Lucybird Posted March 19, 2009 Share Posted March 19, 2009 lol, it would make a good challenge actually Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angel Posted March 19, 2009 Share Posted March 19, 2009 I've read about 28 with about 10 on mount TBR Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frankie Posted March 19, 2009 Share Posted March 19, 2009 (edited) 1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen 2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien - TBR 3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte 4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling 5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee - TBR 6 The Bible - 7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte - TBR 8 1984 - 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 - TBR 16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien 17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk - TBR 18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger 19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger - TBR 20 Middlemarch - George Eliot 21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell - TBR 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 - TBR 27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky - TBR 28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck 29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll - TBR 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 Bernieres 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 Meany - 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 - TBR 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 62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov - TBR 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 72 Dracula - Bram Stoker 73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett - TBR 74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson 75 Ulysses - James Joyce 76 The Inferno - Dante 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 82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell 83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker 84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro - TBR 85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert 86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry 87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White 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 - TBR 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 97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas 98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare - TBR 99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl 100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo 19th March 2009, 21:44: -28 read, 42 TBR 24th January 2010, 18:29: - 33 read, 16 TBR Edited January 24, 2010 by frankie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baggiesfan Posted March 19, 2009 Share Posted March 19, 2009 Just seven for me how awful lol i cant see how they have included the bible, how many people have actually read the whole thing??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pipread Posted March 19, 2009 Share Posted March 19, 2009 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 5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee 6 The Bible - 7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte 8 1984 - George Orwell 9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman 10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens 11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott 12 Tess of the D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charm Posted March 19, 2009 Share Posted March 19, 2009 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 5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee 6 The Bible - 7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte 8 1984 - George Orwell 9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman 10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens 11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott 12 Tess of the D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucybird Posted March 19, 2009 Share Posted March 19, 2009 Just seven for me how awful lol i cant see how they have included the bible, how many people have actually read the whole thing??? When I was in sixth form I met someone who felt she had failed as a christian if she didn't read the Bible at least once every two years...so yes they exist Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Dawkins Posted March 20, 2009 Share Posted March 20, 2009 Only 3 terrible,I have quite few on the tbr shelf.If the BBC did a top 100 records of all time I would'nt have many of them either.All time lists change dramatically from generation to generation Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DanC_84 Posted March 20, 2009 Share Posted March 20, 2009 I have only read 7 on the list. I think a few of them are on my TBR though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bethany725 Posted March 20, 2009 Share Posted March 20, 2009 I've only read 8 all the way through, with quite a few of the classics on my TBR list. I should read more of these!.. Everyone else has read so many. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaraPepparkaka Posted March 20, 2009 Share Posted March 20, 2009 (edited) 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 5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee 6 The Bible - 7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte 8 1984 - 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 Faulk 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 Hitchhiker’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 Bernieres 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 Meany - 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 60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez- 61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck 62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov- 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 72 Dracula - Bram Stoker- 73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett 74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson 75 Ulysses - James Joyce 76 The Inferno - Dante- 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 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 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 97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas 98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare 99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl 100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo That's 37. Edited: I managed to miss Dracula. So it's 38. Edited March 20, 2009 by SaraPepparkaka Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben Posted March 20, 2009 Share Posted March 20, 2009 About 8 for me, lol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bronwen Posted March 20, 2009 Author Share Posted March 20, 2009 When I was in sixth form I met someone who felt she had failed as a christian if she didn't read the Bible at least once every two years...so yes they exist I don't understand how someone can just quote something from the bible off the top of their heads Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rwemad Posted March 20, 2009 Share Posted March 20, 2009 1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen 2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien (tried but failed) 3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte (tried but failed) 4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling (half of) 5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee 6 The Bible - 7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte 8 1984 - George Orwell 9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman 10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens 11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott 12 Tess of the D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucybird Posted March 20, 2009 Share Posted March 20, 2009 I don't understand how someone can just quote something from the bible off the top of their heads I can a little, I had to learn some for my a-level RS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chimera Posted March 20, 2009 Share Posted March 20, 2009 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 5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee 6 The Bible - 7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte 8 1984 - George Orwell 9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman 10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens 11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott 12 Tess of the D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucybird Posted March 20, 2009 Share Posted March 20, 2009 I9 wonder if there is anyone who has read them all? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kate Posted March 20, 2009 Share Posted March 20, 2009 I9 wonder if there is anyone who has read them all? Dunno, but I'm now thinking of making it a challenge, especially as I have some of them already.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Midget Gem Posted March 20, 2009 Share Posted March 20, 2009 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 5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee 6 The Bible - 7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte 8 1984 - George Orwell 9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman 10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens 11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott 12 Tess of the D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jo-Bridge Posted March 20, 2009 Share Posted March 20, 2009 I've read 44! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dimitra Posted March 20, 2009 Share Posted March 20, 2009 About 8 for me, lol. yeah, me too Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ernie Posted March 21, 2009 Share Posted March 21, 2009 Have Read, Own & TBR This Year, Want To Read, Undecided 1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen 2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien 3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte 4Harry Potter series - JK Rowling 5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee 6 The Bible 7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte 8 1984 - George Orwell 9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman 10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens 11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott 12 Tess of the D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paperplane Posted March 21, 2009 Share Posted March 21, 2009 2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien 4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling (only the first three) 11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott 41 Animal Farm - George Orwell - 99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl are the only ones I've read, I am about to start Dracula and Jude the Obscure is on my TBR list though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kylie Posted March 22, 2009 Share Posted March 22, 2009 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 5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee 6 The Bible - (children's version) 7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte 8 1984 - George Orwell 9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman 10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens 11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott 12 Tess of the D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rach.at.the.disco Posted March 22, 2009 Share Posted March 22, 2009 (edited) Read TBR 1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen (read some of) 2 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 7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte 8 1984 - George Orwell 9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman 10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens 11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott 12 Tess of the D Edited April 8, 2009 by rach.at.the.disco Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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