BBC Book List Challenge-How many have you read?

[Holistic Star]

I like the Dickens that i have read muchbetterthan books like The Wasp Factory and The curious incident, which are enjoyable books but again I wouldn't include them in the "must read" list.

[Lakshyayidhi Lakshmihi]

Originally Posted by Lynn 007

The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books here. How many have you read?

1) Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
2) The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien
3) Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte

5) To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
6) The Bible
7) Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë
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

14) Complete Works of Shakespeare

16) The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien

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 Hitchhiker’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
31) Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy

34) Emma – Jane Austen
35) Persuasion – Jane Austen
36) The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – CS Lewis


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

48) The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
49) Lord of the Flies – William Golding

54) Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen

57) A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
58) Brave New World – Aldous Huxley (Soma, yay!)

61) Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck

64) The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold
65) Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas

68) Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helen Fielding


73) The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett

76) The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath


81) A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens

84) The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
85) Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert

87) Charlotte’s Web – EB White

89) Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


97) The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
98) Hamlet – William Shakespeare

100) Les Miserables – Victor Hugo

50, half. Hey, that's pretty good! Lots on the list I want to read...

[cacheborn]

Originally Posted by JSB

Why "The Complete Works of Shakespeare" count as one book, and why is "Hamlet" listed further down the list, and why are these on the same list as a piece of bubble gum like "The DaVinci Code"?

I'm at 30.

I also found Da Vinci Code a surprising addition. I don't think it's a must read. There are numerous other thrillers that I would rather include.

[Criseyde]

I've completed 34 off that list. I've partially read a lot more. Right now I'm working on Anna Karenina and Possession... slooowly.

Also, who has read Shakespeare's *complete* works? Even if you've read all the plays and sonnets, not many people read Venus and Adonis or The Rape of Lucrece. If anybody has, mad props.

[Lakshyayidhi Lakshmihi]

Originally Posted by Criseyde

Also, who has read Shakespeare's *complete* works? Even if you've read all the plays and sonnets, not many people read Venus and Adonis or The Rape of Lucrece. If anybody has, mad props.

I used to have mild OCD, especially about reading and finishing books or series. It was almost a chore, especially when I was reading books that I simply did not enjoy but I could not just put it down and leave it. This is likely why I have read so many of the books on this list...because a high school english teacher showed me an earlier version when I was 17 and for about 5 years I was obsessed with reading all the books on the list.

It changes, though; there are earlier versions that lack the Harry Potter series, for example.

[KaleidoskopicVision]

Originally Posted by Lakshyayidhi Lakshmihi

I used to have mild OCD, especially about reading and finishing books or series. It was almost a chore, especially when I was reading books that I simply did not enjoy but I could not just put it down and leave it. This is likely why I have read so many of the books on this list...because a high school english teacher showed me an earlier version when I was 17 and for about 5 years I was obsessed with reading all the books on the list.

It changes, though; there are earlier versions that lack the Harry Potter series, for example.

I used to have something like this in my preteen years. If I saw writing I felt compelled to read it. Quite a funny quirk.

[Criseyde]

Originally Posted by Lakshyayidhi Lakshmihi

I used to have mild OCD, especially about reading and finishing books or series. It was almost a chore, especially when I was reading books that I simply did not enjoy but I could not just put it down and leave it. This is likely why I have read so many of the books on this list...because a high school english teacher showed me an earlier version when I was 17 and for about 5 years I was obsessed with reading all the books on the list.

It changes, though; there are earlier versions that lack the Harry Potter series, for example.

Whoa, you've read all of them?! o_O

Sorry, just went back and looked at your list. I didn't read everyone's before posting. Damn. DAMN. I've read 18 of the plays and all the sonnets and I thought I was doing well. Daaaaaamn.

Rep for you!

How did you get through the history plays??? OCD or not, that is some self discipline.

Did you do it all at once? How long did it take?

[Lakshyayidhi Lakshmihi]

Originally Posted by Criseyde

Rep for you!

How did you get through the history plays??? OCD or not, that is some self discipline.

Did you do it all at once? How long did it take?

I normally read about 4 or 5 books simultaneously so I can "change the channel" if I get bored...and remember this was before the interwebs was as popular as it is now....

It took probably 7 or 8 years total, but I read off and on and didn't do the whole thing in one go. and I don't remember the plots at all. At a certain point because I read the interesting ones first, naturally, it became a horrible chore. Like I dreaded picking up those books....but due to the OCD I felt trapped.

That was probably the exposure therapy I needed to cure myself of my reading OCD. LOL...and you know after I cured myself of the OCD, I didn't read at all - not ONE book, for over a year.

Limiting beliefs are a hell of a drug.