my books. my life.

Thought you all might like this one.

Apparently the BBC reckons that most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here.
Copy and paste – put an X next to the ones you have read. If I tagged you for this note, it's because I believe that you actually may pick up a book or two every once in a while.

I've read 37.  🙂

1. (x) Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
2. ( ) The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien
3. (x) Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
4. (x) Harry Potter series – JK Rowling
5. (x) To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
6. ( ) The Bible
7. (x) Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
8. (x) Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell
9. (x-ish – I've read 1) His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman
10. ( ) Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
11. (x) 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 Faulk
18. (x) Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger
19. (x) The Time Traveller’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger
20. ( ) Middlemarch – George Eliot
21. ( ) Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell
22. (x) 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. (x) 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. (x) Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
32. ( ) David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
33. (x) Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis
34. (x) Emma – Jane Austen
35. (x) Persuasion – Jane Austen
36. (x) The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – CS Lewis
37. (x) 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. (x) Animal Farm – George Orwell
42. (x) 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. (x) Lord of the Flies – William Golding
50. (x) Atonement – Ian McEwan
51. (x) Life of Pi – Yann Martel
52. ( ) Dune – Frank Herbert (and about 4 others in that series)
53. ( ) Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons
54. (x) 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. (x) The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon
60. ( ) Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61. (x) Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
62. ( ) Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
63. ( ) The Secret History – Donna Tartt
64. (x) The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold (and "Lucky")
65. ( ) Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
66. (x) 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. (x) The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett
74. ( ) Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson
75. ( ) Ulysses – James JoyceThree
76. (x) The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
77. ( ) Swallows and Amazons – Arthur Ransome
78. ( ) Germinal – Emile Zola
79. (x) Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
80. ( ) Possession – AS Byatt
81. (x) 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. (x) Charlotte’s Web – EB White
88. (x) 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. (x) Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
92. ( ) The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint
93. ( ) The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks
94. ( ) Watership Down – Richard Adams
95. (x) A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
96. ( ) A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute
97. ( ) The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
98. (x) Hamlet – William Shakespeare
99. (x) Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl
100. ( ) Les Miserables – Victor Hugo 

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