....more than the BBC expected that I would. How Many Books Have You Read From This List?. The
BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books here.
The BBC should know better than to tackle with an English major. I have
read 77 of them. I'll need to add the other 23 to my "must read" list.
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen-X
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien- X
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 1984 - George Orwell-X
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman-
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens -X
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott -X
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy-X
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller -X
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare-X (for school not fun)
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier -X
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien - X
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk -
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
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald -X
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens -X
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy-X - boring
25 The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams- X
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh - X
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky -X
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck- X
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll - X
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame - X
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy -X
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens -X
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis- X
34 Emma - Jane Austen -X
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen -X
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 -X
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden -X
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne- X
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 Meany - John Irving-X
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-X
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel -
52 Dune - Frank Herbert-X
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen -X
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth -X
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-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-
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas -X
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac-X
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy -
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding - X
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie -X
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville -X
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 -X
76 The Inferno - Dante-X
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray -X
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 -X
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 Albom-X
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-X (in French!)
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-X
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas -X
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare- X
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl -X
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo- X
Originally published as a Facebook note on March 15, 2009
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