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Cloud 04-07-2011 01:01 PM

BBC Book List Challenge
 
(Hope this hasn't been done here before). Here's the BBC Book List Challenge. I've read 44--not even half, but still not too bad. How 'bout you?

The BBC reckons most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books here.
LET'S PROVE THEM WRONG

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 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
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveler’s Wife
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot - maybe
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
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
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 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 - 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 Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - 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 Alborn
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad started but never finished
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adam
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...-bbc-challenge

glatt 04-07-2011 01:09 PM

The Harry Potter series is more than one book, and the overall page count for the series is huge. I think if you read even one of them, it should count as full credit. Besides, Harry Potter is not exactly a classic deserving of inclusion with Dickens. In fact, why is Harry Potter number 4 on this list? Is the BBC seriously trying to imply that it's the 4th most important piece of literature, and should be read by all good Englishmen?

Rhianne 04-07-2011 01:18 PM

I've read exactly six (but started and left unfinished many more) of those, I'm a huge reader but I could only pick another couple from the list that interest me.

Cloud 04-07-2011 01:23 PM

are they in order of anything? not sure.

I've assiduously avoided reading much of the 19 century and early 20th century "literature" as being too snoozy. Jane Eyre, Pride and Prejudice--none of that. Had to read Great Expectations THREE TIMES in school. Only counted it once though.

Happy Monkey 04-07-2011 01:28 PM

There are several series in there.

Not quite 50%, for me.

Read:

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
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare (partial)
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
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
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
94 Watership Down - Richard Adam
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

Haven't read:
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare (partial)
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveler’s Wife
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot - maybe
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
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
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
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
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 - Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Alborn
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad started but never finished
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute

jimhelm 04-07-2011 02:15 PM

37


*I'm counting the ones that are series, but I've read most of.

2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling*
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare*
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
19 The Time Traveler’s Wife
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
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
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
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo


I wish I could remember them!

glatt 04-07-2011 02:21 PM

24

monster 04-07-2011 02:27 PM

43, I think. Currently reading GWTW. There are several more I staerted and gave up on. I read many of them because in the 80s The Times or The Telegraph produced a list of the 100 books every high schooler (or some such) should have read and I took it as a challenge. many of those books are also on this list.

I have read much shakespeare, but not the complete works, so I didn't count that. i have read the Bible (Good News version)

DanaC 04-07-2011 02:35 PM

32 of them for me. If I was counting ones I'd started but never finished, or collections I'd read some/most of, such as the Complete Works of Shakespeare, it'd b closer to 40.

infinite monkey 04-07-2011 02:48 PM

43.

I won't read books about little kids running around in otherworlds, so those are out.

I actually just finally read The Bell Jar.

Nice to see The Kite Runner and The Life of Pi. Wonderful books!

glatt 04-07-2011 02:57 PM

56

I'm counting the books I've read, the partial series I've read, and the movies I've seen. :p:

limey 04-07-2011 02:57 PM

63 for me. I'm working on listening to Ulysses as an audio book at the moment ...

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
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
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
18 Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot - maybe
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
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night - Mark Haddon
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
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
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
94 Watership Down - Richard Adam
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess

jimhelm 04-07-2011 03:04 PM

can we add the ones we've seen as movies?

Sundae 04-07-2011 03:04 PM

I might be wrong, but I remember this as The Big Read back when I lived in Leicester. It was nothing about a challenge, it was the Top 100 Must Reads as voted for by the British Public (who BTW have terrible taste in poetry, according to similar polls).

It also seems unlikely that the BBC would make a supposition that people had only read six - they're an inclusive rather than an exclusive broadcasting corporation.

Sorry to be a pedant, but I felt the record should be set straight.
If it was just a random book challenge I'd let it go, but as it has the BBC's name attached, it's worth picking up on.

Anyway, if it is what I think it is, I might score quite highly, because I took it as a must-read list. Haven't managed the Russians yet.

That's not boasting I am well read, that's explaining that I saw this list before and used it deliberately. Then again, I'm sure some newer books are on there... And I swear Enid Blyton wasn't, for example. Or Bridget Jones. I fear the list may at least have been tampered with, especially given some of the books have American spellings in their titles, at least one does not have an author and some have notes like "started not finished" attached....

My list for the record.

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 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 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
15 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
16 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
17 Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger
18 The Time Traveler’s Wife
19 Middlemarch - George Eliot
20 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
21 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
22 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
23 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
24 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
25 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
26 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
27 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
28 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
29 Persuasion - Jane Austen
30 The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
31 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
32 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
33 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
34 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
35 Animal Farm - George Orwell
36 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
37 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
38 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
39 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
40 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
41 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
42 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
43 Dune - Frank Herbert
44 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
45 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
46 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
47 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
48 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night - Mark Haddon
49 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
50 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
51 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
52 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
53 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
54 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
55 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
56 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
57 Dracula - Bram Stoker
58 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
59 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
60 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
61 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
62 Vanity Fair - Thackeray
63 Possession - AS Byatt
64 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
65 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
66 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
67 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
68 Charlotte’s Web - EB White
69 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Alborn
70 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
71 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
72 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
73 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
74 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
75 Watership Down - Richard Adam
76 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
77 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
78 A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
79 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl

Cloud 04-07-2011 03:40 PM

I just ganked it from FB; it was among several book list challenges.

glatt: movies don't count!

monster 04-07-2011 04:23 PM

Right, it's a FB thing where it seems to be common practice to attach an unlikely sponsor's name to such things to "anger" people into commenting/joining in. Half of the ones I received were prefaced "this is purportedly from the bbc...." or some such

Cloud 04-07-2011 05:31 PM

the list was originally promulgated by the BBC. The challenge was not.

glatt 04-07-2011 07:43 PM

I just found this by doing a quick search.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/bigread/top100.shtml
The list is a little different, and there is no mention that most people have only read six of the books. It's simply a list of reader recommended books.

