BBC believes that most people have read only 6 out of the 100 books here. How do your reading habits stack up? Share.
Today at 13:15
Instructions: Copy this into Notes. Put a '1' after those you have read. Tag other Book Nerds, I mean, Well Read Intellectuals. ^ ^
My score: 61! Evidently I am less fail then Ian Ho ;D
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen (0)
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien (0)
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte (0)
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling (0)
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee (0)
6 The Bible - (0)
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte ( 1/2)
I attempted to read it okay... I made an effort!!!8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell (0)
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman (0)
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens (0)
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott ( 1/2)
Another attempt... It's damn boring lehh... But the movie was good! :D At least I know what's the story about....12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy ( 0)
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller (0)
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare (0)
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier (0)
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien (0)
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk ( 0)
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger (0)
19 The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger (0)
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot (0)
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell (0)
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald (0)
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens (0)
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy (0)
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams (0)
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh (0)
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky (0)
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck (0)
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll (0)
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame (1)
The short story cartoon illustrated version count?31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy (0)
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens (0)
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis (0)
34.Emma - Jane Austen (0)
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen (0)
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis (0)
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini (0)
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres (0)
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden (1)
Finally! A proper one!40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne (1/2)
I have the book and I've seen the pictures... Haven't actually read the words...41 Animal Farm - George Orwell (0)
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown (0)
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez (0)
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving (0)
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins (0)
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery (0)
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy ( 0)
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood (0)
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding (0)
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan (0)
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel (0)
52 Dune - Frank Herbert (0)
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons (0)
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen (0)
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth (0)
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon (0)
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens (0)
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley (0)
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night - Mark Haddon (0)
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez (0)
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck (0)
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov (0)
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt (0)
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold (0)
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas (0)
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac (0)
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy (0)
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding (0)
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie (0)
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville (0)
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens (0)
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker (0)
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett (1)
I think I read the LadyBird version... You know those small hard cover books? Or is this the only version?74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson (0)
75 Ulysses - James Joyce (0)
76 The Inferno - Dante (0)
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome (0)
78 Germinal - Emile Zola (0)
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray (0)
80 Possession - AS Byatt (0)
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens (0)
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell (0)
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker (0)
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro (0)
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert (0)
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry (0)
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White (0)
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom (0)
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (0)
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton (1)
I only read The Folks one... That counts! I read a book!!!91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad (0)
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery (1)
I am very proud of this!!!93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks (0)
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams (0)
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole (0)
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute (0)
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas (0)
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare (0)
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl (0)
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo (0)
Wow... This is really pathetic....
It's the epic-est FAIL ever!!!
SIX and A HALF!!!
6.5%!!!
I am amazing!!!
And you wonder where I learn English from since I come from a 3rd world country that doesn't really speak English...
Well... Lemme tell you...
I am from a Convent school... That didn't teach me much English... Malaysia was once a British Colony... Not that it matters.... I studied for 2 years in Primary school in Singapore.... That didn't make any difference coz I was one of the top scorers for English in class... There were only 2 of us...
What's my secret???
SMASH HITS magazine... GALAXY magazine... SWEET VALLEY series... LOVE STORIES series...
That's what I read in my nurturing years...
Couldn't read English till I was 10 years old... But spoke it as soon as I could speak...
You know what?
Screw all that...
I'm just one of those miracles that plopped onto Earth...
Before I started reading Sweet Valley... I was always disgusted when people said their hobby was reading... I thought reading was like... Eating Brussels sprouts... EWWWWWW!!!!
So yeah...
I think according to this survey... I am rather illiterate...
