BBC Believes That....

Posted by Unknown On Wednesday, November 24, 2010 6 comments
Hello dear readers, A fellow blogger D.C. tagged me in a FB note about books and I did a note on it in my FB account which generated a lot of discussion so I thought I'd share it with you all this evening. Many thanks to D. C. who started the ball rolling. Here goes...

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

I've read over 80 from this list and abandoned a few. I also have the movie versions of some of the books...

Instructions: Copy this into your NOTES. Bold those books you've read in their entirety, italicise the ones you started but didn't finish or read an excerpt. Tag other book nerds. Tag me too at Masterwordsmith Unplugged Malaysia.

Do let me know your responses.

Thanks!



Here's my list (books read in bold, books I did not finish reading are in italics):

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 (most except for the shorter plays)
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
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
23 Bleak House – Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
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 - CS Lewis
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 - A.A. 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 Inferno - Dante
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 - E.B. 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

Happy reading everyone!!
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6 comments to BBC Believes That....

  1. says:
    November 24, 2010 at 8:26 PM

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  1. says:
    November 24, 2010 at 10:00 PM

    Unknown Hi there

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    Cheers

  1. says:
    November 24, 2010 at 10:16 PM

    Anonymous I have read “quite of bit” of the titles listed, mostly during my student days or as “potty fodder”. I don’t mean to offend anyone, but what I can’t understand is why would it make us more “relevant” if we have read some or all the books on the BBC’s reading list? I’ve read tons of other “good” books on a variety of subjects of varying degrees of intellectual content by the same or different novelists which are not on the list.

    Conspicuously missing are profound works such as “The Art of War” by Sun Tzu, or “A Space Odyssey” by Arthur C Clark, an American. Others such as “Dream of the Red Chamber” by Cao Xueqin (translated by David Hawks) which is among China’s four greatest classical novels, or Nobel Prize winner, Alexandr Solzhenitsyn’s “The Gulag Archipelago” are all good reads.

    I note that out of the 100:

    62 are English authors
    22 are Americans
    5 are French
    3 Russians
    3 Canadians
    2 Spanish
    1 Indian
    1 Japanese
    1 Columbian

    I say BBC! This is NOT FAIR! How can!!!

    StraightTalking

  1. says:
    November 25, 2010 at 5:11 PM

    Unknown Dear StraightTalking

    You are not the only one who protested :-). I have 46 comments in my FB account. I do agree with you that the list should not just centre on British authors. I have read "The Art of War' and "Dream of the Red Chamber" but unfortunately, I read the translated versions. I have not read 'The Space Odyssey' but I have the movie. And I did go through 1/2 of the Gulag Archipelago but did not finish it cos I read it when I was in Form 3...too heavy stuff for me then. I must get my hands on it and read it again!!

    I have a good collection of books by South American writers, Chinese writers such as Ha Jin, Indian authors such as Vikram Seth and V.S. Naipul, Anita Desai etc...

    Basically, books are to me like what handbags are to many women!!!

    :-)

    Take care and thanks for sharing!!!

    Cheers

  1. says:
    November 25, 2010 at 6:35 PM

    Anonymous My Lord! I've gotta hand it to you. You are truly a book-worm of the biggest species!!! :-)

    Talking about book-worms...these guys are real! I have books that are 4" thick and these little fellows can drill a hole from cover to cover!!!LOL

    StraightTalking

  1. says:
    November 25, 2010 at 9:50 PM

    Unknown Dear StraightTalking

    LOL!! I have also read the Tales of the Concubines both for Chinese and Vietnamese courts!! Check it out. Very scary!!!

    Yea...biggest species indeed...hehehe

    Once, my home had a termite problem and I was frantic - not for my furniture but for my book collection. Hubby has BANNED me from buying any more books but I still quietly sneak a few into the house hehehe:-).

    Cheers

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