The 100 Book Challenge

There is an interesting note going around in which people claim the BBC believes people have only read six of the below books. This is probably not true, for there is no mention the book list on the BBC website, and  the list itself suffered from poor editing: The Complete Works of Shakespeare is mentioned, but so is Hamlet; The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe is present, but made redundant by The Chronicles of Narnia. 

Instructions: Copy this if you would like to play. Bold those books which you've read completely.  Italicize those which you start but  did not finish.  

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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 

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 - 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