How many have you read?

[friedgreentomato]

According to a recent BBC poll the average is 6 books - how many can you claim to have read? I have read 64!! Wow!!

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 (all)

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 – William Shakespeare

15 Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier

16 The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien

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

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 – CS Lewis

37 The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini

38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis De Berniere

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

[DaisyNonna]

Craft, have got How Green was my Valley in French.

[MarkRae]

> What was the criteria

Come on, mate!

[dotty.]

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[dotty.]

actually i have read the vast majority of Shakespeare plays

[Bambiagain]

57 - including all the Harry Potters, all the Narnia books, about half the Shakespeares (plays and sonnets) and bits of the bible. I hated Catcher in the Rye but read it all and I haven't counted Captain Corelli's Mandolin, which I couldn't finish.I must have a couple of thousand books in the house and couldn't not read any more than I could stop breathing.

[askyourgran]

I've read 43 of those, but I can't recall what some of them were all about though.

[Stephen_G]

2 The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien
16 The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
42 The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown

Can't remember if I've read Charlie and the Chocolate Factory... And some of these titles I've never even heard of..... I'm a shambles.

[jake-the-peg]

But how many did you actually enjoy?

I would cheerfully burn every copy of "5 people you meet in heaven"

[Duncer]

Too drunk too count, I'll come back tomorrow, but I'd guess about two thirds at least. Does years of rudimentary Sunday School as having read the Bible?

[askyourgran]

Lol Jake, I passed my copy on to one of my more spiritual friends.

[jake-the-peg]

But what's missing?

No Umberto Eco!

No Graham Greene!

Surely an Agatha Christie?

[Flyhalf]

66 plus bits of the Bible, and several of Shakespeare"s plays not separately listed. Most of those not read sem to be from recent years.

[Mojo-Jo-Jo]

23. More than I imagined actually. I don't read a lot of fiction.

[dzug2]

Perhaps about a quarter of that list - but hundreds if not thousands of others

Of those on the list I haven't read there's a few I might get round to but most don't inspire much and a few I've never heard of

[RATTER15]

None of them, I only read reference and factual books.

[quinie]

No Biographies in these lists! I've read some excellent biographies of people who have lived a full and interesting life.

[TheWinner]

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