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79/100: I’m a geek who loves to read! :-)

According to BBC, most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books listed below.

Please copy and paste: strike out books read, italicize books not completed, and then sum up with a head count, so to speak. What does the list say about your reading habits?

Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
Harry Potter series - JK Rowling (DUH)
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
The Bible
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman 
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
Complete Works of Shakespeare 
Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier 
The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk 
Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
Middlemarch - George Eliot 
Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
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 
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
Emma - Jane Austen 
Persuasion - Jane Austen
The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini 
Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres 
Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne 
Animal Farm - George Orwell
The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown 
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez 
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
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 
A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens 
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez 
Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
The Secret History - Donna Tartt 
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 Dick - Herman Melville
Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
Dracula - Bram Stoker
The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson 
Ulysses - James Joyce
The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
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 
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 
Watership Down - Richard Adams
A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole 
A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute 
The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas 
Hamlet - William Shakespeare
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

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