From *everyone* and all right then, I’ll do it too…
The BBC believes most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here. How do your reading habits stack up?
Copy into a new note Put an X next to the ones you’ve read. Include the number you have read in the title and post to your journal.
1 Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen- X
2 The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien X
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 1984 – George Orwell – X
9 His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman – X
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 –
15 Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier –
16 The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien – X
17 Birdsong – Sebastian Faulk –
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
25 The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams – X
26 Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh – X
27 Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky –
28 Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck –
29 Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll – X
30 The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame – X
31 Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy –
32 David Copperfield – Charles Dickens –
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 – X
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis De Bernieres – X
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 –
44 A Prayer for Owen Meany – John Irving-
45 The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins – X
46 Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery – X
47 Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy – X
48 The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood- X
49 Lord of the Flies – William Golding –X
50 Atonement – Ian McEwan –
51 Life of Pi – Yann Martel –
52 Dune – Frank Herbert – X
53 Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons – X
54 Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen – X
55 A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth – X
56 The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon –
57 A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens -X
58 Brave New World – Aldous Huxley – X
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
62 Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov – X
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 – X
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helen Fielding – X
69 Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie –X
70 Moby Dick – Herman Melville –
71 Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens –
72 Dracula – Bram Stoker –
73 The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett – X
74 Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson – X
75 Ulysses – James Joyce –
76 The Inferno – Dante
77 Swallows and Amazons – Arthur Ransome – X
78 Germinal – Emile Zola –
79 Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray –X
80 Possession – AS Byatt – X
81 A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens -X
82 Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell –
83 The Color Purple – Alice Walker –
84 The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro -X
85 Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert -X
86 A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry -X
87 Charlotte’s Web – EB White – X
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom –
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle – X
90 The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton –
91 Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad -X
92 The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks –
94 Watership Down – Richard Adams -X
95 A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole –
96 A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute – X
97 The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas –
98 Hamlet – William Shakespeare -X
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl – X
100 Les Miserables – Victor Hugo.
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