I got this off my friend’s Facebook Notes and I’m stealing it and putting it here! Thanks Anna although we basically never talk wtf.
The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books here. How do your reading habits stack up?
Instructions: Look at the list and put an ‘x’ after those you have read. Tag other book nerds.
1 Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen X
2 The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien – I think I read one page out of the prologue..
3 Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series – JK Rowling X
5 To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee X
6 The Bible – I will some day…together with the Quran
7 Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations – Charles Dickens X
11 Little Women – Louisa M Alcott X
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 – Joseph Heller – midway before I gave it up too. It was Ooib’s copy
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare – crazy ah?!?!
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 X
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
30 The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy – I know Angela read this wtf
32 David Copperfield – Charles Dickens X
33 Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis
34 Emma – Jane Austen
35 Persuasion – Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – CS Lewis
37 The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini X
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden X
40 Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne – I never thought about Winnie the Pooh having a book!
41 Animal Farm – George Orwell X
42 The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown – maybe ten pages before giving up
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 X
52 Dune – Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen X
55 A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens X
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 X
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 – I watched the Disney cartoon wtf
82 Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple – Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert X – got it off Fat Her’s shelf. Found it damn hard to read but struggled to the end because I’d heard it was about sordid marital affairs wtf
86 A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte’s Web – EB White
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 X – yes this is my favorite magic Enid Blyton series!!!
91 Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery X (boring as shit. wtf? unless I read some pirated version)
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
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl X
100 Les Miserables – Victor Hugo
Ok more than 6. But aih what’s the use when Great Expectations, David Copperfield and The Tale of Two Cities were all abridged versions WTF.
And most of the other books (except for maybe Kite Runner and Time Traveler’s Wife) were all read growing up! Means I’m really dumbing down now fts.
I will read all the books in the list before I’m 30. Which will mean by then I will be cultured and possess the right to look down on anyone WTF. Or at least attempt to read so I know why I refuse to finish them.
(thank you god for not putting Twilight on this list)
Ok since this reminded me of a meme (or is it?) Imma do another one now!
1. Who was your FIRST prom date?
My first boyfriend. But we broke up a week before prom or something but still had to go together cos we already bought the tickets FML.
2. Do you still talk to your FIRST love?
Yes.
3. What was your FIRST job?
Working in the Luxury Reservations department or something at Amex as a temp. I had to swipe in every morning, key in a code to unlock my phone and relock it at lunch, swipe out at lunch and after work. If more than 1 minute late, FYL your pay gets chopped. Made me never ever wanna work at a bank or finance company.
4. What was your FIRST car?
I never had one *sad
5. Who was the FIRST person to text you today?
Aza because I called her and she didn’t pick up.
6. Who is the FIRST person you thought of this morning?
I don’t remember!
7. Who was your FIRST grade teacher?
Puan Juliana hahaha is my memory good or what!
8. Where did you go on your FIRST ride on an airplane?
I don’t know. To Penang/KL or something wtf.
9. Who was your FIRST kiss?
First boyfriend. Totally cheated out of it.
10. Where was your FIRST sleepover?
At Hsin’s! We were so excited we came over with all our nail polish and Smash Hits and all our homemade video tapes of Backstreet Boys and 911. And then we fell asleep with my leg over Hsin’s neck HAHAHAHAH.
11. Who was the FIRST person you talked to today?
Tim!
12. Whose wedding were you in the FIRST time?
My auntie’s! I was a flower girl and about four.
13. What was the FIRST thing you did this morning?
Sat up in bed then fell backwards on to the bed and back to sleep again.
14. What was the FIRST concert you ever went to?
911! My hero ok. Hsin and I managed to convince her mom to take us to the concert but then there was a stampede and her mother lost her shoe so we skulked outside the hall and sulked hahahahaa haih. But I think we managed to get through in the end to watch it though!
15. FIRST tattoo?
None.
