Wednesday, August 5, 2009

How Well Read Are You?

I found this little quiz over at One Literature Nut and had to try it out for myself! I always find it interesting to see these types of lists and see where I stand on them. Sometimes I end up with a decent number, other times I don't. Let's see how I end up this time around!

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How well read are you? Well, at least how well read are you as according to the BBC? The BBC believes that most people will have only have read 6 out of the 100 books on the list below. This intrigued me, so I thought I'd see how I stacked up! How do you think you will do? Have you read six or more?

Instructions: Copy this into your NOTES. Look at the list and put an 'x' after those you have read.


1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen (--)

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 (--)

7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte (X)

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 Faulk (--)

18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger (--)

19 The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger (X)

20 Middlemarch - George Eliot (--)

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 (--)

27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky (--)

28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck (X)

29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll (--)

30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame (--)

31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy (X)

32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens (--)

33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis (--)

34 Emma-Jane Austen (--)

35 Persuasion - Jane Austen (--)

36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis (X)

37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hossein (X)
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres (--)
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden (X)
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 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 (X)
52 Dune - Frank Herbert (--)
53 Cold Comfort Farm (--)
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen (--)
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth (--)
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon (X)
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 (X)
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 (X)
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 (X)
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 (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 (--)
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 (X)
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 (--)
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare (X)
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl (X)
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo (--)

The results . . . 21!! Well, it is more than the 6 that BBC predicted, but definitely less than mjmbecky over at One Literature Nut (click here for her results)!


How well read are YOU?

(Please forgive the formatting mess! I could not figure out how to fix the little quirks and am too tired to keep trying tonight!!)

4 comments:

  1. I got 55! I posted it and referenced you on my blog at
    http://lauragerold.blogspot.com/2009/08/how-well-read-are-you.html

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  2. Notice how these books are all, like really boring.

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  3. My husband sent this to me earlier this week, and I think I had almost half. Just made me want to read more!

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  4. Laura . . . you have totally kicked my butt!! Now, I'm going to head over and compare lists!

    Zakk . . . ahhh, come on!! Harry Potter is far from boring and The Shadow of the Wind is one of my all-time favorites! Okay, I guess that's just my opinion!! What would you rank up there as not boring? I'm wondering if I'm not missing out on some good action!! :)

    Tiffany . . . Which ones did you add to your list or would be worth a re-read in your opinion?

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