book list

the bbc believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books here. How do your reading habits stack up?

  1. (x) 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. (x) The Bible
  7. () 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. () Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
  16. (x) The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
  17. () Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
  18. (x) Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
  19. () 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. (x) The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
  26. () Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
  27. (x) Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  28. (x) Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
  29. () Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
  30. (x) The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
  31. () Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
  32. () David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
  33. (x) 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. (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
  44. () A Prayer for Owen Meany - 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. () Life of Pi - Yann Martel
  52. (x) 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. () 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. () 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. (x) 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. (x) Moby Dick - Herman Melville
  71. (x) Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
  72. () Dracula - Bram Stoker
  73. (x) The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
  74. () Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
  75. () Ulysses - James Joyce
  76. () The Inferno - Dante
  77. (x) 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. (x) The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
  89. (x) Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
  90. () The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
  91. (x) Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
  92. () The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
  93. () The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
  94. (x) Watership Down - Richard Adams
  95. () A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
  96. (x) A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
  97. (x) The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
  98. (x) Hamlet - William Shakespeare
  99. (x) Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
  100. () Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

hmm. 43. got to improve that.

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