Apparently the BBC reckons that most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here. I count 51, but I’m not very good at counting…
Copy and paste – put an X next to the ones you have read.
(I found this on a few blogs and facebook. I have no idea if the 6/100 thing is legit or not.)
1. (x) Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
2. (x) The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien
3. (x) Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
4. (x) Harry Potter series – JK Rowling
5. (x) To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
6. () The Bible (not all the way through – I’m ashamed to admit!)
7. (x) Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
8. (x) Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell
9. (x) His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman
10. (x) Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
11. (x) Little Women – Louisa M Alcott
12. () Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
13. (x) Catch 22 – Joseph Heller
14. () Complete Works of Shakespeare
15. (x) Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier (I’m pretty sure I read this one)
16. (x) The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien
17. () Birdsong – Sebastian Faulk
18. () Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger
19. (x) The Time Traveller’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger
20. () Middlemarch – George Eliot
21. () Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell (I’ve seen the movie, does that count?)
22. () The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald
23. (x) Bleak House – Charles Dickens
24. () War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy (I started this one…just couldn’t finish it)
25. (x) The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
26. () Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
27. () Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28. () Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
29. (x) Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
30. (x) The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame (I was actually in the play when I was younger!)
31. (x) Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
32. (x) David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
33. (x) Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis
34. (x) Emma – Jane Austen
35. (x) Persuasion – Jane Austen
36. (x) The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – CS Lewis
37. (x) The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
38. () Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis De Bernieres
39. (x) Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
40. (x) Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne
41. (x) Animal Farm – George Orwell
42. (x) The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown
43. () One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez (I’ve started this one a couple times and always had to return it to the library before I got a chance to finish it)
44. () A Prayer for Owen Meaney – John Irving
45. () The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins
46. (x) Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery
47. () Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy
48. () The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
49. (x) Lord of the Flies – William Golding
50. (x) Atonement – Ian McEwan
51. (x) Life of Pi – Yann Martel
52. () Dune – Frank Herbert
53. () Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons
54. (x) 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. (x) The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon
60. (x) Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61. (x) Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
62. () Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
63. () The Secret History – Donna Tartt
64. (x) The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold
65. () Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
66. () On The Road – Jack Kerouac
67. () Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy
68. (x) Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helen Fielding
69. () Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
70. () Moby Dick – Herman Melville
71. (x) Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
72. () Dracula – Bram Stoker
73. (x) The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett
74. (x) Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson
75. () Ulysses – James Joyce
76. () The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
77. () Swallows and Amazons – Arthur Ransome
78. () Germinal – Emile Zola
79. () Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
80. () Possession – AS Byatt
81. (x) 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. (x) A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
87. (x) Charlotte’s Web – EB White
88. (x) 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
91. () Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
92. (x) The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint
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
98. (x) Hamlet – William Shakespeare
99. (x) Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl
100. (x) Les Miserables – Victor Hugo
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