THE 47 BOOKS CHALLENGE
So what is the 47 books challenge?
A little while ago, I noticed that there were a few lists going around about "100 books you should read before you die!"
Not all of these lists are the same, however.
So I took five of the most popular lists - from BBC, The Guardian, The Telegraph, Penguin, and 38 Pitches - and cross-referenced all of them. I recorded all the books that were on three or more of the lists, and that magic number was 47. (This is assuming that Lord of the Rings is three different titles instead of one. I'm doing it as three because it's a little easier to break down that way.)
I'm doing YouTube videos on all of these titles, so definitely check those out!
If you're interested in the full list, here it is:
3 LISTS
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte - Original, first-Youtube-video-I-ever-posted review here!
Lord of the Rings (The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, Return of the King) - J.R.R. Tolkien
Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
Middlemarch - George Eliot
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams - Original Youtube Review here! Original blog post here!
Emma - Jane Austen - 2018 review coming soon!
Animal Farm - George Orwell
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins - Original video here!
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
Atonement - Ian McEwan
Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
Dracula - Bram Stoker
Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
The Trial - Franz Kafka
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson
Scoop - Evelyn Waugh
The Big Sleep - Raymond Chandler
Lucky Jim - Kingsley Amis
A bend in the River - V.S. Naipaul
4 LISTS
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevski
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
Moby Dick - Herman Melville
Ulysses - James Joyce
5 LISTS
1984 - George Orwell
Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
On The Road - Jack Kerouac
Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Caroll
A little while ago, I noticed that there were a few lists going around about "100 books you should read before you die!"
Not all of these lists are the same, however.
So I took five of the most popular lists - from BBC, The Guardian, The Telegraph, Penguin, and 38 Pitches - and cross-referenced all of them. I recorded all the books that were on three or more of the lists, and that magic number was 47. (This is assuming that Lord of the Rings is three different titles instead of one. I'm doing it as three because it's a little easier to break down that way.)
I'm doing YouTube videos on all of these titles, so definitely check those out!
If you're interested in the full list, here it is:
3 LISTS
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte - Original, first-Youtube-video-I-ever-posted review here!
Lord of the Rings (The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, Return of the King) - J.R.R. Tolkien
Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
Middlemarch - George Eliot
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams - Original Youtube Review here! Original blog post here!
Emma - Jane Austen - 2018 review coming soon!
Animal Farm - George Orwell
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins - Original video here!
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
Atonement - Ian McEwan
Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
Dracula - Bram Stoker
Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
The Trial - Franz Kafka
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson
Scoop - Evelyn Waugh
The Big Sleep - Raymond Chandler
Lucky Jim - Kingsley Amis
A bend in the River - V.S. Naipaul
4 LISTS
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevski
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
Moby Dick - Herman Melville
Ulysses - James Joyce
5 LISTS
1984 - George Orwell
Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
On The Road - Jack Kerouac
Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Caroll
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