Sunday, 21 November 2010

books books and more books - 100 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: . Bold those books you've read in their entirety, italicize the ones you started but didn't finish or read an excerpt. * The ones you own!! and post



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 Dickins



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 DuMaurier



16. The Hobbit - JR Tolkein *



17. Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks



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



22. The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald



23. Bleak House – Charles Dickens



24. War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy



25. The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams



26. Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh



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 Berniere



39. Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden



40. Winnie the Pooh – AA 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 Gibbon



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 Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath



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 – EB 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

2 comments:

pippinsmum said...

I've read at least 30, some such as H P do not appeal at all, have tried to read War and Peace 3 times, but each time something happens to put me off.

allotmentbore said...

I have read 51 due to my love of classics, and no TV as a kid, and tried another few of them before putting them down :)