I just want you. - KB

Allegedly the BBC has claimed that most people will only have read 6 of these 100 books.

I’ve read 17 out of 100 ;P

Bold those books you’ve read in their entirety.

Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen

there was something here i accidently deleted -whoops-

3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte [WANT TO READ]

4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling

5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee

The Bible (whyy?)

7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte

8 Nineteen Eighty Four - 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

24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy

25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

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 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens

33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis

34 Emma -Jane Austen [WANT TO READ]

35 Persuasion - Jane Austen [WANT TO READ]

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 - A.A. 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 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 [WANT TO READ]

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-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 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

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

74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson

75 Ulysses - James Joyce

76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath

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 - E.B. 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 - 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

99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl

100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

Posted 1 year ago with 1,306 notes
  1. letourmentvert reblogged this from ssconcussion and added:
    so…22 1/2? 16.
  2. iamlieta reblogged this from a-little-specificity and added:
    25 out of 100! :D I FEEL SO ACCOMPLISHED
  3. ssconcussion reblogged this from a-little-specificity and added:
    22. Actually in the process of reading one, so…22 1/2?
  4. a-little-specificity reblogged this from -laika and added:
    12… but this year I’m reading a shit ton of those in my English class.
  5. -laika reblogged this from whatthefawkes and added:
    I‘ve had this in my drafts forever....them or thirty two
  6. funfunfunfacts reblogged this from thegneissgeologist
  7. fuckyeahgingervicky reblogged this from the-drifter
  8. iamsnortythevampyr reblogged this from whatthefawkes and added:
    these 100… not great, but way better than
  9. confrigo reblogged this from whatthefawkes
  10. kimzamazing reblogged this from whatthefawkes
  11. keepthenightmaresout reblogged this from whatthefawkes and added:
    I’m not even 17 Come on, BBC, talk sense!
  12. blindloverunning reblogged this from mizunohi and added:
    on… 20…and there’s one book from...list that’s glaring at me from my bookshelf,...
  13. savourthis reblogged this from whatthefawkes
  14. itsbrittanybiiitch reblogged this from capntrips and added:
    ive read like 60. im such a fucking nerd. most were assigned but i actually read them.
  15. believenotlies reblogged this from chaos-hope-love and added:
    12 out of 100, how sad.
  16. president-bartlet reblogged this from supernatch and added:
    I’ve read 34 of them. And I finished ‘The Secret History’ yesterday.
  17. suenosagridulces reblogged this from wearedefenders and added:
    10, but i have a lot of them on my bookshelf, yet to be read!
  18. causalspoilers reblogged this from lovelyfantasy and added:
    11, but there’s quite a few I started reading and then stopped because I didn’t like them.
  19. glowinthedarkheart reblogged this from whatthefawkes
  20. alwaysprettyinpunk reblogged this from whatthefawkes
  21. majestic-shriek reblogged this from sevenpoints and added:
    47 :D Although, most of those were pre-2005. Since university, I haven’t read quite so much of ‘non-course’ books :D
  22. not-a-muggle reblogged this from africanwhitespacechrist and added:
    fifteen. suck it bbc!
  23. theswordintheparsnip reblogged this from paintsplotch and added:
    49. now im embarassed:P
  24. thefireismine reblogged this from tsundereslasher and added:
    43 and I feel special already :B
  25. paintsplotch reblogged this from gigaku and added:
    47. ….I was not a popular girl in high school-middle school…
  26. fyrebolt reblogged this from gigaku and added:
    16. Madame Bovary (translated) was kind of… terrible, though.
  27. gigaku reblogged this from whatthefawkes and added:
    14. That’s far more than I thought I would have. BRB reading more.