Apparently the BBC reckons most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here.
Instructions:
1) Look at the list and put an 'x' after those you have read.
2) Add a '$' to the ones you "saw the movie".
3) Star (*) those you plan on reading.
4) Tally your total at the bottom.
How many have you read?
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen x $
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 X $ (yes there is a movie and it's really really long but it's sooooo good!!)
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte x $
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell x
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman x
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens x
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott x $ (all versions..the one with june alison is the best!)
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy x $
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller x
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare x $ (majority)
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier x $ ( I love this one sooo much!)
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien x $
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger x
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell x $
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald x $
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy*
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams x $ (and the tv show and the radio show!)
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh x $ (SOOO Good!!)
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky x $
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck x $
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll X $
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame x $
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens x $ (the dan radcliffe one is good)
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis x $
34 Emma - Jane Austen x
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen x
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis X $ (technically this goes with the chronicles of narnia so someone screwed up this list..)
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini x
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres $
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden $
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne X $
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 Meaney - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery x $
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy *
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Goldingn x
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan x
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel x (awful book in my opinion)
52 Dune - Frank Herbert x $ (AWESOME!!)
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen x $
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens x
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley $
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez x $
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 x $
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac *
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding *
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville x $
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens x $
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker x $ (AMAZING!!!!!!!)
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett x $
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce x
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath *
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray $
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens x $
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker $ *
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert x
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White x $
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom x $
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle x $
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad *
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery x
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 x $
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare x $ (this would technically go under the complete works of wiliam shakespeare)
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dah x $
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo x $ (and the musical!)
I've read/seen/heard/planning on reading 59 read..not gonna count the others too many!