Don’t normally got for these meme thingies – but why not, eh?!
Apparently the BBC reckons most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here.
Instructions:
- Look at the list and put an ‘x’ after those you have read.
- Add a ‘+’ to the ones you LOVE.
- Star (*) those you plan on reading
- Tally your total at the bottom
How many have you read?
| Title | Author | Status | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pride and Prejudice | Jane Austen | ||
| The Lord of the Rings (the film doesn't count) | Tolkien | x | |
| Jane Eyre | Charlotte Bronte | ||
| Harry Potter series | JK Rowling | x+ | |
| To Kill a Mockingbird | Harper Lee | x | |
| The Bible | x | ||
| Wuthering Heights | Emily Bronte | x | |
| Nineteen Eighty Four | George Orwell | x | |
| His Dark Materials | Philip Pullman | x | |
| Great Expectations | Charles Dickens | ||
| Little Women | Louisa M Alcott | ||
| Tess of the D'Urbervilles | Thomas Hardy | ||
| Catch 22 | Joseph Heller | + | |
| Complete Works of Shakespeare | |||
| Rebecca | Daphne Du Maurier | x | |
| The Hobbit | JRR Tolkien | x | |
| Birdsong | Sebastian Faulks | * | |
| Catcher in the Rye | JD Salinger | x | |
| The Time Traveller's Wife | Audrey Niffenegger | x | |
| 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 | x | |
| Brideshead Revisited | |||
| Crime and Punishment | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| Grapes of Wrath | John Steinbeck | ||
| Alice in Wonderland | Lewis Carroll | x | |
| The Wind in the Willows | Kenneth Grahame | x | |
| Anna Karenina | Leo Tolstoy | ||
| David Copperfield | Charles Dickens | ||
| Chronicles of Narnia | CS Lewis | x+ | |
| Emma | Jane Austen | ||
| Persuasion | Jane Austen | ||
| The Lion The Witch and The Wardrobe | CS Lewis | x | |
| The Kite Runner | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| Captain Corelli's Mandolin | Louis De Bernieres | x | |
| Memoirs of a Geisha | Arthur Golden | * | |
| Winnie the Pooh | AA Milne | x | |
| Animal Farm | George Orwell | x | |
| The Da Vinci Code | Dan Brown | x | |
| 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 | x | |
| Far From The Madding Crowd | Thomas Hardy | ||
| The Handmaid's Tale | Margaret Atwood | ||
| Lord of the Flies | William Golding | x | |
| Atonement | Ian McEwan | ||
| Life of Pi | Yann Martel | x | |
| Dune | Frank Herbert | x | |
| Cold Comfort Farm | Stella Gibbons | ||
| 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-time | Mark Haddon | x | |
| Love In The Time Of Cholera | Gabriel Garcia Marquez | x | |
| 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 | x | |
| Midnight's Children | Salman Rushdie | ||
| Moby Dick | Herman Melville | ||
| Oliver Twist | Charles Dickens | x | |
| Dracula | Bram Stoker | ||
| The Secret Garden | Frances Hodgson Burnett | x | |
| Notes From A Small Island | Bill Bryson | * | |
| Ulysses | James Joyce | ||
| The Bell Jar | Sylvia Plath | ||
| Swallows and Amazons | Arthur Ransome | x | |
| Germinal | Emile Zola | ||
| Vanity Fair | William Makepeace Thackeray | x | |
| Possession | AS Byatt | ||
| A Christmas Carol | Charles Dickens | x | |
| 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 Alborn | ||
| Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | x | |
| The Faraway Tree Collection | Enid Blyton | ||
| Heart of Darkness | Joseph Conrad | ||
| The Little Prince | Antoine De Saint-Exupery | x | |
| The Wasp Factory | Iain Banks | ||
| Watership Down | Richard Adams | x | |
| A Confederacy of Dunces | John Kennedy Toole | ||
| A Town Like Alice | Nevil Shute | ||
| The Three Musketeers | Alexandre Dumas | ||
| Hamlet | William Shakespeare | x | |
| Charlie and the Chocolate Factory | Roald Dahl | ||
| Les Miserables | Victor Hugo |