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. Instructions: Copy this into your NOTES. Bold those books you've read in their entirety. Italicize the ones you started but didn't finish or read an excerpt.
"I am a reader, I gues".
1 Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen2 The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien3 Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte4 Harry Potter series – JK Rowling5 To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
6 The Bible7 Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte8 Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell9 His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations – Charles Dickens11 Little Women – Louisa M Alcott12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy1
3 Catch 22 – Joseph Heller14 Complete Works of Shakespeare15 Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier16 The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien17 Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch – George Eliot21 Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell22 The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald23 Bleak House – Charles Dickens24 War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy2
5 The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams26 Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh27 Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll30 The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame31 Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy32 David Copperfield – Charles Dickens33 Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis34 Emma – Jane Austen 35 Persuasion – Jane Austen36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – CS Lewis 37 The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis De Berniere
39 Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne
41 Animal Farm – George Orwell 42 The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown43 One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney – John Irving45 The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery47 Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies – William Golding50 Atonement – Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi – Yann Martel
52 Dune – Frank Herbert53 Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen55 A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens58 Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon60 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 Tartt64 The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas66 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 Dickens72 Dracula – Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett74 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 – William Makepeace Thackeray80 Possession – AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens82 Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple – Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro85 Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte’s Web – EB White88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle90 The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks
94 Watership Down – Richard Adams95 A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas98 Hamlet – William Shakespeare99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl 100 Les Miserables – Victor Hugo
De laatste dag van het jaar al weer. Die me iets te vroeg begon vanochtend. Het was nog geen half zeven toen een groepje tieners (?) ons wakker maakte met een paar illegale bommen die ontplofte. Wat een herrie. We schrokken ons rot, het leek wel of er hier in huis wat ontplofte. Dat belooft wat voor vanavond. Het is hier ook een beetje mistig waardoor vuurwerkdampen vanavond langer zullen blijven hangen. Ik kan daar echt niet tegen, krijg het er erg benauwd van. Denk niet dat ik me vandaag buiten waag. En vanavond heb ik vanuit het zolderraam toch wel een prachtig uitzicht op het vuurwerk (als het niet nog mistiger wordt.)
