How Do You Stack Up?

So I admit that I got this list off of facebook, and not even legit off of facebook, but rather I stumbled across it while facebook stalking one of my college GTFs… No matter how I found it, I still found it intriguing. It was captioned at the top “The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books here. How do your reading habits stack up?” then you are supposed to count up how many of these books you read.

I thought that it was a fairly inclusive list. What do you think? What books that everybody should read are missing? How many of these have you read?

1. Pride and Prejudice
2. The Lord of the Rings
3. Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte
4. Harry Potter series JK Rowling
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 Joseph Heller
14. Complete Works of Shakespeare
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
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. Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoyevsky
27. Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck
28. Alice in Wonderland Lewis Carroll
29. The Wind in the Willows Kenneth Grahame
30. Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy
31. David Copperfield Charles Dickens
32. Chronicles of Narnia CS Lewis
33. Emma Jane Austen
34. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe CS Lewis
35. The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini
36. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin Louis De Bernieres
37. Memoirs of a Geisha Arthur Golden
38. Winnie the Pooh AA Milne
39. Animal Farm George Orwell
40. The Da Vinci Code Dan Brown
41. One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel Garcia Marquez
42. A Prayer for Owen Meaney John Irving
43. The Woman in White Wilkie Collins
44. Anne of Green Gables LM Montgomery
45. Far From The Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy
46. The Handmaid’s Tale Margaret Atwood
47. Lord of the Flies William Golding
48. Atonement Ian McEwan
49. Life of Pi Yann Martel
50. Dune Frank Herbert
51. Cold Comfort Farm Stella Gibbons
52. Sense and Sensibility Jane Austen
53. A Suitable Boy Vikram Seth
54. The Shadow of the Wind Carlos Ruiz Zafon
55. A Tale Of Two Cities Charles Dickens
56. Brave New World Aldous Huxley
57. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Mark Haddon
58. Love In The Time Of Cholera Gabriel Garcia Marquez
59. Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck
60. Lolita Vladimir Nabokov
61. The Secret History Donna Tartt
62. The Lovely Bones Alice Sebold
63. Count of Monte Cristo Alexandre Dumas
64. On The Road Jack Kerouac
65. Jude the Obscure Thomas Hardy
66. Bridget Jones’s Diary Helen Fielding
67. Midnight’s Children Salman Rushdie
68. Moby Dick Herman Melville
69. Oliver Twist Charlest Dickens
70. Dracula Bram Stoker
71. The Secret Garden Frances Hodgson Burnett
72. Notes From A Small Island Bill Bryson
73. Ulysses James Joyce
74. The Inferno – Dante
75. Swallows and Amazons Arthur Ransome
76. Germinal Emile Zola
77. Vanity Fair William Makepeace Thackeray
78. Possession AS Byatt
79. A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens
80. Cloud Atlas David Mitchell
81. The Color Purple Alice Walker
82. The Remains of the Day Kazuo Ishiguro
83. Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert
84. A Fine Balance Rohinton Mistry
85. Charlotte’s Web EB White
86. The Five People You Meet In Heaven Mitch Albom
87. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
88. The Faraway Tree Collection Enid Blyton
89. Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad
90. The Little Prince Antoine De SaintExupery
91. The Wasp Factory Iain Banks
92. Watership Down Richard Adams
93. A Confederacy of Dunces John Kennedy Toole
94. A Town Like Alice Nevil Shute
95. The Three Musketeers Alexandre Dumas
96. Hamlet William Shakespeare
97. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
98. Les Miserables Victor Hugo