BBC Books people lie about having read

The BBC figures most people will have on average read about 6 of the 100 books here.

Instructions:
Copy and paste into notes. Look at the list and put an 'X' after those you have read. Tally your total below. Movies don't count!

This should be interesting....

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen X
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien X .....zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz!
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte X
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling X
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee X
6 The Bible ^ .............well I've worked my way through the New Testament, so half a x
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte X
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell X
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman X
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens ..............uuurgh no!!!
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy X (poor tess)
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller X .......... hated the first couple of chapters then Loved it!
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare .........come onnnn!
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks .......... no but Charlotte Gray was DIRE!
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger ....... tried twice - never got past the first page.
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger X
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot X
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens (see 10)
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams X
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck X
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll X
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame X (Capitalist tosh!)
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens X (Dear God yes - I hate Dickens for a reason you know)
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34 Emma - Jane Austen X
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen X (all of em even Sanditon and the Watsons!)
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini X (Must Read)
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Berniere
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden X
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne X
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell X
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown X
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez X
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 X
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood X
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 - Stella Gibbons X
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen X
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon X (Utter Utter Sh*te)
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley X
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon X
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck X
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov X
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 (Is this the druggy one that I fought my way through? nope that was Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas)
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy X
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding X
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie (Tried several times aaargh!)
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville X
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson X
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray X
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker X
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert (Life's too short - dried up before anything happened)
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom X (see 56)
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle X
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 X (Compulsory in the 70s)
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute X
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare X (at school so it must count)
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl X
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

Tally: 47 and a half

Wolf Totem

Category: Books
Genre: Literature & Fiction
Author: Jiang Rong
This is a fantastic book that shows how important it is to maintain balance in an ecosystem.

The tale is that of a chinese student during the Cultural Revolution who is posted to Mongolia to live with the nomadic herdsmen there. He learns of the importance of the Mongolian Wolves to all the species that inhabit the grassland, from the grass itself to the human herdsmen. The wolves affect the hardiness and temperament of the dogs, the horses, the sheep and the people. Maintaining the balance between wolves, gazelles, sheep, marmots and even mice (the little lives) enables the grassland itself (the big life) to thrive.

The book is a fictionalised account of the authors own experiences during this time, and was a huge bestseller in China when it was published in 2004, and in translation by Howard Goldblatt in 2007 won the Man Asian literary prize.

I would highly recommend it to anyone who likes animals, other cultures, the world we live in.