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 just read an excerpt.

  • Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen don't remember if I read it or just watched the movie
  • The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien
  • Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
  • Harry Potter series – JK Rowling
  • To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
  • The Bible
  • The Divine Comedy
  • Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell
  • His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman
  • Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
  • Little Women – Louisa M Alcott
  • Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy the first book i threw across the room and refused to finish.
  • 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 Traveller’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger
  • Middlemarch – George Eliot
  • Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell - just the movie.
  • The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald
  • Bleak House – Charles Dickens
  • War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
  • The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
  • Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
  • Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  • Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
  • Alice 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 totally don't remember if i just watched the movie
  • Persuasion – Jane Austen
  • The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – CS Lewis hey, you just listed the entire chronicles.
  • The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
  • Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis De Berniere
  • Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur 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 Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
  • Lord of the Flies – William Golding
  • Atonement – Ian McEwan
  • Life of Pi – Yann Martel
  • Dune – Frank Herbert tried to watch the miniseries while on flu medication. do not do this.
  • Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons
  • Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen for some reason i never remember whether i've read 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
  • 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 - don't remember.
  • Dracula – Bram Stoker - just saw the play.
  • The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett
  • Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson
  • Ulysses – James Joyce
  • The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
  • Swallows and Amazons – Arthur Ransome
  • Germinal – Emile Zola
  • Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Possession – AS Byatt
  • A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
  • Cloud Atlas – David 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 and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl
  • _Les Miserables – Victor Hugo

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nov 19 2010 ∞
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