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The BBC allegedly believes most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here:
How do your reading habits stack up? [bold those books you've read in their entirety, italicize the ones you started but didn't finish].
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien - read a few times.
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 - read a few times.
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams - read all 5 (?) of the trilogy
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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 - AA 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
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
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 Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
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 Colour 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 - EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle -- twice, in the past month because it's what I had near the dining room table
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery --AWESOME book. So cute, and so sad. This book is why the author is on French currency. As is The Little Prince.
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 --...an abridged version
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
Adding some classics and other really great books that aren't listed, that I have read:
--The Adventures of Pinocchio - Carlo Collodi
--Old Yeller - Fred Gipson
--Black Beauty - Anna Sewell
--The Adventures of Tom Sawyer -Mark Twain
--The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
--The Prince and the Pauper - Mark Twain
--Around the World in Eighty Days (abridged but it's going on my To Read list) - Jules Verne
--the complete works of Edgar Allan Poe
--The Diary of Anne Frank
--Farewell to Manzanar - Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston
--Survival in Auschwitz - Primo Levi
--A Bear Called Paddington - Michael Bond
--Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift
--The Scarlet Pimpernel - Baroness Orczy
--Little House on the Prairie series - Laura Ingalls Wilder
--The Red Fighter Pilot - Manfred von Richthofen
--2001: A Space Odyssey - Arthur C. Clarke
--Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
--The Inferno - Dante Alighieri
--The Odyssey - Homer
--The Phantom of the Opera - Gaston Leroux
--Ender's Game series - Orson Scott Card
--Silas Marner - George Eliot
--River God - Wilbur Smith
--Beowulf - unknown
--Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson
--The Princess Bride - William Goldman
--Starship Troopers - Robert A. Heinlein
--The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress - Robert A. Heinlein
Current List of Things That Need Reading:
--The Three Musketeers (unabridged) - Alexandre Dumas
--The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
--The Hunchback of Notre Dame - Victor Hugo
--A Song of Fire and Ice series - George R. R. Martin
--Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
--Moby Dick - Herman Melville
In Progress:
--Around the World in Eighty Days (unabridged) - Jules Verne
--The Once and Future King - T.H. White (started it years ago then misplaced the book)
--The Last of the Mohicans - James Fenimore Cooper (slow going)
--The Canterbury Tales - Geoffrey Chaucer (bits and pieces that were assigned in school; must finish!)
--Dracula - Bram Stoker
--The Rose Labyrinth - Titania Hardie
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I've completed 29 of them. I might do the actual meme later. | |
