The BBC apparently thinks the majority of people will have read only 6 of the 100 books listed here...
Instructions:
• Copy this list.
• Bold those books you’ve read in their entirety.
• Italicize the ones you started but didn’t finish or read only an excerpt.
I have read:
- Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
- The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien
- Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
- Harry Potter series – JK Rowling
- To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
- The Bible
- Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
- Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell
- His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman
- Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
- Little Women – Louisa M Alcott
- Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
- Catch 22 – Joseph Heller
- Complete Works of Shakespeare
- Rebecca – Daphe Du Maurier
- The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien
- Birdsong – Sebastian Faulk
- Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger
- The Time Traveler’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger
- Middlemarch – George Eliot
- Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell
- The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald
- War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
- The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
- Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
- Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
- Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carrol
- The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
- Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
- David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
- Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis
- Emma -Jane Austen
- Persuasion – Jane Austen
- The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe – CS Lewis
- The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
- Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis De Bernieres
- Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
- Winne the Pooh - A. A. Milne
- Animal Farm – George Orwell
- The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown
- One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- A Prayer for Owen Meaney – John Irving
- The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins
- Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery
- Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy
- The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
- Lord of the Flies – William Golding
- Atonement – Ian McEwan
- Life of Pi – Yann Martel
- Dune – Frank Herbert
- Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons
- Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
- A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth
- The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon
- A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
- Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon
- Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
- Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
- The Secret History – Donna Tartt
- The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold
- Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
- On The Road – Jack Kerouac
- Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy
- Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helen Fielding
- Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
- Moby Dick – Herman Melville
- Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
- Dracula – Bram Stoker
- The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson
- Ulysses – James Joyce
- The Inferno – Dante
- Swallows and Amazons – Arthur Ransome
- Germinal – Emile Zola
- Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
- Possession – AS Byatt
- Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
- Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
- The Color Purple – Alice Walker
- The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
- Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
- A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
- Charlotte’s Web – E.B. White
- The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom
- Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton
- Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
- The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery
- The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks
- Watership Down – Richard Adams
- A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
- A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute
- The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
- Hamlet – William Shakespeare
- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl
- Les Miserables – Victor Hugo
- ??? (For you observant types, yes the list does appear to be missing book no. 100, and a couple of titles are double listed, as well)
I’m not sure what the significance of the list is – I couldn’t track it to the original source, but it’s got some great titles, a good mix of the old and the new. There are books here I haven’t even thought about since childhood.
I don’t know about anyone else, but I‘ve got a lot of reading to do.
You've got me beat, Dan...I only have 14! Great list, but I can think of many great books I've read not included on that list! Tennessee Williams, Mark Twain...ect. Shame that I have read just over 10% of what's on this distinguished list! Maybe we should each come up with out own lists!
ReplyDeleteThat's a good idea, making our oen lists. I like these kinds of lists. It reminds of books I want to read as well as the books I have read and haven't revisited in on while.
ReplyDeleteI'm going to take you up on that list. 100 books you've read and loved. We can see how many made both our lists.
Yikes, there would be many holes in my list! I think my only saving grace would be Dickens. Fun idea :)
ReplyDeleteYeah, I benefited from the prevalence of SF&F titles, myself - Dune, Hitchhikers', LOTR. I'd like to know the significance of this list, or if it's just some random titles someone threw together.
ReplyDeleteGetting started on the list!
ReplyDeleteThat's awesome. I'm kicking around some titles, too. I'mthining about making it something like 100 books that have had some kind of inluence or significance in my life. That can include classics, children's books I loved as a kids, or just 'fun' books I wore the spine out of.
ReplyDeleteCan't wait to see yours!
I've got 49 read and four started, but only because so many of them were mandatory reading in high school and college. I'd guess that's where the list originated.
ReplyDeleteI was delighted to see 43 on the list. A Prayer for Owen Meany is my all time favorite, and from a technical standpoint, one of the best books ever written.