Have you read more than 6 of these books? The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books listed here.
Instructions: put 3 stars next to those books you've read in their entirety, put 2 check signs next to the ones you started but didn't finish or read an excerpt from.
(the original instructions were to bold and italicize, but I changed it a bit since you can't do those here on Luuux)
1. Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
2. The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien ✓✓
3. Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
★★★ 4. The Harry Potter Series – JK Rowling ★★★
★★★ 5. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee ★★★
6. The Bible ✓✓
7. Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte ✓✓
★★★ 8. 1984 – George Orwell ★★★
9. His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman
10. Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
11. Little Women – Louisa M 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 – Arthur 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 – Gabriel 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 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
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 Garcia Marquez
★★★ 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 Burnett
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 – 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
★★★ 87. Charlotte's Web - E.B. 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 and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl
★★★ 100. Les Miserables – Victor Hugo ★★★

















Comments (2)
I've read 23 of these!
Reading is love :)