{"id":6820,"date":"2011-12-19T05:08:59","date_gmt":"2011-12-19T05:08:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/2011\/12\/19\/have-you-read-more-than-6-of-these-books-the-bbc\/"},"modified":"2011-12-19T05:08:59","modified_gmt":"2011-12-19T05:08:59","slug":"have-you-read-more-than-6-of-these-books-the-bbc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/2011\/12\/19\/have-you-read-more-than-6-of-these-books-the-bbc\/","title":{"rendered":"Have you read more than 6 of these books? The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books listed here\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bold those books you\u2019ve read in their entirety.<\/p>\n<p>Italicize the ones you started but didn\u2019t finish or read only an excerpt.<\/p>\n<p><em>1\u00a0Pride and Prejudice \u2013 Jane Austen<\/em><br \/><em>2\u00a0The Lord of the Rings \u2013 JRR Tolkien<\/em><br \/><strong>3 Jane Eyre \u2013 Charlotte Bronte<\/strong><br \/><strong>4\u00a0Harry Potter series \u2013 JK Rowling<\/strong><br \/><strong>5\u00a0To Kill a Mockingbird \u2013 Harper Lee<\/strong><br \/><strong>6\u00a0The Bible<\/strong><br \/>7\u00a0Wuthering Heights \u2013 Emily Bronte<br \/>8\u00a0Nineteen Eighty Four \u2013 George Orwell<br \/><em>9\u00a0His Dark Materials \u2013 Philip Pullman<\/em><br \/><em>10\u00a0Great Expectations \u2013 Charles Dickens<\/em><br \/><em>11\u00a0Little Women \u2013 Louisa M Alcott<\/em><br \/>12 Tess of the D\u2019Urbervilles \u2013 Thomas Hardy<br \/>13\u00a0Catch 22 \u2013 Joseph Heller<br \/><em>14\u00a0Complete Works of Shakespeare<\/em><br \/>15 Rebecca \u2013 Daphne Du Maurier<br \/><strong>16\u00a0The Hobbit \u2013 JRR Tolkien<\/strong><br \/>17 Birdsong \u2013 Sebastian Faulks<br \/>18\u00a0Catcher in the Rye \u2013 JD Salinger<br \/>19\u00a0The Time Traveller\u2019s Wife \u2013 Audrey Niffenegger<br \/>20 Middlemarch \u2013 George Eliot<br \/>21\u00a0Gone With The Wind \u2013 Margaret Mitchell<br \/>22\u00a0The Great Gatsby \u2013 F Scott Fitzgerald<br \/>23 Bleak House \u2013 Charles Dickens<br \/>24\u00a0War and Peace \u2013 Leo Tolstoy<br \/><em>25\u00a0The Hitch Hiker\u2019s Guide to the Galaxy \u2013 Douglas Adams<\/em><br \/>26 Brideshead Revisited \u2013 Evelyn Waugh<br \/>27\u00a0Crime and Punishment \u2013 Fyodor Dostoyevsky<br \/>28\u00a0Grapes of Wrath \u2013 John Steinbeck<br \/><strong>29\u00a0Alice in Wonderland \u2013 Lewis Carroll<\/strong><br \/>30\u00a0The Wind in the Willows \u2013 Kenneth Grahame<br \/>31 Anna Karenina \u2013 Leo Tolstoy<br \/>32\u00a0David Copperfield \u2013 Charles Dickens<br \/><em>33\u00a0Chronicles of Narnia \u2013 CS Lewis<\/em><br \/>34\u00a0Emma \u2013 Jane Austen<br \/>35\u00a0Persuasion \u2013 Jane Austen<br \/>36\u00a0The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe \u2013 CS Lewis<br \/>37 The Kite Runner \u2013 Khaled Hosseini<br \/>38 Captain Corelli\u2019s Mandolin \u2013 Louis De Bernieres<br \/>39\u00a0Memoirs of a Geisha \u2013 Arthur Golden<br \/>40\u00a0Winnie the Pooh \u2013 AA Milne<br \/><strong>41\u00a0Animal Farm \u2013 George Orwell<\/strong><br \/><strong>42\u00a0The Da Vinci Code \u2013 Dan Brown<\/strong><br \/>43 One Hundred Years of Solitude \u2013 Gabriel Garcia Marquez<br \/>44\u00a0A Prayer for Owen Meaney \u2013 John Irving<br \/>45 The Woman in White \u2013 Wilkie Collins<br \/>46\u00a0Anne of Green Gables \u2013 LM Montgomery<br \/>47 Far From The Madding Crowd \u2013 Thomas Hardy<br \/>48\u00a0The Handmaid\u2019s Tale \u2013 Margaret Atwood<br \/><em>49\u00a0Lord of the Flies \u2013 William Golding<\/em><br \/>50 Atonement \u2013 Ian McEwan<br \/>51 Life of Pi \u2013 Yann Martel<br \/>52 Dune \u2013 Frank Herbert<br \/>53 