Apparently the BBC reckons most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here. Instructions: 1) Look at the list and put an X after those you have read. 2) Add a + to the ones you LOVE. 3) Star (*) those you plan on reading. 4) Tally your total at the bottom. How many have you read? 1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen X + 2 The Lord of the Rings 3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte X + 4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling X + 5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee X + 6 The Bible X 7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte X 8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell* 9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman 10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens X 11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott X 12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy X 13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller X + 14 Complete Works of Shakespeare X + 15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier 16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien 17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks 18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger X + 19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger 20 Middlemarch - George Eliot X 21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell X + 22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald* 23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens 24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy X 25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams X + 26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh 27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky X + 28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck X 29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll X + 30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame 31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy X 32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens X + 33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis X + 34 Emma - Jane Austen X + 35 Persuasion - Jane Austen X + 36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis X + 37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini* 38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres 39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden X 40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne X 41 Animal Farm - George Orwell X + 42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown X 43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez X + 44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving 45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins 46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery X + 47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy X + 48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood 49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding X 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 X + 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 Huley* 59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon X + 60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez* 61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck X 62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov X 63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt 64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold 65 Count of Monte Cristo - Aleandre Dumas X + 66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac* 67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy 68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding X + 69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie 70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville 71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens X 72 Dracula - Bram Stoker X 73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett X + 74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson 75 Ulysses - James Joyce 76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath X + 77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome 78 Germinal - Emile Zola X + 79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray X 80 Possession - AS Byatt 81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens X 82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell X 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 Alborn 89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle X + 90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton 91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad 92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Eupery X + 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 X 98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare X 99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl 100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo X Read: 52 Loved: 29 Plan to read: 8
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