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1. Bold those titles of books that you have definitely read.
2. According to the BBC the average person only has read 6 out of these 100 books.
01 | Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
02 | The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
03 | Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë
04 | Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
05 | To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
06 | The Bible
07 | Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë
08 | Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
09 | 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 Faulk
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 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
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 - EB 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 Misérables - Victor Hugo
I have to admit though that almost all Victorian classics like Dickens, Hardy and Eliot have been read during two courses of Victorian Literature during my university years. The rest is/was interest.
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1. Bold those titles of books that you have definitely read.
2. According to the BBC the average person only has read 6 out of these 100 books.
01 | Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
02 | The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
03 | Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë
04 | Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
05 | To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
06 | The Bible
07 | Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë
08 | Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
09 | 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 Faulk
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 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
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 - EB 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 Misérables - Victor Hugo
I have to admit though that almost all Victorian classics like Dickens, Hardy and Eliot have been read during two courses of Victorian Literature during my university years. The rest is/was interest.
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Date: 2009-02-25 02:18 pm (UTC)