BBC reckons most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here.

How many have you read?

*1.               Pride & Prejudice – Jane Austen

  2.               The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien

  3.               Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte

*4.               Harry Potter Series – JK Rowling (book 1)

*5.               To Kill A Mockingbird – Harper Lee

*6.               The Bible

*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.           Works of Shakespeare (some for educational purposes)

  15.           Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier

*16.           The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien

  17.           Birdsong – Sebastian Faulk

  18.           Catcher in the Rye – DJ Salinger

  19.           The Time Traveller’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

  26.           Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh

  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 (all of her books)

  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 Night – 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 Tart

  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 – 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
*Sharon has read all or part of