BBC Book List

Ok so I'm not sure how real this list is. I mean I guess I could google it and see if it actually appeared on the BBC but seriously it's 7:30 am and I don't really have the energy to google the validity of a list. I'm sure you might have seen it... I've gotten it in emails, on MySpace (when people actually used MySpace) and on Facebook... so I'm going to post it here.

Anyway, true or not the email/post goes something like this the BBC came up with this list of a 100 books they think everyone should read at some point but then goes on to say that most people have read 6. A few other blogs I found when I was looking for the list question the number 6 because really if you look at the books it wasn't a stretch for me to have read a number of them and when I showed it to my husband awhile back (who never reads) he had read over 12.

So whether or not this is a real list of books by the BBC it's fun to look at how many you've read because a lot of them are classics (new and old). It also gets me thinking because I have a book club and I should start selecting these books if I want to read all 100.

Instructions:

1) Bold those you have read.
2) Star the ones you loved.* (I'm not doing this part too much work)
3) Italicize those you plan on reading. (again really too much work)

So actually I'm just bolding the ones I've read.... haha


001 Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen

002 The Lord of the Rings- JRR Tolkien

003 Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte

004 Harry Potter series- JK Rowling

005 To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee

006 The Bible (I'm going to with partially counts)

007 Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte

008 Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell

009 His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman

010 Great Expectations – Charles Dickens

011 Little Women – Louisa M Alcott

012 Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy

013 Catch 22 – Joseph Heller

014 Complete Works of Shakespeare (Again I'm going with that I've read some of them so that counts as "complete")

015 Rebecca- Daphne Du Maurier (checked it out from the library once but I doubt that counts as "read")

016 The Hobbit- JRR Tolkien

017 Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks

018 Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger

019 The Time Traveller’s Wife- Audrey Niffenegger

020 Middlemarch – George Eliot

021 Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell

022 The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald

023 Bleak House – Charles Dickens

024 War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy

025 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams

026 Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh

027 Crime and Punishment- Fyodor Dostoyevsky

028 Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck

029 Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll

030 The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame

031 Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy

032 David Copperfield – Charles Dickens

033 Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis

034 Emma – Jane Austen

035 Persuasion - Jane Austen

036 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – CS Lewis

037 The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini

038 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis De Berniere

039 Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden

040 Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne

041 Animal Farm – George Orwell

042 The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown

043 One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez

044 A Prayer for Owen Meaney – John Irving

045 The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins

046 Anne of Green Gables- LM Montgomery

047 Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy

048 The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood

049 Lord of the Flies – William Golding

050 Atonement – Ian McEwan

051 Life of Pi – Yann Martel

052 Dune – Frank Herbert

053 Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons I made it halfway through.

054 Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen

055 A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth

056 The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon

057 A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens

058 Brave New World – Aldous Huxley

059 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon

060 Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez

061 Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck

062 Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov

063 The Secret History – Donna Tartt

064 The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold

065 Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas

066 On The Road – Jack Kerouac

067 Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy

068 Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helen Fielding

069 Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie

070 Moby Dick – Herman Melville

071 Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens

072 Dracula – Bram Stoker

073 The Secret Garden- Frances Hodgson Burnett

074 Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson

075 Ulysses – James Joyce

076 The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath

077 Swallows and Amazons – Arthur Ransome

078 Germinal – Emile Zola

079 Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray (I saw the movie...)

080 Possession- AS Byatt

081 A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens

082 Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell

083 The Color Purple – Alice Walker

084 The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro

085 Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert

086 A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry

087 Charlotte’s Web – EB White

088 The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom

089 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

090 The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton

091 Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad

092 The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery

093 The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks

094 Watership Down – Richard Adams (this is an awesome book - someone gave it me when I was younger now it got me thinking I should make it my book club pick)

095 A Confederacy of Dunces- John Kennedy Toole

096 A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute

097 The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas (I saw the movie haha...)

098 Hamlet – William Shakespeare

099 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl

100 Les Miserables – Victor Hugo (I should get credit that I actually saw this movie in French...)

Ok so I have 37 that's a lot more than 6 and I don't think I'm the expection here. Count them up... how many have you read? Which were your favorites?