Monday, 8 February 2010

Top 100 Books...Read more than 6??

The BBC believes that most of us will only have read 6 of these 100 top rated books (seeing the film does not count as reading the book!!!). I will put an 'x' by the ones I have read, feel free to do the same in the comments. Just cut and paste the list and do your own comparison.

  1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen X
  2. The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
  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 Materiels - Phillip Pullman X
  10. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens X
  11. Little Women - Lousia M Alcott X
  12. Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas HardyX
  13. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller X
  14. Complete Works of Shakespeare
  15. Rebecca - Daphne D Maurier
  16. The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
  17. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulkes
  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
  24. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
  25. The Hitchhikers guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
  26. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
  27. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky X
  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 X
  33. Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
  34. Emma - Jane Austen
  35. Persuasion - Jane Austen
  36. The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe - CS Lewis X
  37. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini X
  38. Captain Coreli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres X
  39. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden X
  40. Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
  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
  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 X
  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 - Mark Haddon X
  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 X
  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 X
  69. Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
  70. Moby Dick - Hermen Melville
  71. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens X
  72. Dracula - Bram Stoker
  73. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett X
  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 X
  82. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
  83. The Colour Purple - Alice Walker X
  84. The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
  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 X
  89. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle X
  90. The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
  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 X
  97. The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
  98. Hamlet - William Shakespeare
  99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl X
  100. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

I Have Read 38 of the hundred so far and I am in the middle of about 4 of them and in possession of many more so watch this space for more reviews on the BBC's top books. Enjoy counting for yourself and sharing it with friends.

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