Only Six?

How many of these have you read?

There are many  surveys about how many books you should have read. Everyone’s list will be different. The BBC (probably based on an average thing,) have claimed that you would have only read six of these hundred books listed. I spotted about fourteen that I’ve read (that’s if you count The Harry Potter series as a whole.) There are a few I’d like to read ( I turn my head in shame at some of the titles that are on this part of the list,) and then some others that I have no interest in at all and will probably never read – War and Peace for example. That’s not my cup of tea. How about you? Which ones have you read? Are there any you feel should be on this list but aren’t?

Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen

The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien

Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte

Persuasion – Jane Austen

Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helen Fielding

The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – CS Lewis

Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie 

The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini

Moby Dick – Herman Melville

Harry Potter Series – JK Rowling (all)

Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis De Berniere

Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens

To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee

Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden

Dracula – Bram Stoker 6 – The Bible

Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne

The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson

Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë

Animal Farm – George Orwell

Notes from a Small Island – Bill Bryson

Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell

The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown

Ulysses – James Joyce

His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman

One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath

Great Expectations – Charles Dickens

A Prayer for Owen Meany – John Irving

Swallows and Amazons – Arthur Ransome

Little Women – Louisa May Alcott

The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins

Germinal – Emile Zola

Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy

Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery

Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray

Catch 22 – Joseph Heller

Far from the Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy

Possession – AS Byatt

Complete Works of Shakespeare

The Handmaids Tale – Margaret Atwood

A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens

Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier

Lord of the Flies – William Golding

Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell

The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien

Atonement – Ian McEwan

The Colour Purple – Alice Walker

Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks

Life of Pi – Yann Martel

The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro

Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger

Dune – Frank Herbert

Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert

The Time Traveler’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger

Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons

A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry

Middlemarch – George Eliot

Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen

Charlotte’s Web – EB White

Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell

A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth

The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom

The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald

The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Bleak House – Charles Dickens

A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens

The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton

War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy

Brave New World – Aldous Huxley

Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon

The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint Exupery

Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh

Love in the Time of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks 27 – Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck

Watership Down – Richard Adams

Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck

Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov

A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole

Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll

The Secret History – Donna Tartt

A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute

The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame

The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold

The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas

Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy

Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas

Hamlet – William Shakespeare

David Copperfield – Charles Dickens

On the Road – Jack Kerouac

Charlie & the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl

Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis

Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy

Les Miserables – Victor Hugo

Emma – Jane Austen

(Source: List Challenges.)

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Laura

I'm Laura. I started Novel Kicks back in 2009 as I wanted a place to discuss books and writing - two loves of my life. As someone who has anxiety, these two things give me, and I am sure countless others, a much needed escape.
There is a monthly book club, writing exercises, prompts, reviews, author interviews, competitions and guest posts. I cover many genres and I hope there is something for everyone.
I grew up by the sea in Dorset and currently live in Poole with my husband, Chris and three cats. I love writing and have a BA (Hons) in Creative Writing from Falmouth University. I am writing my first book. If only I could stop pressing delete. Chris has threatened to stop it from working. Haha.
I have always loved creative writing since I was in first school and would very much like to meet my teacher, Miss Sayers, to say thank you for all the encouragement she gave me then.
When not writing, I love reading, cats, Disney, singing (I can't sing but this doesn't stop me,) and falling into a good TV show or film. If I could step into any fictional world, it would be amongst the characters in ABC's Once Upon a Time.
I love reading many genres and discovering new authors.