Sunday, August 2, 2009

BBC Reading List

Thanks to Bookfan Mary for this one!
BBC book list
BBC believes most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here. How do your reading habits stack up?

I'm highlighting the ones I've read in bold, and italics for those I've started but not yet finished

# Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
# The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
# Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
# Harry Potter series - JK Rowling - I've read the 1st 4
# To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
# The Bible
# Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
# Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
# His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
# Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
# Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
# Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
# Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
# Complete Works of Shakespeare -I've read about half
# Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
# The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
# Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
# Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
# The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
# Middlemarch - George Eliot
# Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
# The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
# Bleak House - Charles Dickens
# War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
# The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
# Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
# Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
# Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
# The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
# Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
# David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
# Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
# Emma-Jane Austen
# Persuasion - Jane Austen
# The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
# The Kite Runner - Khaled Hossein
# Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
# Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
# Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
# Animal Farm - George Orwell
# The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
# One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
# A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
# The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
# Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
# Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
# The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
# Lord of the Flies - William Golding
# Atonement - Ian McEwan
# Life of Pi - Yann Martel
# Dune - Frank Herbert
# Cold Comfort Farm
# Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
# A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
# The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
# A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
# Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
# The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night - Mark Haddon
# Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
# Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
# Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
# The Secret History - Donna Tartt
# The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
# Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
# On The Road - Jack Kerouac
# Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
# Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
# Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
# Moby Dick - Herman Melville
# Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
# Dracula - Bram Stoker
# The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
# Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
# Ulysses - James Joyce
# The Inferno – Dante
# Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
# Germinal - Emile Zola
# Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray - I'm currently reading this one
# Possession - AS Byatt
# A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
# Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
# The Color Purple - Alice Walker
# The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
# Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
# A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
# Charlotte’s Web - EB White
# The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
# Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
# The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
# Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
# The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
# The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
# Watership Down - Richard Adams
# A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
# A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
# The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
# Hamlet - William Shakespeare
# Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
# Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

What is that? 30 in completion?

1 comment:

Louise said...

I read eight of those, have several on my TBR and am reading A Confederacy of Dunces right now. That is not too bad, I think :o) Specially since I am Danish and there were no Danish classics on the list.