16. First piercing?
My ears. I was 16 because Fat Her wouldn’t let me pierce my ears before even though I cried and begged him. But then I finally got to pierce because my brother pierced his WTF THE INJUSTICE.
17. First foreign country you’ve been to?
Um probably Singapore.
18. FIRST movie you remember seeing in the theater?
Power Rangers?
19. When was your FIRST detention?
Not applicable wtf.
20. What was the first state you lived in?
Selangor WTF.
21. Who was your FIRST roommate?
Beth Hankes! She liked being cold so she’d sit by the open window in winter while thankfully my desk was next to the heater wtf. We both procrastinated our homework 7 hours a day so we were a terrible influence on each other.
22. If you had one wish, what would it be?
To fly! (not in a plane) To have a chair that will fly me anywhere I want to go. (like the Enid Blyton one!)
23. What is something you would learn if you had the chance?
I would learn how to ballroom dance. Properly! I never paid much attention in ballroom dance classes cos you can pass just by attending 🙁 Only remember the waltz, tango and chacha and I suck at all of them anyway.
Done!
I forget how much I like doing memes 😀
Comments (26)
Out of 100 i only read 3.. a total failure reader..
when you are 30, it will be another 100 books for you to read! 🙂
I want to do the book thing too, only thing that is annoying is that like 7 of the books I had to read for school was in the list.
FML.
How did you get cheated of your first kiss? T_T
woo hoo i read around 20 books from that list!! and u have to read catcher in the rye, it’s one of the best in tht list! lolita was so overrated la i feel so cheated after reading it. and ulysses was very nice also! wah pretentious kao kao wtf
I love reading too!!&since you’re planning to read all the books before you turn 30, may I recommend you start off with “Rebecca” by Daphne Du Maurier?
The plot is interesting but it’s the way she expresses emotions that I found really captivating. She just has such a way with words!!Alfred Hitchcock did the movie the version but the book tops it!
Either that or pls read “Charlotte’s Web”!! When I’m a mum I’m gonna force my kid to read this! Heart warming and tear-inducing.. My kinda book ^__^
wa tell me which books are best to read. i havent read in so long wtf T___T
*high five to other book geeks*
20 books! The BBC is wrong! haha! I loved Faraway Tree too!
I am totally relate to your anwer in no.10, including the “falling asleep with legs at friend’s neck” part” LOL. Were/are you a big fan of BSB as well? I love BSB to bits! Omg *nostalgic* *sob*
nope, it’s not a meme. you used the wrong term.
Ha ha ha.. 3 only. Ceh!
Why didn’t you read Jane Eyre audrey? :O
I’ve read about 42, quite a few were required reading at school.
And a lot of the others were penguin classics I picked up when they started selling them in UK for 1 pound each!
aww really injustice your brother gets to pierce after you. 🙁 I also pierced mine around that age after I complaint to my mum that why didnt she take me to pierce my ears when I was still little. 😛
uve read Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov wow ive been looking for that book
read margaret atwood’s the handmaid’s tale! its awesome 😀 dystopic and feminist!
and whyyyy 10 pages of davinci?? that’s crazy… its sooo good
and u would love jane eyre!!
OMG, i just read 2 out of 100.. swt..
Interesting list! Can I get the list off u??
At least Enid Blyton made it at no.90 with her Magic Faraway collection.
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You gave up on Da Vinci Code? But it’s nice…
you must read the ishiguro books on the list 🙂 you’ll love them
i read 21 books from the list! And more if watching the movie means having read the book hahahahah.
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this might seem weird/slightly random but i read your blog all the time and recently i saw this girl on youtube and she looks exactly like you. her name’s kate micucci and she sings funny songs and has appeared on scrubs.
hey girl…
saw u at the Samsung event… u looked gorgeous!!
hehe.. you done the question.. hey, i also wanna fly.. wish i had a wing like a tooth fairy.. 😀
tepat betul!!! i only read 6 book out of the 100 books here… adui..
the list is too long to read, ridiculous!