Cool - I love this kind of question (thanks Dana Burgess). I couple of them I couldn't remember for sure...
The BBC believes most people will have read only six of the 100 books here. How do your reading habits stack up? I have read _47_ of them; it would be fun to fill in all the blanks this year...but some of them I don't want to read!
1. Pride and Prejudice -- Jane Austen Yes
2. The Lord of the Rings -- J.R.R. Tolkien No
3. Jane Eyre -- Charlotte Bronte Yes
4. Harry Potter series -- J.K. Rowling Yes
5. To Kill a Mockingbird -- Harper Lee Yes
6. The Holy Bible - Yes
7. Wuthering Heights -- Emily Bronte yes
8. Nineteen Eighty-Four -- George Orwell Yes (in school)
9. His Dark Materials -- Philip Pullman No
10. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens Yes
11. Little Women -- Louisa M. Alcott Yes
12. Tess of the d’Urbervilles -- Thomas Hardy No
13. Catch-22 -- Joseph Heller Yes
14. The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (all the plays) No, but some.
15. Rebecca -- Daphne du Maurier. No
16. The Hobbit -- J.R.R. Tolkien No
17. Birdsong -- Sebastian Faulk No
18. Catcher in the Rye -- J.D. Salinger Yes (Over rated)
19. The Time Traveler’s Wife -- Audrey Niffenegger Yes
20. Middlemarch -- George Eliot Yes
21. Gone with the Wind -- Margaret Mitchell Yes
22. The Great Gatsby -- F. Scott Fitzgerald No (Can you believe it? Everyone has read this.)
23. Bleak House -- Charles Dickens No - but it's queued up:-)
24. War and Peace -- Leo Tolstoy Yes
25. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy -- Douglas Adams No
26. Brideshead Revisited -- Evelyn Waugh No
27. Crime and Punishment -- Fyodor Dostoyevsky Yes
28. The Grapes of Wrath -- John Steinbeck Yes
29. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland -- Lewis Carroll No
30. The Wind in the Willows -- Kenneth Grahame No
31. Anna Karenina -- Leo Tolstoy Yes
32. David Copperfield -- Charles Dickens Not sure - maybe?
33. The Chronicles of Narnia -- No
34. Emma -- Jane Austen Yes
35. Persuasion -- Jane Austen Yes
36. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe -- C.S. Lewis Yes
37. The Kite Runner -- Khaled Hosseini Yes
38. Captain Corelli's Mandolin -- Louis de Bernieres No
39. Memoirs of a Geisha -- Arthur Golden No
40. Winnie the Pooh -- A.A. Milne Yes
41. Animal Farm -- George Orwell Yes
42. The Da Vinci Code -- Dan Brown Yes
43. One Hundred Years of Solitude -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Yes
44. A Prayer for Owen Meaney -- John Irving No
45. The Woman in White -- Wilkie Collins No
46. Anne of Green Gables -- L.M. Montgomery Yes
47. Far from the Madding Crowd -- Thomas Hardy I think so.
48. The Handmaid's Tale -- Margaret Atwood Yes (thumbs down)
49. Lord of the Flies -- William Golding Yes
50. Atonement -- Ian McEwan No
51. Life of Pi -- Yann Martel Yes
52. Dune -- Frank Herbert No
53. Cold Comfort Farm -- Stella Gibbons No
54. Sense and Sensibility -- Jane Austen Yes
55. A Suitable Boy -- Vikram Seth No
56. The Shadow of the Wind -- Carlos Ruiz Zafon No
57. A Tale of Two Cities -- Charles Dickens No
58. Brave New World -- Aldous Huxley No
59. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time -- Mark Haddon Yes
60. Love in the Time of Cholera -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez No - but I have it to read sometime.
61. Of Mice and Men -- John Steinbeck Yes
62. Lolita -- Vladimir Nabokov No
63. The Secret History -- Donna Tartt No
64. The Lovely Bones -- Alice Yes
65. The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas Yes (a fave)
66. On the Road -- Jack Kerouac No
67. Jude the Obscure -- Thomas Hardy No
68. Bridget Jones' Diary -- Helen Fielding Yes
69. Midnight's Children -- Salman Rushdie No
70. Moby Dick -- Herman Melville Yes
71. Oliver Twist -- Charles Dickens Yes
72. Dracula -- Bram Stoker No
73. The Secret Garden -- Frances Hodgson Burnett Yes
74. Notes From A Small Island -- Bill Bryson No but this author is great (Thunderbolt Kid)
75. Ulysses -- James Joyce No
76. The Inferno -- Dante Alighieri No
77. Swallows and Amazons -- Arthur Ransome No
78. Germinal -- Emile Zola No
79. Vanity Fair -- William Makepeace Thackeray Yes (thumbs down)
80. Possession -- A.S. Byatt No
81. A Christmas Carol -- Charles Dickens Yes
82. Cloud Atlas -- David Mitchell No
83. The Color Purple -- Alice Walker No
84. The Remains of the Day -- Kazuo Ishiguro No
85. Madame Bovary -- Gustave Flaubert No
86. A Fine Balance -- Rohinton Mistry No - but I have this one too to read soon.
88. The Five People You Meet In Heaven -- Mitch Albom Yes
89. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes -- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle No
90. The Faraway Tree Collection -- Enid Blyton No
91. Heart of Darkness -- Joseph Conrad No
92. The Little Prince -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery Yes
93. The Wasp Factory -- Iain Banks No
94. Watership Down -- Richard Adams Yes, long, long ago
95. A Confederacy of Dunces -- John Kennedy Toole No
96. A Town Like Alice -- Nevil Shute No
97. The Three Musketeers -- Alexandre Dumas No
98. Hamlet -- William Shakespeare Yes
99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory -- Roald Dahl Yes
100. Les Miserables -- Victor Hugo Yes
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