As mentioned in an older post (My Quest To Slay The BBC Must Read Book List) below contains the list of the books I’m reading.
When I first started the quest in 2010, I had read sixteen from the list. My goal was to have the whole list finished by the end of 2018. I have three left on the list which I hope to have tracked down and read by mid-2019.
The books bolded are the ones I have left to read. The books italicized are the ones I read this year. Wish me luck!
- Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen [READ – Original 16]
- The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien (3/3) [READ – 2013]
- Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte [READ – 2011]
- Harry Potter series – J. K. Rowling (7/7) [READ – Original 16]
- To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee [READ – 2012]
- The Bible (I went to Catholic school so it counts) [READ – Original 16]
- Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte [READ – 2013]
- Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell [READ – 2012]
- His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman (3/3) [READ – 2013]
- Great Expectations – Charles Dickens [READ – 2013]
- Little Women – Louisa M Alcott [READ – 2012]
- Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy [READ – 2015]
- Catch 22 – Joseph Heller [READ – 2013]
- Complete Works of Shakespeare [READ – Original 16]
- Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier [READ – Original 16]
- The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien [READ – 2013]
- Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks [Read 2018]
- Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger [READ – 2013]
- The Time Traveler’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger [READ – Original 16]
- Middlemarch – George Eliot [READ – 2015]
- Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell [READ – Original 16]
- The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald [READ – 2012]
- Bleak House – Charles Dickens [READ – 2016]
- War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy [READ – 2017]
- The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams [READ – 2010]
- Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh [READ – 2012]
- Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky [READ – 2015]
- Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck [READ – 2016]
- Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll [READ – 2011]
- The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame [READ – 2014]
- Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy [READ – 2016]
- David Copperfield – Charles Dickens [READ – 2015]
- Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis (7/7) [READ – 2013]
- Emma – Jane Austen [READ – 2014]
- Persuasion – Jane Austen [READ – Original 16]
- The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – CS Lewis [READ – Original 16]
- The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini [READ – 2013]
- Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis De Bernieres
- Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden [READ – 2010]
- Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne [READ – 2012]
- Animal Farm – George Orwell [READ – 2012]
- The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown [Read 2018]
- One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez [READ – 2017]
- A Prayer for Owen Meaney – John Irving [READ – 2017]
- The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins [READ – 2015]
- Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery [READ – 2012]
- Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy [READ – 2013]
- The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood [READ – 2013]
- Lord of the Flies – William Golding [Read 2018]
- Atonement – Ian McEwan [READ – 2013]
- Life of Pi – Yann Martel [READ – 2013]
- Dune – Frank Herbert [READ – 2016]
- Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons [READ – 2017]
- Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen [READ – Original 16]
- A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth [READ – 2017]
- The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon [READ – 2016]
- A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens [READ – 2017]
- Brave New World – Aldous Huxley [READ – 2014]
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon [READ – 2013]
- Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez [READ – 2015]
- Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck [READ – 2012]
- Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov [READ – 2013]
- The Secret History – Donna Tartt [READ – 2017]
- The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold [READ – 2015]
- Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas [READ – 2014]
- On The Road – Jack Kerouac [READ – 2016]
- Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy [READ – 2014]
- Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helen Fielding [READ – Original 16]
- Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie [Read 2018]
- Moby Dick – Herman Melville [READ – 2016]
- Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens [READ – 2017]
- Dracula – Bram Stoker [READ – Original 16]
- The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett [READ – 2012]
- Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson [READ – 2014]
- Ulysses – James Joyce [READ – 2016]
- The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath [READ – Original 16]
- Swallows and Amazons – Arthur Ransome [READ – 2013]
- Germinal – Emile Zola [READ – 2016]
- Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray [READ – 2017]
- Possession – AS Byatt [READ – 2017]
- A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens [READ – 2012]
- Cloud Atlas – David Mitchel [READ – 2013]
- The Color Purple – Alice Walker [READ – 2012]
- The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro [READ – 2014]
- Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert [READ – 2016]
- A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry [READ – 2016]
- Charlotte’s Web – EB White [READ – Original 16]
- The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom [READ – 2015]
- Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle [READ – 2015]
- The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton
- Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad [READ – 2017]
- The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery [READ – Original 16]
- The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks
- Watership Down – Richard Adams [READ – 2013]
- A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole [READ – 2015]
- A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute [READ – 2017]
- The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas [READ – 2016]
- Hamlet – William Shakespeare [READ – Original 16]
- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl [READ – 2012]
- Les Miserables – Victor Hugo [READ – 2017]
How many have you read? Let us know in the comments section!
