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BBC Book List

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.

1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen X+

2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien Tried, but failed to finish.

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 X

9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman X

10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens X

11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott X+ (plus the rest of the series)

12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy X (at school so hated on principle)

13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller

14 Complete Works of Shakespeare* Read some, should read more, and will as I like.

15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier

16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien

17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks (I think I read this at school, but not counting as fuzzy)

18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger X

19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger X+

20 Middlemarch - George Eliot X

21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell

22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald - X

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 (Started but never finished.)

28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck X

29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll (Started but never finished.)

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

38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Berniere

39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden (Bought for my gran, so flicked through, not read).

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 +++ adore

44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - 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

49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding

50 Atonement - Ian McEwan

51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel

52 Dune - Frank Herbert - X++

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 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 X

61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck X

62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov* (Own, but not read).

63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt * (Almost bought the other day, prob will).

64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold X (Hated).

65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas

66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac (Started, but never finished).

67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy X

68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding

69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie* (Bought this last month, so should read)

70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville

71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens X

72 Dracula - Bram Stoker

73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett X

74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson

75 Ulysses - James Joyce* (Started but never finished, will probably try again one day).

76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath X

77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome X++

78 Germinal - Emile Zola

79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray*

80 Possession - AS Byatt

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

85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert

86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry

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 X

91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad (Started, but never finished due to remnants of childhood rebellion)

92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery X

93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks X (not his best by miles!)

94 Watership Down - Richard Adams

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

I think I counted 52 read, and another five started and abandoned, but I may have miscounted. Evidence of a mispent youth. Six I hope to read, and one day I plan to get through the rest of Dickens and Shakespeare, but I may need to retire first!