Stolen from katphyre
[EDITOR'S NOTE: I don't know where the concept that "The BBC believes most people will have read only six" of these books comes from. There's no link offered with this meme. In fact, if I had to guess, I'd say that this list was compiled of books many people have read specifically to make people who fill this out feel like they've read a lot of books. Heck, I've read 19, which is well over 6, and I know that if I'd actually read all the books I was assigned to read in high school, there would be at least 4 more.]
The BBC believes most people will have read only six of the 100 books here. How do your reading habits stack up?
1. Pride and Prejudice -- Jane Austen
2. The Lord of the Rings -- J.R.R. Tolkien.....................................Yes
3. Jane Eyre -- Charlotte Bronte
4. Harry Potter series -- J.K. Rowling.........................................Yes
5. To Kill a Mockingbird -- Harper Lee.........................................Yes
6. The Holy Bible
7. Wuthering Heights -- Emily Bronte
8. Nineteen Eighty-Four -- George Orwell.......................................Yes
9. His Dark Materials -- Philip Pullman
10. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens.......................................Yes
11. Little Women -- Louisa M. Alcott
12. Tess of the d’Urbervilles -- Thomas Hardy
13. Catch-22 -- Joseph Heller..................................................Yes
14. The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (all the plays)
15. Rebecca -- Daphne du Maurier
16. The Hobbit -- J.R.R. Tolkien...............................................Yes
17. Birdsong -- Sebastian Faulk
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......................Yes
26. Brideshead Revisited -- Evelyn Waugh
27. Crime and Punishment -- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28. The Grapes of Wrath -- John Steinbeck
29. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland -- Lewis Carroll..........................Yes
30. The Wind in the Willows -- Kenneth Grahame
31. Anna Karenina -- Leo Tolstoy
32. David Copperfield -- Charles Dickens
33. The Chronicles of Narnia -- C.S. Lewis
34. Emma -- Jane Austen
35. Persuasion -- Jane Austen
36. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe -- C.S. Lewis........................Yes
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 -- A.A. Milne
41. Animal Farm -- George Orwell..............................................Yes
42. The Da Vinci Code -- Dan Brown............................................Yes
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
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...................................Yes
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
65. The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
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
73. The Secret Garden -- Frances Hodgson Burnett..............................Yes
74. Notes From A Small Island -- Bill Bryson
75. Ulysses -- James Joyce
76. The Inferno -- Dante Alighieri
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......................................Yes
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
87. Charlotte’s Web -- E.B. White ............................................Yes
88. The Five People You Meet In Heaven -- Mitch Albom
89. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes -- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle...............Yes
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.............................................Yes
99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory -- Roald Dahl...........................Yes
100. Les Miserables -- Victor Hugo
The BBC believes most people will have read only six of the 100 books here. How do your reading habits stack up?
1. Pride and Prejudice -- Jane Austen
2. The Lord of the Rings -- J.R.R. Tolkien.....................................Yes
3. Jane Eyre -- Charlotte Bronte
4. Harry Potter series -- J.K. Rowling.........................................Yes
5. To Kill a Mockingbird -- Harper Lee.........................................Yes
6. The Holy Bible
7. Wuthering Heights -- Emily Bronte
8. Nineteen Eighty-Four -- George Orwell.......................................Yes
9. His Dark Materials -- Philip Pullman
10. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens.......................................Yes
11. Little Women -- Louisa M. Alcott
12. Tess of the d’Urbervilles -- Thomas Hardy
13. Catch-22 -- Joseph Heller..................................................Yes
14. The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (all the plays)
15. Rebecca -- Daphne du Maurier
16. The Hobbit -- J.R.R. Tolkien...............................................Yes
17. Birdsong -- Sebastian Faulk
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......................Yes
26. Brideshead Revisited -- Evelyn Waugh
27. Crime and Punishment -- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28. The Grapes of Wrath -- John Steinbeck
29. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland -- Lewis Carroll..........................Yes
30. The Wind in the Willows -- Kenneth Grahame
31. Anna Karenina -- Leo Tolstoy
32. David Copperfield -- Charles Dickens
33. The Chronicles of Narnia -- C.S. Lewis
34. Emma -- Jane Austen
35. Persuasion -- Jane Austen
36. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe -- C.S. Lewis........................Yes
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 -- A.A. Milne
41. Animal Farm -- George Orwell..............................................Yes
42. The Da Vinci Code -- Dan Brown............................................Yes
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
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...................................Yes
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
65. The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
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
73. The Secret Garden -- Frances Hodgson Burnett..............................Yes
74. Notes From A Small Island -- Bill Bryson
75. Ulysses -- James Joyce
76. The Inferno -- Dante Alighieri
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......................................Yes
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
87. Charlotte’s Web -- E.B. White ............................................Yes
88. The Five People You Meet In Heaven -- Mitch Albom
89. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes -- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle...............Yes
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.............................................Yes
99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory -- Roald Dahl...........................Yes
100. Les Miserables -- Victor Hugo