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Say it Rah-shay By Rachee Feb 21, 2009 No Comments

or another post that can be called fluff.

BBC (to the BBC, yeah, yeah, yeah!)
Housekeeping:
The BBC reckons most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here.
Instructions:
1) Look at the list and put an ‘x’ after those you have read.
2) Add a ‘$’ to the ones you “saw the movie”.
3) Star (*) those you plan on reading
.4) Tally your total at the bottom.

How many have you read?
1 Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen ($)
2 The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien ($, *)
3 Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte – I was supposed to read this in high school
4 Harry Potter series – JK Rowling (x, $)
5 To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee (x)
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell (x)
9 His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman ($, *)
10 Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
11 Little Women – Louisa M Alcott (X,$)
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy(*)
13 Catch 22 – Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier(x)
16 The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger (x)
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch – George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell ($)
22 The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald (X,$) Does ‘G’ count?
23 Bleak House – Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams(x,$)
26 Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh (*)
27 Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll ($,*)
30 The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis(x,$)
34 Emma – Jane Austen(x,$)
35 Persuasion – Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – CS Lewis (x,$)
37 The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini (x)
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne (x, $)
41 Animal Farm – George Orwell (x,$)
42 The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown (x, $) Both Dan Brown and Tom Hanks owe me two hours
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney – John Irving Does it count if I didn’t finish it?
45 The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery (x,$)
47 Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood (x)
49 Lord of the Flies – William Golding (X)
50 Atonement – Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi – Yann Martel (x)
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 (x)
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)
62 Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History – Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas (X, $)
66 On The Road – Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helen Fielding (x,$)
69 Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick – Herman Melville (X)
71 Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens Does Oliver! count?
2 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 – William Makepeace Thackeray (*)
80 Possession – AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens (x,$)
82 Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple – Alice Walker (x, $)
84 The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte’s Web – EB White (X,$)
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Alborn
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 (x,$)
98 Hamlet – William Shakespeare (X,$)
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl (x,$)
100 Les Miserables – Victor Hugo ($)