Here's the list from BBC of top 100 books (or some such thing) that I found on Facebook. And they believe most people would have read only 6 from this list. I am certainly better off than that. But still got to do a lot of catching up. I have read only 21 of them! The X mark next to the book denotes that. and "movie" in the bracket means that I haven't read the book but seen the film. Sigh...
Anyways I know what to look for next time I hit the library.
1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen-(movie)
2. The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien-
3. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4. Harry Potter series - JK Rowling -x
5. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee -x
6. The Bible -
7. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte -x
8. 1984 - George Orwell - x
9. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens- (movie)
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 - ( partial)
15. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16. The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien -
17. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
18. Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger- x
19. The Time Traveller’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- 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 - x
32. David 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 - x
38. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres - (movie)
39. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden - x
40. Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne -
41. Animal Farm - George Orwell-
42. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown- x
43. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez - x
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
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 - x
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 - x
60. Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez - x
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 - (movie)
69. Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie -
70. Moby Dick - Herman Melville -
71. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens - x
72. Dracula - Bram Stoker -
73. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74. Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson (partial)
75. Ulysses - James Joyce -
76. The Inferno - Dante
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 -
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 - EB White -
88. The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom -
89. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - x
90. The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton -
91. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92. The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery - x
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 - x
98. Hamlet - William Shakespeare -
99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl- x
100. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo -
Anyways I know what to look for next time I hit the library.
1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen-(movie)
2. The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien-
3. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4. Harry Potter series - JK Rowling -x
5. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee -x
6. The Bible -
7. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte -x
8. 1984 - George Orwell - x
9. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens- (movie)
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 - ( partial)
15. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16. The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien -
17. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
18. Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger- x
19. The Time Traveller’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- 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 - x
32. David 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 - x
38. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres - (movie)
39. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden - x
40. Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne -
41. Animal Farm - George Orwell-
42. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown- x
43. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez - x
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
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 - x
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 - x
60. Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez - x
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 - (movie)
69. Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie -
70. Moby Dick - Herman Melville -
71. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens - x
72. Dracula - Bram Stoker -
73. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74. Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson (partial)
75. Ulysses - James Joyce -
76. The Inferno - Dante
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 -
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 - EB White -
88. The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom -
89. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - x
90. The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton -
91. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92. The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery - x
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 - x
98. Hamlet - William Shakespeare -
99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl- x
100. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo -
2 comments:
thats an exhaustive list! managed to tick of 32 as read, and reminded myself to read 'the great gatsby' again. (did not get it the first time i read it)
Came to this blog after a long time...you've read an incredible list of books :) good going
thank you whiz kid :) Reading is the only thing that's keeping me sane at this point of time :D
And good luck with gatsby. I haven't read it yet...
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