Tuesday, July 28, 2009

The 100 Book tag...

Seems BBC did this survey to "search for the nation's best-loved novel"... Lets see how many of them i have read.. a X means read :-P

Took this tag from Rockus but i followed the original here...

1. The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien    - X
2. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen    - X
3. His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman
4. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams    - X
5. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, JK Rowling    - X
6. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee    - X
7. Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne    - X
8. Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell    - X
9. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis    - X
10. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë    - X
11. Catch-22, Joseph Heller
12. Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë    - X
13. Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks
14. Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier
15. The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger    - X
16. The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame
17. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens    - X
18. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott    - X
19. Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres
20. War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
21. Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell    - X
22. Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone, JK Rowling    - X
23. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets, JK Rowling    - X
24. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban, JK Rowling    - X
25. The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien
26. Tess Of The D'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy
27. Middlemarch, George Eliot
28. A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving
29. The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck
30. Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll    - X
31. The Story Of Tracy Beaker, Jacqueline Wilson
32. One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez    - X
33. The Pillars Of The Earth, Ken Follett
34. David Copperfield, Charles Dickens    - X
35. Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl    - X
36. Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson    - X
37. A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute
38. Persuasion, Jane Austen    - X
39. Dune, Frank Herbert
40. Emma, Jane Austen    - X
41. Anne Of Green Gables, LM Montgomery
42. Watership Down, Richard Adams
43. The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald- X
44. The Count Of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
45. Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
46. Animal Farm, George Orwell    - X
47. A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens    - X
48. Far From The Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy
49. Goodnight Mister Tom, Michelle Magorian
50. The Shell Seekers, Rosamunde Pilcher
51. The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett
52. Of Mice And Men, John Steinbeck - X
53. The Stand, Stephen King
54. Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy    - X
55. A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth    - X
56. The BFG, Roald Dahl
57. Swallows And Amazons, Arthur Ransome
58. Black Beauty, Anna Sewell    - X
59. Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer
60. Crime And Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
61. Noughts And Crosses, Malorie Blackman
62. Memoirs Of A Geisha, Arthur Golden    - X
63. A Tale Of Two Cities, Charles Dickens    - X
64. The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCollough
65. Mort, Terry Pratchett
66. The Magic Faraway Tree, Enid Blyton
67. The Magus, John Fowles
68. Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman    - X
69. Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett    - X
70. Lord Of The Flies, William Golding
71. Perfume, Patrick Süskind
72. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Robert Tressell
73. Night Watch, Terry Pratchett    - X
74. Matilda, Roald Dahl    - X
75. Bridget Jones's Diary, Helen Fielding    - X
76. The Secret History, Donna Tartt
77. The Woman In White, Wilkie Collins
78. Ulysses, James Joyce
79. Bleak House, Charles Dickens
80. Double Act, Jacqueline Wilson
81. The Twits, Roald Dahl
82. I Capture The Castle, Dodie Smith
83. Holes, Louis Sachar    - X
84. Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake
85. The God Of Small Things, Arundhati Roy    - X
86. Vicky Angel, Jacqueline Wilson
87. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
88. Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons
89. Magician, Raymond E Feist
90. On The Road, Jack Kerouac
91. The Godfather, Mario Puzo    - X
92. The Clan Of The Cave Bear, Jean M Auel
93. The Colour Of Magic, Terry Pratchett    - X
94. The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho    - X
95. Katherine, Anya Seton
96. Kane And Abel, Jeffrey Archer    - X
97. Love In The Time Of Cholera, Gabriel García Márquez - X
98. Girls In Love, Jacqueline Wilson
99. The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot  - X
100. Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie     - X

Final Score # 47 ... Not bad, i say


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9 comments:

Unknown said...

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Ratzzz said...

naan illennu sollaleye :P

HP said...

So many more books to add to my 'to read' list !!

HaRy!! said...

Hello...new here...wow thats some readin habit yu have... :) kalitingo

Mahesh Sindbandge said...

i read only 7 among them very bad.... :-(

Ratzzz said...

@ HP..

Lolzzz... add it and read it too :P

Ratzzz said...

@ hary..

welcome mate and thanks :)

Ratzzz said...

@ Mahesh

thats v v v bad indeed :P

welcome and enjoy maadi

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