Saturday, July 14, 2012

The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100.

I know this is old but lets see how many I have read so far.

01 Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen –
02 The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien -
03 Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte -
04 Harry Potter series – JK Rowling –
05 To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee –
06 The Bible –
07 Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte -
08 Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell -
09 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 The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien -
17 Birdsong – Sebastian Faulk -
18 Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger -
19 The Time Traveler’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger –
20 Middlemarch – George Eliot -

21 Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell -
22 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 -
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 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 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 -
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 Nighttime – 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 -
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 The Inferno – Dante -
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-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 -
97 The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas -
98 Hamlet – William Shakespeare -
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl –
100 Les Miserables – Victor Hugo -

(I started a lot of books but never finished them)

Total: 14

Well that's pretty good. :D

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