34 of 100 Great Books Read

Have you read more than 6 of these books? The BBC believes most Americans will have read only 6 of the 100 books listed here.

Instructions:

• Copy this list

 • Bold the books you've read in their entirety.

• Italicize the ones you started but didn't finish or read only an excerpt.

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 Alcott *

 12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy

13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller ~

  14 Complete Works of Shakespeare ~

 15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier

  16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien ~

 17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk

 18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger  

 19 The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger ~

 20 Middlemarch - George Eliot

21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell *

 22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald

 24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy

 25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams ~

 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

 34 Emma -Jane Austen

 35 Persuasion - Jane Austen ~

 36 The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe - CS Lewis *

37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hussein ~

38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres~

39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden *

 40 Winnie the Pooh - A.A. 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

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 Inferno - Dante

 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 - E.B. 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

99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl

 100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

Take that BBC! I love my country and even like the old country but not for it's opinions about us or it's entertainment UGH lol

We can agree on a love of tea as long as it is not earl grey.

I * starred books I have seen movies of and ~'s ones I have at least heard of or maybe wanted to read.