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The BBC believes that most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books. How many have you read? I received this list from a friend I know plus I also found the list on another site I came across and Goodreads. According to the information I found, the BBC never actually made this declaration. The list of 100 books which has been widely circulating the internet with the tagline “The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books on the list. The average Goodreads member has read 23 out of the 100 books o the list. To access this checkoff list (this is not a printable checkoff list, it’s on the computer) – Click the link for access: BBC 6 Books Challenge or the Goodreads Link The “BBC” Book List Challenge.
Here Are The Books on the List:
Pride and Prejudice — Jane Austen
The Lord of the Rings — JRR Tolkien
Jane Eyre — Charlotte Bronte
Harry Potter Series — JK Rowling
To Kill a Mockingbird — Harper Lee
The Bible
Wuthering Heights — Emily Bronte
Nineteen Eighty Four — George Orwell
His Dark Materials — Philip Pullman
Great Expectations — Charles Dickens
Little Women — Louisa M Alcott
Tess of the D’Urbervilles — Thomas Hardy
Catch 22 — Joseph Heller
Complete Works of Shakespeare (well, only parts…)
Rebecca — Daphne Du Maurier
The Hobbit — JRR Tolkien
Birdsong — Sebastian Faulk
Catcher in the Rye — JD Salinger
The Time Traveler’s Wife — Audrey Niffenegger
Middlemarch — George Eliot
Gone With the Wind — Margaret Mitchell
The Great Gatsby — F Scott Fitzgerald
Bleak House — Charles Dicken
War and Peace — Leo Tolstoy
The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy — Douglas Adams
Brideshead Revisited — Evelyn Waugh
Crime and Punishment — Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Grapes of Wrath — John Steinbeck
Alice in Wonderland — Lewis Carroll
The Wind in the Willows — Kenneth Grahame
Anna Karenina — Leo Tolstoy
David Copperfield — Charles Dickens
Chronicles of Narnia — CS Lewis
Emma — Jane Austen
Persuasion — Jane Austen
The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe — CS Lewis
The Kite Runner — Khaled Hossein
Captain Corelli’s Mandolin — Louis De Bernieres
Memoirs of a Geisha — Arthur Golden
Winnie the Pooh — AA Milne
Animal Farm — George Orwell
The DA Vinci Code — Dan Brown
One Hundred Years of Solitude — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
A Prayer for Owen Meaney — John Irving
The Woman in White — Wilkie Collins
Anne of Green Gables — LM Montgomery
Far From The Madding Crowd — Thomas Hardy
The Handmaid’s Tale — Margaret Atwood
Lord of the Flies — William Golding
Atonement — Ian McEwan
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