| The BBC believes most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here. How do your reading habits stack up? Copy the list, create a new Note, and put an X next to the ones you've read. Include the number you have read in the headline and tag your friends.
(X)-1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
(X ) -2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
(X)-3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
(X)-4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
(X)-5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
(X)-6 The Bible
(X)-7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
(X) -8 1984 - George Orwell
( ) -9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
(X)-10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
(X)-11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
( ) -12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
(X) -13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
(X)14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
(X) -15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
(X)-16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
( ) -17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
(X)-18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
( ) -19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
( ) -20 Middlemarch - George Eliot 4
(X)-21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
(X)-22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
( ) -23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
( ) -24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
( ) -25 The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
( ) -26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
( ) -27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
(X)28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
(X) -29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
( ) -30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame 6
( ) -31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
(X) -32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
(X) -33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
(X) -34 Emma - Jane Austen
(X) -35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
(X) -36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
(X) -37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
( ) -38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
(X) -39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
(X) -40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne 8
( ) -41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
(X) -42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
(X) -43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
(X) -44 A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
( ) -45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
(X)-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
(X) -50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
(X) -51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
( ) -52 Dune - Frank Herbert
( ) -53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
(X)-54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
( ) -55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
( ) -56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
(X)-57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
( ) -58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
(X) -59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
(X) -60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
(X)-61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
( ) -62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
( ) -63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
(X) -64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
(X) -65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
( ) -66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
( ) -67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
(X) -68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
( ) -69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
(X)-70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
(X)-71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
( ) -72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
(X)-73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
( ) -74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
( ) -75 Ulysses - James Joyce
(X)-76 The Inferno - Dante
( ) -77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
( ) -78 Germinal - Emile Zola
(X) -79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
( ) -80 Possession - AS Byatt
(X) -81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
( ) -82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
(X) -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
(X) -87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White
(X) -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
(X) -97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
(X)-98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
(X)-99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
(X) -100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
Apparently I need to read more books.
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| I miss the days when xanga was simple...
How fast life flows.
Not many days go by that do not remind me of how long I've lived.
Oddly enough I still count myself among the young and often excuse my own behavior as such.
But in the same light I can remember the changes.
Things are on the cusp.
I am excited to see the next wave of action and where it leads.
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| having read back over my xanga, the only thing I have to say about the last 4 years is this. I haven't learned a god damn thing.
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| i am so easily enchanted........
and yet so quickly diss-a-pointed.
it is such a shame.
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| hrapy bortsdmy.
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