(no subject)
Have you read more than six of these books? The BBC believes most people will have read only six of the 100 books listed here. Instructions: Bold those books you've read in their entirety, italicize the ones you started but didn't finish or read an excerpt.
Pride and Prejudice; Jane Austen
The Lord of the Rings; JRR Tolkien
Jane Eyre; Charlotte Bronte
Harry Potter series - JK Rowling (all)
To Kill a Mockingbird; Harper Lee
The Bible
Wuthering Heights; Emily Bronte
Nineteen Eighty Four; George Orwell
His Dark Materials; Philip Pullman (I read the whole of Northern Lights and I think I read the second one too, but not the final book. I don't even remember it, overrated)
Great Expectations; Charles Dickens
Little Women; Louisa May Alcott
Tess of the D'Urbervilles; Thomas Hardy
Catch 22; Joseph Heller
Complete Works of Shakespeare
Rebecca; Daphne Du Maurier
The Hobbit; JRR Tolkien
Birdsong; Sebastian Faulks
Catcher in the Rye; JD Salinger
The Time Travellers Wife; Audrey Niffenegger
Middlemarch; George Eliot
Gone With The Wind; Margaret Mitchell
The Great Gatsby; F Scott Fitzgerald
Bleak House; Charles Dickens
War and Peace; Leo Tolstoy
The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy; Douglas Adams
Brideshead Revisited; Evelyn Waugh
Crime and Punishment; Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Grapes of Wrath; John Steinbeck
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland; Lewis Carroll
The Wind in the Willows; Kenneth Grahame
Anna Karenina; Leo Tolstoy
David Copperfield; Charles Dickens
Chronicles of Narnia; CS Lewis
Emma; Jane Austen
Persuasion; Jane Austen
The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe; CS Lewis
The Kite Runner; Khaled Hosseini
Captain Corelli's Mandolin; Louis De Berniere
Memoirs of a Geisha; William Golden
Winnie the Pooh; AA Milne
Animal Farm; George Orwell
The Da Vinci Code; Dan Brown
One Hundred Years of Solitude; Gabriel Garcia Marquez
A Prayer for Owen Meaney; John Irving
The Woman in White; Wilkie Collins
Anne of Green Gables; LM Montgomery
Far from the Madding Crowd; Thomas Hardy
The Handmaids Tale; Margaret Atwood
Lord of the Flies; William Golding
Atonement; Ian McEwan
Life of Pi; Yann Martell
Dune; Frank Herbert
Cold Comfort Farm; Stella Gibbons
Sense and Sensibility; Jane Austen
A Suitable Boy; Vikram Seth
The Shadow of the Wind; Carlos Ruiz Zafon
A Tale Of Two Cities; Charles Dickens
Brave New World; Aldous Huxley
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time; Mark Haddon
Love in the time of Cholera; Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Of Mice and Men; John Steinbeck
Lolita; Vladimir Nabokov (Currently reading!)
The Secret History; Donna Tartt
The Lovely Bones; Alice Sebold
Count of Monte Cristo; Alexandre Dumas
On the Road; Jack Kerouac
Jude the Obscure; Thomas Hardy
Bridget Jones's Diary; Helen Fielding
Midnight's Children; Salman Rushdie
Moby Dick; Herman Melville
Oliver Twist; Charles Dickens
Dracula; Bram Stoker
The Secret Garden; Frances Hodgson Burnett
Notes from a Small Island; Bill Bryson
Ulysses; James Joyce
The Bell Jar; Sylivia Plath
Swallows and Amazons; Arthur Ransome
Germinal; Emile Zola
Vanity Fair; William Makepeace Thackeray
Possession; AS Byatt
A Christmas Carol; Charles Dickens
Cloud Atlas; Charles Mitchell
The Color Purple; Alice Walker
The Remains of the Day; Kazuo Ishiguro
Madame Bovary; Gustave Flaubert
A Fine Balance; Rohinton Mistry
Charlotte's Web; EB White
The Five People You Meet In Heaven; Mitch Albom
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes; Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Faraway Tree collection; Enid Blyton
Heart of Darkness; Joseph Conrad
The Little Prince; Antoine de Saint Exupery
The Wasp Factory; Iain Banks
Watership Down; Richard Adams
A Confederacy of Dunces; John Kennedy Toole
A Town Like Alice; Nevil Shute
The Three Musketeers; Alexandre Dumas
Hamlet; William Shakespeare
Charlie & the Chocolate Factory; Roald Dahl
Les Miserables; Victor Hugo
Read - 43
Started but didn't finish (yet) - 12
I also own a lot of these books but haven't started them yet.
