I got this list through Facebook. Several of my friends have done it, so I’m gonna give it a go, so to speak. I find it annoying that they list a complete work collection, as well as an individual work (see the Shakespeare plays, or the Chronicles of Narnia). You think that they could come up with more books to fill in the gaps. Stupid BBC.
I’ve included my comments in RED.
I’m also adding something not there before. If I underline the book, that means I read it for school, any age.
The Rules
- Copy this into your NOTES.
- Bold those books you've read in their entirety.
- Italicize the ones you started but didn't finish or read only an excerpt.
- Tag other book nerds. Tag me as well so I can see your responses!
- The BBC says that most people average about 6 of the following, -- Let's see how well I do!
1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen [Who knows. Maybe one day I’ll give in to the girl pressure and read it.]
2. The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4. Harry Potter series - JK Rowling [one day]
5. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee [great book]
6. The Bible [I’ve decided I’m gonna try reading the whole thing this coming year. . . ]
7.
8. Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell [One day. . . ]
9. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens [the whole middle of my high school freshman ENGL textbook was this novel]
11. Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
12. Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14. Complete Works of Shakespeare [One day, when I have money and time]
15. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16. The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien [YAY]
17. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
18. Catcher in the
19. The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20. Middlemarch - George Eliot
21. Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22. The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald [YAY]
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 [Top 3 favorite books]
27. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky [Also in the Top 3 Favorite list]
28. Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll [My copy is currently in the possession of one of my students]
30. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33. Chronicles of Narnia - C.S. Lewis [DOUBLE YAY!!!]
34. Emma -Jane Austen [yeah yeah, I read the girly book]
35. Persuasion - Jane Austen
36. The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe - CS Lewis [Actually, I don’t think this was my favorite of the series. I think my favorite was. . . oh well, anyway]
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 - A.A. Milne
41. Animal Farm - George Orwell [One Day. . . ]
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 [Sexy. . . ?]
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 [fun times]
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.
70. Moby Dick - Herman Melville [I read about ½ of it when I was in grade school]
71. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72. Dracula - Bram Stoker
73. The
74. Notes From A
75. Ulysses - James Joyce
76. The Inferno - Dante [I did actually read the whole thing, at one point]
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 [Classic]
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 [The horror. . . Well, it wasn’t that bad]
92. The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery [In a religion class, no less]
93. The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94. Watership Down - Richard Adams [Again, one of my students has my copy]
95. A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96. A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97. The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98. Hamlet - William Shaskespeare [The play’s the thing in which I’ll catch the conscience of the king]
99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
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