I have previously mentioned my wanting to read all of the books on the BBC List. I thought I would put which books I have already read and then I'll also have a list of the ones I need to read yet. I know the list isn't perfect, but it is a good jumping off point.
The ones in
RED have been read (the ones
Bolded were the ones I have read this past year). The ones in
BLUE have not been read, but I have seen the movie so that should count for something.
1
Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
2
The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien
3
Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
4
Harry Potter series – J. K. Rowling
5
To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
6
The Bible (I went to Catholic school so it counts)
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 M 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 Faulks
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 Mitchell
22
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 Adams
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
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 Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis De Bernieres
39
Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
40
Winnie the Pooh – AA 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 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
82 Cloud Atlas – David Mitchel
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
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
So the count is
31 down and 69 to go.
