Cruising the web, I found the Bookend’s Agency’s blog post about these 100 books that we all should read to enrich and enlighten our lives, make our living fuller and more rounded…
Yadda yadda yadda…
“If you’re on Facebook you’ve undoubtedly seen the Book List Challenge. It’s purported to be from the BBC, a list of 100 books that they believe most people will have read only six of.”
(from Bookend’s Blog)
I perused the list, and I realized, I wasn’t nearly as uneducated as I thought… I’d read a fair share of these books. And ironically, really liked them. 🙂 Though I noticed a few weren’t on the list, like 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Peter Pan, Grimm’s Fairy Tales, and Aesop’s Fables. All great books certainly worth reading.
What about you, have you read any of these books? (I will mark the ones I’ve read.)
*1. Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
2. The Lord of the Rings – J. R. R. Tolkien
3. Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
*4. Harry Potter series – J. K. Rowling
*5. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
6. The Bible
7. Wuthering Heights
8. Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell
9. His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman
*10. Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
*11. Little Women – Louisa May 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 – J. R. R. Tolkien
17. Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks
18. Catcher in the Rye – J. D. 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 Hitchhiker’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 (have started reading it…)
30. The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame
***31. Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy (have started reading it…)
32. David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
*33. The Chronicles of Narnia – C. S. Lewis (tes, to all of them)
34. Emma – Jane Austen
35. Persuasion – Jane Austen
*36. The Lion, the Witch and The Wardrobe – C. S. Lewis
37. The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
38. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis De Berniere
*39. Memoirs of a Geisha – William 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 – L. M. Montgomery
47. Far from the Madding Crowd _ Thomas Hardy
48. The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
49. Lord of the Flies – William Golding (Hate this book!!!)
50. Atonement – Ian McEwan
51. Life of Pi – Yann Martell
52. Dune – Frank Herbert
53. Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons
***54. Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen (yet another I have started)
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
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 – A. S. Byatt
81. A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
82. Cloud Atlas – Charles Mitchell
83. The Colour 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 & the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl
100. Les Miserables – Victor Hugo