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BBC Believes You Only Read 6 of These Books
Jul 20^th, 2017 at 1:28am

The BBC believes that most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books below. How many have you read?
(Tip: The average Goodreads member has read 23 out of 100 books on this list).
Interestingly, the BBC never actually made this declaration. The list was created by an unknown individual and spread around the internet as a meme called The BBC Book List Challenge. It was probably loosely based on another list of books that was the result of a survey carried out in 2003 by the BBC in which three quarters of a million people voted to find the nation's best-loved novels of all time.

http://www.listchallenges.com/kaunismina-bbc-6-books-challenge

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mothra Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 36389 Gender:	Re: BBC Believes You Only Read 6 of These Books Reply #1 - Jul 20^th, 2017 at 1:30am I've read 64 on the list, but the list cheats. It's lists the Complete Works of Shakespeare and Hamlet as seperate entries. So i've really read 63 ... and the list is only 99 books long.
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mothra Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 36389 Gender:	Re: BBC Believes You Only Read 6 of These Books Reply #2 - Jul 20^th, 2017 at 1:33am I was surprised that only one book of John Irving's made the list ... but it's my favourite .. A Prayer for Owen Meany ... so i'll forgive them. But damn, he's good. One of my favourite authors.
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AiA Gold Member Offline Posts: 18405 Gender:	Re: BBC Believes You Only Read 6 of These Books Reply #3 - Jul 20^th, 2017 at 1:39am Both Brideshead Revisited and The Great Gatsby are read nearly yearly by me. Recently I drove down to Montgomery to the F Scott Fitzgerald house and museum. Amazon now has an original series about Zelda Fitzgerald called Z - The Beginning of Everything.
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Reply #4 - Jul 20^th, 2017 at 1:41am

AiA wrote on Jul 20^th, 2017 at 1:39am:

Both Brideshead Revisited and The Great Gatsby are read nearly yearly by me. Recently I drove down to Montgomery to the F Scott Fitzgerald house and museum. Amazon now has an original series about Zelda Fitzgerald called Z - The Beginning of Everything.

I haven't read Brideshead Revisited but have read and thoroughly enjoyed Gatsby.

Never saw the movie.

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Reply #5 - Jul 20^th, 2017 at 1:46am

mothra wrote on Jul 20^th, 2017 at 1:41am:

AiA wrote on Jul 20^th, 2017 at 1:39am:

Both Brideshead Revisited and The Great Gatsby are read nearly yearly by me. Recently I drove down to Montgomery to the F Scott Fitzgerald house and museum. Amazon now has an original series about Zelda Fitzgerald called Z - The Beginning of Everything.

I haven't read Brideshead Revisited but have read and thoroughly enjoyed Gatsby.

Never saw the movie.

The early 80's Brideshead Revisited series is first class. Remarkable. Gatsby was played by Redford in the 70's with Coppola directing and is worth watching. The Dicaprio Gatsby - don't bother.

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mothra Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 36389 Gender:	Re: BBC Believes You Only Read 6 of These Books Reply #6 - Jul 20^th, 2017 at 1:52am Oh i think i might have seen the Coppola one. It rings a bell anyway. A book that i think truly deserves to be on that list is The Famished Road by Ben Okri. Scored a Booker Prize. A brilliantly unique and thoroughly captivating story. It can take the place freed up by having Hamlet there twice.
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Sprintcyclist Gold Member Offline OzPolitic Posts: 41417 Gender:	Re: BBC Believes You Only Read 6 of These Books Reply #7 - Jul 20^th, 2017 at 1:57am you have done well. 23 for me
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Reply #8 - Jul 20^th, 2017 at 2:02am

I have only read 17 on the list.

Lord of the Rings
Harry Potter – full series
Holy Bible
Wuthering Heights
1984
Tess
Catch 22
Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy – 42
Winnie the Pooh
Animal Farm
The Da Vinci Code
Load of the Flies
Dune
Dracula
The Secret garden
Charlettes Web
The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes

I never was a reader when young and now read for work and for pleasure only pursue various authors when on leave.

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mothra Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 36389 Gender:	Re: BBC Believes You Only Read 6 of These Books Reply #9 - Jul 20^th, 2017 at 2:03am Quite a few of them were on school reading lists ... or the school reading lists of my brothers, so i read them when they were finished. A few more at uni. But i'm an avid reader. Something i encourage in my children. Any books you would see on the list that weren't there, Sprint?
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Sprintcyclist Gold Member Offline OzPolitic Posts: 41417 Gender:	Re: BBC Believes You Only Read 6 of These Books Reply #10 - Jul 20^th, 2017 at 2:04am how come this book is not on the list ?
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Reply #11 - Jul 20^th, 2017 at 2:05am

Super Nova wrote on Jul 20^th, 2017 at 2:02am:

I have only read 17 on the list.

Lord of the Rings
Harry Potter – full series
Holy Bible
Wuthering Heights
1984
Tess
Catch 22
Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy – 42
Winnie the Pooh
Animal Farm
The Da Vinci Code
Load of the Flies
Dune
Dracula
The Secret garden
Charlettes Web
The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes

I never was a reader when young and now read for work and for pleasure only pursue various authors when on leave.

Have always meant to read Sherlock Holmes. I'm told it's very good.

I'll get round to it one day.

No Martin Cruz Smith or John Le Carre on the list, disappointingly.

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Sprintcyclist Gold Member Offline OzPolitic Posts: 41417 Gender:	Re: BBC Believes You Only Read 6 of These Books Reply #12 - Jul 20^th, 2017 at 2:05am I have hardly read any of the feminine books on that list, so should try a few.
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mothra Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 36389 Gender:	Re: BBC Believes You Only Read 6 of These Books Reply #13 - Jul 20^th, 2017 at 2:06am Sprintcyclist wrote on Jul 20^th, 2017 at 2:04am: how come this book is not on the list ? https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f0/PrideandPrejudiceandZombiesCover.... LOL! Ummm ... i wonder ...
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Reply #14 - Jul 20^th, 2017 at 2:07am

Sprintcyclist wrote on Jul 20^th, 2017 at 2:05am:

I have hardly read any of the feminine books on that list, so should try a few.

You should definitely read A Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood.

In fact, read anything by her ... but that one in particular.

Currently a brilliant series on SBS. So good and so very timely.

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