BBC Top Books

The BBC apparently says most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here. Apparently I'm not as big of a book worm as I originally thought I've only finished 26/100. That's a solid F. I guess I know what one of my new years resolutions is....

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen YES
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien YES
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte LOVED IT! Read it many times
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling YES
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee YES
6 The Bible SOME OF IT--ONE DAY
7 Wuthering Heights
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell HATED IT
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens ONE OF MY ALL TIME FAVORITES
11 Little Women - Louisa M. Alcott- LOVED IT!
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare SOME OF THEM
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier LOVED IT!
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien YES
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger DOES THE MOVIE COUNT?
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell DIDN'T FINISH
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 STARTED IT
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck SAW THE MOVIE
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carrol SAW THE MOVIE
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame YES
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens LOVED IT!
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34 Emma - Jane Austen OF COURSE
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen BEST JANE AUSTEN EVER!!!
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis YES
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 OF COURSE
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell YES
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown YES
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 DEFINITELY
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood O
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan SAW THE MOVIE
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert X
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen OF COURSE!
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 THE GIANT REMINDED ME OF MY FAMILY W/ PETS
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas STARTED IT SAW THE MOVIE
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 SO SO MANY TIMES
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath LOVED IT!
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 STARTED IT
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 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 LOVED IT!!!
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint Exupery IN FRENCH
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 LOVED IT!
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare ODDLY, NO
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo STARTED IT