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

How do your reading habits stack up? Instructions: Put an 'x' next to those you have read (watching a movie version doesn't count!). x1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen x2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien x3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte 4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling x5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee x6 The Bible - Not end to end x7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte x8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell x9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman 10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens Total: 8 x11 Little Women - Louisa May Alcott x12 Tess of the DUrbervilles - Thomas Hardy x13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller 14 Complete Works of Shakespeare - I've read many but certainly not all... x15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier x16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien x17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks x18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger x19 The Time Travelers Wife - Audrey Niffenegger - just about to start it actually 20 Middlemarch - George Eliot Total: 8 21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell x22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald 23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens 24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy x25 The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams x27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky x28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck x29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll x30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame Total: 6 31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy x32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens x33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis x34 Emma - Jane Austen 35 Persuasion - Jane Austen x36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis 37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini x38 Captain Corellis Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres 39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden x40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne Total: 6 x41 Animal Farm - George Orwell 42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown x43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez x44 A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving x45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins 46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery x47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy x48 The Handmaids Tale - Margaret Atwood x49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding x50 Atonement - Ian McEwan Total: 8

x51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel 52 Dune - Frank Herbert x53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons x54 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 x58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley 59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night - Mark Haddon x60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez Total: 5 x61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck x62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov x63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt x64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold 65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas 66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac 67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy x68 Bridget Joness Diary - Helen Fielding 69 Midnights Children - Salman Rushdie - about to, it's on my bookshelf 70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville Total: 5 x71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens x72 Dracula - Bram Stoker x73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett x74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson 75 Ulysses - James Joyce 76 The Inferno - Dante x77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome 78 Germinal - Emile Zola x79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray x80 Possession - AS Byatt Total: 7 x81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens 82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell 83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker x84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro 85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert 86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mxistry 87 Charlottes Web - EB White 88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom x89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid BlytonS Total: 2 x91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad 92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery x93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks x94 Watership Down - Richard Adams 95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole 96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute x97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas 98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare x99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl 100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo