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A dear friend recently posted a post about the top 100 books that BBC viewers voted on in 2003. Recently though the "The BBC reckons most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books listed here."
She was interested in hearing which ones her friends had read and loved. |
Instructions:
Copy and paste the list to your notes page
Review the list and put an 'X' after those you have read.
Add a '+' to the ones you LOVE.
Star * those you plan on reading.
Tally your total at the bottom.
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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 X+
6 The Bible - X
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte X+
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens X+ |
RUNNING TOTAL 8 |
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott X+
12 Tess of the D'Ubervilles- Thomas Hardy X
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller X
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare X
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier X
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien X
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger X+
19 The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger X
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot |
RUNNING TOTAL 16 |
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell X+
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald X+
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens X
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy X
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams X+
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh X
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 X+ |
RUNNING TOTAL 26 |
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy X+
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 X+
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden X
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne X |
RUNNING TOTAL 35 |
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell X
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 X
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery X+
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 |
RUNNING TOTAL 41 |
51 Life of Pi - Yann Marte X
52 Dune - Frank Herbert X
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 X
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley X
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon X
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez |
RUNNING TOTAL 47 |
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck X+
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov X
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt X+
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold X
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas X
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+ |
RUNNING TOTAL 54 |
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens X+
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 X
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray X+
80 Possession - AS Byatt |
RUNNING TOTAL 59 |
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 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 X+
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton X |
RUNNING TOTAL 66 |
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 X+
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas X+
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare X
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Facory - Roald Dahl X++++
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo X+ |
TOTAL: 74 |
So which ones have you read and which are your favorites. I think it is really sad to think that people may have only read 6 titles from this amazing list of books. Though most of them I read in highschool, so maybe that also says something about modern education.
So pleases consider yourself tagged if you are reading this list. |
I totaled 80, but my mother was an English major :) More importantly, I enjoyed only 26 of them. There was a famous book written years ago by a group of English teachers called something like "50 Works of English Literature We Could Do Without." It was hilarious! Good riddance :)
ReplyDeleteOh, found the link! Enjoy!
http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/b/brigid-brophy/fifty-works-of-english-literature-we-could-do-with.htm
Alice in Wonderland is on that list of "50 works we could do without"? Awww...
ReplyDeleteSadly I think I've only read about 45 out of the list.. but that's a heck of a lot better than SIX!
I totaled 49 read and another 20 sitting on bookshelves waiting to be read.
ReplyDeleteI had read 64 of these, but was surprised at the number of great books that weren't on the list. Frankenstein anyone? Primary Colors?
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