Books read

The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books listed here. How do your reading habits stack up? Share with your fellow readers.

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1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen YES, YES
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien YES, NO
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte NO, NO
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling YES, NO
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee YES, YES
6 The Bible - Old Testament YES, YES
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte NO, YES
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell YES, YES
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman YES, NO
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens NO, NO
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott NO, YES
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy NO, NO
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller NO, NO
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare Complete? NO, NO
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier NO, NO
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien YES, YES
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk NO, NO
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger YES, NO
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger NO, YES
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot NO, NO
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell NO, NO
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald NO, NO
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens NO, NO
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy NO, NO
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams NO, NO
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh NO, NO
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky NO, NO
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck NO, NO
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll NO, NO
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame NO, NO
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy NO, NO
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens NO, NO
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis YES, YES
34 Emma - Jane Austen NO, NO
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen NO,NO
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis YES, YES
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini NO, YES
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres Mais NO, NO
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden NO, NO
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne YES, YES
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell YES, YES
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown YES, YES
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez NO, NO
44 A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving NO, NO
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins NO, NO
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery NO,NO
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy NO, NO
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood NO, NO
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding YES, NO
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan NO, NO
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel NO, NO
52 Dune - Frank Herbert NO, NO
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons NO, NO
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen NO, NO
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth NO, NO
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon NO, NO
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens NO, NO
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley YES, NO
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time YES, NO
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez NO, NO
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck NO, YES
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov NO, NO
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt NO, NO
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold NO, NO
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas YES, NO
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac NO, NO
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy NO, NO
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding NO, NO
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie NO, NO
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville NO, NO
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens NO, NO
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker NO, NO
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett NO, YES
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson NO, NO
75 Ulysses - James Joyce NO, NO
76 The Inferno - Dante NO, NO
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome NO, NO
78 Germinal - Emile Zola NO, NO
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray NO, NO
80 Possession - AS Byattn NO, NO
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens YES, NO
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell NO, NO
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker NO, NO
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro NO, NO
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert YES, NO
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry NO, NO
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White YES, YES
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom NO, YES
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle NO, NO
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton NO, NO
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad NO, NO
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery NO, YES
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks NO, NO
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams NO, NO
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole NO, NO
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute NO, NO
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas NO, NO
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare YES, YES
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl NO, NO
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo NO, NO

I know I score higher than many, but I am still a little ashamed I only have about 20. I want to read a few off of this list just haven't had time yet. And some of them are just long and will take a while.

Blake

P.S. the answers on the left are mine, the ones on the right are Heather's.