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.
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\n\u2022 Bold those books you’ve read in their entirety.
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1 Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen Eight. I am well read, according to the Beeb.<\/p>\n I’m not counting any film or TV adaptations here. If I did that, there’d be more bolding. I’m also not counting if any of these were read to me as a child.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11],"tags":[14,13,12],"class_list":["post-18","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-memes","tag-bbc","tag-literature","tag-memes-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2zYEZ-i","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ionas.kapsi.fi\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ionas.kapsi.fi\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ionas.kapsi.fi\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ionas.kapsi.fi\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ionas.kapsi.fi\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ionas.kapsi.fi\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20,"href":"https:\/\/ionas.kapsi.fi\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions\/20"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ionas.kapsi.fi\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ionas.kapsi.fi\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ionas.kapsi.fi\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n2 The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien
\n<\/strong>3 Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
\n4 Harry Potter series – JK Rowling
\n<\/strong>5 To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
\n6 The Bible
\n<\/em>7 Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
\n8 Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell
\n<\/em>9 His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman
\n<\/strong>10 Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
\n11 Little Women – Louisa M Alcott
\n12 Tess of the D\u2019Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
\n13 Catch 22 – Joseph Heller
\n14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
\n<\/em>15 Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier
\n16 The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien
\n<\/strong>17 Birdsong – Sebastian Faulk
\n18 Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger
\n19 The Time Traveler\u2019s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger
\n20 Middlemarch – George Eliot
\n21 Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell
\n22 The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald
\n24 War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
\n<\/em>25 The Hitch Hiker\u2019s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
\n<\/strong>27 Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
\n28 Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
\n29 Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
\n30 The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame
\n31 Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
\n32 David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
\n33 Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis
\n<\/strong>34 Emma -Jane Austen
\n35 Persuasion – Jane Austen
\n36 The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe – CS Lewis
\n<\/strong>37 The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
\n38 Captain Corelli\u2019s Mandolin – Louis De Bernieres
\n39 Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
\n40 Winnie the Pooh – A.A. Milne
\n41 Animal Farm – George Orwell
\n42 The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown
\n43 One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
\n44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney – John Irving
\n45 The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins
\n46 Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery
\n47 Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy
\n48 The Handmaid\u2019s Tale – Margaret Atwood
\n49 Lord of the Flies – William Golding
\n50 Atonement – Ian McEwan
\n51 Life of Pi – Yann Martel
\n52 Dune – Frank Herbert
\n<\/strong>53 Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons
\n54 Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
\n55 A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth
\n56 The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon
\n57 A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
\n58 Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
\n59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon
\n60 Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
\n61 Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
\n62 Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
\n63 The Secret History – Donna Tartt
\n64 The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold
\n65 Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
\n66 On The Road – Jack Kerouac
\n67 Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy
\n68 Bridget Jones\u2019s Diary – Helen Fielding
\n69 Midnight\u2019s Children – Salman Rushdie
\n70 Moby Dick – Herman Melville
\n<\/em>71 Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
\n72 Dracula – Bram Stoker
\n73 The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett
\n74 Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson
\n75 Ulysses – James Joyce
\n76 The Inferno – Dante
\n77 Swallows and Amazons – Arthur Ransome
\n78 Germinal – Emile Zola
\n79 Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
\n80 Possession – AS Byatt
\n81 A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
\n82 Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
\n83 The Color Purple – Alice Walker
\n84 The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
\n85 Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
\n86 A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
\n87 Charlotte\u2019s Web – E.B. White
\n88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom
\n89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
\n90 The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton
\n91 Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
\n92 The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery
\n<\/em>93 The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks
\n94 Watership Down – Richard Adams
\n95 A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
\n96 A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute
\n97 The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
\n<\/strong>98 Hamlet – William Shakespeare
\n99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl
\n100 Les Miserables – Victor Hugo<\/p>\n