The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books here. I want to at least try all of these. I've been meaning to read/picked up a bunch. Also, italics = I've made substantial progress.

  • Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
  • The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
  • Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
  • Harry Potter series by JK Rowling
  • To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
  • The Bible
  • Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
  • Nineteen Eighty Four by George Orwell
  • His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman
  • Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
  • Little Women by Louisa M. Alcott
  • Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
  • Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
  • Complete Works of Shakespeare
  • Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurie
  • The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
  • Birdsong by Sebastian Faulk
  • Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger
  • The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
  • Middlemarch by George Eliot
  • Gone With The Wind by Margaet Mitchell
  • The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Bleak House by Charles Dickens
  • War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
  • The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
  • Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  • Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
  • Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
  • The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
  • Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
  • David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
  • Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
  • Emma by Jane Austen
  • Persuasion by Jane Austen
  • The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
  • The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
  • Captain Corelli’s Mandolin by Louis De Bernieres
  • Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
  • Winnie the Pooh by AA Milne
  • Animal Farm by George Orwell
  • The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
  • One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • A Prayer for Owen Meaney by John Irving
  • The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
  • Anne of Green Gables by LM Montgomery
  • Far From The Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
  • The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
  • Lord of the Flies by William Golding
  • Atonement by Ian McEwan
  • Life of Pi by Yann Martel
  • Dune by Frank Herbert
  • Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
  • Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
  • A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth
  • The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
  • A Tale Of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
  • Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
  • The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night by Mark Haddon
  • Love In The Time Of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
  • Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
  • The Secret History by Donna Tartt
  • The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
  • Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
  • On The Road by Jack Kerouac
  • Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
  • Bridget Jones’s Diary by Helen Fielding
  • Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
  • Moby Dick by Herman Melville
  • Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
  • Dracula by Bram Stoker
  • The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
  • Notes From A Small Island by Bill Bryson
  • Ulysses by James Joyce
  • The Inferno by Dante
  • Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome
  • Germinal by Emile Zola
  • Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Possession by AS Byatt
  • A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
  • Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
  • The Color Purple by Alice Walker
  • The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
  • Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
  • A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
  • Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White
  • The Five People You Meet In Heaven by Mitch Albom
  • Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
  • The Faraway Tree Collection by Enid Blyton
  • Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
  • The Little Prince by Antoine De Saint-Exupery
  • The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks
  • Watership Down by Richard Adams
  • A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
  • A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute
  • The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
  • Hamlet by William Shakespeare
  • Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
  • Les Miserables by Victor Hugo

22/100 read

feb 3 2011 ∞
jan 6 2014 +