BBC Top 100 Books

My sister sent me a list of what the BBC considers the best 100 books. I beg to differ on some of their selections - the Da Vinci Code is good entertainment but definitely not LITERATURE. And I guess it's understood that it is literature that has been published in English, even if this was not the language in which it was written. Apparently this list is making its way around Ravelry and elsewhere. The idea is that you mark how many you have read.

My sister has read 60 of the 100. And I've read 68. I must admit, though, there at least a dozen of those I've marked as "not read" that I've started - some of them multiple times, at that, but just have not finished. Most of those I will get to at some point.

Oh, and BTW - Y's with asterisks indicate I read the novel in French.

No.	Title	Author	Sis Y/N	Me Y/N
1	Pride and Prejudice	Jane Austen	Y	Y
2	The Lord of the Rings	JRR Tolkien	Y	Y
3	Jane Eyre	Charlotte Bronte	Y	Y
4	Harry Potter series	JK Rowling	Y	Y
5	To Kill a Mockingbird	Harper Lee	Y	Y
6	The Bible (at least most of it to count)	Anonymous	Y	Y
7	Wuthering Heights	Emily Bronte	Y	Y
8	Nineteen Eighty Four	George Orwell	Y	Y
9	His Dark Materials	Philip Pullman	Y	Y
10	Great Expectations	Charles Dickens	Y	Y
11	Little Women	Louisa M Alcott	Y	Y
12	Tess of the D’Urbervilles	Thomas Hardy	Y	Y
13	Catch 22	Joseph Heller	Y	Y
14	Complete Works	Shakespeare	N	N
15	Rebecca	Daphne Du Maurier	Y	Y
16	The Hobbit	JRR Tolkien	Y	Y
17	Birdsong	Sebastian Faulks	N	N
18	Catcher in the Rye	JD Salinger	Y	Y
19	The Time Traveller’s Wife	Audrey Niffenegger	N	N
20	Middlemarch	George Eliot	N	Y
21	Gone With The Wind	Margaret Mitchell	Y	Y
22	The Great Gatsby	F Scott Fitzgerald	Y	Y
23	Bleak House	Charles Dickens	Y	Y
24	War and Peace	Leo Tolstoy	Y	N
25	The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy	Douglas Adams	Y	Y
26	Brideshead Revisited	Evelyn Waugh	N	N
27	Crime and Punishment	Fyodor Dostoyevsky	N	Y
28	Grapes of Wrath	John Steinbeck	Y	Y
29	Alice in Wonderland	Lewis Carroll	Y	Y
30	The Wind in the Willows	Kenneth Grahame	N	Y
31	Anna Karenina	Leo Tolstoy	Y	N
32	David Copperfield	Charles Dickens	Y	Y
33	Chronicles of Narnia	CS Lewis	Y	Y
34	Emma	Jane Austen	Y	Y
35	Persuasion	Jane Austen	Y	Y
36	The Lion The Witch and The Wardrobe	CS Lewis	Y	Y
37	The Kite Runner	Khaled Hosseini	N	Y
38	Captain Corelli’s Mandolin	Louis De Bernieres	N	N
39	Memoirs of a Geisha	Arthur Golden	N	Y
40	Winnie the Pooh	AA Milne	Y	Y
41	Animal Farm	George Orwell	Y	Y
42	The Da Vinci Code	Dan Brown	N	Y
43	One Hundred Years of Solitude	Gabriel Garcia Marquez	N	N
44	A Prayer for Owen Meaney	John Irving	Y	N
45	The Woman in White	Wilkie Collins	Y	N
46	Anne of Green Gables	LM Montgomery	N	Y
47	Far From The Madding Crowd	Thomas Hardy	Y	N
48	The Handmaid’s Tale	Margaret Atwood	Y	Y
49	Lord of the Flies	William Golding	N	Y
50	Atonement	Ian McEwan	Y	Y
51	Life of Pi	Yann Martel	N	Y
52	Dune	Frank Herbert	Y	Y
53	Cold Comfort Farm	Stella Gibbons	N	N
54	Sense and Sensibility	Jane Austen	Y	Y
55	A Suitable Boy	Vikram Seth	Y	N
56	The Shadow of the Wind	Carlos Ruiz Zafon	N	N
57	A Tale Of Two Cities	Charles Dickens	Y	Y
58	Brave New World	Aldous Huxley	Y	Y
59	The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time	Mark Haddon	Y	Y
60	Love In The Time Of Cholera	Gabriel Garcia Marquez	N	N
61	Of Mice and Men	John Steinbeck	Y	Y
62	Lolita	Vladimir Nabokov	Y	Y
63	The Secret History	Donna Tartt	N	Y
64	The Lovely Bones	Alice Sebold	N	Y
65	Count of Monte Cristo	Alexandre Dumas	N	Y
66	On The Road	Jack Kerouac	N	Y
67	Jude the Obscure	Thomas Hardy	N	N
68	Bridget Jones’s Diary	Helen Fielding	N	N
69	Midnight’s Children	Salman Rushdie	N	N
70	Moby Dick	Herman Melville	Y	N
71	Oliver Twist	Charles Dickens	Y	Y
72	Dracula	Bram Stoker	Y	Y
73	The Secret Garden	Frances Hodgson Burnett	Y	Y
74	Notes From A Small Island	Bill Bryson	N	N
75	Ulysses	James Joyce	N	N
76	The Bell Jar	Sylvia Plath	Y	Y
77	Swallows and Amazons	Arthur Ransome	N	N
78	Germinal	Emile Zola	N	Y*
79	Vanity Fair	William Makepeace Thackeray	N	N
80	Possession	AS Byatt	Y	Y
81	A Christmas Carol	Charles Dickens	Y	Y
82	Cloud Atlas	David Mitchell	N	N
83	The Color Purple	Alice Walker	N	N
84	The Remains of the Day	Kazuo Ishiguro	N	N
85	Madame Bovary	Gustave Flaubert	Y	Y*
86	A Fine Balance	Rohinton Mistry	Y	N
87	Charlotte’s Web	EB White	Y	Y
88	The Five People You Meet In Heaven	Mitch Alborn	N	N
89	Adventures of Sherlock Holmes	Sir Arthur Conan Doyle	Y	Y
90	The Faraway Tree Collection	Enid Blyton	N	N
91	Heart of Darkness	Joseph Conrad	Y	Y
92	The Little Prince	Antoine De Saint-Exupery	Y	Y*
93	The Wasp Factory	Iain Banks	N	N
94	Watership Down	Richard Adams	Y	Y
95	A Confederacy of Dunces	John Kennedy Toole	Y	Y
96	A Town Like Alice	Nevil Shute	N	N
97	The Three Musketeers	Alexandre Dumas	N	N
98	Hamlet	William Shakespeare	Y	Y
99	Charlie and the Chocolate Factory	Roald Dahl	N	Y
100	Les Miserables	Victor Hugo	N	Y