The BBC apparently says most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here. (That seems ridiculous to me…. Anyway.)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/bigread/top100.shtml
Instructions: [Copy and paste into a new note on your profile.]
1) Look at the list and put an ‘x’ before those you have read.
2) Tally your total.
3) Put in a note with your total in the subject
1 (X) Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
2 (X) The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien
3 (X) Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
4 (X) Harry Potter series – JK Rowling (not all)
5 () To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
6 (X) The Bible
7 (X) Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
8 () Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell
9 () His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman
10 (X) Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
11 (X) Little Women – Louisa M Alcott
12 (X) Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
13 () Catch 22 – Joseph Heller
14 (X) Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 (X) 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 () 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 () Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 () Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
29 (X) Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
30 () The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame
31 (X) Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
32 (X) David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
33 (X) Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis
34 (X) Emma – Jane Austen
35 ( X) 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 (X) 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 (X) 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 (X) Dune – Frank Herbert
53 () Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons
54 ()X 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 () 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
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 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 (X) 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 (X) Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
86 ( ) A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
87 (X) 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 () Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
92 (X) The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint Exupery
93 () The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks
94 () Watership Down – Richard Adams
95 (X) A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
96 () A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute
97 (X) The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
98 (X) Hamlet – William Shakespeare
99 (} Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl
100 () Les Miserables – Victor Hugo
I’ve read excerpts of at least 10 more. Saw movies of several, too….
This list seems slanted toward chick books to me!
