Book Dare! The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books here. How do your reading habits stack up?

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• 1 Pride and Prejudice-
• 2 The Lord of the Rings -
• 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 (i mean, parts)
• 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

Section 1

• 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 (has anyone really read all? I'm counting this)
• 15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier-
• 16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien -X
• 17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
• 18 Catcher In The Rye - X
• 19 The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger-
• 20 Middlemarch - George Eliot

Section 2

• 21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell-X
• 22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald - X
• 23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens -
• 24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy -
• 25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams -
• 27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky- X
• 28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck -
• 29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll -
• 30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame -

Section 3

• 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
• 37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini-X
• 38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
• 39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden -
• 40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne - X

Section 4

• 41 Animal Farm - George Orwell - X
• 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 -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-

Section 5

• 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- X
• 58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley - X
• 59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night - Mark Haddon -
• 60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez-

Section 6

• 61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck - X
• 62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov - X
• 63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt-X
• 64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold - (only part)
• 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-

Section 7

• 71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens-X
• 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 Inferno – Dante Alighieri-
• 77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
• 78 Germinal - Emile Zola
• 79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
• 80 Possession - AS Byatt -

Section 8

• 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 -
• 90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton

Section 9

• 91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad -
• 92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery- X
• 93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
• 94 Watership Down - Richard Adams - X
• 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 - X
• 99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl- X
• 100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo-