I saw this list somewhere with the caption "The BBC thinks you've only read SIX of these books! Check how many you've read...!" But a quick google search revealed this exact list and especially the caption did NOT generate from BBC.
(As I suspected. They don't usually try to taunt and insult their readers--as far as I know.)
So, it's just a random list of random books. Despite that, I wanted to see how many I've actually read. Some I've never even heard of, some I started but didn't finish, and some I know enough about to not WANT to read them. (I'm looking at you Wuthering Heights.)
I'm going to bold the ones I've read start to finish, and if you see any I *haven't* read that you absolutely LOVE, let me know!
And maybe you'll see some that I've read that you want to try!
1 Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen I've read all of her's and love them.
2 The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien. Nope. Tried in 5th grade and couldn't get into it.
3 Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte LOVE IT!
4 Harry Potter series – JK Rowling (all) Yep. Love.
5 To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee One of my all time favorites.
6 The Bible - Not from cover to cover, but lots of it over and over...;)
7 Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte Nope. I like happy endings.
8 Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman Doug liked this one. Didn't interest me.
10 Great Expectations – Charles Dickens back in 9th grade.
11 Little Women – Louisa M Alcott Just read it last year and loved it.
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy (Started didn't finish
13 Catch 22 – Joseph Heller Don't think so.
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare Some, not all.
15 Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier LOVE
16 The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien YES
17 Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger I hate this book
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch – George Eliot LOVE these and the BBC miniseries
21 Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gasby – F Scott Fitzgerald Loved, but didn't watch the movie
23 Bleak House – Charles Dickens LOVE the book, LOVE the BBC miniseries
24 War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy Just started it.
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams So so funny
26 Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky Yep.
28 Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck Not yet, but I love Steinbeck so I'll get to it.
29 Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield – Charles Dickens One of my favorites
33 Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis I think I started them but never finished in grade school
34 Emma – Jane Austen
35 Persuasion – Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – CS Lewis
37 The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini I DID NOT LIKE THIS BOOK
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis De Berniere
39 Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne
41 Animal Farm – George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney – John Irving
45 The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins LOVE
46 Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery
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
51 Life of Pi – Yann Martel
52 Dune – Frank Herbert Could.Not.Get.Into.This.Book.
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
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
62 Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History – Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold I HATE THIS BOOK
65 Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road – Jack Kerouac I HATE THIS BOOK TOO
67 Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helen Fielding
69 Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick – Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
72 Dracula – Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 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 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
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
91 Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad NOT my favorite!
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 LOVE Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet – William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables – Victor Hugo
Happy Reading,
Emily
