Single hen

[bluekarin]

Apparently the BBC reckons most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here.

 

Instructions:

 

1) Look at the list and put an 'x' after those you have read.

2) Tally your total at the bottom.

 

 

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 X

5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee X

6 The Bible -

8 Nineteen Eighty Four - Orson Welles X

9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman X

10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens

11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott

12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy

13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller X

14 Complete Works of Shakespeare

15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier

16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien

17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks X

18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger

19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger X

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

26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh

27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck

29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll X

30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame X

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 X

37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini x

38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin

39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden

40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne X

41 Animal Farm - George Orwell X

42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown X

43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

44 A Prayer for Owen Meany - 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 X

51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel X

52 Dune - Frank Herbert

53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons x

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 X

60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck X

62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov

63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt X

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

73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett X

74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson X

75 Ulysses - James Joyce

76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath

77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome x

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 - EB 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 x

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

97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas

98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare

99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl X

100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

 

Total: 28 (But I have read other titles by some of the authors)

 

Courtesy of Facebook

 

PS I have just done some research and it seems the BBC said no such thing ! But they did compile a top 100 list in 2003 http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/bigread/top100.shtml, which includes some of these books. The tinternet is a marvelous place but it shows you can't believe everything you read.

[BarbaraJ]

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen x(not out of choice!)

2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien -

3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte

4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling X

5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee

6 The Bible -

8 Nineteen Eighty Four - Orson Welles x

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 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

26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh

27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck

29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll X

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 X

37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini x

38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin

39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur 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

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 x

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 x

59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon X

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 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

69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie

70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville

71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens x

72 Dracula - Bram Stoker

73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett X

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 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 - 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 x

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 X

100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

 

total 18

[little chickadee]

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 x

5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee x

6 The Bible -

8 Nineteen Eighty Four - Orson Welles X

9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman X

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

15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier

16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien x

17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks X

18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger

19 The Time Traveller’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

24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy -

25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy x

26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh

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 X

31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy

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 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 X

43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez x

44 A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving x

45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins x

46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery x

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 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-time - Mark Haddon X

60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck X

62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov

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 x

70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville

71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens x

72 Dracula - Bram Stoker

73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett X

74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson X

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 x

81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens

82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell

83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker x

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 x

88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom x

89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton x

91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad

92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery

93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks x

94 Watership Down - Richard Adams X

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 X

100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo x

 

I believe my total is 49. Must check out the others lol !

[Lydia]

I've read 11 of them:

 

3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte

5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee

25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame

40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne

41 Animal Farm - George Orwell

50 Atonement - Ian McEwan

59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon

68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding

74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson

99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl

 

I have to say though that amongst those are some of the dullest reads ever!

[WitchHazel]

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 X

5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee X

8 Nineteen Eighty Four - Orson Welles X

11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott X

16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien X

19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger X

21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell X

25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy X

29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll X

30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame X

33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis X

36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis X

40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne X

41 Animal Farm - George Orwell X

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

53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons x

58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley X

68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding X

73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett X

74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson X

77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome x

81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens X

87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White X

94 Watership Down - Richard Adams X

99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl X

100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo X

 

Total: 33

 

EDITED to do as Lydia has done - leave just the list of the ones I've read.

[eeyoreshunny]

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 X

5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee

6 The Bible - X

8 Nineteen Eighty Four - Orson Welles

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 Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger X

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 X

26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh

27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck

29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll X

30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame X

31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy

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 - CS Lewis X

37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini

38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin

39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden X

40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne X

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 Meany - 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 X

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 - Char les 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 X

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 X

69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie

70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville

71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens X

72 Dracula - Bram Stoker

73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett X

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 X

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 - EB White

88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom

89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle X

90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton X

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

 

I've read 24

[Mrs Webmuppet]

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 X

5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee X

6 The Bible - X

8 Nineteen Eighty Four - Orson Welles 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

16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien X

17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks

18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger

19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger X

20 Middlemarch - George Eliot X

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 X

26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh

27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck

29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll X

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 X

39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden X

40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne X

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 Meany - John Irving

45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins

46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery

47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy X

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 X

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 X

69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie

70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville

71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens X

72 Dracula - Bram Stoker

73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett X

74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson X

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 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 - EB 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 ShuteX

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

 

I think that's 31

[chickencam]

I have read

4

6 - Gideon as a teenager

11 - and the others in the series.

15

16

25

29

30

33 - why is the Lion The Witch And The Wardrobe seperate?

