Apparently the BBC reckons most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here. Mark the ones you have read with an "X", and the ones you intend on reading with "O"
1. Pride and Prejudice- Jane Austen X
2.The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte X
4. Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee X
6. The Bible- X
7. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte X
8. Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell X
9. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens O
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott X
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy O
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller X
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare X
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger X
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot X
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell X--IT WAS TOO DESCRIPTIVE SO I GAVE UP
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald X
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy parts of it
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky parts of it
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck X
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll parts of it
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame parts of it
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy X
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens X
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis O
34 Emma - Jane Austen X
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen O
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis O
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden X
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell X
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez X
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 O
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood O
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding X
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan O
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel --only heard of it!O
52 Dune - Frank Herbert --love the movie!
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen O
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon O
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens X (was in the play version)
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley O
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez X
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck X
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov--parts of it
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 X
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy X
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens X
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker X
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett O
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce O
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath X
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray O--love the movie!!yummy
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens X
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker X
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert X
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White X
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Alborn
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
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams -- O saw the movie as a kid
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 O
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo x(98 is obviously a trick question)O-dream to read it in french
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