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100 Books

Where do you fall in the list? The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books here.

Copy this into your NOTES. Look at the list and put an 'x' after those you have read. Tag other book nerds.

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen -
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien-x
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte -x
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling -X
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee X
6 The Bible (The entire thing!)-
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell-x
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman-x
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens-x

Total: 7

11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott -
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy-
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller-x
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier-x
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien-x
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger -x
19 The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger -
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot

Total: 4
Total so far: 11

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-
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll -x
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame-

Total: 1
Total so far: 12

31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens-
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis- x
34 Emma-Jane Austen -
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen-x
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 -

Total: 3
Total so far: 15

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 -
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding-x
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan

Total: 3
Total so far: 18

51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel -
52 Dune - Frank Herbert-x
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons-
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-x
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon-
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Total: 2
Total so far: 20


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-
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding X
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville

Total:1
Total so far: 21

71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens -
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker-x
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett-
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce-
76 The Inferno – Dante
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt-

Total: 1
Total so far: 22

81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens -
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 -
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistr
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

Total: 3
Total so far: 25

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 -x
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl - X
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

Total: 2
Total: 27