The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books listed here.
Instructions: Copy this into your
NOTES. Bold those books you’ve read in their entirety, italicize the ones you
started but didn’t finish or read an excerpt. Tag others and tag me as well so
I can see your responses!
Before the challenge: 12/100
Current:
1 Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings – JRR
Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry
Potter series – JK Rowling
5 To
Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights
8 Nineteen
Eighty Four – George Orwell
9 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 Faulks
18 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 The Hitchhiker’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 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 Berniere
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 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 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
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 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
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