a bystander in a crowd

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Maria (she/her) | 30s | Barcelona

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

justabystander:

10/100 (+ some fragments from the most famous ones that I’ve read for my English Lit class) [31.07.2009]

Updates – (32/87 as of 03.03.2024)

[2020: took out some books I can’t bring myself to read for various reasons]

1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen - x
   
2. The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien - x
   
3. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë - x
   
4. Harry Potter series - J.K. Rowling -
   
5. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee - x
   
6. The Bible - x
   
7. Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë - x
   
8. Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell -
   
9. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman -
   
10. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens -
11. Little Women - Louisa May Alcott -
    
12. Tess of the d’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy -
    
13. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller -
    
14. Complete Works of Shakespeare -
    
15. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier - x
    
16. The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien - x
    
17. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks -
    
18. Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger - x
    
19. The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger -
    
20. Middlemarch - George Eliot -
    
21. Gone with the Wind - Margaret Mitchell -
    
22. The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald - x
    
23. Bleak House - Charles Dickens -
    
24. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy -
    
25. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams -
    
26. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh - x
    
27. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky -
    
28. Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck -
    
29. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll - x
    
30. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame -
    
31. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy -
    
32. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens -
    
33. The Chronicles of Narnia - C.S. Lewis -
    
34. Emma - Jane Austen - x
    
35. Persuasion - Jane Austen - x
    
36. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - C.S. Lewis -
    
37. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini - 
    
38. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernières -
    
39. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden - x
    
40. Winnie-the-Pooh - A.A. Milne -
    
41. Animal Farm - George Orwell - x
    
42. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown - x
    
43. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel García Márquez -
    
44. A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving -
    
45. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins - x
    
46. Anne of Green Gables - L.M. 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 - x
    
51. Life of Pi - Yann Martel -
    
52. Dune - Frank Herbert -
    
53. Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons -
    
54. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen - x
    
55. A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth -
    
56. The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafón - x
    
57. A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens -
58. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley - x
59. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon -
    
60. Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel García Márquez -
    
61. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck -
    
62. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov -
    
63. The Secret History - Donna Tartt -
    
64. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold -
    
65. The 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 - x
    
69. Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie -
    
70. Moby Dick - Herman Melville -
    
71. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens -
    
72. Dracula - Bram Stoker - x
    
73. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett -
    
74. Notes from a Small Island - Bill Bryson -
    
75. Ulysses - James Joyce -
    
76. The Inferno - Dante -
    
77. Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome -
    
78. Germinal - Émile Zola -
    
79. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray -
    
80. Possession - A.S. Byatt -
81. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens - x
    
82. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell -
    
83. The Color Purple - Alice Walker -
    
84. The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro - x
    
85. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert -
    
86. A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry -
    
87. Charlotte’s Web - E.B. White -
    
88. The Five People You Meet in Heaven - Mitch Albom - x
    
89. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle - xx
    
90. The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton -
    
91. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad - x
    
92. The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry - xx
    
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 - x
    
98. Hamlet - William Shakespeare - x
    
99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl -
    
100. Les Misérables - Victor Hugo -
     

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