Thank you, Facebook!  This is one of billions of tags floating around.  So maybe I haven’t been on my favorite TV show or gotten a word into the dictionary, but, dang it, I can read books!  Apparently the BBC published this list, thinking that most people have only read 6 of these.

I’m happy to be ahead of this curve!  An “X” next to the title means it’s one I’ve read.  An “A” means I started it and didn’t like it enough to finish it. I’ve read 41, and attempted 6.  I love how diverse this list is–I can get credit for reading Jane Eyre and Bridget Jones’ Diary.  This is my kind of reading!

1 Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen – X
2 The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien – A
3 Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte – X
4 Harry Potter series – JK Rowling – X
5 To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee -X
6 The Bible – X
7 Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte – X
8 Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell – X
9 His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman -
10 Great Expectations – Charles Dickens -
11 Little Women – Louisa May Alcott – A
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy – X
13 Catch 22 – Joseph Heller -
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare -
15 Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier – X
16 The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien -
17 Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks -
18 Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger -
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger -
20 Middlemarch – George Eliot – X
21 Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell -X
22 The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald – X
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 – X
28 Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck – X
29 Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll – X
30 The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame -
31 Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy – X
32 David Copperfield – Charles Dickens -
33 Chronicles of Narnia (all books) – CS Lewis- A
34 Emma – Jane Austen – X
35 Persuasion – Jane Austen -
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – CS Lewis – X
37 The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini – X
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis De Bernieres – A
39 Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden – X
40 Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne -
41 Animal Farm – George Orwell – X
42 The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown –
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez -
44 A Prayer for Owen Meany – John Irving – X
45 The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins -
46 Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery – A
47 Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy -
48 The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood -
49 Lord of the Flies – William Golding – X
50 Atonement – Ian McEwan -X
51 Life of Pi – Yann Martel -X
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 Zifon -
57 A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens -X
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 Garcia Marquez – X
61 Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck -
62 Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov – A
63 The Secret History – Donna Tartt -
64 The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold – X
65 Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas -
66 On The Road – Jack Kerouac -
67 Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy – X
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 -
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 – Emile Zola -
79 Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray -
80 Possession – AS Byatt – X
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 -
85 Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert – X
86 A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry -
87 Charlotte’s Web – EB White – X
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 – X
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 – X
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl -X
100 Les Miserables – Victor Hugo -X