The BBC predicts most people have only read 6 out of 100 of these books.

sylvesterandgreys:

slbarron23:

01 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen 
02 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
03 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte 
04 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
05 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
06 The Bible
07 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte 
08 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell 
09 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
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens 
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy 
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
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 
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen  
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 - AA 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
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 Nighttime - 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 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 
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

I feel like I should have read more, but, I probably have like seventy eyars to catch up.

12/15/09 at 9:15pm
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  1. latenineties reblogged this from fistfights
  2. katierebekah reblogged this from emilyandthetardis and added:
    suck on that. 20.
  3. emilyandthetardis reblogged this from suzypuzz and added:
    :) take that BBC.
  4. kittensavecmittens reblogged this from snakeboarding and added:
    I bolded the ones I’ve read and italicized the ones I own but have not yet read. Anything bolded and italicized is...
  5. mizzw0rld reblogged this from thegreatleapforwards and added:
    43. I officially have no fucking life haha.
  6. angelinthesnow reblogged this from bohemian-like-you
  7. seanfburns reblogged this from ahumphries and added:
    i had thirty. like a boss.
  8. bohemian-like-you reblogged this from ahumphries and added:
    hellokittyspeedboat:katemate:jece-x:...Bolded what I’ve completely read, italicized what...
  9. c0desandk3ys reblogged this from alexachungshairtwin and added:
    I’ve read 6 of them. Hah. I’ve been wanting to read almost all of these since I was put into the “challenging” reading...
  10. ahumphries reblogged this from thegreatleapforwards and added:
    katemate:jece-x:
  11. songbirdsweresinging reblogged this from alexachungshairtwin and added:
    22. thank you english class!
  12. alexachungshairtwin reblogged this from lightourbones and added:
    ha I don’t feel like counting
  13. lightourbones reblogged this from suzypuzz
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  15. boobiesandradiohead reblogged this from cupiddelocke and added:
    Hitchhikers Guide and 1984, you NEED to read them Hithhikers changed the way i look at comedy.
  16. andsoidreamed reblogged this from thevaguestoffeeling and added:
    Still have a lot to read!!
  17. thevaguestoffeeling reblogged this from cupiddelocke and added:
    Still have a lot to read!!
  18. amberlovely reblogged this from carryfiasco and added:
    get real this is me we’re talking about.
  19. suedoise reblogged this from sylvesterandgreys and added:
    I feel like I should have read more, but, I probably have like seventy eyars to catch up.
  20. hope-misery reblogged this from mnmoody and added:
    i guess i did aight.
  21. beyondthevisiblespectrum reblogged this from hollysses and added:
    22 :) Plus I’ve got some of them books at home ready to read.
  22. fistfights reblogged this from seabo and added:
    01 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen 02 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
  23. mnmoody reblogged this from laurenmachin
  24. littlemisslisax reblogged this from snakeboarding
  25. floatlikeacannonball reblogged this from nothingbutdirtywork and added:
    i do want to read a lot of these books
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