Thursday, February 23, 2012

BBC book challenge

About two years ago, I got tagged in a note on Facebook (remember those?).

Usually Facebook notes were absurdities like 25 things you never knew about me and I remember for a while it was like a little competition to see just how unique you could make yourself sound.


besides the point.
This particular note I'm talking about was a claimed "
BBC Booklist" along with the phrase/challenge: The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 book listed. How do you stack up?

I've read a good amount. But I want to be able to say I've read them all... So I'm starting with a clean slate and reading them all starting at the top of the list.
Checking out Pride & Prejudice of the Harold B. Lee Library as soon as I'm done doing homework procrastinating.

How many have you read?
(The ones I've read are in teal)


1. Pride & Prejudice — Jane Austen
2. The Lord of the Rings — JRR Tolkien

3. Jane Eyre — Charlotte Bronte

4. Harry Potter series — JK Rowling

5. To Kill a Mocking bird — Harper Lee

6. The Bible

7. Wuthering Heights — Emily Bronte

8. 1984 — George Orwell

9. His Dark Materials — Philip Pullman

10. Great Expectations — Charles Dickens

11. Little Women — Louisa M 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 — JRR Tolkien

17. Birdsong — Sebastian Faulk

18. Catcher in the Rye — JD 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 & Peace — Leo Tolstoy

25. The Hitch Hiker'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

30. The Wind in the Willows — Kenneth Grahame

31. Anna Karenina — Leo Tolstoy

32. Daivd Copperfield — Charles Dickens

33. Chronicles of Narnia — CS Lewis

34. Emma — Jane Austen

35. Persuasion — Jane Austen

36. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe — CS Lewis

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

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 Women 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 Atwod

49. Lord of the Flies — William Godling

50. Atonement — Ian McEwan

51. Life of Pi — Yann Martel

52. Dune — Frank Herbert

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
57. A Tale of Two Cities — Charles Dickens

58. Brave New World — Aldous Huxley

59. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night — 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. Bridges 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 — Frnaces Hosgson Burnett

74. Notes From a Small Island — Bill Bryson

75. Ulysses — Jaes Joyce

76. The Inferno — Dante

77. Swallows and Amazons — Arthur Ransome

78. Germinal — Emile Zola

79. Vanity Fair — William Makepeace Thakeray

80. Possession — AS Byatt

81. A Christmas Carol — Charles Dickens

82. Cloud Atlas — David Mitchell

83. The Color Purple — Alic Walker

84. The Remains of the Day — Kazua Ishiguro

85. Madame Bovary — Gustave Flaubert

86. A Fine Balance — Rohinton Mistry

87. Charlotte's Web — EB 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 — Ian Banks

94. Watership Down — Richard Adams
95. A Condfederacy of Dunces — John Kennedy Toole

96. A Town Like Alice — Nevil Shute

97. The Three Musketeers — Alexandre Dumas

98. Hamlet — William Shakespeare

99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory — Roald Dahl

100. Les Miserables — Victor Hugo

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