This is one of those Facebook memes that keeps circling around the universe. I answered it on Facebook, but since some of you might not have access to my Facebook account, I thought I’d post the results here.
The BBC believes the majority of people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here.
Go to your profile, choose notes, post a new note – copy and edit.
Instructions: Look at the list and put an ‘x’ after those you have read.
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 – …..X
5 To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee ….. x
6 The Bible ….X
7 Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte …..
8 Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell …..X
9 His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman …..X
10 Great Expectations – Charles Dickens …..X
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 …..x
17 Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks …..
18 Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger ..X
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger …..X
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 …..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 …..
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 Bernieres …..
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 ….x
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 ….. x
49 Lord of the Flies – William Golding … X
50 Atonement – Ian McEwan …..
51 Life of Pi – Yann Martel …..
52 Dune – Frank Herbert …..x
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-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 …..x
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 …..x
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 Mitchel …..
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 – 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 …..
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 …..X
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl …..X
100 Les Miserables – Victor Hugo…
A few comments:
- There’s some overlap on some things: Shakespeare’s Hamlet is technically on here twice
- Do you have to read the entire Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings series to get one point for each? Hmmm.
- Dan Brown is on the list, yet Kurt Vonnegut isn’t? And hundreds of other deserving authors?
- OK, I admit it – I had to read a number of these books for school. But I did enjoy them!
- I do love the fact that the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is on the list, though
UPDATE: Christine Cavalier of Purple Car fame has written an interesting analysis of this Facebook meme that you should check out. Any connection between this meme and the BBC is probably false. It did make for an interesting premise, though.
Hi Mark – I've read a lot of these and Atonement and The Curious Incident are the next in the queue, after the Jodi Piqolt (sp?) I'm reading now.
Life of Pi is something I've been meaning to read for years and not got round to.
Would you recommend any of these books to read, especially the ones that I haven't read yet?
I read 24. I recommend Kite Runner, The Little Prince and the Secret History.
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I've read 35 of these books. I'm surprised at some of the books on this list.
I recommend Thomas Hardy. Tess of the D'Urbervilles is one of my favorites. There is so much depth and imagery in Hardy's writing. It's gritty and beautiful.
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Oh what a lovely list. I was amazed that I have read 51 of them and so excited thinking about the ones I can now go off and find. Of those you haven't read I just loved, loved, loved The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon and The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery is a really sweet little fable when you have an hour or so to spare. I have to go now and order some of these!!
mmm am I allowed to reply to my own comment? Thing is I just looked up “fable” and I'm not sure the Little Prince is one but it is a wonderful read.
This is cool, thanks for the share, I appreciate it big time, thanks once again.
Cheers,
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useful list thanks..