Anyhoo (yes "anyway" was already taken).

As it's been doing the rounds of Facebook, but think it'll get less judgemental exposure here (what with being accessible to most of the world, rather than only the friendship-and-beyond cluster). Purportedly from the BBC, but a bit weak for that.

Have you read more than 6 of these books?
[Um, it's a list of 100 of the best known of the things; if the answer's "No" then don't worry, big school's not that bad (ok, that's a lie, but it's what adults are meant to do).]

The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books here. How do your reading habits stack up?
[Seriously? If you're going to publish stats like that you could at least give a list of countries worth fleeing to.]

Instructions: Copy this into your NOTES BLOG. Look at the list and put an 'Yes' after those you have read. Tag other book nerds. Tag me as well so i can see your responses!
[you didn't capitalise yourself, so "no, shan't"]

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen - N (but the BBC's version is the same, right?).
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien - Y (ploughed through it just before the film came out).
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte - Y (at school, loathed).
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling - N
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee - Y (at school, got told off for reading the whole thing in one sitting because we were only meant to go up to the end of chapter 2).
TOTAL SO FAR: 3

6 The Bible - N (I tried but got lost with all the begatting).
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte - Y (at school, not a fan of merry tales of incest).
8 1984 - George Orwell - Y
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman - Y
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens - N
TOTAL SO FAR: 6

11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott - N
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy - Y (Guessing Hardy wasn't that keen on women).
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller - Y (Gets repetitive).
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare - N (is one meant to /read/ these?)
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier - N
TOTAL SO FAR: 8

16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien - N (My father used to read it to us as a bedtime story. There were continuity issues).
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk - Y (Quite good).
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger - Y (Think I missed something).
19 The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger - N
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot - Y (Stodge).
TOTAL SO FAR: 11

21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell - N (It's a book?)
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald - Y
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens - N
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy - Y (Once you get past the triple-layered names it's good, at least until the Masons turn up).
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams - Y.
TOTAL SO FAR: 14

26 Tess Of The D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy - Y (I'm taking this to mean 'Far from the madding crowd').
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky - N
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck - Y (Brilliant).
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll - Y
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame - Y (Weren't they a series?)
TOTAL SO FAR: 18

31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy - N
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens - N
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis - Y (Well, most of the collection but it was tedious).
34 Emma - Jane Austen - N
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen - N (right, so that's Austen and Dickens I need to do).
TOTAL SO FAR: 19

36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis - Y (Isn't this 3 up?)
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hossein - Y
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres - Y (Why the fuss?)
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden - Y
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne - Y (Was that the name of a book? Anyway, most if not all the series).
TOTAL SO FAR: 24

41 Animal Farm - George Orwell - Y
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown - Y (This man teaches English?)
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez - N
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving - N
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins - N
TOTAL SO FAR: 26

46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery - N
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy - Y (Except I've already counted this, so this'll be for the 'Mayor of Casterbridge').
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood - N
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding - N
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan - N (but have it ready to read)
TOTAL SO FAR: 27

51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel - Y (Superb, even with the printing fault at the end)
52 Dune - Frank Herbert - N
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons - N
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen - N
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth - Y (Glorious).
TOTAL SO FAR: 29

56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon - N
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens - N
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley - Y (Death in Puttenham? Whodathunkit?)
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night - Mark Haddon - N
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez - N
TOTAL SO FAR: 30

61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck - Y
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov - N
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt - N
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold - N
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas - N
TOTAL SO FAR: 31

66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac - N
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy - N
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding - N
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie - Y (Dull)
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville - Y (Ditto. The best thing to come out of it was the Guinness ad)
TOTAL SO FAR: 33

71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens - N (But knowing half the songs is the same, surely?)
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker - N (I was about say I started it, but that was Frankenstein).
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett - N
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson - Y (Who hasn't?)
75 Ulysses - James Joyce - N
TOTAL SO FAR: 34

76 The Inferno - Dante - N
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome - Y
78 Germinal - Emile Zola - N
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray - N
80 Possession - AS Byatt - N
TOTAL SO FAR: 35

81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens - N (Very Dickens-heavy list).
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell - N
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker - Y (at school, hideously patronising)
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro - N
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert - N
TOTAL SO FAR: 36

86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry - N
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White - Y (I'd forgotten this).
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom - N
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - N
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton - N (Famous Five & Secret Seven = Y)
TOTAL SO FAR: 37

91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad - N (Even though it was a present)
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery - N
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks - Y
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams - N
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole - N
TOTAL SO FAR: 38

96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute - Y
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas - N
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare - N
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl - Y
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo - N
TOTAL SO FAR: 40
[Make that 41 by the time I publish this. #59 BTW. Working on #97]

Anyhoo,