{"id":1695,"date":"2009-03-01T06:26:30","date_gmt":"2009-03-01T11:26:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/?p=1695"},"modified":"2009-03-01T06:27:15","modified_gmt":"2009-03-01T11:27:15","slug":"bbc-books-meme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2009\/03\/01\/bbc-books-meme\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC Books meme"},"content":{"rendered":"

(I filched this meme from a couple of friends’ Facebook pages. According to the original meme, the BBC reckons most people will have only read 6 of the 100 important books here. Thing is, I went looking for the original source of 100 books, and couldn’t find it anywhere. There’s this BBC Big Reads<\/a> list from 2003, but it’s not the same. But hey, since when do we allow a little thing that factual sources stand in the way of good blog fodder. On with the meme!)<\/p>\n

Instructions:
\n1) Look at the list and put an ‘X’ after those you have read.
\n2) Add a ‘+’ to the ones you LOVE.
\n3) Star (*) those you plan on reading.
\n4) Tally your total at the bottom.
\n<\/p>\n

1 Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen *
\n2 The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien Xish (kind of. I tried! Sooooo long in the Hobbity bits, though!)
\n3 Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
\n4 Harry Potter series – JK Rowling X++
\n5 To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee X+
\n6 The Bible Xish (see comment above re: Tolkien)
\n7 Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte X
\n8 Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell X
\n9 His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman X+
\n10 Great Expectations – Charles Dickens X
\n11 Little Women – Louisa M Alcott X
\n12 Tess of the D\u00e2\u20ac\u2122Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
\n13 Catch 22 – Joseph Heller X
\n14 Complete Works of Shakespeare Xish (I own it, but havent read every word)
\n15 Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier
\n16 The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien X+
\n17 Birdsong – Sebastian Faulk
\n18 Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger X+
\n19 The Time Traveller\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger X +++
\n20 Middlemarch – George Eliot
\n21 Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell X
\n22 The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald X+
\n23 Bleak House – Charles Dickens
\n24 War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy *
\n25 The Hitch Hiker\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams X+++ (Don’t panic!)
\n26 Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
\n27 Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
\n28 Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
\n29 Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll X
\n30 The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame X
\n31 Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
\n32 David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
\n33 Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis X
\n34 Emma – Jane Austen X
\n35 Persuasion – Jane Austen X
\n36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – CS Lewis X
\n37 The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini X (and *hated* it!)
\n38 Captain Corelli\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Mandolin – Louis De Bernieres
\n39 Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
\n40 Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne X
\n41 Animal Farm – George Orwell X
\n42 The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown X
\n43 One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez *
\n44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney – John Irving *
\n45 The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins
\n46 Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery * (Oh, the shame!)
\n47 Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy
\n48 The Handmaid\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Tale – Margaret Atwood X
\n49 Lord of the Flies – William Golding X
\n50 Atonement – Ian McEwan
\n51 Life of Pi – Yann Martel Xish (I’ve started it half a dozen times)
\n52 Dune – Frank Herbert
\n53 Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons
\n54 Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
\n55 A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth
\n56 The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon
\n57 A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens X
\n58 Brave New World – Aldous Huxley *
\n59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon *
\n60 Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez *
\n61 Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
\n62 Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
\n63 The Secret History – Donna Tartt
\n64 The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold X
\n65 Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
\n66 On The Road – Jack Kerouac
\n67 Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy
\n68 Bridget Jones\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Diary – Helen Fielding (I honestly can’t remember if I actually read this or just sucked it into my pores via osmosis and overexposure.)
\n69 Midnight\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Children – Salman Rushdie
\n70 Moby Dick – Herman Melville X
\n71 Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens X
\n72 Dracula – Bram Stoker
\n73 The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett X
\n74 Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson
\n75 Ulysses – James Joyce
\n76 The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
\n77 Swallows and Amazons – Arthur Ransome
\n78 Germinal – Emile Zola
\n79 Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
\n80 Possession – AS Byatt
\n81 A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens X
\n82 Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
\n83 The Color Purple – Alice Walker X
\n84 The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
\n85 Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
\n86 A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
\n87 Charlotte\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Web – EB White X
\n88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Alborn
\n89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
\n90 The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton
\n91 Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad X
\n92 The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery X (In French!!)
\n93 The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks
\n94 Watership Down – Richard Adams
\n95 A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
\n96 A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute
\n97 The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
\n98 Hamlet – William Shakespeare X
\n99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl X
\n100 Les Miserables – Victor Hugo X<\/p>\n

I think that’s about 40 or so, not including the “maybes” and “sortas.” I sure hope that the BBC is impressed! <\/p>\n

(I hate it when these memes suss out the really obvious gaps in my literary education. I really ought to read LM Montgomery before I fill out my next passport application or they’ll renounce my citizenship….)<\/p>\n

Let me know if you decide to play along!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(I filched this meme from a couple of friends’ Facebook pages. According to the original meme, the BBC reckons most people will have only read 6 of the 100 important books here. Thing is, I went looking for the original source of 100 books, and couldn’t find it anywhere. There’s this BBC Big Reads list … Continue reading “BBC Books meme”<\/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":[8,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-memes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1695"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1781,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1695\/revisions\/1781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}