Cloud 04-07-2011 07:57 PM

good point. although I really don't think it matters for the purpose of the challenge. It's just a silly netz meme, which has apparently been around for a while. I got all excited -- cause I like books!

monster 04-07-2011 08:18 PM

It's cool to have such a list. It makes one stretch outside one's reading comfort zone. Lots of us would like to do that, but it's hard without suggestions

kerosene 04-07-2011 11:15 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jimhelm (Post 721767)
can we add the ones we've seen as movies?

I was wondering who would ask that. If we could, I would be well on my way, but as it is, I have only read 22.

I read the bible when I was 5.

Most of the rest were required for classes in school.

casimendocina 04-08-2011 05:22 AM

When I did this one, I think I'd read 44.

infinite monkey 04-08-2011 09:27 AM

3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
18 Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
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
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
94 Watership Down - Richard Adam
98 A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl

toranokaze 04-08-2011 11:44 AM

This is the list of favorite books; I find it odd that Winne the Poo ranked seventh.

Sundae 04-08-2011 12:02 PM

Winnie the Pooh indeed ranked seventh.
Well, a lot of people read it/ had it read to them as a child. It's very fondly remembered.
There are quite a few children's books in the original Top 20.

My scores on the doors for this, the Original list:

1. The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien
2. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
3. His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman
4. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
5. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, JK Rowling
6. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
7. Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne
8. Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell
9. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis
10. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë
11. Catch-22, Joseph Heller
12. Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë
13. Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks
14. Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier
15. The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger
16. The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame
17. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
18. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
19. Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres
20. Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
21. Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone, JK Rowling
22. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets, JK Rowling
23. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban, JK Rowling
24. The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien
25. Tess Of The D'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy
26. Middlemarch, George Eliot
27. A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving
28. The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck
29. Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
30. One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez
31. The Pillars Of The Earth, Ken Follett
32. David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
33. Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl
34. Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
35. A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute
36. Persuasion, Jane Austen
37. Dune, Frank Herbert
38. Emma, Jane Austen
39. Anne Of Green Gables, LM Montgomery
40. Watership Down, Richard Adams
41. The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald
42. Animal Farm, George Orwell
43. A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
44. Far From The Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy
45. Goodnight Mister Tom, Michelle Magorian
46. The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett
47. Of Mice And Men, John Steinbeck
48. The Stand, Stephen King
49. A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth
50. The BFG, Roald Dahl
51. Swallows And Amazons, Arthur Ransome
52. Black Beauty, Anna Sewell
53. Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer
54. Memoirs Of A Geisha, Arthur Golden
55. A Tale Of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
56. The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCollough
57. Mort, Terry Pratchett
58. The Magic Faraway Tree, Enid Blyton
59. The Magus, John Fowles
60. Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
61. Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett
62. Lord Of The Flies, William Golding
63. Perfume, Patrick Süskind
64. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Robert Tressell
65. Night Watch, Terry Pratchett
66. Matilda, Roald Dahl
67. Bridget Jones's Diary, Helen Fielding
68. The Woman In White, Wilkie Collins
69. Bleak House, Charles Dickens
70. The Twits, Roald Dahl
71. I Capture The Castle, Dodie Smith
72. Holes, Louis Sachar
73. The God Of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
74. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
75. Magician, Raymond E Feist
76. On The Road, Jack Kerouac
77. The Colour Of Magic, Terry Pratchett
78. The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
79. Kane And Abel, Jeffrey Archer
80. Love In The Time Of Cholera, Gabriel García Márquez
81. Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie

I remember outcry at the time that teens had skewed the online voting. But there's plenty of classics on there. Especially ones I hadn't read then and haven't still.

I really need to sort out the Russians....

monster 04-08-2011 12:37 PM

Are they ranked? Or just listed?

footfootfoot 04-08-2011 01:45 PM

8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
18 Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
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
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
75 Ulysses - James Joyce Just started it last week
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
94 Watership Down - Richard Adam
98 A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl

Sundae 04-08-2011 02:08 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by monster (Post 722064)
Are they ranked? Or just listed?

Ranked I think. But I wouldn't even bet my Grand National stake on that.

Note how the second (technically the first) list is even more Brit-centric.
People go with what they know.
I'd be interested in seeing a similar American poll, New York Times or whatsuch.

wolf 04-08-2011 10:48 PM

Quickly looking the list over, 2 current reading, 38 read.

currently reading
79 Vanity Fair - Thackeray
6 The Bible

read
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
18 Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
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
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night - Mark Haddon
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
94 Watership Down - Richard Adam
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
98 A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

Crimson Ghost 04-08-2011 11:32 PM

39 -

5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
18 Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
94 Watership Down - Richard Adam
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl

Griff 04-09-2011 09:39 AM

2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
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 Dicken
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
94 Watership Down - Richard Adam
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo



but I saw the rest in moves :)


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