BBC Book List (How Many Have You Read?)

• Fatum

  7 Apr 09, 03:08

  harry potter ?!?! .....

  okie ... nevermind, thanks .... 

   

• ShrodingersCat

  7 Apr 09, 16:09

  Originally posted by Fatum:

  harry potter ?!?! .....

  okie ... nevermind, thanks .... 

   

  why not harry potter? Just cos its 'popular' doesn't mean it isnt interesting wor.

   

  But then this is coming from me - Pulp fiction fan.

• elindra

  9 Apr 09, 13:37

  1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen (x)
  
  2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien (x)
  
  3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte ( )
  
  4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling (x )
  
  5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee (x)
  
  6 The Bible - (x)
  
  7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte ( )
  
  8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell ()
  
  9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman ( )
  
  10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens (x)
  
  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 (x)
  
  15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier ( )
  
  16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien (x)
  
  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 (x)
  
  22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald (x)
  
  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 (x )
  
  29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll (x)
  
  30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame (x)
  
  31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy ( )
  
  32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens (x)
  
  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 ( )
  
  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)
  
  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 (x )
  
  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 ( )
  
  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 (x)
  
  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 )
  
  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 (x)
  
  72 Dracula - Bram Stoker (x)
  
  73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett (x)
  
  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 ( )
  
  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 Albom ()
  
  89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (x)
  
  90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton (x )
  
  91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad ()
  
  92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery (x )
  
  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 ( x)

  
  I've read 44
  

   

• elindra

  9 Apr 09, 13:41

  So far everyone read more than 6 books leh

• av98m

  9 Apr 09, 14:16

  1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen ( )
  
  2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien (x)
  
  3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte (x )
  
  4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling ( )
  
  5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee (x)
  
  6 The Bible - (x)
  
  7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte ( )
  
  8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell (x)
  
  9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman ( )
  
  10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens (x)
  
  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 (x)
  
  15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier ( )
  
  16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien (x)
  
  17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk ( )
  
  18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger ( )
  
  19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger (x)
  
  20 Middlemarch - George Eliot ( )
  
  21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell ( )
  
  22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald (x )
  
  23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens (x )
  
  24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy (x )
  
  25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams (x )
  
  26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh ( )
  
  27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky (x )
  
  28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck ( )
  
  29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll (x)
  
  30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame ( )
  
  31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy ( )
  
  32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens (x)
  
  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 ( )
  
  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)
  
  42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown (x)
  
  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 (x)
  
  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 (x)
  
  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 ( )
  
  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 ( )
  
  69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie ( )
  
  70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville (x)
  
  71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens (x)
  
  72 Dracula - Bram Stoker (x)
  
  73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett (x)
  
  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 (x)
  
  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 (x)
  
  92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery (x )
  
  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 ( )
  
  100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo ( x)

• elindra

  9 Apr 09, 15:21

  AV got 36

   

  Actually I think I read much more when I was younger

  These days I prefer Graphical Novels

• av98m

  9 Apr 09, 15:29

  Originally posted by elindra:

  AV got 36

   

  Actually I think I read much more when I was younger

  These days I prefer Graphical Novels

  
  Brave New World reads like a PAP instruction manual on peasant management  

• Fatum

  9 Apr 09, 15:33

  Originally posted by av98m:

  
  Brave New World reads like a PAP instruction manual on peasant management  

  I wouldn't mind going on a chemical vacation ......

  the pappies should look into this .....

   

• elindra

  9 Apr 09, 15:34

  Originally posted by av98m:

  
  Brave New World reads like a PAP instruction manual on peasant management  

  
  LOL

  I've not read Brave New World

  One of my friends told me to read Kite Runner coz it's a very good book but I've not had the urge to pick it up

• Fatum

  9 Apr 09, 15:42

  Originally posted by elindra:

  
  LOL

  I've not read Brave New World

  One of my friends told me to read Kite Runner coz it's a very good book but I've not had the urge to pick it up

  pedastry ..........

   

• av98m

  9 Apr 09, 15:44

  Originally posted by Fatum:

  I wouldn't mind going on a chemical vacation ......

  the pappies should look into this .....

   

  

• elindra

  9 Apr 09, 19:16

  Originally posted by Fatum:

  pedastry ..........

   

  Simi pedantry?????

  In what way was that comment pedantic???

• Fatum

  9 Apr 09, 20:05

  Originally posted by elindra:

  Simi pedantry?????

  In what way was that comment pedantic???

  I meant the book lah ....

  pedastry ....junior brokeback ....

   

• Kuali Baba

  9 Apr 09, 22:10

  1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
  
  4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
  
  5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
  
  6 The Bible
  
  14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
  
  22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
  
  31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
  
  41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
  
  42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
  
  71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
  
  74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
  
  92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
  
  99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl

  And that's my wee list.

• udontknowme

  11 Apr 09, 19:33

  eh wtf. AV is the only one who has read crime and punishment???????????

  IT'S A GREAT AWESOME BOOK AND ALL SHOULD GO READ IT!!!! (the beginning is boring. but once a certain someone died, i happily read the rest of it.)

• Fatum

  11 Apr 09, 22:07

  Originally posted by udontknowme:

  eh wtf. AV is the only one who has read crime and punishment???????????

  IT'S A GREAT AWESOME BOOK AND ALL SHOULD GO READ IT!!!! (the beginning is boring. but once a certain someone died, i happily read the rest of it.)

  Eng Lit 110 ? ....

   

• udontknowme

  13 Apr 09, 01:03

  Originally posted by Fatum:

  Eng Lit 110 ? ....

   

  are you sure you did your undergrad in canada?????
  Would they give you such a book to read in a course that the whole school has to take?????

  btw, did your school call it eng lit 110?

• Fatum

  13 Apr 09, 01:24

  Originally posted by udontknowme:

  are you sure you did your undergrad in canada?????
  Would they give you such a book to read in a course that the whole school has to take?????

  btw, did your school call it eng lit 110?

  actually, no ... twas for phil 113, ethics ...