Take that, BBC!
- 100. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
Have you read more than six of these books? 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 only an excerpt.
- 1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
- 2. The Lord of the Rings
- 3. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
- 4. Harry Potter series
- 5. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
- 6. The Bible
- 7. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
- 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 Faulk
- 18. Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
- 19. The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
- 20. Middlemarch - George Eliot
- 21. Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
- 22. The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
- 24. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
- 25. The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
- 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 Grahamn
- 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 (I already said I'd read The Chronicles of Narnia...)
- 37. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
- 38. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
- 39. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
- 40. Winnie the Pooh - A.A. 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 Inferno - Dante
- 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 - E.B. 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
So maybe I need to brush up onmy "classics", but I'd say 17's nae bad if I'm only expected to have read 6!