This is just a bit of fun…In bold are the books I’ve read in their entirety, in italics are the ones I started but didn’t finish or read only an excerpt. In brackets are the ones I’ve never read. Apparently the BBC believes most people have only read 6 of these books…
1 Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
4. Harry Potter series – JK Rowling
(5 To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee)
6 The Bible
(7 Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte)
8 Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell
(9 His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman)
10 Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
(11 Little Women – Louisa M Alcott)
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 – Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
(15 Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier)
16 The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien
(17 Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks)
18 Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveler’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger
(20 Middlemarch – George Eliot)
(21 Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell)
(22 The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald)
(24 War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy)
(25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams)
27 Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame
(31 Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy)
(32 David Copperfield – Charles Dickens)
(33 Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis)
(34 Emma – Jane Austen)
(35 Persuasion – Jane Austen)
(36 The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe – CS Lewis)
(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 – A.A. Milne
41 Animal Farm – George Orwell
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)
(47 Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy)
(48 The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood)
49 Lord of the Flies – William Golding
(50 Atonement – Ian McEwan)
(51 Life of Pi – Yann Martel)
(52 Dune – Frank Herbert)
(53 Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons)
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)
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon
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
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)
73 The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett
(74 Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson)
75 Ulysses – James Joyce
(76 The Inferno – Dante)
(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)
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 – E.B. White)
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
(91 Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad)
92 The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery
(93 The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks)
(94 Watership Down – Richard Adams)
(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
(99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl)
(100 Les Miserables – Victor Hugo)
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