Have you read more than 6 of these books? The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books listed here…

Bold those books you’ve read in their entirety.

Italicize the ones you started but didn’t finish or read only an excerpt.

1 Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
Harry Potter series
5 To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
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
15 Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier
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
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
26 Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
29 Alice’s Adventures 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 – AA 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 (need toooo)
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 Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
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 Mitchel
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 – EB 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 (never finished; boooooring)
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 (but i can’t rememeber half of it)

#I think the worst is that I know the plot and the end of half of them and that’s the reason why I don’t want to read them

copy/pasting mash’s tag because it applies to me as well

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  5. miss-sunshine19 reblogged this from neverwhere-shesays-sheis and added:
    20 completed and 5 incompleted (mostly only fragments, because I didn’t had time to read more). Not bad, though most...
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  7. hummingbirdheartbeats reblogged this from theworldismyharlequinade and added:
    1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen 2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien 3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte 4 Harry Potter...
  8. refragmented reblogged this from obsideon and added:
    Forty-seven? Maybe? I can’t count. Cloud Atlas was really good. I did a lot more reading when I was a kid, but I think...
  9. theworldismyharlequinade reblogged this from neverwhere-shesays-sheis and added:
    I’ve only read 35.
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  13. happynoodlegirl83 reblogged this from neverwhere-shesays-sheis and added:
    Bold those books you’ve read in their entirety. Italicize the ones you started...didn’t...
  14. stormingordownrightstupidhot reblogged this from collegelife2014 and added:
    Bold those books you’ve read in their entirety. Italicize the ones you started...didn’t...
  15. slytherslor reblogged this from sixthrobin and added:
    Bold those books you’ve read in their entirety. Italicize the ones you started but didn’t finish or read only an...
  16. getlouder reblogged this from randomestduckeva and added:
    um what happens if you’ve read 93 of these
  17. collegelife2014 reblogged this from atrueoriginal
  18. la-la-howthelifegoeson reblogged this from neverwhere-shesays-sheis and added:
    Only 19… but half of them are on my to read immediately list… you should see how many bookshelves i have
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  22. kaitisawesome reblogged this from neverwhere-shesays-sheis and added:
    27 read + 15 partially read = 42 total! :D
  23. worldsbestginger said: you really need to finish lord of the rings I am js
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  25. chucktaylor93 reblogged this from lostthyme and added:
    12 :/ I’m dissapointed
  26. emthegiant reblogged this from lostthyme and added:
    11 I haven’t finished/read excerpts from. 14 read. 25 total. Not enough.
  27. so-overt-its-covert reblogged this from lostthyme
  28. aquarian-sunchild reblogged this from celestialkisses and added:
    Uh…more than six I think. That’s all that matters.
  29. thetardisisthekey reblogged this from neverwhere-shesays-sheis and added:
    30 but frankly most of these books aren’t my style, although they have got a couple of my favorites (Bill Bryson...
  30. obsideon reblogged this from neverwhere-shesays-sheis and added:
    thirty-one, but…I didn’t honestly enjoy some of them. And...didn’t count the required...
  31. lostthyme reblogged this from neverwhere-shesays-sheis and added:
    28. I like reading.
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    Bold those books you’ve read in their entirety. Italicize the ones you started...didn’t...
  34. superwordnerd reblogged this from gingerteatime and added:
    Do the partials count in the total? If so the total’s 71. If not, it’s 59. Either way, I read a lot.
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