere
38.Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
39.Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne
40.Animal Farm – George Orwell
41.The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown
42.One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
43.A Prayer for Owen Meaney – John Irving
44.The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins
45.Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery
46.Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy
47.The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
48.Lord of the Flies – William Golding
49.Atonement – Ian McEwan
50.Life of Pi – Yann Martel
51.Dune – Frank Herbert
52.Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons
53.Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
54.A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth
55.The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon
56.A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens (Also read in secondary school)
57.Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
58.The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon
59.Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
60.Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
61.Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
62.The Secret History – Donna Tartt
63.The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold
64.Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
65.On The Road – Jack Kerouac
66.Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy
67.Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helen Fielding
68.Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
69.Moby Dick – Herman Melville
70.Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens (The F.1 Reading)
71.Dracula – Bram Stoker
72.The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett
73.Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson
74.Ulysses – James Joyce
75.The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
76.Swallows and Amazons – Arthur Ransome
77.Germinal – Emile Zola
78.Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
79.Possession – AS Byatt
80.A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
81.Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
82.The Color Purple – Alice Walker
83.The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
84.Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
85.A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
86.Charlotte’s Web – EB White
87.The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom
88.Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
89.The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton
90.Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
91.The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery
92.The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks
93.Watership Down – Richard Adams
94.A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
95.A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute
96.The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
97.Hamlet – William Shakespeare
98.Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl
99.Les Miserables – Victor Hugo
100.A Thousand Splendid Suns – Khaled Hosseini

2 comments:

  1. 中譯本計唔計?

    妳肯定比我睇多好多:(

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  2. 哈哈, 我反而想問電影計唔計?

    沒有啦, 好多是年少時看的, 都完全忘記了. 人大了, 就好少會看這些小說. 你看其他的類型的肯定比我多. =)

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