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The BBC allegedly believes most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here. How do your reading habits stack up? Bold those books you've read in their entirety, italicize the ones you started but didn't finish, strikethrough the ones you didn't like.



1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien Got halfway through the last book before I realized I had forgotten who everyone WAS at the start.
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling Refusing to read the last book on badfic principle.
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee - Read it for highschool still love it.
6 The Bible Bits and pieces.
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman Like it a lot!
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens For school.
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare SOME OF IT OKAY?
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien Read it after I couldn't finish LoTR.
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger He obsesses about his pet cat.
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 Really did not get this in highschool.
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Ok revoke my geek points, I haven't read this
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 On the shelf in my studyhall room
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens Read it with no prodding in highschool, need to find a new copy
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis I reread 'The Last Battle' often.
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - C.S. Lewis Loved this as a child, wanted to find a wardrobe to peek through. Now I just see it as endless childhood foodporn.
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 Disney, you really have some questions to answer
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell Four-legs good, two legs sometimes bad.
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 Finished it and found it boring.
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding Required in highschool one semester. Depressing and sadly apt.
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 Read for fun!
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley For school. No opinion.
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 Did not have to read for school, read it on my own terms.
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker ...should read this
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett Read it as a dinker...meh now but it was good then.
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 - Required in highschool EAT ME
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte’s Web - Have the boxedset!
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Read several collections through highschool. Need to get my own copy
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams ♥have my copy from mom. you can not has it.
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole Grotesque.
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare One of these days.
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl Loved this as a kid, not so much now.
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo