Circulating on facebook at the moment is this list, with the information reading "Apparently the BBC reckons most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here."
Instructions:
1) Look at the list and put an 'x' after those you have read.
2) Add a '+' to the ones you LOVE. NOTE HOW I PUT PLUSSES AFTER ALL OF THEM. THIS IS BECAUSE I AM A 'TARD AND DIDN'T READ THE INSTRUCTIONS.
3) Star (*) those you plan on reading.
As for that BBC reckons that peeps will have only read 6, the BBC reckoned no such thing. This was a list compiled over a year of BBC subscribers' favorite books. As such, having only read 6 out of 100 of people's CURRENT favorite books actually means you a) are illiterate, b) read only trashy romance novels (female) Star Trek books (male and my sister), c) are an American Youth, d) only watch movies once they make it onto the big screen. I say big screen because the only people who watch books that were made into TV series are the people who have already read those books (i.e. nerds and romantics).
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen +
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien+
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte+
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling+
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee+
6 The Bible +
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte+
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell+
9 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 (WORKS!? That's 37 books, not to mention collections of poetry. Plus, Hamlet is listed again later. I refuse)
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier+
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien+
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
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 +in progress
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 (Again with the multiples)+
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis THIS IS THE SAME AS 33!!
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Berniere
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 + I LOVE THIS BOOK
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 (Isn't this in his "Collected Works"?)+
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl +
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo (I've tried. I've failed)
45 out of 98. Not bad. Let's just consider the rest to be *starred* for future reading, except Les Miserables. I've watched that movie, at least. Mmm.... Liam Neeson.... I've been looking for a list of classics (and apparently Harry Potter) that I ought to read, and if the BBC readers love these books most, well... I'll take that into consideration.
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