40

46

59

64

68 - I left it a long time after reading it before I watched the film because I though that it would be rubbish and I was right

73

77

87

90

94

99

 

That totals 20 I think, quite a few are children's fiction which I have read to our children

[laurmurf]

Apparently the BBC reckons most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here.

 

Instructions:

 

1) Look at the list and put an 'x' after those you have read.

2) Tally your total at the bottom.

 

 

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 Xx

5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee Xx

6 The Bible -

8 Nineteen Eighty Four - Orson Welles Xx

9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman Xx

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 Xx

14 Complete Works of Shakespeare

15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier x

16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien x

17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks Xx

18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger x

19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger Xx

20 Middlemarch - George Eliot

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

25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy 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 Xx

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 Xx

37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini x

38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin

39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden x

40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne Xx

41 Animal Farm - George Orwell Xx

42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown Xx

43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez x

44 A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving

45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins

46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery

47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy x

48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood x

49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding x

50 Atonement - Ian McEwan Xx

51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel X

52 Dune - Frank Herbert x

53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons xx

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

59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon Xx

60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez x

61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck X

62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov x

63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt Xx

64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold X 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 Xx

69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie

70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville

71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens x

72 Dracula - Bram Stoker x

73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett Xx

74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson Xx

75 Ulysses - James Joyce

76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath

77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome x

78 Germinal - Emile Zola

79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray x

80 Possession - AS Byatt x

81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens x

82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell x

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 x

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 xx

93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks

94 Watership Down - Richard Adams Xx

95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole

96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute

97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas x

98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare x

99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl Xx

100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

 

Total: 28 (But I have read other titles by some of the authors)

 

Courtesy of Facebook

 

PS I have just done some research and it seems the BBC said no such thing ! But they did compile a top 100 list in 2003 http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/bigread/top100.shtml

/url], which includes some of these books. The tinternet is a marvelous place but it shows you can't believe everything you read.

 

I've ticked a few (69) but i did do an english degree, so some were more required reads than voluntary. I'm more worried about the ones I haven't read!

[MadMitch]

2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien -

3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte

5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee

16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien

17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks

18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger

27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck

30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame

36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis

37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini

38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin

40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne

42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown

47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy

49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding

50 Atonement - Ian McEwan

51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel

59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon

61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck

73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett

93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks

94 Watership Down - Richard Adams

98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare

 

23 for me. Love number 93, I often read this.

[Tessa the Duchess]

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen x

2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien

3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte x

4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling

5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee x

6 The Bible -

8 Nineteen Eighty Four - Orson Welles 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

15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurierx

16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien

17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks

18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salingerx

19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger

20 Middlemarch - George Eliot x

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 x

26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waughx

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 X

31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy

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 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 X

43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez x

44 A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving x

45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins x

46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery

47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy x

48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood x

49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding x

50 Atonement - Ian McEwan

51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel x

52 Dune - Frank Herbert

53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons x

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 x

58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley x

59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon X

60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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 x

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

73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett X

74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson X

75 Ulysses - James Joyce

76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath

77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome x

78 Germinal - Emile Zola x

79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray x

80 Possession - AS Byatt x

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

88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom

89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle x

90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton x

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 X

95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole x

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

 

Seems I've read 68 of them, but then reading is one of my favourite occupations.

 

Tessa

[fluffyknickers]

3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte

4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling

11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott

12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy

15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier

25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll

30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame

33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis

34 Emma - Jane Austen

36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis

38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin

40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne

46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery

64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold

68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding

71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens

73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett

87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White

90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton

99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl

 

21 - lots at school thought that we HAD to read!

 

Michelle

[Rhapsody]

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane AustenX

2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien - X

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

8 Nineteen Eighty Four - Orson Welles X

9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman X

10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens

11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott

12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy

13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller X

14 Complete Works of Shakespeare X

15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier X

16 The Hobbit - JRR TolkienX

17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks X

18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger X

19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger X

20 Middlemarch - George Eliot X

21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell X

22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald

23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens X

24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy - (but I've started it about 5 times)

25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy X

26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh X

27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky X

28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck

29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll X

30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame X

31 Anna Karenina - Leo TolstoyX

32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens X

33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis X

34 Emma - Jane Austen X (Rave fave)

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 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 X

43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

44 A Prayer for Owen Meany - John IrvingX

45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins X

46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery

47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy X

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 Martel X

52 Dune - Frank Herbert X

53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons x

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 X

60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck X

62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov X

63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt X

64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold X

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

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 X

75 Ulysses - James Joyce (tried and tried and fell asleep every time)

76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath X

77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome x

78 Germinal - Emile Zola

79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray X

80 Possession - AS Byatt X

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 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

89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle X

90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton

91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad

92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery x

93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks X (ace book!)

