BBC Reading List

BBC believes most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here.
How do your reading habits stack up?

I can't believe only 6? Didn't those people go to school? I came up with 42. It may be more, but there were some books I wasn't sure if I read or not-so I didn't pick them.

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen [ ]
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] perhaps not the whole thing...but close enough
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte [X]
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwel [X]
9 Philip Pullman His Dark Materials Series- []
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens [X]

Total: 8

11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott [X]
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy []
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller []
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare - [] I’ve read most of them, but I cannot swear to all of them.
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier [X]
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien [X]
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk []
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger [X]
19 The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger []
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot []

Total: 12

21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell []
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald [X]
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens []
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy [ ]
25 The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams [X]
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh []
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky []
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck [X]
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll [X]
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame [X]

Total: 17

31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy [ ]
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens []
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis [X]
34 Emma-Jane Austen []
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen []
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe [X]
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hossein []
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieresx []
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden [X]
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne [X]

Total: 21

41 Animal Farm - George Orwell [X]
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown []
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez []
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - 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 []
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood []
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding [X]
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan []

Total: 25

51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel []
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 [X]
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley [X]
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night - Mark Haddon []
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez []

Total: 27

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 []
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac []
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy []
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding [X]
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie []
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville [X]

Total: 30

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 [X]
76 The Inferno – Dante []
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome []
78 Germinal - Emile Zola []
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackery []

Total: 33

80 Possession - AS Byatt []
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens [X]
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell []
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker [X]
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 []
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle []
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton []

Total: 37

91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad [X]
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery [X]
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks []
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams [X]
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]
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl [X]
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo []

Total: 42