Where does the BBC get the info for this statistic anyway?

The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books here. How do your reading habits stack up? Instructions: Copy this into your NOTES. Look at the list and put an 'x' after those you have read. Tag other book nerds...

Edit: After thinking about it, I've added an "O" for ones that I own and haven't gotten to reading yet. And a "~" for ones I intend to pick up when I see them and have the means.


1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen -
2. The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien - X
3. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte -
4. Harry Potter series - JK Rowling - X
5. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee -
6. The Bible – X
7. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte -
8. Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell - ~
9. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman -
10. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens - ~

Total: 2

11. Little Women - Louisa M Alcott - X
12. Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy -
13. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller -
14. Complete Works of Shakespeare -
15. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier -
16. The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien - X
17. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk -
18. Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger -
19. The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger - ~
20. Middlemarch - George Eliot-

Total so far: 4

21. Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell -
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 -
28. Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck -
29. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll - X
30. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame -

Total so far: 6

31. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy -
32. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens - X
33. Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis – X
34. Emma - Jane Austen -
35. Persuasion - Jane Austen -
36. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis - X
37. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini - ~
38. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden - X
40. Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne - ~

Total so far: 10

41. Animal Farm - George Orwell -
42. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown - O
43. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez -
44. A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving -
45. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins -
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 -
50. Atonement - Ian McEwan -

Total so far: 11

51. Life of Pi - Yann Martel -
52. Dune - Frank Herbert - O
53. Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons -
54. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen -
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 Time - Mark Haddon - O
60. Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez-

Total so far: 11

61. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck - ~
62. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov -
63. The Secret History - Donna Tartt -
64. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold - O
65. Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas - ~
66. On The Road - Jack Kerouac -
67. Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy -
68. Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding -
69. Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie -
70. Moby Dick - Herman Melville - X

Total so far: 12

71. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens - O
72. Dracula - Bram Stoker - [will never read, but I tried]
73. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett - X
74. Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson -
75. Ulysses - James Joyce -
76. The Inferno - Dante - ~
77. Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome -
78. Germinal - Emile Zola -
79. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray -
80. Possession - AS Byatt -

Total so far: 13

81. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens -
82. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell -
83. The Color Purple - Alice Walker -
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 -
89. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle-
90. The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton -

Total so far: 14

91. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad - X
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 -
97. The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas - X
98. Hamlet - William Shakespeare - X
99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl - X
100. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo-

Total: 18

. . . more than six? I've read other books by a lot of the authors on here as well, though not necessarily the ones listed.