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

 

 

So I've read 84/100- do you think I need to get out more?

[Tina C]

46 I think - and many of them more than once - although I may have read some of the children's ones when I was younger and have forgotten!

 

I love Zola.

 

By the way - I have read 1984 by George Orwell - but I haven't read the one by Orson Welles

[Tina C]

Wow - Rhapsody - I'm impressed.

[Tessa the Duchess]

Wow - Rhapsody - I'm impressed.

 

I'm extremely impressed that Rhapsody has read the ENTIRE works of Shakespeare

 

Tessa

[Willow]

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen X

2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien

3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte X

4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling X

5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee X

6 The Bible

8 Nineteen Eighty Four - Orson Welles X

9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman X

10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens

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

15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier X

16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien X

17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks

18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger

19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger X

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 -X

25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy X

26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh

27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck

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

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

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 X

44 A Prayer for Owen Meany - 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 X

48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood X

49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding X

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 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-time - Mark Haddon X

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

69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie (1/2 way through)

70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville

71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens

72 Dracula - Bram Stoker

73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett X

74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson X

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 Color Purple - Alice Walker X

84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro X

85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert

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 X

93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks X

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

98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare

99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl X

100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

 

44 I read War and Peace in my final year at Uni to try and make me study more and read less however I really enjoyed it.

 

Could never get into Lord of the Rings - I couldn't keep all the names straight in my head then when the movie came out felt any movie with Sean Bean was preferable to the book...

 

Ian Banks, Kazuo Ishiguro and Gabriel Garcia Marquez amongst my favourite authors.

 

One day I plan to read Dickens

 

Awed by Rhapsody and Tessa's lists !

[Rhapsody]

Wow - Rhapsody - I'm impressed.

 

I'm extremely impressed that Rhapsody has read the ENTIRE works of Shakespeare

 

Tessa

 

English Lit degree saw to that!

[Mutrix Farmers]

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen X

2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien -

3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte X

4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling X

5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee X

6 The Bible - ABOUT HALF

8 Nineteen Eighty Four - Orson Welles X

9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman

10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens

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

15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier X

16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien X

17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks

18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger

19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger

20 Middlemarch - George Eliot X

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

26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh

27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck

29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll X

30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame X

31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy

32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens

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

38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin

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

45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins X

46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery X

47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy X

48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood

49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding X

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 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-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 X

66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac

67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy X

68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding X

69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie

70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville

71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens X

72 Dracula - Bram Stoker

73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett X

74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson X

75 Ulysses - James Joyce

76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath

77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome X

78 Germinal - Emile Zola

79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray X

80 Possession - AS Byatt

81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens

82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell

83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker X

84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro

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

89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle X

90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton X

91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad

92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery X

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

99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl X

100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

 

Total: 42

[..lay a little egg for me]

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 X

6 The Bible - large chunks of it but not cover to cover

8 Nineteen Eighty Four - Orson Welles X

9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman X

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 many but not all

15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier X

16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien X

17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks X

18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger started but not finished

19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger X

20 Middlemarch - George Eliot X

22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald X

23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens X

24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy X

25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy X

26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh X

29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll X

30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame 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 X

40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne X

41 Animal Farm - George Orwell X

45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins X

52 Dune - Frank Herbert X

53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons X

54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen X

56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon X

58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley X

59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon X

61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck X

62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov X

79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray X

81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens X

82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell X

87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White X

91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad X

93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks x- read half but didn't finish it

94 Watership Down - Richard Adams X

96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute X

98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare X

99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl X

 

Total: 47 and several halves!

 

Quite a strange mixture of books in the list. Oddest thing is the Narnia Chronicles as number 33 and The Lion The Witch and the Wardrobe as number 36!!!! I guess it must be something to do with it starting out as a list of top sellers?

[Snowy]

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 - (cover to cover! although admittedly I skimmed certain books!)

11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott

12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy

15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier

16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien

21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell

25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll X

30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame X

32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens

33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis

34 Emma - Jane Austen

36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis X

37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini x

40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne X

46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery

47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy

54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen

59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon X

68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding X

70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville

71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens

72 Dracula - Bram Stoker

73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett X

77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome x

81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens

90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton

92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery x

94 Watership Down - Richard Adams X

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 X

 

38 for me!

