I Guess It's Official...I Really Am a Nerd

I got this off my sister-in-law's Facebook page. The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books here. Since I've read 46 of the 100, I guess I really am a book nerd. In my defense, though, some of it was required reading in college, so I guess I was at least partially forced to be a nerd by my professors. Anyway, here's the list: 1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen- X (Extra points for reading it at least once a year??) 2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien - 3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte- 4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling - X 5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee - X 6 The Bible- (Can I get half of an X? Can't say I've ever read the WHOLE thing) 7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte -X 8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwel- X 9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman - 10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens-X 11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott-X 12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy-X 13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller 14 Complete Works of Shakespeare - (Don't be shocked that an English teacher HASN'T read ALL of Shakespeare) 15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier- X 16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien - 17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk - 18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger -X 19 The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger- 20 Middlemarch - George Eliot - 21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell -X 22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald - X 23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens - 24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy - 25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams - 27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky-X 28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck - (I confess I was supposed to read it in college, but I couldn't get all the way through it, so I read half of the original, half of the Cliffs Notes) 29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll- 30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame - 31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy - 32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens- 33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis -X 34 Emma-Jane Austen -X 35 Persuasion - Jane Austen- X (Have you caught the BBC's newest movie version? Fabulous.) 36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis - X 37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini - X 38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De ernieres - 39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden - 40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne- X 41 Animal Farm - George Orwell - X 42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown -X (Is this really a "classic"??) 43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez - 44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving- X 45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins - X 46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery- X 47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy - 48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood - 49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding -X 50 Atonement - Ian McEwan - 51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel- 52 Dune - Frank Herbert- 53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons- 54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen- X 55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth - 56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon - 57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens - 58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley - 59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night - Mark Haddon- X 60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez - 61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck - X 62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov- 63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt - 64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold - X 65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas- X 66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac - 67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy - X 68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding- X 69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie - 70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville 71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens 72 Dracula - Bram Stoker- X 73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett - X 74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson - X (LOVE Bill Bryson) 75 Ulysses - James Joyce- 76 The Inferno – Dante- X (but only because I was forced to in Eng. 201) 77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome - 78 Germinal - Emile Zola - 79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray- X (hated every minute of it) 80 Possession - AS Byatt – 81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens - X 82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell - 83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker- X 84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro - 85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert - 86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry - 87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White - X 88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom - X 89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton- 91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad - X (again, I was forced in Eng. 201) 92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery- 93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks - 94 Watership Down - Richard Adams- 95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole - 96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute - X 97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas 98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare - X 99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl - X 100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo- X (I hope the abridged version counts?) Grand Total: 46 Official Status: Nerd