BBC book list

The BBC believes most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here. How do your reading habits stack up? My total at the time of writing is 19 (highlighted in bold and tallied in brackets). This only includes books that I have read myself; not books that were read to me as a child or which I've read in part but not finished; or consumed in some other medium such as film, TV, radio, or audiobook; nor books which I own and at some time had the desire to read but haven't quite got round to yet.

1. Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
2. J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
3. Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre (1)
4. J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter series (I've read only the first book)
5. Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
6. The Bible
7. Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights
8. George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four (2)
9. Philip Pullman, His Dark Materials
10. Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
11. Louisa M. Alcott, Little Women
12. Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D'Urbervilles (3)
13. Joseph Heller, Catch 22
14. Complete Works of Shakespeare 
15. Daphne Du Maurier, Rebecca
16. J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit (4)
17. Sebastian Faulks, Birdsong
18. J. D. Salinger, Catcher in the Rye (5)
19. Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife
20. George Eliot, Middlemarch
21. Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind
22. F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (6)
23. Charles Dickens, Bleak House
24. Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
25. Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
26. Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited (7)
27. Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
28. John Steinbeck, Grapes of Wrath
29. Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland (8)
30. Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
31. Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
32. Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
33. C. S. Lewis, Chronicles of Narnia
34. Jane Austen, Emma
35. Jane Austen, Persuasion
36. C. S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
37. Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
38. Louis De Bernieres, Captain Corelli's Mandolin
39. Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha
40. A. A. Milne, Winnie the Pooh (9)
41. George Orwell, Animal Farm (10)
42. Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code
43. Gabriel Garcia Marquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude
44. John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meaney
45. Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White (11)
46. L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
47. Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd
48. Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale
49. William Golding, Lord of the Flies
50. Ian McEwan, Atonement
51. Yann Martel, Life of Pi
52. Frank Herbert, Dune
53. Stella Gibbons, Cold Comfort Farm
54. Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
55. Vikram Seth, A Suitable Boy
56. Carlos Ruiz Zafon, The Shadow of the Wind
57. Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
58. Aldous Huxley, Brave New World (12)
59. Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (13)
60. Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Love in the Time of Cholera
61. John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men
62. Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
63. Donna Tartt, The Secret History
64. Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones
65. Alexandre Dumas, Count of Monte Cristo
66. Jack Kerouac, On the Road
67. Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure
68. Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones's Diary
69. Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Children
70. Herman Melville, Moby-Dick
71. Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist
72. Bram Stoker, Dracula (14)
73. Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden
74. Bill Bryson, Notes from a Small Island
75. James Joyce, Ulysses (15)
76. Dante, The Inferno (16)
77. Arthur Ransome, Swallows and Amazons
78. Emile Zola, Germinal
79. William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair
80. A. S. Byatt, Possession
81. Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
82. David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
83. Alice Walker, The Color Purple
84. Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day
85. Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary (17)
86. Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance
87. E. B. White, Charlotte's Web
88. Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven
89. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
90. Enid Blyton, The Faraway Tree Collection
91. Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness (18)
92. Antoine De Saint-Eupery, The Little Prince
93. Iain Banks, The Wasp Factory
94. Richard Adams, Watership Down
95. John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces
96. Nevil Shute, A Town Like Alice
97. Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers
98. William Shakespeare, Hamlet (19)
99. Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
100. Victor Hugo, Les Miserables

I originally noted this list on 15 March 2009. I came across it again when purging old files on my laptop.

If you liked this post, you may also like the list of books I have read since June 2006 and  books I wanted to read after Finals. If films are more your kind of thing, here's a list of films I've seen and (sometimes) reviewed.