20 November 2010

100 Books BBC Believes You Should Have Read

Pleasantly surprised that I have read most of these and many are among my favorite books.
Have you read more than 6 of these books? The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books listed here. Instructions: Copy this into your NOTES. Bold those books you've read in their entirety, italicize the ones you started but didn't finish or read an excerpt. Tag other book nerds.  

 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
 7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
 8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
 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 Faulk
 18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
 19 The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
 20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
 21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
 22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
 24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
 25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
 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 - Louis De Bernieres
 39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
 40 Winnie the Pooh - A.A. 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 Meaney - 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 Inferno - Dante 
 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 - E.B. 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

4 comments:

Linda said...

Just counting on my fingers as I read down the list, I think I've read 22 of these but started a lot more than that. And out of that 22, some of them I've read more than once - even more than twice. My Dad always said he didn't like to chew his cabbage twice but when it comes to a good book, I'll chew it several times over!

Finding Pam said...

This looks like the books we read in high school and again in college. I have read almost all of them. What a great reminder that we should re-read some of these great classics.

I love to read, but never seem to have the time. Once I start a book, I can't put it down until it is finished.

I think I am going to ask Santa for a kindle.

Travis Cody said...

This list seems to change slightly each time I come across it. This time I've read 26 of them. Some of these are on my list to either re-visit or visit for the first time.

Anonymous said...

i'm stuck at 9 :(

and for other many of them haven't read the book but seen the movie..does it worths?xD