How many of these books have you read?
Apparently the BBC reckons most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here.[Updated August 2016]
- Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen *
- The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien *
- Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brone
- Harry Potter series - JK Rowling X+
- To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
- The Bible X
- Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte *
- Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell X+
- His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
- Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
- Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
- Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
- Catch 22 - Joseph Heller *
- Complete Works of Shakespeare X+ ( i might be missing 2 or 3 )
- Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
- The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
- Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
- Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
- The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
- Middlemarch - George Eliot
- Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
- The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
- Bleak House - Charles Dickens
- War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
- The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy X+
- Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
- Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
- Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll X+
- The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame *
- Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
- David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
- Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
- Emma - Jane Austen
- Persuasion - Jane Austen
- The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
- The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
- Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
- Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
- Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
- Animal Farm - George Orwell X+
- The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
- One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez *
- A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
- The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
- Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
- Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
- The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood *
- Lord of the Flies - William Golding
- Atonement - Ian McEwan
- Life of Pi - Yann Martel
- Dune - Frank Herbert [Update September 2023]
- Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
- Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
- A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
- The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
- A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
- Brave New World - Aldous Huxley X+
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
- Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
- Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov *
- The Secret History - Donna Tartt
- The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
- Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas *
- On The Road - Jack Kerouac *
- Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
- Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding X+
- Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
- Moby Dick - Herman Melville X ( not sure i finished it )
- Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
- Dracula - Bram Stoker X+
- The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson *
- Ulysses - James Joyce *
- The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
- Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
- Germinal - Emile Zola *
- Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
- Possession - AS Byatt
- A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
- Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell X
- The Color Purple - Alice Walker
- The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
- Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert *
- A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
- Charlotte’s Web - EB White
- The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Alborn
- Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle X+
- The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
- Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad X+
- The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery X+
- The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks *
- Watership Down - Richard Adams
- A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole X+
- A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
- The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas *
- Hamlet - William Shakespeare X+
- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
- Les Miserables - Victor Hugo *
Instructions:
- Look at the list and put an 'x' after those you have read.
- Add a '+' to the ones you LOVE.
- Star (*) those you plan on reading.
- Tally your total at the bottom
2016 Update -> 15
2023 Update -> 20 (Also realised I missed some books)
2 comments:
Just 14 for me...
But there's a lot of girly stuff on that list!!!...
I know... where my Bukowsky in all that ;-P
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