100 Books

The BBC believes most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here. How do my reading habits stack up?An X marks each book I've read over many years.


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

Sub-total: 10

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-x
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier - x
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien -x
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger - x
19 The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot-x

Sub-total: 8

21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell X
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald X
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens X
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy x
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams-
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh x
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck -x
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll x
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame x

Sub-total: 8

31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy X
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 - C.S. Lewis -x
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hossein
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne - x

Sub-total: 7

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 Meaney - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins x
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery x
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy x
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood x
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding x
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan

Sub-total: 7

51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert- x
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen- x
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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 - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Sub-total: 4

61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck x
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov - x
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

Sub-total: 5

71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens x
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker- x
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett - x
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce- x
76 The Inferno – Dante-x
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackery x

Sub-total: 6

80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens- x
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert x
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

Sub-total: 4

91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad-
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery - x
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 x
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare - x
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl -
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo x

Sub-total: 4

Total: 63

Well, there you are! So much for the BBC! However, this inspires me to keep a list of everything I read this year. I've been busy stitching through January so it was not as busy reading as usual and... no text books from school. I'll post my January list tomorrow.

Blessings nine!