Of course I got this as a note on Facebook with the following instructions: the BBC believes most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here. How do your reading habits stack up?

Well after some checking, I don’t think the BBC originated this thing at all.  Plus some of these books I have no intention of reading; hellooo Dan Brown.

But just for fun, here’s how my reading habits stack-up.

1. Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen – YES
2. The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien – No
3. Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte – YES
4. Harry Potter series – JK Rowling – I read the first four
5. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee – No
6. The Bible -No
7. Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte -No
8. Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell – No
9. His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman – No
10. Great Expectations – Charles Dickens – No
11. Little Women – Louisa M Alcott – Yes
12. Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy -YES
13. Catch 22 – Joseph Heller – No
14. Complete Works of Shakespeare – No (I’ve read Macbeth, Hamlet & Julius Caesar)
15. Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier – No
16. The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien – No
17. Birdsong – Sebastian Faulk – No
18. Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger – No
19. The Time Traveller’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger – No
20. Middlemarch – George Eliot -No
21. Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell – No
22. The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald – No
23. Bleak House – Charles Dickens – No
24. War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy – No
25. The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams – No
26. Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh – No
27. Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky – No
28. Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck – No
29. Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll – Yes
30. The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame – No
31. Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy – No
32. David Copperfield – Charles Dickens – No
33. Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis – No
34. Emma – Jane Austen -
35. Persuasion – Jane Austen – No
36. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – CS Lewis -YES
37. The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini – No
38. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis De Bernieres – No
39. Memoirs of a Geisha -YES
40. Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne – No
41. Animal Farm – George Orwell – No
42. The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown – No
43. One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez -YES
44. A Prayer for Owen Meany – John Irving – No
45. The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins – No
46. Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery – No
47. Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy – No
48. The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood – No
49. Lord of the Flies – William Golding – No
50. Atonement – Ian McEwan -No
51. Life of Pi – Yann Martel – No
52. Dune – Frank Herbert – No
53. Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons – No
54. Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen – Yes
55. A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth – No
56. The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon – No
57. A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens – No
58. Brave New World – Aldous Huxley – No
59. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon – No
60. Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez -YES
61. Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck – No
62. Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov -YES
63. The Secret History – Donna Tartt – No
64. The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold -  YES
65. On The Road – Jack Kerouac – No
66. Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy – No
67. Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helen Fielding -YES
68. Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie – No
69. Moby Dick – Herman Melville – No
70. Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens – No
71. Dracula – Bram Stoker – No
72. The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett – Yes
73. Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson – No
74. Ulysses – James Joyce – No
75. The Inferno – Dante – No
76. Swallows and Amazons – Arthur Ransome – No
77. Germinal – Emile Zola – No
78. Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray – No
79. Possession – AS Byatt – No
80. A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens – No
81. Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell – No
82. The Color Purple – Alice Walker -YES
83. The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro – No
84. Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert – No
85. A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry – No
86. Charlotte’s Web – EB White -YES
87. The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom – No
88. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle – No
89. The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton – YES
90. Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad – No
91. The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery – No
92. The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks – No
93. Watership Down – Richard Adams – No
94. A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole – No
95. A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute – No
96. The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas – No
97. Hamlet – William Shakespeare – Yes
98. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl – No
99. Les Miserables – No

What’s cool about this list is its mix of classics and trash. Don’t worry the BBC approves.