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1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
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 Complete Works of Shakespeare - read some, but not others…
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD 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
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 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 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
30 Persuasion after Emma, BBC? Really?...guess you’re right, even though I don’t really...
Tbh most of the books I read were abridged versions. But so many of these books are on the school reading list thing....
i’m pretty happy with that.
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just when I needed some reading suggestions… (sorry it’s long, I was curious) IM GOOD :O! hahahha I never consider...
I’ve only read 30 of these! I feel like a failure lol
I’m going to half bold books I’ve started but never finished. 1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen 2 The Lord of the...
This reminds me, more books, less TV.
11 My goal is to read all of these.
littlenoirgirl:mylifeinabox 1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen 2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien 3 Jane Eyre -...
i italicised the books i read in abridged versions…
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen 2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien 3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte 4 Harry Potter...
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen 2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien 3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte 4 Harry Potter...
There’s Moonface and the Lads....38/100. Im not sure what this list is…but ive read 38 for...
It’s sad that about 50% of mine were read before 6th grade. I lost my taste for reading when they started forcing it....
34 of them. Sci-fi is drastically underrepresented here. No Bradbury? No Heinlein? What kind of this list is this?
Obviously I’ve been avoiding the classics.
runawaytrainwreck:humansvsrobots:
25/100. This is sad.
8 required for school.. huh.
60/100 TAKE THAT, BBC! \o/ \o/
i need to read more…
Need to read more classics!!!! (And obviously need to finish some I’ve started.)
I’ve read 26, I haven’t included the ones I started and didn’t like. *laughs*
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yeah, I thought 6 was quite a small number. A few of these books I started and never finished, but not due to lack of...
I thought this was fitting because I finished The Life of Pi today, which is on the list. It was a really good book. I...
i’m bored. yea.
Hmm 33…I’m an English Lit major though so I think I might be cheating lol
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20. My girlfriend has 50. She’s pretty damn well-read.
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen 2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien 3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte 4 Harry Potter...
ones i haven’t read, i do want...read but know i’m probably going to read them
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1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen 2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien 3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte 4 Harry Potter...
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Total: 8/100. think i read a bit of narnia way back when, i would like to read a fair number of these books in the near...
i need to catch up on some reading
I’ll be honest- I’m partial to staying away from the so-called classics. Why isn’t Fahrenheit 451 on here, huh? I’ve...
I’ve been meaning...these books. I’m young. I have time.
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cba to bold them but i got 12 of them
WOOP, I AM SMARTZ.
quite sad, only three lol
28/100, Woops.. xD
alot of those books.
ive read one. lmfao. CHAROLETTES WEBBBB!
16/100 Which should technically be boosted to 22 because there are 7 HP books.
18/100. well, im good according to the BBC then
littlejosephine:open-up-some-happiness:...hermajestyxx:sixtyfour:
42/100 not too bad i guess (:
littlejosephine:open-up-some-happiness:...hermajestyxx:sixtyfour:
i agree angie. 15. we should start off with this list. ahaha
open-up-some-happiness:
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10. Well, don’t I feel uneducated…
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller 14 Complete Works of Shakespeare -...some, but not others… 15...
More than 6, I know that much
huh, about 1/4 . I guess that’s ok for my age but the thing is I don’t really identify with “classics” such as these. I...
38/100 wow! Better than I thought!
23/100. Not bad! Lol.
I keep losing track. 52 or 53? Pretty pathetic for a writer…
Wow. Better than I thought.
I want to read so many of those books, there’s still time! 22/100 - that leaves me with 78 books to knock-off on this...
Somebody, somewhere is vying...on this list. And, according
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen 2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien 3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte 4 Harry Potter...
14. wow. sadnessss.
lol same. I need to start reading more classic books.
you are supposed to have read six? so im good, buttt it kinda amazes me how many i’ve watched movies or read abridged...
- C.S. Lewis 37 The...87 Charlotte’s
Theres a few on the list that I started but never finished (ex. Dracula). I hate these lists though, it reminds me of...
Meh, I should’ve been a better student…
40. and I also needed suggestions.
Wowzers, I have read a lot! I did go through a stage of ploughing through the classics though.
Hamlet and Macbeth
I’m fucking greater than average
Italics means some/most of...(seen some of it)...I feel a...
spacetowrite: spicykidney: justlikeacold arriana: carlacas: jasabela: Bold what you’ve read. According to BBC, an...
spicykidney: justlikeacold arriana: carlacas: Bold what you’ve read. According to BBC, an average person would more or...
Sorry @arriana, had...take yours out, too much writing!
