BBC Book List Meme

This was passed to me from Renee Camus. She added a few categories of her own. I added #7, there were just too many that I had to read and really couldn't stand. The original suggested tagging only read, love, and plan on reading.

Apparently the BBC reckons most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here. Sadly, they are likely to be correct. I love to read, but there are too many people who don't.

Instructions:
1) Look at the list and put an 'x' after those you have read most or all of.
2) Put a 'y' after those you've read only pieces of
3) Add a '#' to those you were supposed to have read in school, but didn't
4) Add a '+' to the ones you LOVE.
5) Star (*) those you plan on reading.
6) Add '!' to those you did not read, but saw the movie!
7) Add an 'h' to those you really didn't like.
8) Tally your total at the bottom.

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen !
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien X h
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling X !
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible (total fiction and not even interesting fiction at that!)
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell X h
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 X !
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien X h
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 X h
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck #
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll X h
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis X +
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
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
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell X h
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown X (boring)
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 X h
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert X
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
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck X h
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov X h (One word: SICK)
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas !
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding !
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville #
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens X h
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker X
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens X h
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
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
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 X
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 X !
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
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

Total I Read Completely: 24
Total I Read But Hated: 11
Total I Read Partially: 1
Total I was supposed to read, but didn't: 8
Total I want to Read: 0

I'm not the best audience for this, have never been a fan of the classics. I can easily list 100 books I've read and loved, but they won't include any of this list except Shakespeare, EB White, Ronald Dahl and Richard Adams (I love the book Watership Down, as well as the movie).

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