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Great Books<\/a><\/div>\n
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The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books here. How do your reading habits stack up?<\/p>\n

Instructions: Copy this into your NOTES. Look at the list and put an ‘x’ after those you have read. Tag other book nerds—and that would include me. I want to know who’s read what.<\/p>\n

1 Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen – X
\n2 The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien – X
\n3 Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte – X
\n4 Harry Potter series – JK Rowling – X 5 and 1\/2
\n5 To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee – X
\n6 The Bible – XXXXXXXX
\n7 Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte – X
\n8 Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell – X
\n9 His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman –
\n10 Great Expectations – Charles Dickens – X
\n11 Little Women – Louisa M Alcott –
\n12 Tess of the D\u2019Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy \u2013
\n13 Catch 22 – Joseph Heller \u2013 X
\n14 Complete Works of Shakespeare – Well some of em…
\n15 Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier –
\n16 The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien – X
\n17 Birdsong – Sebastian Faulk –
\n18 Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger – X
\n19 The Time Traveler\u2019s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger-
\n20 Middlemarch – George Eliot –
\n21 Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell – X
\n22 The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald – X
\n23 Bleak House – Charles Dickens –
\n24 War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy – X
\n25 The Hitch Hiker\u2019s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams – X
\n27 Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky –
\n28 Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck – X
\n29 Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll- X
\n30 The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame- X
\n31 Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy – X
\n32 David Copperfield – Charles Dickens -x
\n33 Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis – X
\n34 Emma-Jane Austen – X
\n35 Persuasion – Jane Austen – X
\n36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – CS Lewis- X
\n37 The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini – X Movie was good too.
\n38 Captain Corelli\u2019s Mandolin – Louis De Bernieres – on my list
\n39 Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden – X
\n40 Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne – X
\n41 Animal Farm – George Orwell – X
\n42 The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown – X
\n43 One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez –
\n44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney – John Irving-X
\n45 The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins –
\n46 Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery- X
\n47 Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy –
\n48 The Handmaid\u2019s Tale – Margaret Atwood – X
\n49 Lord of the Flies – William Golding – X
\n50 Atonement – Ian McEwan-
\n51 Life of Pi – Yann Marte-X-
\n52 Dune – Frank Herbert –
\n53 Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons-
\n54 Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen – X
\n55 A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth –
\n56 The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon –
\n57 A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens – X
\n58 Brave New World – Aldous Huxley – X
\n59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night – Mark Haddon–
\n60 Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez –
\n61 Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck – X
\n62 Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov-
\n63 The Secret History – Donna Tartt
\n64 The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold – X
\n65 Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas- X
\n66 On The Road – Jack Kerouac –
\n67 Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy –
\n68 Bridget Jones\u2019s Diary – Helen Fielding- X
\n69 Midnight\u2019s Children – Salman Rushdie \u2013 X
\n70 Moby Dick – Herman Melville – X
\n71 Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens- X
\n72 Dracula – Bram Stoker –
\n73 The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett – X
\n74 Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson –
\n75 Ulysses – James Joyce – (and the Iliad) – X
\n76 The Inferno \u2013 Dante- X
\n77 Swallows and Amazons – Arthur Ransome –
\n78 Germinal – Emile Zola –
\n79 Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray-
\n80 Possession – AS Byatt \u2013
\n81 A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens – X
\n82 Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell –
\n83 The Color Purple – Alice Walker- X
\n84 The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro– X
\n85 Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert –
\n86 A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry –
\n87 Charlotte\u2019s Web – EB White – X
\n88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom– X
\n89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle- X
\n90 The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton- X
\n91 Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad –
\n92 The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery – X
\n93 The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks –
\n94 Watership Down – Richard Adams- X
\n95 A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole –
\n96 A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute
\n97 The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas – X
\n98 Hamlet – William Shakespeare- X
\n99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl – X
\n100 Les Miserables – Victor Hugo- X<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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