Bold what you’ve read. According to BBC, an average person would more or less have read 6 of these books. Hmm, I think...
now i have a list of things i should read
(not the whole thing)
8, not bad :). and yes, i laughed very hard when i saw #98
That’s 29 I haven’t read. Or can’t remember reading. But what’s...Stranger in a Strange...
these are practically all either unfinished or school assigned.
Weird list. Where’s Roth? Where’s DeLillo? Pynchon? Houellebecq? meh.
(Reblogged from justlikeacold). 1 Pride...Prejudice - Jane Austen 2 The Lord of the Rings...
I was actually thinking that I do need to read some more. The Life Of Pi is in my room, I know exactly where. I had...
analogiswarmer:hazelweatherfield: littlenoirgirl:mylifeinabox:sunflowerbasler :milochronicles:n8kelly:
damn. ang unti. >.
Only 25 out of 100....my work cut out for me!
yes! more than 50%!!!!
only reblogging this to get the list of books :) haha
Comments in italics are mine. :))
I’ve read almost every book on that list..
Wow. 8 books. :| Makes me look like I don’t read at all. That’s mainly because all the books I have read are not on this...
5 is good, right? in italic are the ones that i’ve WANTED...just, haven’t got around
- hated those books...30 Man you beat me by 7, I have got to get my (classics) read on!
Only 25 but im halfway through tale of two cities and the lovely bones. * have read childrens’ simplified version.
47!! Sheesh! It seems like I should have read more than that.
Exactly half. I’m disappointed.
To add onto your list, I don’t understand why The DaVinci Code or The Lovely Bones is on there either. Where the fuck...
23. Could be better.
like 13. oh dear.
Holy shit, I’ve read more than I thought I had.
55. I need to get out more.
yerawizardharry:
I’ve read 17 of them.
YES 49!!! But I do think this is flawed becase most...them I’ve read
yerawizardharry:...37. Dang. And I thought I was well read. -goes
i did better than i thought >_>
39 is pretty pathetic, time to get to work.
…this is part of the CoN
13. I am pretty proud of myself.
tbh. I should really start reading more
11/100… hahahaoisbog
I’ll do it again…and I’ll italicize those that I want to read.
i love to read :}
here in the very near future for school.
(some of it, does that count?)
Eh, this makes it look like I hardly read. Just a ton of the stuff i’ve read is never on these lists.
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16. But where’s Snowcrash and Fight Club?
I need to get on this.
only 24… this reminds me of a lot of books i still need to read
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16… i need to read more.
They have one entry for “The complete works of Shakespeare” and a separate one for Hamlet? An entry for the entire...
I’d love to know why The Da Vinci Code and a collection of Enid Blyton’s (probably racist) books are in there, hardly...
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I love it how my AS English books that I’m studying are on there!
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So many of these I really want to read but haven’t :(
read the great gatsby again
theres my list. now i have some more books...read. sadly, most
The ones in italics...my bookshelf waiting
50! half. i own.
… I didn’t keep count. ;3; ]]>
these but i also own jane eyre...david copperfield. i just havent read them yet.
I’m shocked that nothing by Edith Wharton was on this list. What a shame. :(
Most random assortment...books! I collect...classics,...
ohlovely:brokensound:spicykidney:(Reblogged from justlikeacold).
Most random assortment...books. I collect...classics,...
(well parts of it)
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen 2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien 3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte 4 Harry Potter...
This is why I want to be...Lit teacher. I’m pretty sure not too many
jorj:rockandroses:longlivethequeen:littlenoirgirl:mylifeinabox: milochronicles:n8kelly:
Bold what you’ve read, more than 6 you’re good according to the BBC staytogetherfornaomi:
youresofunny:nearlyconscious:
20/100 wow im lame
(favorite book of all time!)...(don’t recommend)...23!!! but...
41…NURRD STATUS.
…Six. I don’t read books outside of school like… ever. I don’t have the attention span to read.
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i should read the jane austen books… i love PP and S&S.
-GOOD BOOK, READ IT...11 for me, out of 100.
- ALL TIME FAVORITE....16. not too bad. :)
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MUST READ LOLITA, STAT.
wow, that’s cool, cuz i read the shadow of the wind in spanish. hmmm…..
have a lot to read up on still
youresofunny:nearlyconscious:
:O ahi esta la lista de libros qe necesitaba! leere leere :B
nearlyconscious:
Of Mice and Men is #61
yeaaah, i don’t read.
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen 2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien 3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte 4 Harry Potter...
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen 2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien 3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte 4 Harry Potter...
26, if i counted right :)
i love to read :’D
argh - not quite 50 - but still… *looks a bit smug*
I’ve read soooo many of these. I’ve read the Marquez in the original Spanish! Multitasking at its finest.
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen 2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien 3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte 4 Harry Potter...
number 46, if you go back a few generations I’m related to the writer :)
even though i got more than six, i still feel like something’s wrong with me. oh, well, it’s not like i even really know...
