Posted in Reading Rocks
Thanks to joyfulhomeschooling for this reading list.
1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Put a star by those you intend to read someday.
3)Put a % by the ones where you've seen the movie.
This is a list of best books from the BBC.
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen * %
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkein %
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte * % (I can't get this to unbold, but it shouldn't be bolded)
4 Harry Potter Series - JK Rowling % (I tried to read it. I really did.)
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee %
6 The Bible (well, I’ve read a lot of it)
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8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman (read the 1st one only)
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott * %
12 Tess of D'Urbevilles -Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller *
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare (well, I’ve read a lot of them) %
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier *
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkein
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger (tried, didn’t finish)
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot *
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell %
22 The Great Gatsby
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens * (my friend Mike lent this to me in 1994, won’t take it back until I read it. I still have it)
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams % (one of Hub’s faves)
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky (started, didn’t finish) *
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck %
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll %
30 The Wind and the Willows - Kenneth Grahame %
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy*
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis (some, not all yet) * %
34 Emma - Jane Austen * %
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen (started, need to finish) * %
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis %
37 The Kite Runner - Kahled 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 DaVinci Code - Dan Brown %
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez *
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery *
47 Far From The Maddening Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood *
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding % (one of my all-time faves)
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan * %
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons (currently reading)
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 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 Plain
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 %
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole (tried, and quit)
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexander Dumas *
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare %
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl %
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo *
