What do people do in England if they don't read all day?

Not that it's any better here, of course. But the BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books here. So how do your reading habits stack up?


1 Pride and Prejudice X
2 The Lord of the Rings X
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte X
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling X
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee X
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte X
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell X
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman X (actually, just the first book. How do you make 1/3 of an 'X'?)
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens X

11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott X
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy X
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller (own, haven't read)
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare X (well, I've read many...)
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier (want to read)
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien X
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger X
19 The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger X
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot

21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald X
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams (I really need to read this. I keep putting it down)
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky X
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll X
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame X

31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis X
34 Emma - Jane Austen X
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen X
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis X
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini (own, haven't read)
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres (own, haven't read)
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden X
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne X

41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown X (really could have done without reading this...)
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 X
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood X
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding X
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan X

51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel (own...you get the drill)
52 Dune - Frank Herbert X
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons (I have been hunting for a copy of this)
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 X
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night - Mark Haddon X
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez (own, etc)

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 X
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas X
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie (own)
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville (own)

71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens X (read obsessively as a child)
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker X
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett X
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Inferno – Dante X
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray (own)
80 Possession - AS Byatt X

81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens X
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell X (!!! favorite modern novel !!!)
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro (want)
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert X (I have two copies of this. I do not need to copies of this.)
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White X
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom (own. Will probably never read)
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - X Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (read some of these as a kid)
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton

91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad X
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams (own)
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole (tried to read. Didn't happen)
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare X
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory X
100 Les Miserables — Victor Hugo X


Well, I didn't do too bad for myself, I'd say. 54/100, assuming I can count. And many more owned and planned. Some though, I'm going to pass on.

I'm curious what 6 the BBC believes most likely, and why these are grouped as they are...