100th

The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books listed here.



Instructions: Copy this into your NOTES.

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

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


Tag other book nerds. Tag me as well so I can see your responses! (Or not, after all reading is not a competition! I'm betting that we're all well over 6 books, and I am curious to see the common ground).



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 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 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

36 The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe - CS Lewis (this is the first book of the chronicles of narnia)

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 - 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

It can't be It's not possible

It can't be
It's not possible
That's what I told myself
hmm...
There's no way that I'm in love with you
hmm..

Its just jealousy
I must be lonely
I tried fooling myself
but now I can't hide it anymore

I think I love you
It must be true
Cause I miss you
When you're not around
I can't do anything
I keep thinking about
Seeing how things are---I know

I'm falling for you
I didn't realize it
Now I need you
All of the time
I now understand that
Somehow, you've already grown deep
in my heart

They say we're not suited for each other
That is better for us to be friends

From one to ten
We can never agree on anything
How can we be in a relationship?
When everyone says we cant last?
Their words have been in my thought
But I don't want to think about it anymore


I think I love you
It must be true
Cause I miss you
When you're not around
I can't do anything
all I do is just think about you
Seeing how things are---I know
I'm falling for you
I didn't realize it
Now I need you
All of the time
I can now see that you've already grown
grown deep in my heart

Why didn't I realize what I felt about you immediately?
hoo yeah..
Why didn't I see you when you were just in front of my eyes?
ooh yeah..
The whole time you were just beside me all along

Why didn't I realize
that I've loved you all along
oohh ohh...

I think I love you
That's what it seems
Cause I miss you
When you're not around
I can't do anything
All I do is just think about you
Seeing how things are--- I know
I'm falling for you
I didn't realize it
Now I miss you
All of the time
I can see now
That you've already grown deep
in my heart
And that I've loved you all along.