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How many of these books have you read?
I pulled this from facebook. I need more books to read and I think this is a good list to work off of!
How Many of These BBC Books have you read? The BBC believes that most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here.
I've surprisingly read 25 of them (not that I remember them all). And for most that I checked off I though "Damn, that was a good book!"
Look at the list and put an
'x' in front of those you have read.
() Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
(x) - The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
() Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
(x) Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
() - To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
(X) The Bible (some)
() Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
(x) - Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
() His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman (some)
() Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
(X) Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
( ) Tess of the D?Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
(x) Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
( ) Complete Works of Shakespeare
( ) Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
(x) The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
( ) Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
(x) Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
( ) The Time Traveler?s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
( ) Middlemarch - George Eliot
() Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
(x) The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
( ) Bleak House - Charles Dickens
( ) War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
() The Hitch Hiker?s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
( ) Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
() Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
(x) Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
() Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
( ) The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
( ) Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy -
( ) David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
( ) Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis (some)
( ) Emma - Jane Austen
( ) Persuasion - Jane Austen
() The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
(x) The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
( ) Captain Corelli?s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
(x) Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
() Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
(x) Animal Farm - George Orwell
(X) The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
() One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
(x) A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
( ) The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
() Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
( )Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
()The Handmaid?s Tale - Margaret Atwood-saw the movie-disturbing!
(x) Lord of the Flies - William Golding
( ) Atonement - Ian McEwan
() Life of Pi - Yann Martel
() Dune - Frank Herbert
( ) Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
( ) Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
( ) A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
( ) The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
(X) A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
(X) Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
(x) The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night time - Mark Haddon
( ) Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
(x) Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
( ) Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
( ) The Secret History - Donna Tartt
(x) The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
( )Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
( ) On The Road - Jack Kerouac
( ) Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
() Bridget Jones?s Diary - Helen Fielding
( ) Midnight?s Children - Salman Rushdie
() Moby *** - Herman Melville
() Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
(x) Dracula - Bram Stoker
() The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
( ) Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
() Ulysses - James Joyce
() The Inferno - Dante
( ) Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
( ) Germinal - Emile Zola
( ) Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
( ) Possession - AS Byatt
() A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
( ) Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
() The Color Purple - Alice Walker
() The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
() Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
( ) A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
(X) Charlotte?s Web - EB White
() The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
() Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
( ) The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
() Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
() The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
( ) The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
(x) Watership Down - Richard Adams
() A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
( ) A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
( ) The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas (IN FRENCH)
(X) Hamlet - William Shakespeare
() Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
( ) Les Miserables - Victor HugoUpdated
Re: How many of these books have you read?
Lucy Elizabeth 10.27.12
27. There are a lot on there that are on my list, as well.
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we are all doing better than 6 right now!
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
The Bible (some)
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
The Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
Emma - Jane Austen
The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
Animal Farm - George Orwell
The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
Dracula - Bram Stoker
The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
Charlotte?s Web - EB White
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery (both French and English)
Hamlet - William Shakespeare
I'm going to blame a lot of my list on the two Victorian Lit classes I had in college.
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My 101
60, but I am counting a few that I didn't finish.
How come I have to have read 3 Musketeers in French, but I can have read Les Mis in English? (actually I read Les Mis in French, but I haven't read 3 Musketeers at all) I was a Brit Lit major, so I really should have read more of them...
Clearly, I'm the big loser here. I've read 5 of them! hahaha
And...of those 5, all of them were for school. I HATE reading.
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I read that the BBC released a list of its top 100 books, but never said "We believe that most people have only read 6". Also, almost half of their list was totally different than this.
Just thought that was interesting... oh the evolution of random internet surveys
I just googled this and you are so right! Now I have a new and improved reading list.
I've read 6, I feel pathetic!
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Kaylynne -
I just hate it. Some people like to do some things, some don't. I don't like to read. I don't mind reading short articles in magazines and things like that, but I don't have the attention span to read a book...especially one that I am "assigned" to read. In my opinion, schools should allow kids to pick what book they want to read. That way, kids can at least read about a topic they enjoy.
