The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books here. ....Want to play? Copy this into your post. Look at the list and put an "👍" after those you have read.
This will be an interesting one:
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen x👍
2 The Lord of the Rings -JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte x👍xxx
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee x👍
6 The Bible x👍
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte x👍
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell x👍
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens x👍
11 Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
12 Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy x👍
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare x👍
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier x👍xx
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien x👍xx
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulkner
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger x👍
19 The Time Traveler's Wife-Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot x👍
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald x👍
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens x👍
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy x👍x
25 The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy Douglas Adams 👍
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky x👍
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck x👍x
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll x👍
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame x👍
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy x👍
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens x👍
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34 Emma - Jane Austen x👍
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen x👍
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 👍
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne - x👍
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell x👍
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 x👍
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery 👍
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy x👍
48 The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding x👍
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan 👍x
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons x👍
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen x👍
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth x👍x
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens x👍
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley x👍
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck x👍
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas x
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy x👍
68 Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding x👍
69 Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville x👍x
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 x👍
75 Ulysses - James Joyce x👍
76 The Inferno - Dante x👍x
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome x👍
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray x👍
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens x👍
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker x
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro x👍
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert x👍
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👍x
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid BLYTON
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad x👍x
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery x👍
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams x👍
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute x👍
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas x👍
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare👍 x
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl x👍
100 Gaudy Night - Dorothy Sayers
My generation read Noddy, Famous Five, Secret Seven, Biggles, Rider Haggard, Colonel Fawcett, Pattern of islands, Jock of the Bushveld, They seek a country, Cry the beloved country.Why isn't Nelson Mandela on this list? Many of these now seen as colonialist and racist.
