I found this on Dru’s blog. I have read more than 6 (pokes out tongue at BBC). There are even more on this list that I’d like to read…
”The BBC believes most 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.
• Italicise the ones you started but didn’t finish or read only an excerpt.
• Tag other book nerds.”
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 King James Bible
Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
Nineteen Eighty Four (1984) – 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 – Daphne 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 Carroll
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
Winnie the Pooh – A.A. Milne
Animal Farm – George Orwell
The DaVinci 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 Kerouak
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
15 comments:
Anji, Thanks for posting this, we have both been infected by Dru's list. Your list and mine have only a few overlaps. So "The Little Prince" is it worth reading as an adult?
My recommendations to you? #1 One hundred years of solitude, #2 Dracula (poor Mina). I love Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell, but the more recent Thousand autumns..is preferred by my friends.
I too couldn't finish Dune, I really wanted all the characters to die quite early on.
Thanks again for much fun on a cold Friday
Oh I love and read soo many of these books.Certainly all the ones in dark black.
Sometimes it makes me feel my age lol
I did get this one on Facebook - I've read 28 of them
good list.pinching this one :)
it's sunday morning and it's pissing down rain, it will give me something to do :)
cheers
I have read 13 but I have read all of the Dune books and all of the hobbit books and all of the harry potter books.
Can't understand what the BBC is talking about. At least 6 of those books were set book in my school over 50 years ago and a few others were in my school library. I am sure modern schools have even better libraries.
I see I still have 18 to read so better pop down to the library sometime :)
Claire: The Littel Prince is worth reading at any age. The author's great uncle used to be mayor of our village.
ALady'sLife: A lot are worth rereading I think.
Loz: I forgot to count mine! 30
I wasn't bloggedYesterday: You're welcome
connie: I've yet to get through the Dune books. Dom has them in her room - in French. R=Think I'll wait for them in English
Jacki: That was my thought too. Yes, I'm inspired to try some of the others.
I read 19 of these. It's an odd list, because it has lots of classics in it, mixed in with some good current books.
I second the Dracula motion. That was a great book, and is well worth reading into adulthood.
No Mark Twain? No Hemingway?
Please...
Wow, so many wonderful books on this list! I'm stealing it for my blog :)
Had to steal it too :)
Nice to remember some of the books I've read over time. Now I have to think up some other great classics I have read that didn't make it on there.
I fall into their category then! I ahve only read 6 of them books :shock:
Wow, awesome list! 6 out of 100? They've got to be kidding. There is at least 15 titles off that list that are regulars on school English curriculum all over. It's nice to see a mix of classics and some that are more recent.
Andy: Yes, I must try the Dracula.
Jan: A few more loved authors to add to the list.
Julie: You're very welcome.
Simon: There are so many books to read... an re-read.
Wiggy: If you ever wonder what to read, you have a very good list now.
MK: Yes, most of us have seen some of those because of school.
coming back 30 months later; I've read two more on this list and have a copy of another that is waiting to be read
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