Apparently, BBC says that most people have only read six of these. But here’s the deal, I don’t have super much time to read anymore, so I need a key for this:
X-I’ve read it
XX-I’ve read most of it
XXX-It’s sitting on my bookshelf waiting to be read
I’m also going to highlight them in green it stands out more. I would also make a mark to say that I have a desire to read it, but that would take too long.
1) Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen X
2) The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien X
3) Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte XXX
4) Harry Potter series – JK Rowling X
5) To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
6) The Bible XX
7) Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte XXX
8 ) Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell X
9) His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman
10) Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
11) Little Women – Louisa M Alcott XX
12) Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
13) Catch 22 – Joseph Heller
14) Complete Works of Shakespeare XX
15) Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier
16) The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien X
17) Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks
18) Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger X (Unfortunately, this is true)
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 Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams X
26) Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
27) Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28) Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
29) Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carol
30) The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame
31) Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
32) David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
33) Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis XX
34) Emma – Jane Austen XXX
35) Persuasion – Jane Austen
36) The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – C.S. 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 XXX
41) Animal Farm – George Orwell
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 XX
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 X
62) Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
63) The Secret History – Donna Tartt
64) The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold
65) Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas X
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 XX (Not even worth it)
71) Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
72) Dracula – Bram Stoker X
73) The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett X
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 X (Many, many times, it’s a special favorite)
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 X
88) The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom X
89) Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle X (Again, a special favorite)
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 XX (It’s really not that good)
95) A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
96) A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute
97) The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas X
98) Hamlet – William Shakespeare X
99) Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl X
100) Les Miserables – Victor Hugo X
So that’s 24 read, 7 mostly read, and 4 waiting to read. I feel quite well read.
