This was BBC’s Top 100 list of books…See how many you have read…Apparently Brits have only read an average of 6…I’m not British but let’s see how I stack up against them.

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   YES
6 The Bible YES, parts
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte 
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell  YES
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman 
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens  
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott YES
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy  
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare 
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier 
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien Hmm, I think so
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks 
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger  YES
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger 
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot 
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell 
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald YES
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 YES
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck YES (unfortunately)
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll YES
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame  
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy 
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens  
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis YES (love love love)
34 Emma - Jane Austen 
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen  
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis YES
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 - AA Milne YES
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell YES
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown 
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez 
44 A Prayer for Owen Meany - 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 YES (love her stuff)
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding YES
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 Zifon 
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 YES
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 YES
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker 
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett YES
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson 
75 Ulysses - James Joyce YES
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 YES
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell 
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker YES
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro  
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert 
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry 
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White YES
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom 
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle YES
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton 
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad  YES
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery YES
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 YES
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factoy - Roald Dahl YES
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

Hmm, 26. Looks like I have a lot of reading to do in my future. I have never read any Jane Austen, as you can tell. I’m surprised Albert Camus’ The Stranger isn’t on this list, among others. I definitely love to read.