Book List

I stole this from my friend Ruth (congratulations on the new baby!), who stole it from a friend, who stole it from a friend, etc. Since I also enjoy reading, I’m playing…

“The BBC believes most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here. How do your reading habits stack up? Instructions: Copy and paste, then put an ‘x’ after those you have read. Tally your total at the bottom.”

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 () (Haven't even heard of it...)

10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens (x)

11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott (x)

12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy ()

13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller ()

14 Complete Works of Shakespeare ()

15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier (x)

16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien (x)

17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk ()

18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger ()

19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger ()

20 Middlemarch - George Eliot ()

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 (x)

26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh ()

27 Crime and Punishment- Fyodor Dostoyevsky (x)

28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck ()

29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll (x)

30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame (x)

31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy ()

32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens ()

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 - CS Lewis (x)

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 - AA Milne (x)

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 ()

46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery (x)

47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy (x)

48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood ()

49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding (x)

50 Atonement - Ian McEwan ()

51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel (x)

52 Dune - Frank Herbert (attempted)

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-time - Mark Haddon ()

60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez ()

61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck (x)

62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov ()

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 (attempted)

71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens (x)

72 Dracula - Bram Stoker (x)

73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnet (x)

74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson ()

75 Ulysses - James Joyce (attempted)

76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath ()

77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome ()

78 Germinal - Emile Zola ()

79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray (attempted)

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 (x)

85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert ()

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 ()

91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad (x)

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 (x)

100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo (x)

I’ve read 50 of the 100. I probably should have read more, given my English major status, but I haven't. I'd love to know how many YOU have read. :)