BBC Book Challenge

[BFG]

Apparently most people will have only read 6 of these...

 

 

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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

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 (some, maybe 5%)

15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier

16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien

17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks

18 Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger

19 The Time Traveler’s Wife

20 Middlemarch - George Eliot - maybe

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 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 Alchemist - Paulo Coelho

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 (unfortunately

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 - 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

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 - Thackeray

80 Possession - AS Byatt

81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens

82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell

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 Alborn

89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton

91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad started but never finished

92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery

93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks

94 Watership Down - Richard Adam

95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole

96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute

97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas

98 A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess

99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl

100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

 

So I make it that I've read 49 lol (counting series as 1)

 

 

[BridMorgan]

14 for me

[BFG]

It is a very UK centred list, is Rebecca even published in the States? And it's missing a tonme of classic American Authors, although at least it has To Kill a Mockingbird

[BridMorgan]

To Kill a Mockingbird is probably one of my all time favorites!

 

It has Gone with the Wind....

[BFG]

But no Huckleberry Finn or Catcher in the Rye, yet Tolstoy has like 3 entries :(

 

My Mum adores Daphne du Maurier, if you can get hold of any I'd recommend her books :)

[Daruya]

Catcher in the Rye is on the list; it's #18.

 

I've read at least 16, possibly more.  I recognize several more titles and kind of know what they're about but can't remember if I've actually read them.

[BFG]

Lol, missed that one I haven't actually read it, but been told that I have to, along with watching the Godfather /shrug

[F Horn of Valere]

Does Pride and Prejudice and Zombies count for #1?

[BFG]

if so I'm on 50

[F Horn of Valere]

Including that one, 18, but I've started a few others (but school got in the way), and others are on my list after I am done with school.

 

I feel gypped that the Brothers Karamazov are not on there. My cousin visited me once, visiting me once in Korea from her job in Mongolia. She took that out, and I smiled and pulled out my own copy, same edition, bookmark in the same area of the book.

[BFG]

I haven't heard of that one...

[F Horn of Valere]

Classic Dostoyevsky.

[BFG]

I had to Google him as well I don't think I've read any Russian authors

[BridMorgan]

Catcher in the Rye is on the list; it's #18.

 

I've read at least 16, possibly more. I recognize several more titles and kind of know what they're about but can't remember if I've actually read them.

I'm with you there. I recognize most of them, and started a few more but never finished them.

[dawnflower8]

I've read 23. There are a bunch on there that I'm starting soon though. (I'm planning on starting 1984 very soon.)

 

24 if you count that I've read parts of the bible...

[dicetosser1]

34 for me.

 

But where is things like Treasure Island? Swiss Family Robinson?

 

Hows about the Jungle Book???!!!

[BridMorgan]

And you continue to surprise me Banded.  *grins*

[Basel Gill]

I've read some of these. The Hound of the Baskervilles needs to be on there. And Fahrenheit 451.

[F Horn of Valere]

Here's MY list of books everyone needs to read:

 

1.     Redwall Series (at least 9 of them) - Jaques

2.     Ender’s Game - Card

3.     Ender’s Game sequels (Speaker, Xenocide, Children) - Card

4.     Ender’s Shadow series - Card

5.     Sword of Shanara - Brooks

6.     Chronicles of Narnia - Lewis

7.     Lord of the Rings - Tolkien

8.     The Hobbit - Tolkien

9.     Silmarilion – Tolkien

10.  The Exitorn Adventures – Downing (ORIGINAL edition only)

11.  The Wheel of Time – Jordan/Sanderson

12.  Mistborn Trilogy - Sanderson

13.  The Way of Kings - Sanderson

14.  Kingkiller Chronicles – Rothfuss

15.  Jurassic Park – Crighton

16.  The Great Train Robbery – Crighton

17.  Tarzan - Burroughs

18.  My Father’s Dragon – Stiles

19.  Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

20.  Rainbow Six – Clancy

 