8. holy shit do i feel dumb.
I thought of mice and men would have been on this…. oh well
(Halfway through. It counts rite?)
I never consider myself keen on books but I guess I kind of am :D
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(i’ve always wanted to read that)...Austen(anyone who’s seen Clueless, knows of this book...
-->]]]]>]]> woohoo! lol. I don’t like reading these kind of books.
Yay, I’m good! :D
31. FUCK YES. :) so using this as a reading list now though, i need to read more.
place. OK I haven’t read...unbold it, tumblr bolds it again. silly tumblr.
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19 :) weird thing is, I read most of these between the age of 7 and 11. I don’t read ‘classic’ books anymore
Yes, I know, I’ve read a lot.
IM GOOD :O! hahahha
I’m also about 90% sure I...these before 14. Lame.
(sorry it’s long, I was curious)
just when I needed some reading suggestions…
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Slam dunksssss. Still have many to go!
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1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen 2...Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien 3 Jane Eyre -...
Niente male dai.
I should have read far more. There are a few on there that I need to order from paperbackswap.
metalpatty666:metalpatty666:...1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen 2
The BBC can suck it.
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen 2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien 3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte 4 Harry Potter...
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen 2 The Lord of...Rings - JRR Tolkien 3 Jane Eyre -...
Itallics if you have it...This makes me want...read loads on...
A lot of the books on this list are on my to-read list. I just have to actually buy them and find the time to read them....
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen 2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien 3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte 4 Harry Potter...
35 I was raised on the mentality that people who read excessively were better than those who didn’t.
You know what? Now I have a list of books I have to read. I will admit some books I never finished because they where...
28 or 29. also…lots of these are series….
(haha within the first 10 i already have read 6)...total: 26! :) probably waaaay over 30...
13/100. That’s not good… A bunch of these are on my reading list.
shannon will have like tree time my score, and will laugh at #98
lazyyy booklist for the after A’s project (:
I’ve also half-read a few others of these. Not bad. I want to read all the rest.
29. I didn’t count books I partially read (y’all know I’m not a cheater, dang!). This list doesn’t ENTIRELY make sense...
- CAN SUCK MY NUTS
Technically I didn’t read Animal Farm, but my class did so...putting it anyway since
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1. Why are the entire works of Shakespeare listed seperately from Hamlet? Same goes for The Chronicals of Narnia and The...
(not all of it :P)
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I feel a little cultured:)
You’ve inspired me to start work on reading the books in that list. Next stop, the Chronicles of Narnia.
Ooh so does this mean I’m smart? And its ridiculous the amount of these books I own, but have never read.
Gone With The Wind but...haven’t read it yet. -_-
I’ve read 23/100. Not bad, for a start.
Plath(my second favourite :D)...48 shows what a big geek i am -_-” glad
44 wow. I really want to read at least 15 more on this list. I own 6 here but haven’t gotten round to them yet.
lololol screw url. im...that awsome. i cbf finding where i screwed
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iampirate:n8kelly:
I have but one question… why is Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde not on this list?? >:/
I PASSED. But this is an EYE-OPENER so I should get back to reading again!!!!
- But of those I haven’t read, I own 7 more, and I am also going to add these to my list of books to read.
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littlenoirgirl:mylifeinabox:sunflowerbasler:milochronicles:n8kelly:...1 Pride and...
This list isn’t really that great. It’s missing some AMAAAZING books
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen 2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien 3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte 4 Harry Potter...
Mitchell(reading it now)
mmm it’s ok. My favorite is #58 Brave New World though
this is an amazing list. im surprised ive read almost all of these.
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LITERACY IS FUCKING SEXY.
10. there are some on there that...studied but never read fully so I didnt bold them....
longlivethequeen:littlenoirgirl:mylifeinabox: milochronicles:n8kelly:...12 Tess of the...
i wanted to do this simply so i could reference this post later when i need a new book to read! it’s so sad that i’ve...
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen 2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien 3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte 4 Harry Potter...
Nineteen. And the Harry Potter series should count as 7 books because those are long and tedious.
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen 2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien 3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte 4 Harry Potter...
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen 2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien 3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte 4 Harry Potter...
so much Jane Austen wtf
w00t. I am gonna read everything else on this list. yayyyy.
22! And…11 that I have almost/wanted to read. And 2 that I started, but never finished. Oh, and I started to read The...
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now I feel compelled
So I just realized that I actually do read a lot.
I don’t know my total.
heart of darkness is one of my fav books and salman rushdie is one of my fav authors plus he looks like a crazy old...
that’s 14 i think. =)
Well…I’m good. Thank you, high school education. Four of my favorite books are on here: Crime and Punishment, A Tale of...