Lady Pasha Posted August 26, 2011 Share Posted August 26, 2011 Have you read more than 6 of these books? I have read 35 of them ! Memories of being back at school ! :) The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books listed here.1 Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen2 The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien3 Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte4 Harry Potter series – JK Rowling5 To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee6 The Bible8 Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell9 His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman10 Great Expectations – Charles Dickens11 Little Women – Louisa M Alcott12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy13 Catch 22 – Joseph Heller14 Complete Works of Shakespeare15 Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier16 The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien17 Birdsong- Sebastien Faulks18 Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger19 The Time Traveller’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger20 Middlemarch – George Eliot21 Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell22 The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald23 Bleak House – Charles Dickens24 War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy25 The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams26 Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh27 Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky28 Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck29 Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll30 The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame31 Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy32 David Copperfield – Charles Dickens33 Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis34 Emma – Jane Austen35 Persuasion – Jane Austen36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – CS Lewis37 The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis De Berniere39 Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden40 Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne41 Animal Farm – George Orwell42 The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown43 One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney – John Irving45 The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins46 Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery47 Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy48 The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood49 Lord of the Flies – William Golding50 Atonement – Ian McEwan51 Life of Pi – Yann Martel52 Dune – Frank Herber53 Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons54 Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen55 A Suitable Boy – Vikram Set56 The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon57 A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens58 Brave New World – Aldous Huxley59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon60 Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez61 Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck62 Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov63 The Secret History – Donna Tartt64 The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold65 Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas66 On The Road – Jack Kerouac67 Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy68 Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helen Fielding69 Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie70 Moby Dick – Herman Melville71 Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens72 Dracula – Bram Stoker73 The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett74 Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson75 Ulysses – James Joyce76 The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath77 Swallows and Amazons – Arthur Ransome78 Germinal – Emile Zola79 Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray80 Possession – AS Byatt81 A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens82 Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell83 The Color Purple – Alice Walker84 The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro85 Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert86 A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry87 Charlotte’s Web – EB White88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle90 The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton91 Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad92 The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery93 The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks94 Watership Down – Richard Adams95 A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole96 A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute97 The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas98 Hamlet – William Shakespeare99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl100 Les Miserables – Victor Hugo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2004typeR Posted August 30, 2011 Share Posted August 30, 2011 i am not really a book type of guy, i only read stuff that means a lot to me, so stuff like travel, adventure stories... romance, or thrillers do not rock my boat unfortunatly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jamie Posted September 8, 2011 Share Posted September 8, 2011 Read around 9, I prefer thrillers ! Holiday Reads ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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