Have you read more than 6 of these books? The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books listed here. I decided to do an inventory of my own reading and see if there's any that I've forgotten I wanted to read. If it's bold, I've read it.
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen - took a while, but it was very good.
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien - Ok, so I've read the first one and half of the second....
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte - Thanks to my friend Shelley forcing this upon our AP English class, I've read this terrible book. :)
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling - I've only read the first one....spose that doesn't count since there are so many of them.
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible - Like most of the population I've only read parts.
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 - Haven't read ALL of them....
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien - Let me get through LOTR and maybe this one will come....
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
18 Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger - I passen up a .50 copy at the last library sale because I thought I had this one already - now I can't seem to fnd it.
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind- Margaret Mitchell - Gone with the Wind was a book?! (Just kidding)
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 Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck - Ugh. I read this book on a bus trip to New York City. It was so depressing I didn't think I'd ever get to the end. Sorry - guess an 18 year old can't appreciate such struggles.
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 - I'm going to get to this one....it's in my Austen collection.
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen - This one is too.
36 The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe - CS Lewis (this is associated with #33...!)
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hossein
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 - I have no interest is this one what so ever.
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marque
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery - I forced my Mom to read this one when I was done - something she avoided in her childhood. :)
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 - on my list.....
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Set
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 - Ah, Lenny....gotta love him.
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold - quite the read.....probably one of my top 3 favs on the list...
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumm
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 - started it....didn't finish it.
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 Mistra
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 Blyto
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 (isn't this part of the "Complete Works of Shakespeare??)
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
Ok - so I'm at 19.
Where's the Twilight saga on this list? Doesn't the BBC think that's important? :)
I'm thinking of posting a list of children's books next - bet I'm over 75% on that one.....
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen - took a while, but it was very good.
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien - Ok, so I've read the first one and half of the second....
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte - Thanks to my friend Shelley forcing this upon our AP English class, I've read this terrible book. :)
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling - I've only read the first one....spose that doesn't count since there are so many of them.
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible - Like most of the population I've only read parts.
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 - Haven't read ALL of them....
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien - Let me get through LOTR and maybe this one will come....
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
18 Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger - I passen up a .50 copy at the last library sale because I thought I had this one already - now I can't seem to fnd it.
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind- Margaret Mitchell - Gone with the Wind was a book?! (Just kidding)
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 Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck - Ugh. I read this book on a bus trip to New York City. It was so depressing I didn't think I'd ever get to the end. Sorry - guess an 18 year old can't appreciate such struggles.
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 - I'm going to get to this one....it's in my Austen collection.
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen - This one is too.
36 The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe - CS Lewis (this is associated with #33...!)
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hossein
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 - I have no interest is this one what so ever.
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marque
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery - I forced my Mom to read this one when I was done - something she avoided in her childhood. :)
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 - on my list.....
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Set
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 - Ah, Lenny....gotta love him.
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold - quite the read.....probably one of my top 3 favs on the list...
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumm
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 - started it....didn't finish it.
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 Mistra
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 Blyto
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 (isn't this part of the "Complete Works of Shakespeare??)
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
Ok - so I'm at 19.
Where's the Twilight saga on this list? Doesn't the BBC think that's important? :)
I'm thinking of posting a list of children's books next - bet I'm over 75% on that one.....
3 comments:
love ya! so does jane eyre. :-)
you should try "pride and prejudice and zombies." it has everything you could want in a novel -- zombies, ninjas, good manners -- everything.
"And though it would not be long before even the daft Mr. Collins would discover her condition, and be forced to behead her, she did not seem to ask for compassion. Her home and her housekeeping, her parish and her poultry, and her ever deepening lust for tender morsels of savory brains had not yet lost their charm."
@thrillhouse - HA! That sounds right up my alley!
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