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friedgreentomato | 15:52 Mon 09th Jul 2012 | ChatterBank
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According to a recent BBC poll the average is 6 books - how many can you claim to have read? I have read 64!! Wow!!

1 Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen

2 The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien

3 Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte

4 Harry Potter series – JK Rowling (all)

5 To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee

6 The Bible

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

12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy

13 Catch 22 – Joseph Heller

14 Complete Works of Shakespeare – William Shakespeare

15 Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier

16 The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien

17 Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks

18 Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger

19 The Time Traveller’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

26 Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh

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

32 David Copperfield – Charles Dickens

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

38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis De Berniere

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

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 – Stella Gibbons

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-time – Mark Haddon
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Craft, have got How Green was my Valley in French.
> What was the criteria

Come on, mate!
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actually i have read the vast majority of Shakespeare plays
57 - including all the Harry Potters, all the Narnia books, about half the Shakespeares (plays and sonnets) and bits of the bible. I hated Catcher in the Rye but read it all and I haven't counted Captain Corelli's Mandolin, which I couldn't finish.I must have a couple of thousand books in the house and couldn't not read any more than I could stop breathing.
I've read 43 of those, but I can't recall what some of them were all about though.
2 The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien
16 The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
42 The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown

Can't remember if I've read Charlie and the Chocolate Factory... And some of these titles I've never even heard of..... I'm a shambles.
But how many did you actually enjoy?

I would cheerfully burn every copy of "5 people you meet in heaven"
Too drunk too count, I'll come back tomorrow, but I'd guess about two thirds at least. Does years of rudimentary Sunday School as having read the Bible?
Lol Jake, I passed my copy on to one of my more spiritual friends.
But what's missing?

No Umberto Eco!

No Graham Greene!

Surely an Agatha Christie?
66 plus bits of the Bible, and several of Shakespeare"s plays not separately listed. Most of those not read sem to be from recent years.
23. More than I imagined actually. I don't read a lot of fiction.
Perhaps about a quarter of that list - but hundreds if not thousands of others

Of those on the list I haven't read there's a few I might get round to but most don't inspire much and a few I've never heard of
None of them, I only read reference and factual books.
No Biographies in these lists! I've read some excellent biographies of people who have lived a full and interesting life.
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