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BBC Believes You've Only Read 6 of These Books...

The BBC believes that most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books below. How many have you read?
(Tip: The average Goodreads member has read 23 out of 100 books on this list).
Interestingly, the BBC never actually made this declaration. The list was created by an unknown individual and spread around the internet as a meme called The BBC Book List Challenge. It was probably loosely based on another list of books that was the result of a survey carried out in 2003 by the BBC in which three quarters of a million people voted to find the nation's best-loved novels of all time. Here's a link to that list: BBC's The Big Read - Best Loved Novels of All Time
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Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
Pride and Prejudice
1
Jane Austen
The Lord of the Rings
The Lord of the Rings
2
Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
3
Harry Potter Series – JK Rowling (All)
Harry Potter Series – JK Rowling (All)
4
To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
To Kill a Mockingbird
5
Harper Lee
The Bible (Anonymous)
The Bible
6
Anonymous
Wuthering Heights (Emily Brontë)
Wuthering Heights
7
Emily Brontë
1984 (George Orwell)
1984
8
George Orwell
His Dark Materials (Philip Pullman)
His Dark Materials
9
Philip Pullman
Great Expectations (Charles Dickens)
Great Expectations
10
Charles Dickens
Little Women (Louisa May Alcott)
Little Women
11
Louisa May Alcott
Tess of the D'urbervilles (Thomas Hardy)
Tess of the D'urbervilles
12
Thomas Hardy
Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
Catch-22
13
Joseph Heller
Complete Works of Shakespeare (William Shakespeare)
Complete Works of Shakespeare
14
William Shakespeare
Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier
Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier
15
The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien
The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien
16
Birdsong (Sebastian Faulks)
Birdsong
17
Sebastian Faulks
The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)
The Catcher in the Rye
18
J.D. Salinger
The Time Traveler's Wife – Audrey Niffenegger
The Time Traveler's Wife – Audrey Niffenegger
19
Middlemarch – George Eliot
Middlemarch – George Eliot
20
Gone With the Wind – Margaret Mitchell
Gone With the Wind – Margaret Mitchell
21
The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
The Great Gatsby
22
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Bleak House (Charles Dickens)
Bleak House
23
Charles Dickens
War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
24
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams)
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
25
Douglas Adams
Brideshead Revisited (Evelyn Waugh)
Brideshead Revisited
26
Evelyn Waugh
Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
27
The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)
The Grapes of Wrath
28
John Steinbeck
Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
29
The Wind in the Willows (Kenneth Grahame)
The Wind in the Willows
30
Kenneth Grahame
Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy)
Anna Karenina
31
Leo Tolstoy
David Copperfield (Charles Dickens)
David Copperfield
32
Charles Dickens
Chronicles of Narnia (C.S. Lewis)
Chronicles of Narnia
33
C.S. Lewis
Emma – Jane Austen
Emma – Jane Austen
34
Persuasion (Jane Austen)
Persuasion
35
Jane Austen
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (C.S.Lewis)
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
36
C.S.Lewis
Kite Runner (Khaled Hosseini)
Kite Runner
37
Khaled Hosseini
Captain Corelli's Mandolin (Louis De Bernieres)
Captain Corelli's Mandolin
38
Louis De Bernieres
Memoirs of a Geisha (Arthur Golden)
Memoirs of a Geisha
39
Arthur Golden
Winnie-The-Pooh (A. A. Milne)
Winnie-The-Pooh
40
A. A. Milne
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