BBC thinks we're stupid
List the books from these 100 books that you have read. Simply list the ones you have read, and leave the rest out, that will make it easier to read people's answers... Also feel free to share any other books you have read that you feel should have made this list :)
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
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
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
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 Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe - CS Lewis
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 - A.A. Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
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
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-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
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 Inferno - Dante
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace 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 Ishiguri
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte’s Web - E.B. White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 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 Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
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StudentPermalink Reply by Miss Texas on -
lol of course they should not be deemed stupid, there are thousands upon thousands of books in the world to read! however, I suppose that BBC has for their own reasons claimed that these 100 are among the most "important", how they determined this I don't know. Someone mentioned that most of these books have been on TV or made into a movie... :\
And yeah, even if you don't 'read at all it doesn't mean you're stupid either.
But I'm pleased to see how many of us hoopers are also avid readers <3
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StudentPermalink Reply by Jenni on -
I think alot (not all) of these books were part of the BBCs top 100 books for their "The big read" program, might have something to do with that.
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Permalink Reply by Moonbeam on -
The thing about books getting made into movies... usually, those are the ones that somebody thinks are important. (There are a lot of crap movies, but the ones from books are different, in most cases.)
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StudentPermalink Reply by Ola on -
I've read about 30 books from this list. Some of them are my favourites and I've read them several times. Others were a total waste of time for me. For example, I think I'll never understand the phenomenon of The Little Prince. There are also some titles I'd love to read but couldn't find them anywhere just yet.
One of my favourite books is "Popular music form Vittula" by Mikael Niemi and I would recommend it to anyone! I got many people to read it and so far every single one of them loved it. It's a bittersweet story about growing up, so be prepared to laugh and to cry.
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StudentPermalink Reply by Amy the Industrial Hooper on -
I've read..
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.. does that count?
Most of the Harry Potter series (lost interest)
To Kill a Mockingbird
1984
Various Shakespeare stories for school
The Hobbit - I actually can't stand Tolkien, even though I have a necklace with a Tolkien quote that I never take off
The Great Gatsby
The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - I read the entire series, actually
The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe
Winnie the Pooh
The Secret Garden
A Christmas Carol
Charlotte’s Web
Watership Down
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - I've read most of Roald Dahl's books!
Why the heck isn't Wrinkle in Time on this list? Or Fahrenheit 451? Nothing by Terry Pratchett?
And while I'm complaining (angry Yahtzee picture here), why the sweet acid dropping monkeys is Da Vinci Code on this list?
This list is arbitrary.
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StudentPermalink Reply by Miss Texas on -
yeah I think we can all agree that the only people that BBC proved uneducated were themselves, at least here on hoopcity anyway. they totally forgot about wrinkle in time. So did I actually. I need to read that book again. what's the quote on your necklace say?
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StudentPermalink Reply by Amy the Industrial Hooper on -
"Not All Who Wander are Lost"
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Permalink Reply by Moregan Kira on -
Oh yeah! Very true! Those titles should also be on this list!
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Permalink Reply by Moonbeam on
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I agree strongly with your comments.
Probably, most of these books were the ones the authors thought of off the tops of their heads.
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StudentPermalink Reply by Twila TwinkleToes on -
Only a slightly British agenda in that story ;)
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StudentPermalink Reply by Amy the Industrial Hooper on -
And yet, no Pratchett? I mean the man's knighted and he has Alzheimer's now. You figure they'd at least put one of his books on there..
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Permalink Reply by Haley on -
I am a super reader, so I wanna see how many I've read off this list...
The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
The Bible
The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe - CS Lewis
Winnie the Pooh - A.A. Milne
A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
Charlotte’s Web - E.B. White
The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
14.... Not bad :) I devour books, but I prefer fiction & fantasy books over classic literature. lol
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