BBC Reading List
Reading List
The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books here. How do your reading habits stack up?Instructions: Copy this into your NOTES. Look at the list and put an ‘Yes’ after those you have read. Tag other book nerds. Tag me as well so i can see your responses!
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen -yes
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien-yes
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte -yes
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling – yes
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee - yes
6 The Bible - yes
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte - no
8 1984 - George Orwell- no
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman - no
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens - yes
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott -yes
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy – yes
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller -yes
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare - yes
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier - no
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien - yes
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk - no
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger -yes
19 The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger – yes
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot - no
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell -yes
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald - yes
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens - no
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy - yes
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams - no
26 Tess Of The D’Urbervilles -yes
26a Lonesome Dove - Larry McMurtry - yes
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky - yes
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck - yes
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll - yes
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame - yes
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy - yes
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens - yes
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis - yes
34 Emma - Jane Austen - yes
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen -yes
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis - yes
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hossein - yes
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres - yes
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden – yes
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne - yes
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell - no
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown -yes
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez - no
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving - no
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins - no
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery - yes
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy - no
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood - no
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding - yes
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan – yes
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel – no
52 Dune - Frank Herbert -yes
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons -no
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen - yes
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth - no
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon - no
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens - yes
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley -no
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night - Mark Haddon - no
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez - yes
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck - yes
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov - no
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt - no
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold - no
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas - Yes
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac - no
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy - no
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding -yes
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie - no
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville -yes
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens - yes
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker - no
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett -yes
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson - no
75 Ulysses - James Joyce - yes
76 The Inferno - Dante - yes
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome - no
78 Germinal - Emile Zola - no
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray - yes
80 Possession - AS Byatt - no
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens - yes
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell - no
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker - yes
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro - yes
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert - yes
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry - no
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White -yes
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom - no
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - yes
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton - no
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad – no
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery - yes
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks - no
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams - no
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole - no
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute - no
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas - yes
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare - yes
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - yes
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo -yes
I’ve read 61. I make it a point to read books that have been made into movies. I love to see the differences. I am currently reading Pride and Prejudice again and I have Jane Ayre in my list for when I am finished with P&P
In other news, I have taken some time off from scrapping. I left all my creative teams and have stopped visiting my favorite places. Why you might ask? It’s simple - I am in a rut. Things this summer have been awful and I have been running like ragged and just felt overwhelmed with it all. So, I am taking some time off to find myself and work on some other things that have been put on hold too long.


