BBC's Book List

Apparently, the BBC thinks most people have only read 6 out of the 100 books listed below.

After reading this list, I realllly want to get brushed up on my 19th century British literature. I've read 26 out of the list.

How many have you read?



1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
Yes

2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
Yes

3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
No

4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
Yes, countless times

5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
Yes.

6 The Bible
No.

7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
No

8 1984 - George Orwell
Yes

9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
No

10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
No

11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
No

12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
No

13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
No

14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
No

15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
No

16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
No

17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
No

18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
No

19 The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
Yes

20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
No

21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
No

22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
Yes

23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
No

24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
No

25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
No

26 Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
No

27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
No

28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
No

29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
Yes

30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
No

31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
No

32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
No

33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
No

34 Emma - Jane Austen
Yes

35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
No

36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
No

37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hossein
Yes - I loved this book!

38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
No

39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
Yes

40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
Yes

41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
Yes, and reviewed!

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
No

47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
No

48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
Yes

49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
Yes

50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
No

51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
No

52 Dune - Frank Herbert
No

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
No

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
No

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
Yes

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
No

71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
No

72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
No

73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
No

74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
No

75 Ulysses - James Joyce
Yes

76 The Inferno - Dante
No

77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
No

78 Germinal - Emile Zola
No

79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
No

80 Possession - AS Byatt
No

81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
Yes

82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
No

83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
No

84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
No

85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
No

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
No

90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
No

91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
No

92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
No

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
No

98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
Yes

99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
Yes

100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
No