Top Novels

Today, my wife showed me some BBC list of 100 great English-language novels and asked me which of them I had read. I was surprised that I actually didn’t do so badly; I have read more than half of them. Here are the books I was able to tick off on the list:

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 (in part)
8 Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman 
13 Catch 22 – Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare (only some of them)
16 The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien
18 Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger 
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger 
22 The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald 
24 War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy 
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams 
27 Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky (still have to finish it)
28 Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck (in part)
29 Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy 
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 
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 (in part)
46 Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery 
49 Lord of the Flies – William Golding 
51 Life of Pi – Yann Martel 
52 Dune – Frank Herbert
54 Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen 
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 (in part) 
62 Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov 
69 Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
71 Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens 
73 The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett 
75 Ulysses – James Joyce (two-thirds of it)
81 A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens 
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 
91 Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery 
94 Watership Down – Richard Adams 
98 Hamlet – William Shakespeare 
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl 
100 Les Miserables – Victor Hugo (in part)