I got tagged on Facebook to fill in the fake "BBC Book Meme". (It's a real meme, just not really from the BBC.) The key... x: I read it; x+: I read it and loved it; * I plan to read it; =8 tied for 8th place in the Guardian's poll of "Books you can't live without". This meme's notation doesn't have a way to say "I read this book and I regretted doing so," but it could use one. I wasn't sure what to do about Crime & Punishment—I read it to the end, but only the odd-numbered pages. Whatever.
1 Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen x+ 2 The Lord of the Rings JRR Tolkien x 3 Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte x 4 Harry Potter series JK Rowling 5 To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee x 6 The Bible 7 Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte =8 Nineteen Eighty-Four George Orwell x =8 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 x 14 Complete Works of Shakespeare William Shakespeare 15 Rebecca Daphne Du Maurier 16 The Hobbit JRR Tolkien x+ 17 Birdsong Sebastian Faulks 18 Catcher in the Rye JD Salinger x 19 The Time Traveler's Wife Audrey Niffenegger 20 Middlemarch George Eliot 21 Gone With The Wind Margaret Mitchell 22 The Great Gatsby F Scott Fitzgerald x 23 Bleak House Charles Dickens 24 War and Peace Leo Tolstoy 25 The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy Douglas Adams x+ 26 Brideshead Revisited Evelyn Waugh 27 Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoyevsky x 28 Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck x 29 Alice in Wonderland Lewis Carroll x+ 30 The Wind in the Willows Kenneth Grahame 31 Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy 32 David Copperfield Charles Dickens 33 Chronicles of Narnia CS Lewis x 34 Emma Jane Austen 35 Persuasion Jane Austen 36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe CS Lewis x 37 The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini 38 Captain Corelli's Mandolin Louis de Berni?res 39 Memoirs of a Geisha Arthur Golden 40 Winnie the Pooh AA Milne 41 Animal Farm George Orwell x 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 x 50 Atonement Ian McEwan 51 Life of Pi Yann Martel 52 Dune Frank Herbert x 53 Cold Comfort Farm Stella Gibbons 54 Sense and Sensibility Jane Austen x 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 66 On The Road Jack Kerouac x 67 Jude the Obscure Thomas Hardy 68 Bridget Jones's Diary Helen Fielding 69 Midnight's Children Salman Rushdie 70 Moby Dick Herman Melville x 71 Oliver Twist Charles Dickens 72 Dracula Bram Stoker x 73 The Secret Garden Frances Hodgson Burnett 74 Notes From A Small Island Bill Bryson x 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 x 81 A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens x 82 Cloud Atlas David Mitchell x 83 The Color Purple Alice Walker 84 The Remains of the Day Kazuo Ishiguro x 85 Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert 86 A Fine Balance Rohinton Mistry 87 Charlotte's Web EB White x 88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven Mitch Albom 89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Sir Arthur Conan Doyle x 90 The Faraway Tree Collection Enid Blyton 91 Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad x 92 The Little Prince Antoine de Saint-Exupery x 93 The Wasp Factory Iain Banks x 94 Watership Down Richard Adams x 95 A Confederacy of Dunces John Kennedy Toole 96 A Town Like Alice Nevil Shute 97 The Three Musketeers Alexandre Dumas x 98 Hamlet William Shakespeare x 99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Roald Dahl x 100 Les Mis?rables Victor Hugo
