My friend Caity posted this on her site whose friend Kim was trying to work out how many of the 100 books voted by Australian readers at Angus & Robertson.
I am going to try and get ALL of these in the shop and sell it to readers who want to read them & re read them.
But for now I am going to work out how many of these I've actually read:
Key is: read partially read unread
Harry Potter Series - J.K. Rowling
The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
The Power of One - Bryce Courtenay
Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
My Sister's Keeper - Jodi Picoult
Magician - Raymond E. Feist
Angels and Demons - Dan Brown
Cloudstreet - Tim Winton
The Bronze Horseman - Paullina Simons
It - Stephen King
The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
April Fool's Day - Bryce Courtenay
Mao's Last Dancer - Li Cunxin
Eragon - Christopher Paolini
The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien
Gone with the Wind - Margaret Mitchell
Good News Bible
Jessica - Bryce Courtenay
The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
Nineteen Eighty-four - George Orwell
Ice Station - Matthew Reilly
The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
A Fortunate Life - A. B. Facey & Robert Juniper
Cross Stitch - Diana Gabaldon
Perfume - Patrick Suskind
Life of Pi - Yann Martel
The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
The Book Thief - Markus Zusak
Little Women - Louisa M. Alcott
Tully - Paullina Simons
Shantaram - Roberts Gregory David
Wild Swans - Jung Chang
The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
Angela's Ashes - Frank McCourt
Tuesdays with Morrie - Mitch Albom
The Pillars of the Earth - Ken Follett
The Potato Factory - Bryce Courtenay
The Reef - Di Morrissey
The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver
A Child Called It - Dave Pelzer
Clan of the Cave Bear - Jean M. Auel
The Memory Keeper's Daughter - Kim Edwards
Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
Emma - Jane Austen
The Thorn Birds - Colleen McCullough
The Horse Whisperer - Nicholas Evans
Marley and Me - John Grogan
River God - Wilbur Smith
One for the Money - Janet Evanovich
The Pact - Jodi Picoult
The Five People You Meet in Heaven - Mitch Albom
Animal Farm - George Orwell
The Godfather - Mario Puzo
The Ancient Future - Traci Harding
The Great Gatsby - F.Scott Fitzgerald
Year of Wonders - Geraldine Brooks
Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Dirt Music - Tim Winton
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
The Notebook - Nicholas Sparks
The Stand - Stephen King
A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
Interview with the Vampire - Anne Rice
Scarecrow - Matthew Reilly
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
A Million Little Pieces - James Frey
Across the Nightingale Floor - Lian Hearn
Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
Assassin's Apprentice - Robin Hobb
Dune - Frank Herbert
The Bride Stripped Bare - Anonymous
Girl With a Pearl Earring - Tracy Chevalier
War and Peace - L.N. Tolstoy
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson
Anna Karenina - L.N. Tolstoy
The Eyre Affair - Jasper Fforde
The Celestine Prophecy - James Redfield
The Blind Assassin - Margaret Atwood
Flowers in the Attic - Virginia Andrews
Plain Truth - Jodi Picoult
Kane and Abel - Jeffrey Archer
The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
Brave New World -Aldous Huxley
The Other Boleyn Girl - Philippa Gregory
The Secret River - Kate Grenville
The Devil Wears Prada - Weisberger Lauren
Four Fires - Bryce Courtenay
Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
Rich Dad, Poor Dad - Robert T. Kiyosaki
The Secret History - Donna Tartt
The Poet - Michael Connelly
Desert Flower - Waris Dirie
That's pretty bad!
I've heard of all of these, only read 35, partially read 13 - either because I don't really like classics or I got bored and put it down to start something else
and have NOT read 52 of these books!
Shameful! I have a few here and I'll move away from the bizarre and unusaual books I picked up lately and the chick lit and get into one of these.
I'm with Kim though...I wonder how many books I have actually read?
And how do you fare?
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