The BBC believes most people will have read only six of the 100 books here. How do your reading habits stack up? I have only read 40 of them. I thought I was an avid reader but I think I still have a lot to learn' and read. Now I have a challenge to try and read the whole list. I will have to add the books to my goodreads account. If you haven't checked out goodreads you will love it! http://www.goodreads.com/review/list/1035834
1. Pride and Prejudice -- Jane Austen - YES
2. The Lord of the Rings -- J.R.R. Tolkien _ NO
3. Jane Eyre -- Charlotte Bronte - NO
4. Harry Potter series -- J.K. Rowling - YES
5. To Kill a Mockingbird -- Harper Lee - YES
6. The Holy Bible - YES
7. Wuthering Heights -- Emily Bronte - YES
8. Nineteen Eighty-Four -- George Orwell -NO
9. His Dark Materials -- Philip Pullman - YES
10. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens - NO
11. Little Women -- Louisa M. Alcott - YES
12. Tess of the d’Urbervilles -- Thomas Hardy -NO
13. Catch-22 -- Joseph Heller - NO
14. The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (all the plays) - NO (most, but not all)
15. Rebecca -- Daphne du Maurier - YES
16. The Hobbit -- J.R.R. Tolkien - YES
17. Birdsong -- Sebastian Faulk - NO
18. Catcher in the Rye -- J.D. Salinger - YES
19. The Time Traveler’s Wife -- Audrey Niffenegger - YES
20. Middlemarch -- George Eliot -NO
21. Gone with the Wind -- Margaret Mitchell - YES
22. The Great Gatsby -- F. Scott Fitzgerald - YES
23. Bleak House -- Charles Dickens- NO
24. War and Peace -- Leo Tolstoy -NO
25. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy -- Douglas Adams - NO
26. Brideshead Revisited -- Evelyn Waugh - NO
27. Crime and Punishment -- Fyodor Dostoyevsky -NO
28. The Grapes of Wrath -- John Steinbeck -YES
29. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland -- Lewis Carroll -NO
30. The Wind in the Willows -- Kenneth Grahame -YES
31. Anna Karenina -- Leo Tolstoy -NO
32. David Copperfield -- Charles Dickens -NO
33. The Chronicles of Narnia -- C.S. Lewis –YES (many times)
34. Emma -- Jane Austen -YES
35. Persuasion -- Jane Austen -NO
36. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe -- C.S. Lewis -YES
37. The Kite Runner -- Khaled Hosseini -YES
38. Captain Corelli's Mandolin -- Louis de Bernieres -NO
39. Memoirs of a Geisha -- Arthur Golden -YES
40. Winnie the Pooh -- A.A. Milne -YES
41. Animal Farm -- George Orwell -YES
42. The Da Vinci Code -- Dan Brown -YES
43. One Hundred Years of Solitude -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez -NO
44. A Prayer for Owen Meaney -- John Irving -YES
45. The Woman in White -- Wilkie Collins -NO
46. Anne of Green Gables -- L.M. Montgomery -YES
47. Far from the Madding Crowd -- Thomas Hardy -NO
48. The Handmaid's Tale -- Margaret Atwood -NO
49. Lord of the Flies -- William Golding -YES
50. Atonement -- Ian McEwan -NO
51. Life of Pi -- Yann Martel -YES
52. Dune -- Frank Herbert -YES
53. Cold Comfort Farm -- Stella Gibbons -NO
54. Sense and Sensibility -- Jane Austen -YES
55. A Suitable Boy -- Vikram Seth -NO
56. The Shadow of the Wind -- Carlos Ruiz Zafon -NO
57. A Tale of Two Cities -- Charles Dickens -YES
58. Brave New World -- Aldous Huxley -NO
59. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time -- Mark Haddon -NO
60. Love in the Time of Cholera -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez -NO
61. Of Mice and Men -- John Steinbeck -YES
62. Lolita -- Vladimir Nabokov -NO
63. The Secret History -- Donna Tartt -NO
64. The Lovely Bones -- Alice -YES
65. The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas -NO
66. On the Road -- Jack Kerouac -NO
67. Jude the Obscure -- Thomas Hardy -NO
68. Bridget Jones' Diary -- Helen Fielding -NO
69. Midnight's Children -- Salman Rushdie -NO
70. Moby Dick -- Herman Melville -YES
71. Oliver Twist -- Charles Dickens -NO
72. Dracula -- Bram Stoker -NO
73. The Secret Garden -- Frances Hodgson Burnett -YES
74. Notes From A Small Island -- Bill Bryson -NO
75. Ulysses -- James Joyce -NO
76. The Inferno -- Dante Alighieri -NO
77. Swallows and Amazons -- Arthur Ransome -NO
78. Germinal -- Emile Zola -NO
79. Vanity Fair -- William Makepeace Thackeray -NO
80. Possession -- A.S. Byatt -NO
81. A Christmas Carol -- Charles Dickens -YES
82. Cloud Atlas -- David Mitchell -NO
83. The Color Purple -- Alice Walker -NO
84. The Remains of the Day -- Kazuo Ishiguro -NO
85. Madame Bovary -- Gustave Flaubert -NO
86. A Fine Balance -- Rohinton Mistry -NO
87. Charlotte’s Web -- E.B. White -YES
88. The Five People You Meet In Heaven -- Mitch Albom -YES
89. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes -- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle -NO
90. The Faraway Tree Collection -- Enid Blyton -NO
91. Heart of Darkness -- Joseph Conrad -YES
92. The Little Prince -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery -YES
93. The Wasp Factory -- Iain Banks -NO
94. Watership Down -- Richard Adams -NO
95. A Confederacy of Dunces -- John Kennedy Toole -NO
96. A Town Like Alice -- Nevil Shute -NO
97. The Three Musketeers -- Alexandre Dumas -NO
98. Hamlet -- William Shakespeare -YES
99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory -- Roald Dahl -YES
100. Les Miserables -- Victor Hugo -NO
7 comments:
If it makes you feel better you aren't really missing much from the ones you haven't read. Well, except maybe Les Mis
I've read 45 of them. Where did you get this list? I think we should get credit for Shakespeare's works individually, especially since Hamlet is listed separately!
that is a great list. I love to read and always feel like I run out of books. Now I have a list to work off of. I've only read about 30% of the list. I keep meaning to ask you for your mom's monkey bread recipe. can you send it to me? (or post it?)
Start with Anna Karenina. One of my favorites!
Fun! I'm going to have to try this one out!
I’ve read 40 of these – but I’m not that impressed with this list. Some are classics and others “popular.” Some are just bad picks. I’d love to come up with a list of the “best books” a person could read in this life and then read them all before I die.
skip catch 22 and start with crime and punishment.
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