I stole this from Jen who stole it from Mallory
Apparently the BBC reckons that most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here.
Copy and paste – put an X next to the ones you have read.
I've read 17 of these books – but I think this is a terrible list – a bunch of best sellers with token classics.
1. ( ) Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
2. (X) The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien
3. ( ) Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
4. (X) Harry Potter series – JK Rowling
5. (X) To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
6. ( ) The Bible
7. (X) Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
8. ( ) Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell
9. (X) His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman
10. ( ) Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
11. ( ) Little Women – Louisa M Alcott
12. ( ) Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
13. ( ) Catch 22 – Joseph Heller
14. ( ) Complete Works of Shakespeare
15. ( ) Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier
16. (X) The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien
17. ( ) Birdsong – Sebastian Faulk
18. (X) 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
22. (X) The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald
23. ( ) Bleak House – Charles Dickens
24. ( ) War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
25. ( ) 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. ( ) Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
30. ( ) The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame
31. ( ) Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
32. ( ) David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
33. ( ) Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis
34. ( ) Emma – Jane Austen
35. ( ) Persuasion – Jane Austen
36. (X) The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – CS Lewis
37. ( ) The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
38. ( ) Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis De Bernieres
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
46. ( ) Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery
47. ( ) Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy
48. (X) The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
49. (X) Lord of the Flies – William Golding
50. ( ) Atonement – Ian McEwan
51. ( ) Life of Pi – Yann Martel
52. ( ) Dune – Frank Herbert
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. (X) A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
58. (X) 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. (X) Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
62. ( ) Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
63. ( ) The Secret History – Donna Tartt
64. ( ) 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. ( ) 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. (X) 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
92. ( ) 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. ( ) Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl
100.( ) Les Miserables – Victor Hugo
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