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That BBC book list again Mar. 16th, 2009 @ 08:50 am

I've read 62. That's just over 10x their stupid prediction.

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen

2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien 1

3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte 2

4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling 3

5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee

6 The Bible 4

7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte 5

8 Nineteen-Eighty-Four - George Orwell 6

9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman

10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens 7

11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott

12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy 8

13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller 9

14 Complete Works of Shakespeare 10

15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier 11

16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien 12

17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk

18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger 13

19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger 14

20 Middlemarch - George Eliot

21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell

22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald 15

23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens 16

24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy

25 The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams 17

26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh

27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky 18

28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck 19

29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll 20

30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame 21

31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy

32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens 22

33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis 23

34 Emma - Jane Austen

35 Persuasion - Jane Austen

36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis 24

37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini

38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres

39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden 25

40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne 26

41 Animal Farm - George Orwell 27

42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown 28

43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

44 A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving

45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins 29

46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery 30

47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy

48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood 31

49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding 32

50 Atonement - Ian McEwan

51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel

52 Dune - Frank Herbert 33

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 34

58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley 35

59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon 36

60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck 37

62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov 38

63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt

64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold

65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas 39

66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac 40

67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy

68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding 41

69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie

70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville 42

71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens 43

72 Dracula - Bram Stoker 44

73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett 45

74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson 46

75 Ulysses - James Joyce 47

76 The Inferno - Dante

77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome

78 Germinal - Emile Zola 48

79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray

80 Possession - AS Byatt

81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens 49

82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell

83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker 50

84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro 51

85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert 52

86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry

87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White 53

88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom 54

89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 55

90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton

91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad 56

92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery 57

93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks

94 Watership Down - Richard Adams 58

95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole

96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute

97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas 59

98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare 60

99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl 61

100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo. 62

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