The BBC believes most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here.
How do your reading habits stack up?
Instructions:
Look at the list and put an ‘x’ after those you have read. Make sure you delete my x’S!
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
7 Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte – x
8 Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell – 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 -
15 Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier -
16 The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien – x
17 Birdsong – Sebastian Faulk – x
18 Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger – x
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger -
20 Middlemarch – George Eliot -
21 Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell – x
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- x
26 Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh -
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 -
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 -
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis De Bernieres – x
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 – 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- x
51 Life of Pi – Yann Martel – x
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 Zifon -
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-
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 -
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 – Andrea Levy -
75 Ulysses – James Joyce -
76 The Inferno – Dante -
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 – x
82 Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell – x
83 The Color Purple – Alice Walker -
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 – x
90 The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton -
91 Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad – x
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 – x
97 The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas – x
98 Hamlet – William Shakespeare – x
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factoy – Roald Dahl – x
100 Les Miserables – Victor Hugo -
I get 60, which I guess isn’t too bad, though there are some absolute classics in there that I haven’t read at all. It’s a funny list: for example, why include the complete works of Shakespeare and Hamlet?
