That BBC list ...

Mar 16, 2009 21:08


SIX!!!!
Sorry, couldn't resist coming out of silence to say I think that's very sad.
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen 1
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien 2
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte 3
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling 4
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee 5
6 The Bible quite a lot of, but I wouldn't say all (I know I got nowhere with Numbers & Leviticus) 1
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte 6
8 Nineteen-Eighty-Four - George Orwell 7
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman 8
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens 9
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott 10
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy 11
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller 12
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare most, but again, I wouldn't risk claiming all 2
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien 13
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk 14
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger 15
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger 16
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot 17
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell 18
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald 19
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy 20
25 The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams 21
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh 22
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky 23
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck 24
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll 25
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame probably in the dim and distant past 3
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy 26
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens 27
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis 28
34 Emma - Jane Austen 29
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen 30
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis 31
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini 32
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres 33
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden 34
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne probably in the dim and distant past 4
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell 35
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown 36
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez 37
44 A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving 38
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery probably in the dim and distant past 5
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy 39
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood 40
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding 41
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan 42
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel 43
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons I'm fairly certain I have, but not quite 100% 6
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen 44
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth 45
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon 46
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens 47
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley 48
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon 49
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez 50
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck 51
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov 52
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt 53
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold 54
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas 55
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy 56
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding 57
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville 58
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens 59
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker 60
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett 61
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson 62
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Inferno - Dante (Who was the character in Northern Exposure who tried to learn Italian to read this?)
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome 63
78 Germinal - Emile Zola 64
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray 65
80 Possession - AS Byatt 66
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens 67
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell 68
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker 69
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro 70
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert 71
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry 72
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White 73
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom 74
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 75
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton certainly some, but not sure if I read all the volumes 7
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad first few chapters, can't remember if I finished it 8
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery 76
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks 77
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams 78
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute 79
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas I'm fairly certain I have, but not quite 100% 9
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare 80
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl 81
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo. 82

So that's 82 definitely, in full, at least once ... and another 9 in part or/and possibly.

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