Edited March 10, 2009 by Guest

[Guest]

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 X

5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee X

6 The Bible -

8 Nineteen Eighty Four - Orson Welles X

9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman X

10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens

11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott

12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy

13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller X

14 Complete Works of Shakespeare

15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier

16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien

17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks X

18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger

19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger X

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

26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh

27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck

29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll X

30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame X

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 X

37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini x

38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin

39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden

40 the PooWinnie h - AA Milne X

41 Animal Farm - George Orwell X

42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown X

43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

44 A Prayer for Owen Meany - 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 X

51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel X

52 Dune - Frank Herbert

53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons x

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 X

60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck X

62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov

63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt X

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

73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett X

74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson X

75 Ulysses - James Joyce

76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath

77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome x

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 - EB 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 x

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

97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas

98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare

99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl X

100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

 

25 I am surprised it is so many. Not sure why the Chronicles of Narnia and the Lion, witch and wardrobe are listed as two items though

[Cinnamon]

Did this on Facebook a couple of weeks ago...

 

I got 53

I have purpled the ones I have read.

 

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

8 Nineteen Eighty Four - Orson Welles

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 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

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

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 Meany - 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 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 - EB 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

 

 

If any of you have not read 'The life of Pi', you are really missing out.

Ditto 'The 5 people you meet in Heaven', which is, IMHO the most beautiful of books

[A chickychickychick-ENN!!]

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen x

2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien

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

8 Nineteen Eighty Four - Orson Welles x

9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman x

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 (NOT ALL BUT A FAIR WHACK)

15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier

16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien

17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks x

18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger x

19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger x (BEST BOOK EVER)

20 Middlemarch - George Eliot x

21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell

22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald x

23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens

24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy x

25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy x (WHOLE SERIES)

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

31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy x

32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens

33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis x

34 Emma - Jane Austen x

35 Persuasion - Jane Austen

36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis x

37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini x

38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin x

39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden

40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne x (ALL OF THEM)

41 Animal Farm - George Orwell x

42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown (NEVER!!!)

43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

44 A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving

45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins

46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery

47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy x

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

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

58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley x

59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon x

60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck x

62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov

63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt x

64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold

65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas

66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac x

67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy x

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 x

75 Ulysses - James Joyce x

76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath x

77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome x

78 Germinal - Emile Zola x

79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray

80 Possession - AS Byatt x

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

89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton x

91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad x

92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery x

93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks x

94 Watership Down - Richard Adams

95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole x

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

 

66. And some halves like the Martel and a lot of Dickens. So my youth wasn't entirely wasted then (apart from the Joyce, Flaubert, Austen, Tolstoy - god, I hated reading some of these!)

 

Great quote from Charlie Brooker in the Guardian this week:

 

"The other irony is that while people lie about having read highbrow novels in order to impress each other, a massive percentage of highbrow novels aren't worth reading anyway because the authors are too busy trying to impress the reader (who, we now know, probably hasn't bothered turning up). That's why so many contemporary novels seem to largely consist of a thinly veiled version of the author discussing politics and art and quantum theory over a carefully selected bottle of wine with the devastatingly beautiful mixed-race wife of an impotent international statesman and/or gangster (delete where applicable) before whisking her off to a swish hotel room to have expert sex with her all weekend until a pigeon symbolising the unions or something crashes into the window and blah blah blah blah BLAH. I mean, really, who cares? Mr Tickle had 20 times the raw entertainment value - and it came with pictures - so if you can't beat that, don't bother."

 

so true!

[Egluntyne]

Apparently the BBC reckons most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here.

 

Instructions:

 

 

 

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen x

2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien - attempted it and hurled it aside.

3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte x

4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling x not all of them so won't include it in the tally.

5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee X Absolutely loved it . An all time fave.

6 The Bible -

8 Nineteen Eighty Four - Orson Welles

9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman X

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 Not the complete works so not included.

15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier x

16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien - attempted it and hurled it aside.

17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks X

18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger x

19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger X Loved it.

20 Middlemarch - George Eliot x

21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell x

22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald

23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens x

24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy -

25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy x

26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh x

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 X

31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy

32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens x

33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis

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 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 X

43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

44 A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving

45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins x

46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery x And all the rest of the series. Love 'em.

47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy x

48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood x

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 x

54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen x

55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth x

56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon x

57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens x

58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley

59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon X

60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck X

62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov x

63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt X

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 x

68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding X

69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie

70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville x

71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens x

72 Dracula - Bram Stoker

73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett X

74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson X

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 x

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 - EB White x

88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom x

89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton x

91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad

92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery x

93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks x

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

98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare

99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl X

100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

 

 

Total = 56.

 

Edited to purple it up.

Edited March 10, 2009 by Guest