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The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books here. How do your reading habits stack up?

Instructions: Copy this into your journal. 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 -

6 The Bible - (in part)

7 Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte -

8 Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell –

9 His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman –

10 Great Expectations – Charles Dickens-

11 Little Women – Louisa M Alcott –x

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 – x

17 Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks -

18 Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger -

19 The Time Traveler's Wife – Audrey Niffenegger-

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 -

29 Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll- x (I think :-| )

30 The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame –

31 Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy –

32 David Copperfield – Charles Dickens-

33 Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis – x

34 Emma-Jane Austen -

35 Persuasion – Jane Austen -

36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – CS Lewis - x

37 The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini –

38 Captain Corelli's Mandolin – Louis De Bernieres -

39 Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden -

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 –

44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney – John Irving-

45 The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins -

46 Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery - x

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-

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 –

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 –

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 -

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-

69 Midnight's Children – Salman Rushdie –

70 Moby Dick – Herman Melville -

71 Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens- x (but it might have been an abridged version)

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 –

89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle -

90 The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton - x

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- x

95 A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole -

96 A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute -

97 The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas - x

98 Hamlet – William Shakespeare –

99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl -

100 Les Miserables – Victor Hugo-




that's 15. are you sure they said 6???