And if my son could type, his would read something like this:

1.     Cars and Trucks and Things That Go

2.     All Aboard the Potty Train!

3.     The Grouchy Lady Bug

4.     Whales

5.     Numbers

6.     Letters

7.     My Friend Zoe (Sesame Street)

8.     Collection of Fairy Tales

9.     Collection of Nursery Rhymes

[dicetosser1]

from horns list

 

1.     Redwall Series (at least 9 of them) - Jaques

2.     Ender’s Game - Card

3.     Ender’s Game sequels (Speaker, Xenocide, Children) - Card

4.     Ender’s Shadow series - Card

5.     Sword of Shanara - Brooks   all of them including spin off series

6.     Chronicles of Narnia - Lewis

7.     Lord of the Rings - Tolkien

8.     The Hobbit - Tolkien

9.     Silmarilion – Tolkien    Hardest book i have ever read!!

10.  The Exitorn Adventures – Downing (ORIGINAL edition only)   what is this? ive never heard of it

11.  The Wheel of Time – Jordan/Sanderson

12.  Mistborn Trilogy - Sanderson

13.  The Way of Kings - Sanderson

14.  Kingkiller Chronicles – Rothfuss

15.  Jurassic Park – Crighton

16.  The Great Train Robbery – Crighton

17.  Tarzan - Burroughs  this shoulda been on the original list

18.  My Father’s Dragon – Stiles

19.  Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

20.  Rainbow Six – Clancy

[dicetosser1]

oh and brid??  want another surprise?  the original list for me included the Bible and the complete works of Shakespeare. 

[Thane Vakarian]

and with a list like that, i find out that i really do not read enough.....

[BFG]

Here's MY list of books everyone needs to read:

 

1.     Redwall Series (at least 9 of them) - Jaques

2.     Ender’s Game - Card

3.     Ender’s Game sequels (Speaker, Xenocide, Children) - Card

4.     Ender’s Shadow series - Card

5.     Sword of Shanara - Brooks

6.     Chronicles of Narnia - Lewis

7.     Lord of the Rings - Tolkien

8.     The Hobbit - Tolkien

9.     Silmarilion – Tolkien

10.  The Exitorn Adventures – Downing (ORIGINAL edition only)

11.  The Wheel of Time – Jordan/Sanderson

12.  Mistborn Trilogy - Sanderson

13.  The Way of Kings - Sanderson

14.  Kingkiller Chronicles – Rothfuss

15.  Jurassic Park – Crighton

16.  The Great Train Robbery – Crighton

17.  Tarzan - Burroughs

18.  My Father’s Dragon – Stiles

19.  Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

20.  Rainbow Six – Clancy

 

And if my son could type, his would read something like this:

1.     Cars and Trucks and Things That Go

2.     All Aboard the Potty Train!

3.     The Grouchy Lady Bug

4.     Whales

5.     Numbers

6.     Letters

7.     My Friend Zoe (Sesame Street)

8.     Collection of Fairy Tales

9.     Collection of Nursery Rhymes

But you should add everything by Julia Donaldson to your sons list

[Jak 0' the Shadows]

I've read 12 of the books on that original list.   10 of the ones on Horn's list. Though I 'd say that nine of the Redwall books is too tame. People need to read at least 12. 

[F Horn of Valere]

I chose nine because the series jumped the shark somewhere around Marlfox, and without remembering the exact publication order, there was one or two prior that foreshadowed the shark-jumping.

 

The Exitorn Adventures-- doesn't surprise me if no one has heard of them. They are by a Christian author, but when the original publisher gave up the rights, some ultra-conservative Christian publisher ruined them with their editing. (The "Dragators-- basically dragons without wings who live in the moat--were renamed Dinogators, because "dragons" was too secular for them.... *rolls eyes*) It is a six-book series that is clever and fun.

 

 

OH... and I forgot! the Enchanted Forest Chronicles! (Dealing with Dragons is the first one.) Everyone... go read that now!