How Many Of These Have You Read

[ludwig]

http://www.listchallenges.com/kaunismina-bbc-6-books-challenge?ref=share

Be honest. Knowing the story or watching the film doesn't count. Unless you've actually read the whole of 'A Tale of Two Cities', you can't count it.

I got 22.

[Canary42]

49 and several I couldn't get through (e.g. War and Peace, Bleak House)

[DTCwordfan]

40 for me.

[DTCwordfan]

50 Shades of Grey wasn't there, minty......that would have been one more!

I had a fair few in part, like The Bible and Anna Karenina. Actually the score is 42 as I missed Alice in Wonderland and David Copperfield, (reading for AO level English).

[weecalf]

one I get out too much

[horseshoes]

30. That includes the most boring book I ever read - Crime and Punishment.

[atalanta]

69. But I claim extra points for having read the Tolstoys and the Dostoevsky in Russian.
Twice.

[boxtops]

I've read 35 in my lifetime, but some not from choice - we read all of Jane Austen and Dickens during my years at secondary school.

[tonyav]

Prudie
12, mainly school inflicted

Same here.

[seadogg]

Bit miffed that Austin's "Northanger Abbey" not in her list and where has the Trollope gone. Also Swifts glorious satire "Gulliver's Travels" etc etc.

[237SJ]

One or two and that is because I was forced to read them at school. I don`t read fiction and haven`t read any for about 15 - 20 years.

[Stephen_G]

Four for me as well.

Lord Of The Rings / The Hobbit
Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy
The Da Vinci Code

[humbersloop]

the amount of Dickens and Austen we were forced to read at school should have put me off books for life by rights, hated them both...

...then they started on Graham bloody Greene

[Peter Pedant]

gives mesome idea of what to read next

actually I dont recommend translation before you have done good Brit authors - I did Lez Miz ( no not the musical score) after Tale of Two Cities and learnt the hard way why translators translate and dont write novels.
[ or else Victor Hugo is second rate but I kinda din think that was true ]

[LyndaB]

45

[ludwig]

// 13. Is this supposed to prove something? Seems a pretty random list. //

I don't know how they put the list together. It's obviously all fiction, so if you love factual books, biographies etc, your count may be low.
One thing I also noticed is there's a distinct lack of science fiction, unless you count 1984.

[DaisyNonna]

69 and I love Graham Greene.

[DaisyNonna]

Do not have a book with Princess Diana in the title although I suppose they could be classed as fiction.

[DaisyNonna]

Got a good one on French slang.