BBC Book List

A friend had this on her online journal and I'm stealing it. An interesting selection; there are several I'm adding to my "to-read" or "to re-read" list. Have I mentioned I love reading fiction? I can't actually find this list on BBC although in 2003 they published a list of their viewers favourite 100 books, which is slightly different. I should use this opportunity to mention Goodreads. It's a website for tracking your read/reading/to-read book list that I use. I also have a link to it on the right side of the blog. The BBC believes most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here. How do your reading habits stack up? Instructions: Look at the list and put an 'x' after those you have 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 5 – To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee (x) 6 – The Bible (x) 7 – Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte (x) 8 – Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell 9 – His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman (x) 10 – Great Expectations – Charles Dickens (x) 11 – Little Women – Louisa M Alcott (x) 12 – Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy (x) 13 – Catch 22 – Joseph Heller (x) 14 – Complete Works of Shakespeare (most of them, but not all) 15 – Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier 16 – The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien (x) 17 – Birdsong – Sebastian Faulk 18 – Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger 19 – The Time Traveller’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger (x) 20 – Middlemarch – George Eliot (x) 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 (x) 25 – The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams (nope, the movie was wacky enough for me...) 26 – Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh (again, seen the movie, but not the book) 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 (x) 32 – David Copperfield – Charles Dickens (x) 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 (huh isn’t this part of 33?) 37 – The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini 38 – Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis De Bernieres 39 – Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden (x) 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 Meany – John Irving 45 – The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins (x) 46 – Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery (x) 47 – Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy (x) 48 – The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood (x) 49 – Lord of the Flies – William Golding (x) 50 – Atonement – Ian McEwan (another movie seen) 51 – Life of Pi – Yann Martel 52 – Dune – Frank Herbert 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 Zifon 57 – A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens (x) 58 – Brave New World – Aldous Huxley (x) 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 62 – Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov (x) 63 – The Secret History – Donna Tartt 64 – The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold (x) 65 – Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas (x) 66 – On The Road – Jack Kerouac 67 – Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy (x) 68 – Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helen Fielding (x) 69 – Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie 70 – Moby Dick – Herman Melville 71 – Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens (x) 72 – Dracula – Bram Stoker 73 – The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett (x) 74 – Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson 75 – Ulysses – James Joyce 76 – The Inferno – Dante 77 – Swallows and Amazons – Arthur Ransome (x) 78 – Germinal – Emile Zola 79 – Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray (x) 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 86 – A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry (x) 87 – Charlotte’s Web – EB White (x) 88 – The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom 89 – Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (x) 90 – The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton (x) 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 Adam 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 (x another doubled one) 99 – Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl (x) 100 – Les Miserables – Victor Hugo (x)