Pride and Prejudice; Jane Austen
The Lord of the Rings; JRR Tolkien
Jane Eyre; Charlotte Bronte
Harry Potter series - JK Rowling (all)
To Kill a Mockingbird; Harper Lee
The Bible
Wuthering Heights; Emily Bronte
Nineteen Eighty Four; George Orwell
His Dark Materials; Philip Pullman (I read the whole of Northern Lights and I think I read the second one too, but not the final book. I don't even remember it, overrated)
Great Expectations; Charles Dickens
Little Women; Louisa May Alcott
Tess of the D'Urbervilles; Thomas Hardy
Catch 22; Joseph Heller
Complete Works of Shakespeare
Rebecca; Daphne Du Maurier
The Hobbit; JRR Tolkien
Birdsong; Sebastian Faulks
Catcher in the Rye; JD Salinger
The Time Travellers Wife; Audrey Niffenegger
Middlemarch; George Eliot
Gone With The Wind; Margaret Mitchell
The Great Gatsby; F Scott Fitzgerald
Bleak House; Charles Dickens
War and Peace; Leo Tolstoy
The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy; Douglas Adams
Brideshead Revisited; Evelyn Waugh
Crime and Punishment; Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Grapes of Wrath; John Steinbeck
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland; Lewis Carroll
The Wind in the Willows; Kenneth Grahame
Anna Karenina; Leo Tolstoy
David Copperfield; Charles Dickens
Chronicles of Narnia; CS Lewis
Emma; Jane Austen
Persuasion; Jane Austen
The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe; CS Lewis
The Kite Runner; Khaled Hosseini
Captain Corelli's Mandolin; Louis De Berniere
Memoirs of a Geisha; William Golden
Winnie the Pooh; AA Milne
Animal Farm; George Orwell
The Da Vinci Code; Dan Brown
One Hundred Years of Solitude; Gabriel Garcia Marquez
A Prayer for Owen Meaney; John Irving
The Woman in White; Wilkie Collins
Anne of Green Gables; LM Montgomery
Far from the Madding Crowd; Thomas Hardy
The Handmaids Tale; Margaret Atwood
Lord of the Flies; William Golding
Atonement; Ian McEwan
Life of Pi; Yann Martell
Dune; Frank Herbert
Cold Comfort Farm; Stella Gibbons
Sense and Sensibility; Jane Austen
A Suitable Boy; Vikram Seth
The Shadow of the Wind; Carlos Ruiz Zafon
A Tale Of Two Cities; Charles Dickens
Brave New World; Aldous Huxley
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time; Mark Haddon
Love in the time of Cholera; Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Of Mice and Men; John Steinbeck
Lolita; Vladimir Nabokov (Currently reading!)
The Secret History; Donna Tartt
The Lovely Bones; Alice Sebold
Count of Monte Cristo; Alexandre Dumas
On the Road; Jack Kerouac
Jude the Obscure; Thomas Hardy
Bridget Jones's Diary; Helen Fielding
Midnight's Children; Salman Rushdie
Moby Dick; Herman Melville
Oliver Twist; Charles Dickens
Dracula; Bram Stoker
The Secret Garden; Frances Hodgson Burnett
Notes from a Small Island; Bill Bryson
Ulysses; James Joyce
The Bell Jar; Sylivia Plath
Swallows and Amazons; Arthur Ransome
Germinal; Emile Zola
Vanity Fair; William Makepeace Thackeray
Possession; AS Byatt
A Christmas Carol; Charles Dickens
Cloud Atlas; Charles Mitchell
The Color Purple; Alice Walker
The Remains of the Day; Kazuo Ishiguro
Madame Bovary; Gustave Flaubert
A Fine Balance; Rohinton Mistry
Charlotte's Web; EB White
The Five People You Meet In Heaven; Mitch Albom
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes; Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Faraway Tree collection; Enid Blyton
Heart of Darkness; Joseph Conrad
The Little Prince; Antoine de Saint Exupery
The Wasp Factory; Iain Banks
Watership Down; Richard Adams
A Confederacy of Dunces; John Kennedy Toole
A Town Like Alice; Nevil Shute
The Three Musketeers; Alexandre Dumas
Hamlet; William Shakespeare
Charlie & the Chocolate Factory; Roald Dahl
Les Miserables; Victor Hugo
Read - 43
Started but didn't finish (yet) - 12
I also own a lot of these books but haven't started them yet.