I got 38.
The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books here. How do your reading habits stack up?
Instructions: Copy this into your NOTES. Look at the list and put an ‘x’ after those you have read. Tag 20 other book nerds. Tag me as well so I can see your responses!
1 Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen X
2 The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkie
3 Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte X
4 Harry Potter series – JK Rowling X
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 -X
11 Little Women – Louisa M Alcott X
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy -X
13 Catch 22 – Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare X
15 Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier X
16 The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong – Sebastian Faulk
18 Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveler’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger X
20 Middlemarch – George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald -X
23 Bleak House – Charles Dickens X
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 -X
29 Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll -X
30 The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy -X
32 David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis -X
34 Emma-Jane Austen
35 Persuasion – Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe -X
37 The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini -X
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 -
42 The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown – X
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 -X
47 Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood -X
49 Lord of the Flies – William Golding
50 Atonement – Ian McEwan -X
51 Life of Pi – Yann Marte
52 Dune – Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm
54 Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen -X
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 – Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez -X
61 Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
62 Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov -X
63 The Secret History – Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold -X
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 – X
69 Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick – Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
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
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 -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 Flaubertx
86 A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry -
87 Charlotte’s Web – EB White – X
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 – X
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl -X
100 Les Miserables – Victor Hugo








