The Book List

As you may have seen from the link the BBC have put together a list of 100 books which, on average, people have only read 6 of.
My aim this year is to read as many of these books as possible.
Below is the list for reference :

  1.  Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
  2. The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
  3. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
  4. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone - JK Rowling
  5. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
  6. The Bible - Various
  7. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
  8. 1984 - George Orwell
  9. Northern Lights (The Golden Compass) - Philip Pullman
  10. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
  11. Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
  12. Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
  13. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
  14. Romeo and Juliet - William 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
  23. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
  24. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
  25. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  26. Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
  27. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
  28. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
  29. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
  30. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
  31. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain
  32. Emma - Jane Austen
  33. Persuasion - Jane Austen
  34. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - CS Lewis
  35. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
  36. Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis de Bernieres
  37. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
  38. Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
  39. Animal Farm - George Orwell
  40. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
  41. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  42. A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
  43. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
  44. Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
  45. Far from the Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
  46. The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
  47. Lord of the Flies – William Golding
  48. Atonement – Ian McEwan
  49. Life of Pi – Yann Martel
  50. Dune – Frank Herbert
  51. Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons
  52. Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
  53. A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth
  54. The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon
  55. A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
  56. Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
  57. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon
  58. Love in the Time of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  59. Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
  60. Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov - REFUSED TO READ
  61. The Secret History – Donna Tartt
  62. The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold
  63. Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
  64. On the Road – Jack Kerouac
  65. Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy
  66. Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helen Fielding
  67. Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
  68. Moby Dick – Herman Melville
  69. Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
  70. Dracula – Bram Stoker
  71. The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett
  72. Notes from a Small Island – Bill Bryson
  73. Ulysses – James Joyce
  74. The Inferno - Dante
  75. Swallows and Amazons – Arthur Ransom
  76. Germinal – Emile Zol
  77. Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
  78. Possession – AS Byatt
  79. A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
  80. Cloud Atlas – David Mitchel
  81. The Color Purple – Alice Walker
  82. The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
  83. Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
  84. A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
  85. Charlotte’s Web – EB White
  86. The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom
  87. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
  88. The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton
  89. Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
  90. The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery
  91. The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks
  92. Watership Down – Richard Adams
  93. A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
  94. A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute
  95. The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
  96. Hamlet – William Shakespeare
  97. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl
  98. Les Miserables – Victor Hugo
  99. Bleak House – Charles Dickens
  100. Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
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