Book List

The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books here. How do your reading habits stack up?

Look at the list and put an 'x' after those you have read.

1. The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien - x

2. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen - x

3. His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman - x

4. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams - x

5. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, JK Rowling - x

6. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee -x

7. Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne -x

8. Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell - x

9. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis -x

10. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë - x

11. Catch-22, Joseph Heller - x

12. Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë -

13. Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks - x

14. Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier

15. The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger - x

16. The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame - x

17. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens -

18. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott -

19. Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres - x

20. War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy -

21. Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell

22. Harry Potter And The Sorcerer's Stone, JK Rowling -x

23. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets, JK Rowling -x

24. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban, JK Rowling -x

25. The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien - x

26. Tess Of The D'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy - x (well half read)

27. Middlemarch, George Eliot -

28. A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving - x

29. The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck - x

30. Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll - x

31. The Story Of Tracy Beaker, Jacqueline Wilson

32. One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez - x

33. The Pillars Of The Earth, Ken Follett -

34. David Copperfield, Charles Dickens -

35. Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl -x

36. Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson - x

37. A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute - x

38. Persuasion, Jane Austen-

39. Dune, Frank Herbert - x

40. Emma, Jane Austen -

41. Anne Of Green Gables, LM Montgomery -

42. Watership Down, Richard Adams -x

43. The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald - x

44. The Count Of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas - x

45. Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh - x

46. Animal Farm, George Orwell - x

47. A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens -x

48. Far From The Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy

49. Goodnight Mister Tom, Michelle Magorian -

50. The Shell Seekers, Rosamunde Pilcher

51. The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett - x

52. Of Mice And Men, John Steinbeck - x

53. The Stand, Stephen King -

54. Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy - x

55. A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth

56. The BFG, Roald Dahl - x

57. Swallows And Amazons, Arthur Ransome -x

58. Black Beauty, Anna Sewell -

59. Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer

60. Crime And Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky - x

61. Noughts And Crosses, Malorie Blackman

62. Memoirs Of A Geisha, Arthur Golden - x

63. A Tale Of Two Cities, Charles Dickens -

64. The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCollough

65. Mort, Terry Pratchett - x

66. The Magic Faraway Tree, Enid Blyton

67. The Magus, John Fowles - x

68. Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman - x

69. Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett - x

70. Lord Of The Flies, William Golding - x

71. Perfume, Patrick Süskind -

72. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Robert Tressell

73. Night Watch, Terry Pratchett - x

74. Matilda, Roald Dahl - x

75. Bridget Jones's Diary, Helen Fielding - x

76. The Secret History, Donna Tartt

77. The Woman In White, Wilkie Collins

78. Ulysses, James Joyce - x (attempted)

79. Bleak House, Charles Dickens -

80. Double Act, Jacqueline Wilson

81. The Twits, Roald Dahl - x

82. I Capture The Castle, Dodie Smith

83. Holes, Louis Sachar -

84. Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake - x

85. The God Of Small Things, Arundhati Roy-

86. Vicky Angel, Jacqueline Wilson

87. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley - x

88. Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons - x

89. Magician, Raymond E Feist - x

90. On The Road, Jack Kerouac-

91. The Godfather, Mario Puzo-

92. The Clan Of The Cave Bear, Jean M Auel -

93. The Colour Of Magic, Terry Pratchett - x

94. The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho

95. Katherine, Anya Seton

96. Kane And Abel, Jeffrey Archer - x

97. Love In The Time Of Cholera, Gabriel García Márquez - (reading now)

98. Girls In Love, Jacqueline Wilson

99. The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot -

100. Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie - x

So I score 56, not including the unfinished one and the ones on my shelf to be read soon. Reasonable I suppose. But looking at the list, rather than making me pleased, it concerns me that the BBC think most people will have only managed 6. It isn't a list of absolute classics, of inaccessible books. It includes popular culture and childrens books. So an average of only six is a sad inditement on our society.

PS - I think this is taken from the BBC Big Read list, ie the top novels voted by listeners to the BBC. However there are a number of different versions floating around and I can't find anything that references the BBC as saying only 6 will be read on average. Still an interesting list though.