BBC 100 Books meme

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I seem to remember doing this particular list, or something very similar, a couple of years ago....

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

• Put an 'x' after those you have read.
  
• Add a '+' to the ones you LOVE.
  
• Star (*) those you plan on reading (as in, they are somewhere in the house).
  
• Tally your total at the bottom.

1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
   
2. The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien x+
   
3. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte x
   
4. Harry Potter series - JK Rowling x
   
5. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee x+
   
6. The Bible x+
   
7. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte x
   
8. Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell x
   
9. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman x
   
10. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
    
11. Little Women - Louisa M Alcott x
    
12. Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
    
13. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
    
14. Complete Works of Shakespeare
    
15. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier x
    
16. The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien x
    
17. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
    
18. Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
    
19. The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger *
    
20. Middlemarch - George Eliot *
    
21. Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell x
    
22. The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald x
    
23. Bleak House - Charles Dickens x
    
24. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
    
25. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams x+
    
26. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
    
27. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
    
28. Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
    
29. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll x+
    
30. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
    
31. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy *
    
32. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
    
33. Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis x
    
34. Emma - Jane Austen
    
35. Persuasion - Jane Austen
    
36. The Road - Cormac McCarthy *
    
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 - AA Milne x
    
41. Animal Farm - George Orwell x
    
42. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown x
    
43. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
    
44. A Prayer for Owen Meany - 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 x+
    
49. Lord of the Flies - William Golding x
    
50. Atonement - Ian McEwan *
    
51. Life of Pi - Yann Martel
    
52. Dune - Frank Herbert x+
    
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 x+
    
57. A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens x
    
58. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley x
    
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 x+
    
62. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov x
    
63. The Secret History - Donna Tartt x+
    
64. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
    
65. The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas x
    
66. On The Road - Jack Kerouac
    
67. Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
    
68. Bridget Jones’ Diary - Helen Fielding
    
69. Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
    
70. Moby Dick - Herman Melville
    
71. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
    
72. Dracula - Bram Stoker x
    
73. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett x+
    
74. Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
    
75. Ulysses - James Joyce
    
76. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
    
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 x
    
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 x+
    
87. Charlotte’s Web - EB White x
    
88. The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
    
89. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle x
    (and all the rest of SH, too)
    
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 x+
    
95. A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole x
    
96. A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
    
97. The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
    
98. Hamlet - William Shakespeare x
    (Why is this separate from #14?)
    
99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl x+
    
100. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
     
     Total read: 40
     Total TBR: 9