I can't resist passing this on! If you like, please copy and paste your bolded books read, italicized books not completed, and then sum up with a head count, so to speak.
The BBC apparently believes most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here:
1
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen2
The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien (several times, lol)
3
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte4
Harry Potter series - JK Rowling5
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee6
The Bible7 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 Alcott12 Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14
Complete Works of Shakespeare ( read some, but not all of them)
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16
The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien (several times
)
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 Mitchell22 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 Adams26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29
Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll30
The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33
Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis34
Emma - Jane Austen35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36
The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe (don't know why this is on here again....)
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 Milne41
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 (love this book!!)
46
Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery47 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 (love this book too!!)
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 (the abridged version only)
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 (strangely enough I had to read the last chapter for school. >w<; )
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72
Dracula - Bram Stoker73
The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett74 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 (many times)
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 (love them all!)
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91
Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad92
The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery (a long time ago; need to read again)
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 (bluh)
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl100
Les Miserables - Victor Hugo (barely started this one)
Okay, so I've read 27 out of 100 (well, actually 26 still Narnia was in there twice). And I haven't finished 6 out of 100.
Its an interesting list, however, I think there were many books that should have been included that were left out entirely! Peter Pan by J M Barry comes to mind as one. What do you think? What other titles should have been included on this list?