Cold Comfort Farm \u2013 Stella Gibbons<br \/>54\u00a0Sense and Sensibility \u2013 Jane Austen<br \/>55\u00a0A Suitable Boy \u2013 Vikram Seth<br \/>56 The Shadow of the Wind \u2013 Carlos Ruiz Zafon<br \/>57\u00a0A Tale Of Two Cities \u2013 Charles Dickens<br \/>58\u00a0Brave New World \u2013 Aldous Huxley<br \/>59\u00a0The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time \u2013 Mark Haddon<br \/>60\u00a0Love In The Time Of Cholera \u2013 Gabriel Garcia Marquez<br \/><strong>61\u00a0Of Mice and Men \u2013 John Steinbeck<\/strong><br \/>62 Lolita \u2013 Vladimir Nabokov<br \/>63 The Secret History \u2013 Donna Tartt<br \/>64\u00a0The Lovely Bones \u2013 Alice Sebold<br \/>65 Count of Monte Cristo \u2013 Alexandre Dumas<br \/>66 On The Road \u2013 Jack Kerouac<br \/>67 Jude the Obscure \u2013 Thomas Hardy<br \/>68 Bridget Jones\u2019s Diary \u2013 Helen Fielding<br \/>69 Midnight\u2019s Children \u2013 Salman Rushdie<br \/>70\u00a0Moby Dick \u2013 Herman Melville<br \/>71\u00a0Oliver Twist \u2013 Charles Dickens<br \/>72\u00a0Dracula \u2013 Bram Stoker<br \/><em>73\u00a0The Secret Garden \u2013 Frances Hodgson Burnett<\/em><br \/>74 Notes From A Small Island \u2013 Bill Bryson<br \/><strong>75 Ulysses \u2013 James Joyce<\/strong><br \/>76\u00a0The Bell Jar \u2013 Sylvia Plath<br \/>77 Swallows and Amazons \u2013 Arthur Ransome<br \/>78 Germinal \u2013 Emile Zola<br \/>79\u00a0Vanity Fair \u2013 William Makepeace Thackeray<br \/>80 Possession \u2013 AS Byatt<br \/>81\u00a0A Christmas Carol \u2013 Charles Dickens<br \/>82 Cloud Atlas \u2013 David Mitchel<br \/>83\u00a0The Color Purple \u2013 Alice Walker<br \/>84 The Remains of the Day \u2013 Kazuo Ishiguro<br \/>85 Madame Bovary \u2013 Gustave Flaubert<br \/>86\u00a0A Fine Balance \u2013 Rohinton Mistry<br \/><strong>87\u00a0Charlotte\u2019s Web \u2013 EB White<\/strong><br \/>88\u00a0The Five People You Meet In Heaven \u2013 Mitch Albom<br \/><strong>89\u00a0Adventures of Sherlock Holmes \u2013 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle<\/strong><br \/>90 The Faraway Tree Collection \u2013 Enid Blyton<br \/>91\u00a0Heart of Darkness \u2013 Joseph Conrad<br \/><strong>92\u00a0The Little Prince \u2013 Antoine De Saint-Exupery<\/strong><br \/>93 The Wasp Factory \u2013 Iain Banks<br \/><strong>94\u00a0Watership Down \u2013 Richard Adams<\/strong><br \/>95\u00a0A Confederacy of Dunces \u2013 John Kennedy Toole<br \/>96\u00a0A Town Like Alice \u2013 Nevil Shute<br \/>97\u00a0The Three Musketeers \u2013 Alexandre Dumas<br \/><strong>98\u00a0Hamlet \u2013 William Shakespeare<\/strong><br \/><em>99\u00a0Charlie and the Chocolate Factory \u2013 Roald Dahl<\/em><br \/>100\u00a0Les Miserables \u2013 Victor Hugo<\/p>\n<p>I am sad at myself. D:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bold those books you\u2019ve read in their entirety. Italicize the ones you started but didn\u2019t finish or read only an excerpt. 1\u00a0Pride and Prejudice \u2013 Jane Austen2\u00a0The Lord of the Rings \u2013 JRR Tolkien3 Jane Eyre \u2013 Charlotte Bronte4\u00a0Harry Potter series \u2013 JK Rowling5\u00a0To Kill a Mockingbird \u2013 Harper Lee6\u00a0The Bible7\u00a0Wuthering Heights \u2013 Emily Bronte8\u00a0Nineteen &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/2011\/12\/19\/have-you-read-more-than-6-of-these-books-the-bbc\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Have you read more than 6 of these books? The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books listed here\u2026<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","without-featured-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6820\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}