Book list challenge on Facebook

[Fleur]

I got 58 There are still a lot in there that I want to read so maybe I will do that as my New Years Resolution

Wow Nai, 58 is awesome!

I wonder if anyone has read the whole 100.....

[ezymay]

Just did the quiz... I've read 28 there are quite a few on there I have sitting on my bookshelf that I have never read...Anna Karenina is one I've tried to start a few times!! I'll def try to give more on the list a go!!

[*Ang*]

I scored 31, a lot were read in my childhood too and in Eng Lit classes in highschool!

...Anna Karenina is one I've tried to start a few times!!

Me too! and I just cant seem to get my head around it!

[Astrolady]

Well the Woman in White in which I am currently reading is 800 pages long !! I have just gone past half way. LOL. I don't think I have EVER read a book with so many pages hahahaha.

[Little Chicken]

Well the Woman in White in which I am currently reading is 800 pages long !! I have just gone past half way. LOL. I don't think I have EVER read a book with so many pages hahahaha.

Wait till you hit gone with the wind! Love that book

[Muffy]

i got..... 98

no no jk... but i dont think anyone would have believed me if i said 100 hahaha.

TBH.. i havnt even looked at the list lol

[MummaSue]

Anna Karenina is an AWESOME book - it did take me a few attempts too though

Life of Pi has to be THE best book I've ever read. It blew me away.

[misty]

I was happy with my score on that booklist - it was in the 70's from memory. To be fair - ALOT of the books on that list were absolutely crappy reads (classic literature or not: I mean Wuthering Heights just plain sucked). Alot of them I could attribut to high school english - I used to read the perscribed novels overnight, so my teachers took to assigning me a list of different novels to read while everyone else was catching up. (And then when I had read ALL the books in the school library I was allowed to bring in my own from home I think my english teachers sometimes ran out of things to do with me, and I drove them a bit nuts).

Much rather read sci-fi fantasy anyday.

[Astrolady]

Should I put names in the first post of who definitely wants in? Then we can all check in with each other to see how we are going?

So who is definitely in?

[LimeSlice]

Yep! I'm in

[indie24]

I have kind of been doing this for a while (I think thats why I got a high score). I downloaded a free i-phone app that has heaps of classics so I was working my way through it. A lot of them are on that FB list.

[Trillian]

I got 41/100 when I did that a while back. I credit it to year 11 and 12 3unit English LOL. I'd love to join in too but I already have a mountain of books that I haven't read yet that aren't even on that list. And that's not even including all the textbooks I need to read this year either.

[Hollybolly]

Count me in too! From memory I think I got 30 something as well....
Not much reading has been done around here in the last 8 months, lol.
But Mr C is sleeping a little better so I've started to get back into normal routine again

Pixie, A Fine Balance is one of the best books I've ever read! Also loved loved loved Shadow Of The Wind too!

I have a huge amount of the books here on my bookshelf, so if you guys want to post which ones you'd like to borrow, I'm happy to lend mine as long as you don't mind returning it when you're done

[Tuesday's Child]

I've read 34. There's a lot on there that I've always wanted to read, so count me in.

[Winter]

Thanks Sopdet.

I have read 38 and attempted to read quite a few more off the list but never managed to really get into them like Catch 22 & The Lord of the Rings. I have to say that I think Austen is over represented in the list - anyone else agree with Adrian Mole that she should be put in the Romance section at the library??

[Astrolady]

Anyone started anything yet? I am 1/4 of the way through the Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and just got a message that The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is waiting for me to collect.

[LimeSlice]

The List
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone - JK Rowling
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
The Bible - Various
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
1984 - George Orwell
Northern Lights (The Golden Compass) - Philip Pullman
Great Expectations - Charles ****ens
Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
Romeo and Juliet - William Shakespeare
Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
Middlemarch - George Eliot
Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
David Copperfield - Charles ****ens
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain
Emma - Jane Austen
Persuasion - Jane Austen
The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe - CS Lewis
The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
Animal Farm - George Orwell
The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
Atonement - Ian McEwan
Life of Pi - Yann Martel
Dune - Frank Herbert
Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles ****ens
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
The Secret History - Donna Tartt
The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
On The Road - Jack Kerouac
Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
Moby **** - Herman Melville
Oliver Twist - Charles ****ens
Dracula - Bram Stoker
The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
Ulysses - James Joyce
The Inferno - Dante
Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransom
Germinal - Emile Zol
Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackera
Possession - AS Byatt
A Christmas Carol - Charles ****ens
Cloud Atlas - David Mitchel
The Color Purple - Alice Walker
The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
Charlotte’s Web - EB White
The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
Watership Down - Richard Adams
A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas -
Hamlet - William Shakespeare -
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
Bleak House - Charles ****ens
Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh


The ones in bold I have here if anyone wants to borrow them
PM me.

[Rainbow_Mumma]

can i be added to the list as i am going to particpate in this so far i have done 12 but might even re-do them its been a number of years since i read most of them