As an adult, I choose not to read. I have read a couple of books on my own, since I was out of college...but I still don't enjoy it. I hate knowing I've wasted hours of my life sitting there reading. There are so many other things I could be doing...enjoying the outdoors, taking pictures, etc. Not to mention, reading also makes me sleepy. Ten minutes into a book, and I start nodding off.
Thanks Hopscotch-
The kids have an awful time articulating why they want to (or don't want to) do things. I try to give options as much as possible, but since I teach lit, there are things they have to read (also, some kids, if told to choose/find their own books, won't - they don't know what they like, they don't know how to choose a book, they're against reading anything period - and then I have to force a book on them anyway).
I never know what to say to the kids that just don't like to read - no matter what the book is. I get not wanting to do it because it's assigned, but we all have to do things in our jobs that we don't necessarily like. This is why I give class time to do some of their assigned reading - they're not "wasting" as much free time.
So, for you, it's mostly an attention span thing - the length of the books is daunting? Would it make a difference if you only had to read a chapter at a time - or you could take breaks? Or maybe if the book taught you to do something (how to play a game, or some outdoor activity)? I'm trying to get more nonfiction books for my classroom library.
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Kay - yes, attention span is one of the main things, but also just the reading part. I've never been a super fast reader and I just can't stand it. Chapters at a time don't really help...I'd rather get the point of the entire book in a short period of time. For example, short stories are great. I do love the "Chicken Soup for the Soul" books because they are 2-5 pages, you read it and you're done. You don't have to pick it up again to finish the story.
I also never had any interest in the books they assigned us in school. The Good Earth may very well be the entire reason that I hate books...especially since I had to read it twice.
I actually went through AL (advanced) English in 9th grade, because I've always done well in school, but I dropped it for regular English in 10th grade because, every summer, prior to the school year, all AL students had to read 5 books over the summer and complete a notebook doing a chapter analysis, plot summary, character analysis, etc of every one of those 5 books. It was horrendous. Summer is break time...not school time. That was the most ridiculous thing I have ever done. Regular English kids just had to read one book and be ready for a test at the beginning of the year...much more manageable.
I'm also more of a fan of non-fiction books (if I have to pick a book), as well. I'd definitely look into offering more of those, if I were a teacher. I've always been a very realistic person and fiction books don't do anything for me...especially sci-fi type books. I can't understand these people that get into Harry Potter and vampire books. That would most definitely be the death of me.
Lark- I'm not sure how accurate/inaccurate the book is, since I've only ever taught two kids with Asperger's in a class with inclusion. I'm sure it's a little different for everyone depending on severity of the disorder and the personality of the student. Anyway, that's why I have the kids read nonfic articles about autism and Asperger's before we read it. The book itself never claims the character has autism... it's the reviewer, or the summary on the back (written by someone else) that suggests that. My students read the articles, then they read some poems and try to guess which ones are written by someone with Asperger's. Then, as we read the book, they look for signs that the character has the disorder.
I use the book to teach about accepting people who see things differently, regardless of the reason for the differences. Trying to understand other people's points of view is difficult for many teens - they're hardwired to be egocentric, but they want so badly to be social. I also like the detective story aspect of the book... finding clues works really well for teaching inferences and predictions.
Hopscotch- Thanks!
I'm not one of those teachers who believes all students will love reading if you just give them the right the book. I hate running. It's not going to change if somebody buys me a nice pair of sneakers.
But I teach lit, and the kids have to read to pass the class. I do believe they will get something out of every book I assign - even if they don't like it. I wouldn't assign these books if I thought they served no purpose. That said, it's in my best interest as a teacher to take student interest into account. They'll learn more and read more if they don't hate every minute of it.
Of course, my life is definitely easier if they all read the same book, but no single book is ever going to appeal to all 30 kids in a class. All I can hope is that if they hated the first one, they'll at least tolerate the second one. Then I give them choice for side projects and one book per semester.
I'm trying to build in more activities that deal with the themes and ideas in the books, since the themes and ideas are going to be transferable as the students grow up. Since there's no getting around the fact that eventually they have to read the book I try to be open to suggestions. The book is the tool for teaching grammar/language and for getting them to think about Big Ideas (and in some cases, getting them to Think at all). I'm flexible about the choice of tool.