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Sunday, December 5, 2010

BBC's 100

BBC's Book List
The BBC believes most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here. Looks like my interest in in Victorian lit has paid off for something, but I've still only read 55/100. Here's how I stack up:


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 (X)
5) To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee 
6) The Bible (X)
7) Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte (X)
8) Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell  (X)
9) His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
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 
14) Complete Works of Shakespeare [not the complete works, but quite a few]
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 (X)
20) Middlemarch - George Eliot (X) currently reading!
21) Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22) The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald (X)
23) Bleak House - Charles Dickens (X)
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 (X)
28) Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck (X)
29) Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll (X)
30) The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31) Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy 
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 (X)
37) The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38) Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39) Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden 
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 (X)
44) A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45) The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
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 (X)
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 Zafon
57) A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
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 (X)
61) Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck (X)
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
66) On The Road - Jack Kerouac (X)
67) Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy (X) 
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 (X)
73) The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett (X)
74) Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75) Ulysses - James Joyce
76) The Inferno - Dante (X)
77) Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
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 (X)
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
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 
95) A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole (X)
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 
100) Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

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