A friend recently sent me this list. The instructions were to highlight the books you have read all the way through and mark the books you had partly read. This is a list that she said is from the BBC's 100 books to read. I've marked the books I have read with an * and the books I've read parts of, but not all the way to the end with an #.
I was surprised by how many I have read. See how many you have read. Use the list just for fun, to start reading some literary greats, to round out your own reading list or start a book collection. So I want to know, have you read any of these books? Book number one is my favorite, the rest are in the order sent.
Book List
*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
*To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
6 The Bible
*7 Wuthering Heights
*8 Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman
*10 Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
*11 Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
*12 Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
*13 Catch 22 – Joseph Heller
*14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
*15 Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier
#16 The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks
*18 Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller's Wife – Audrey Niffenegger
*20 Middlemarch – George Eliot
*21 Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell
*22 The Great Gatsby F Scott Fitzgerald
*23 Bleak House – Charles Dickens
*24 War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
*25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
*26 Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
*27 Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
*28 Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
*29 Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame
*31 Anna Karenina –Leo Tolstoy
*32 David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis
*34 Emma – Jane Austen
*35 Persuasion – Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – CS Lewis
37 The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis De Berniere
*39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Willaim Golden
*40 Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne
*41 Animal Farm – George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabrial Garcia Marquez
#44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney – John Irving
#45 The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery
*47 Far from the Madding Crowd _ Thomas Hardy
#48 The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
*49 Lord of the Flies – William Golding
#50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
*51 Life of Pi - Yann Martell
*52 Dune – Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
*54 Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
*55 A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon
*57 A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
*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 García Márquez
*61 Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
#65 Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
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
*71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
*72 Dracula – Bram Stoker
#73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson
74 Notes from a Small Island - Bill Bryson
*75 Ulysses - James Joyce
#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
82 Cloud Atlas - Charles Mitchell
*83 The Colour Purple - Alice Walker
*84 The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
*85 Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
#87 Charlotte's Web - EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom
#89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint Exupery
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
*98 Hamlet – William Shakespeare
99 Charlie & the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
#100 Les Miserables – Victor Hugo
*3 Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series – JK Rowling
*To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
6 The Bible
*7 Wuthering Heights
*8 Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman
*10 Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
*11 Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
*12 Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
*13 Catch 22 – Joseph Heller
*14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
*15 Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier
#16 The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks
*18 Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller's Wife – Audrey Niffenegger
*20 Middlemarch – George Eliot
*21 Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell
*22 The Great Gatsby F Scott Fitzgerald
*23 Bleak House – Charles Dickens
*24 War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
*25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
*26 Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
*27 Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
*28 Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
*29 Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame
*31 Anna Karenina –Leo Tolstoy
*32 David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis
*34 Emma – Jane Austen
*35 Persuasion – Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – CS Lewis
37 The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis De Berniere
*39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Willaim Golden
*40 Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne
*41 Animal Farm – George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabrial Garcia Marquez
#44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney – John Irving
#45 The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery
*47 Far from the Madding Crowd _ Thomas Hardy
#48 The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
*49 Lord of the Flies – William Golding
#50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
*51 Life of Pi - Yann Martell
*52 Dune – Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
*54 Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
*55 A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon
*57 A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
*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 García Márquez
*61 Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
#65 Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
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
*71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
*72 Dracula – Bram Stoker
#73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson
74 Notes from a Small Island - Bill Bryson
*75 Ulysses - James Joyce
#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
82 Cloud Atlas - Charles Mitchell
*83 The Colour Purple - Alice Walker
*84 The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
*85 Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
#87 Charlotte's Web - EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom
#89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint Exupery
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
*98 Hamlet – William Shakespeare
99 Charlie & the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
#100 Les Miserables – Victor Hugo
