100 BOOKS
Let’s have some fun and learn about each other. Have you read more than 6 of these books?
The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books listed here.
Let me know in the comments which ones you have read, want to read, or will never read. Here are what the emoji’s I used Mean: ✅ Read ⭐️ Started but didn’t finish ❌ Haven’t Read
Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen ✅
The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien ✅
Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte ✅
Harry Potter series – JK Rowling (all) ✅
To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee ✅
The Bible ✅
Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte ✅
Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell (multiple times) ✅
His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman ❌
Great Expectations – Charles Dickens ✅
Little Women – Louisa M Alcott ✅
Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy ✅
Catch 22 – Joseph Heller ✅
Complete Works of Shakespeare (have read some, but not all) ⭐️
Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier ❌
The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien ✅
Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks
Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger ✅
The Time Traveller’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger ✅
Middlemarch – George Eliot ❌
Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell ✅
The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald ✅
Bleak House – Charles Dickens ✅
War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy ✅
The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams ✅
Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh ❌
Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky ✅
Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck ✅
Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll ✅
The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame ✅
Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy ✅
David Copperfield – Charles Dickens ⭐️
Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis ✅
Emma – Jane Austen ✅
Persuasion – Jane Austen ❌
The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – CS Lewis ✅
The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini ✅
Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis De Berniere ❌
Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden ⭐️
Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne ✅
Animal Farm – George Orwell ✅
The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown ✅
One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez ❌
A Prayer for Owen Meaney – John Irving ❌
The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins ❌
Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery ✅
Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy ❌
The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood ❌
Lord of the Flies – William Golding ✅
Atonement – Ian McEwan ❌
Life of Pi – Yann Martel ✅
Dune – Frank Herbert ❌
Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons ❌
Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen ✅
A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth ❌
The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon ❌
A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens ✅
Brave New World – Aldous Huxley ⭐️
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon ❌
Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez ❌
Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck ✅
Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov ❌
The Secret History – Donna Tartt ❌
The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold ⭐️
Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas ⭐️
On The Road – Jack Kerouac ⭐️
Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy ❌
Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helen Fielding ❌
Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie ❌
Moby Dick – Herman Melville ✅
Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens ✅
Dracula – Bram Stoker ✅
The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett ✅
Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson ❌
Ulysses – James Joyce ✅
The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath ❌
Swallows and Amazons – Arthur Ransome ❌
Germinal – Emile Zola ❌
Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray ❌
Possession – AS Byatt ❌
A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens ✅
Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell ❌
The Color Purple – Alice Walker ✅
The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro ❌
Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert ❌
A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry ❌
Charlotte’s Web – EB White ✅
The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom ❌
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ✅
The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton ❌
Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad ❌
The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery ❌
The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks ❌
Watership Down – Richard Adams ✅
A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole ❌
A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute ❌
The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas ⭐️
Hamlet – William Shakespeare ✅
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl ✅
. Les Miserables – Victor Hugo ✅
