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22 March 2014
Found this on Listchallenges and I know it's been making the rounds on FB - but it's still fun!
My score is 26 - I read the following:
- no 1 - Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
- no 2 - Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien
- no 4 - Harry Potter series by JK Rowling
- no 5 - To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
- no 6 - The Bible
- no 8 - 1984 by George Orwell
- no 9 - His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman
- no 19 - The Time Travellers Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
- no 21 - Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
- no 22 - The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald
- no 34 - Emma by Jane Austen
- no 37 - The Kite Runner by Khalid Hosseini
- no 39 - Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
- no 40 - Winnie the Pooh by AA Milne
- no 41 - Animal Farm by George Orwell
- no 42 - The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
- no 50 - Atonement by Ian McEwan
- no 51 - Life of Pi by Yann Martel
- no 54 - Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
- no 55 - A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth
- no 59 - The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time by Mark Haddon
- no 63 - The Secret History by Donna Tartt
- no 64 - The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
- no 65 - Bridget Jones Diary by Helen Fielding
- no 82 - Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
- no 83 - The Colour Purple by Alice Walker
Hmm, better than 6… and I do know the vast majority of the books. You will notice that most of the books I did read are more contemporary. My excuse is that, growing up in East Germany, we never read any of the classics which my daughter now reads in school (i.e. Shakespeare). I mean, they did teach us briefly about him, but we never had to read his work. And I think without an English teacher at hand, it is not easy to understand and I find myself not being able to handle classics. And I mean proper classics, published prior to 1900 or so. Just don't 'get' them often, and than there is so much interesting contemporary stuff to read.
The one book I really want to read is The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood as I've heard it's dystopian which is a genre I discovered a few years ago and now love.
BBC Believes You Only Read 6 of These Books...
The BBC believes that most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books below. How many have you read?
(Tip: The average Goodreads member has read 23 out of 100 books on this list)
p.s: BBC didn't make a declaration. The list is probably based on the average. Also, Narnia and Shakespeare are on the list twice but, they can be a freebie if you prefer :)
(Tip: The average Goodreads member has read 23 out of 100 books on this list)
