BBC Book List
BBC Book List The BBC believes most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here. How do your reading habits stack up?
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.
4) Tally your total at the bottom.
5) Rachel's additional rule: mark the ones you've never even HEARD of with a !
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien X+
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling X+
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee X+
6 The Bible - x (I've probably read more than half of it, and have translated several books into lolcats)
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte X (HATE)
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell X+
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman X+++++
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott X
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller *
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare X++++++
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier !
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien X+
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk !
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger x (so boring)
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot X !
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell (did not finish, bored to tears)
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald *
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams X+
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
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
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis X+ (wasn't this already covered by number 33?)
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 - AA Milne X
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell X
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown X (really quite terribly written, I don't understand the fuss)
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 X
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy !
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 !
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 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
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt !
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas X
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 X
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett X+
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson !
75 Ulysses - James Joyce *
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath X (do not let your children read this book)
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 X
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell !
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishigur !
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert X (HATE)
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 !
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad X+
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery X+
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks !
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams X++++ (is full of BUNNIES, what's not to like?)
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute !
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas X
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare X+ (um, also covered in Complete Works?)
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl X
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo x
Let's see....so I've read 40 of these books, I loved 17 of them, and I've never heard of 23 of them. Who is this Thomas Hardy that everyone else seems to know about?