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Monday, November 29, 2010

What makes your top 100?

Have you read more than 6 of these books? The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books listed here.

I’ve bolded out the ones that I’ve read…leave your list in the comments section...abridged versions are TOTALLY acceptable :)



1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen



2. The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien



3. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte



4. Harry Potter series - JK Rowling



5. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee



6. The Bible (not completely)



7. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte



8. Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell



9. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman



10. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens



11. Little Women - Louisa M Alcott



12. Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy



13. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller (not completely)


 
14. Complete Works of Shakespeare (not completely)


 
15. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier



16. The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien



17. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulkes



18. Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger



19. The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger



20. Middlemarch - George Eliot



21. Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell



22. The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald



23. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy



24. The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams



25. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky



26. Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck



27. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll



28. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame



29. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy



30. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens



31. Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis



32. Emma - Jane Austen



33. Persuasion - Jane Austen



34. The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe - CS Lewis



35. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini



36. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres



37. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden



38. Winnie the Pooh - A.A. Milne



39. Animal Farm - George Orwell



40. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown



41. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez



42. A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving



43. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins



44. Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery



45. Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy



46. The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood



47. Lord of the Flies - William Golding



48. Atonement - Ian McEwan



49. Life of Pi - Yann Martel



50. Dune - Frank Herbert



51. Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons



52. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen



53. A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth



54. The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon



55. A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens



56. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley



57. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon



58. Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez



59. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck



60. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov



61. The Secret History - Donna Tartt



62. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold



63. Count of Monte Cristo- Alexandre Dumas



64. On The Road - Jack Kerouac



65. Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy



66. Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding



67. Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie



68. Moby Dick - Herman Melville



69. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens



70. Dracula - Bram Stoker



71. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett



72. Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson



73. Ulysses - James Joyce



74. The Inferno – Dante



75. Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome



76. Germinal - Emile Zola



77. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray



78. Possession - AS Byatt



79. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens



80. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell



81. The Color Purple - Alice Walker



82. The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro



83. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert



84. A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry



85. Charlotte’s Web - E.B. White



86. The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom



87. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle



88. The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton



89. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad



90. The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery



91. The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks



92. Watership Down - Richard Adams



93. A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole



94. A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute



95. The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas



96. Hamlet - William Shakespeare



97. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl



98. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo



99. Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand



100. Tuesdays with Morrie – Mitch Albom

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