I’ve done this before, but this list is slightly different than the last one and it’s always fun to see where I come in. So, the BBC says that most people will only have read 6 out of the 99 books listed:
The ones I’ve read are bold (and marked with an X), tbr are blue. I’ve read 50 of the 99.
1. Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen (X)
2. The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien (X)
3. Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte (X)
4. Harry Potter series – JK Rowling (X)
5. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee (X)
6. The Bible (most of it)
7. Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte (X)
8. Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell (X)
9. His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman (X)
10. Great Expectations – Charles Dickens (X)
11. Little Women – Louisa M Alcott (X)
12. Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy ()
13. Catch 22 – Joseph Heller (X)
14. Complete Works of Shakespeare ()
15. Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier (X)
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 (X)
20. Middlemarch – George Eliot ()
21. Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell (X)>
22. The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald (tbr)
23. Bleak House – Charles Dickens ()
24. War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy ()
25. The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams (X)
26. Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky (tbr)
27. Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck (X)
28. Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll (X)
29. The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame (X)
30. Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy (X)
31. David Copperfield – Charles Dickens (X)
32. Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis (X)
33. Emma – Jane Austen (X)
34. Persuasion – Jane Austen (X)
35. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – CS Lewis (X)
36. The Kite Runner – Khaled Hossein (X)
37. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis De Bernieres ()
38. Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden (X)
39. Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne (X)
40. Animal Farm – George Orwell (X)
41. The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown (X)
42. One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez (started this one several times)
43. A Prayer for Owen Meaney – John Irving ()
44. The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins (X)
45. Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery (X)
46. Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy ()
47. The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood ()
48. Lord of the Flies – William Golding (X)
49. Atonement – Ian McEwan (X)
50. Life of Pi – Yann Martel (X)
51. Dune – Frank Herbert ()
52. Cold Comfort Farm ()
53. Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen (X)
54. A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth ()
55. The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon ()
56. A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens ()
57. Brave New World – Aldous Huxley ()
58. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night – Mark Haddon (X)
59. Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez (X)
60. Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck ()
61. Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov ()
62. The Secret History – Donna Tartt ()
63. The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold (X)
64. Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas ()
65. On The Road – Jack Kerouac ()
66. Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy ()
67. Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helen Fielding (X)
68. Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie ()
69. Moby Dick – Herman Melville ()
70. Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens (X)
71. Dracula – Bram Stoker ()
72. The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett ()
73. Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson (X)
74. Ulysses – James Joyce ()
75. The Inferno – Dante ()
76. Swallows and Amazons – Arthur Ransome ()
77. Germinal – Emile Zola ()
78. Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray ()
79. Possession – AS Byatt ()
80. A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens (X)
81. Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell ()
82. The Color Purple – Alice Walker ()
83. The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro ()
84. Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert ()
85. A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry (X)
86. Charlotte’s Web – EB White (X)
87. The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom (X)
88. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (tbr)
89. The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton ()
90. Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad ()
91. The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery (X)
92. The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks ()
93. Watership Down – Richard Adams ()
94. A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole ()
95. A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute ()
96. The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas ()
97. Hamlet – William Shakespeare (X)
98. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl (X)
99 Les Miserables – Victor Hugo (X)
