theodosia | The Hundred Books

Out of sheer bloody curiosity, I'm weakening and running through this list, though at least it's hidden by a cut. FWIW, I've read (or tried to read) 39 of the 100 total (which is actually on the order of 110, since Lord of the Rings, His Dark Materials, and Nightwatch are all actually at least three books apiece. Two I couldn't finish, four were read for school requirements.

The BBC 100 Books That People (At Least, British People) Read

1984 - George Orwell
The Alchemist - Paul Coelho
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
Animal Farm - George Orwell
Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy *
Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
Artemis Fowl - Eoin Colfer
The BFG - Roald Dahl
Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
Black Beauty - Anna Sewell
Bleak House - Charles Dickens
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
Bridget Jones' Diary - Helen Fielding
Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis de Bernieres
Catch 22 - Joseph L Heller
The Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger *
Charlie & Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
The Clan of the Cave Bear - Jean M Auel
Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
The Colour of Magic - Terry Pratchett
The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexander Dumas
Crime and Punishment - Fyoder Dostoyevsky
David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
Double Act - Jacqueline Wilson
Dune - Frank Herbert
Emma - Jane Austen
Far From the Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
Girls in Love - Jacqueline Wilson
The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy
The Godfather - Mario Puzo
Gone with the Wind - Margaret Mitchell**
Good Omens - Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman
Goodnight Mr Tom - Michelle Magorian
Gormenghast - Mervyn Peak
The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald *
Guards! Guards! - Terry Pratchett
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets - JK Rowling
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - JK Rowling
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone - JK Rowling
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - JK Rowling
His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
Holes - Louis Sachar
I Capture the Castle - Dodie Smith
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
Kane and Abel - Jeffrey Archer
Katherine - Anya Seton
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - CS Lewis
Little Women - Louisa May Alcott**
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
Love in the time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Magic Faraway Tree - Enid Blyton
Magician - Raymond E Feist
The Magus - John Fowles
Matilda - Roald Dahl
Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
Middlemarch - George Elliot
Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
Mort - Terry Pratchett
Nightwatch - Terry Pratchett
Noughts and Crosses - Malorie Blackman
Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
On the Road - Jack Kerouac
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Perfume - Patrick Suskind
Persuasion - Jane Austen
The Pillars of the Earth - Ken Follett
A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
The Princess Diaries - Meg Cabot
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists - Robert Tressell
Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier
The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Secret History - Donna Tart
The Shell Seekers - Rosamund Pilcher
The Stand - Stephen King
The Story of Tracy Beaker - Jacqueline Wilson
A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
Tess of the D'Ubervilles - Thomas Hardy *
The Thorn Birds - Colleen McCollough
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson
The Twits - Roald Dahl
Ulysses - James Joyce
Vicky Angel - Jacqueline Wilson
War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
Watership Down - Richard Adams
The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte

* Required to read for schooling
** Tried to read, gave up for reasons of style and/or boredom

The Hundred Books

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