I've seen this meme around. When Betsy sent it to me on Facebook, I decided to play along. I have read 48 of these - not saying I REMEMBER all 48, though!
The BBC believes most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here. (I can’t verify this statistic).
Also.... The Da Vinci Code? Come ON... read this and it's no "great 100 books" sort of book. Same for Bridget Jones' Diary.
1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen (x ) In fact I am re-reading it, again, right now.
2. The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien (x )
3. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte ()
4. Harry Potter series - JK Rowling (X )
5. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee ( )
6. The Bible ( x)
7. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte ( x)
8. 1984 - George Orwell (x )
9. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman ()
10. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens ( )
11. Little Women - Louisa M Alcott ( X)
12. Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy ( )
13. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller (x)
14. Complete Works of Shakespeare ( ) -
15. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier ( )
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 (x )
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 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 (X)
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 ( )
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 Meany - 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 (X)
49. Lord of the Flies - William Golding (X)
50. Atonement - Ian McEwan ()
51. Life of Pi - Yann Martel ()
52. Dune - Frank Herbert (x)
53. Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons ( x)
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 ( x)
58. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley (x )
59. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - 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 ( X)
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 (x )
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 (X) -
74. Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson (x )
75. Ulysses - James Joyce ()
76. The Inferno - Dante (X)
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 Color Purple - Alice Walker (X)
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 ( )
91. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad ( ) started but could not finish...
92. The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery (X)
93. The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks ( )
94. Watership Down - Richard Adams (x)
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 (X)
99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl (X)
100. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo ( )
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5 comments:
I read ( a LOT) and I've only read three on the list.
I've read bits of several, but only three all the way through.
chalk me up for 20 of those.
We have read similar books. I was surprised to not see The Scarlet Letter on there. Or Diary of Anne Frank. Oh and I noticed that the complete works of William Shakespeare is listed toward the top and then later toward the end they list Hamlet. Hamlet isn't part of the complete works?? I read 13 on that list. It's a great list and reminds me there are a few I'd love to read again.
I've read dozens of those books, which surprised myself. Along with the comment on Shakespeare, the Narnia Chronicles and the Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe... another duplicate in my opinion... ;o)
I've enjoyed your blog for awhile... thanks!
I've read 45, listened to one on tape and am part way through another at the moment. But how many I'd have read if it hadn't been for doing a degree in literature and having compulsory reading.... I won't tell you!
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