The BBC apparently says most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here. (That seems ridiculous to me.... Anyway.)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/bigread/top100.shtml
Instructions: [Copy and paste into a new note on your profile.] 1) Look at the list and put an 'x' before those you have read.
2) Tally your total.
3) Put in a note with your total in the subject
1 (X) Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 (X) The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 (X) Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 (X) Harry Potter series - JK Rowling (not all)
5 () To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 (X) The Bible
7 (X) Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 () Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 () His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 (X) Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 (X) Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 (X) Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 () Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 (X) Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 (X) Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 (X) The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 () Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
18 (X) 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 (X) 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 (X) Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30 () The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 (X) Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 (X) David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 (X) Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34 (X) Emma - Jane Austen
35 ( X) Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 (X) The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
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
41 () Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 (X) 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 (X) Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47 () Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 (X) The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 (X) Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 () Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 () Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 (X) Dune - Frank Herbert
53 () Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 ()X Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55 ( ) A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 () The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 (X) 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 (X) 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 (X) Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 (X) Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 () Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 (X) 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 (X) 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 (X) Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 ( ) A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 (X) Charlotte’s Web - EB White
88 (X) The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 (X) Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 () The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 () Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 (X) The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint Exupery
93 () The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 () Watership Down - Richard Adams
95 (X) A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 () A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 (X) The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 (X) Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 (} Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 () Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
I've read excerpts of at least 10 more. Saw movies of several, too....
This list seems slanted toward chick books to me!
