Need To Read

Below is a list created by the BBC -- The Big Read -- the top 100 favorite novels...  Haven't read in a while and this just might get the creative (reading) juices flowing...  Marked off the ones I have read already.

1. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen



2. The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien


3. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte


4. Harry Potter series by JK Rowling


5. To Kill A Mockingbirg by Harper Lee


6. The Bible


7. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte


8. Nineteen Eighty Four by George Orwell


9. His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman


10. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens


11. Little Women by Louisa M Alcott


12. Tess of the D’Ubervilles by Thomas Hardy


13. Catch 22 by Joseph Heller - Tried!  No go.


14. Complete Works of Shakespeare


15. Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier


16. The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien


17. Birdsong by Sebastian Faulk


18. Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger


19. The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger


20. Middlemarch by George Elliot


21. Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell


22. The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald


23. Bleak House by Charles Dickens


24. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy


25. The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams


26. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh


27. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky


28. Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck


29. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll


30. The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame


31. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy


32. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens


33. Chronicles of Narnia by CS Lewis


34. Emma by Jane Austen


35. Persuasion by Jane Austen


36. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe by CS Lewis


37. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hossein


38. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin by Louis De Berneires


39. Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden


40. Winnie the Pooh by AA Milne


41. Animal Farm by George Orwell


42. The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown


43. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez


44. A Prayer for Owen Meaney by John Irving


45. The Woman in While by Wilkie Collins


46. Anne of Green Gables by LM Montgomery


47. Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy


48. The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood


49. Lord of the Flies by William Golding


50. Atonement by Ian McEwan


51. Life of Pi by Yann Martel


52. Dune by Frank Herbert


53. Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons


54. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen


55. A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth


56. The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon


57. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens


58. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley


59. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night by Mark Haddon


60. Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez


61. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck


62. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov


63. The Secret History by Donna Tartt


64. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold


65. Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas


66. On the Road by Jack Kerouac


67. Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy


68. Bridget Jones’s Diary by Helen Fielding


69. Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie


70. Moby Dick by Herman Melville


71. Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens


72. Dracula by Bram Stoker


73. The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett


74. Notes From a Small Island by Bill Bryson


75. Ulysses by James Joyce


76. The Inferno by Dante


77. Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome


78. Germinal by Emile Zola


79. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackery


80. Possession by AS Byatt


81. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens


82. Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell


83. The Color Purple by Alice Walker


84. The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishigurox


85. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert


86. A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry


87. Charlotte’s Web by EB White


88. The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom


89. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


90. The Faraway Tree Collection by Enid Blyton


91. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad


92. The Little Prince by Antone De Saint-Exupery


93. The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks


94. Watership Down by Richard Adams


95. A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole


96. A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute


97. The Three Mustketeers by Alexandre Dumas


98. Hamlet by William Shakespeare


99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl


100. Les Miserables by Victor Hugo

Acorrinding to the blogger that I stole this idea from -- the BBC believes that the average person has read about six.  There I go again!!  Just plain average...

According