Book List

Book List

BBC Book List
Apparently the BBC reckons most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here.
Instructions:
1) Look at the list and make those you have read bold.
2) Star (*) the ones you LOVE.
3) Italicize those you plan on reading

I've organised it like I saw someone else do it in read, partially read, and yet to read.

Read

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. His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman
6. Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
7. Little Women – Louisa M Alcott
8. Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
9. Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
10. The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame
11. Swallows and Amazons – Arthur Ransome
12. Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson
13. Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis
14. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – CS Lewis
15. The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown
16. Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery
17. Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
18. The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett 
19. Charlotte’s Web – EB White
20. The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton
21. Hamlet – William Shakespeare
22. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl
23. The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
24. David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
25. Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne
26. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Partially Read

1. The Bible
2. Complete Works of Shakespeare
3. The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien
4. Animal Farm – George Orwell
5. Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
6. Moby Dick – Herman Melville
7. A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens

Yet to read

1. War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
2. Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
3. Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell 
4. Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger
5. The Time Traveller’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger
6. Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell
7. The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald
8. Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
9. Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
10. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
11. Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
12. Dune – Frank Herbert
13. The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold
14. Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helen Fielding
15. Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
16. Dracula – Bram Stoker
17. The Inferno – Dante
18. The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
19. The Color Purple – Alice Walker
20. The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
21.  Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
22. The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery
23. Watership Down – Richard Adams
24. Les Miserables – Victor Hugo
25. Catch 22 – Joseph Heller
26. Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks
27. Middlemarch – George Eliot
28. Bleak House – Charles Dickens
29. Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
30. Emma – Jane Austen
31. Persuasion – Jane Austen
32. The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
33. One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
34. The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins
35. The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
36. Lord of the Flies – William Golding
37. Atonement – Ian McEwan
38. A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
39. Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
40. On The Road – Jack Kerouac
41. Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy
42. Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
43. Possession – AS Byatt
44. Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
45. The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom
46. Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
47. The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
48. Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
49. Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier
50. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis De Berniere
51. A Prayer for Owen Meaney – John Irving
52. Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons
53. The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon
54. Germinal – Emile Zola
55. Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
56. A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
57. The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks
58. A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute
59. Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
60. Ulysses – James Joyce
61. Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy
62. Life of Pi – Yann Martel
63. A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth
64. Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
65. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon
66. Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
67. Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
68. The Secret History – Donna Tartt

Ohk I an slightly appalled at myself! I pride myself on having read a variety of books but I realise how little I have actually read. I tend towards fantasy of course which isn't represented much on this list. But that is no excuse.

I'm starting a book review page and I am going to make a vow to start reading a lot of books I have never read.

My parents have gone through their books and over half of the books in their bookcase I haven't read. So at least once a month I am going to have a book review of a book I have never read before. It will be good for me. I'm halfway through a new book at the moment. So when I'm done I will post a review.

 

Caitlin