Dear Tiffany: Brits are Stupid.

Apparently the BBC reckons most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here. I put an X by the ones I have read.
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen X
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien X (Under Protest.)
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte X
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling X
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee X (I would name a kid Scout if I were allowed)
6 The Bible (the WHOLE Bible)
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte X
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell X
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens X
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott X
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy X (LOVE.)
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller X (12th grade. What up, public school!)
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare (Not all of the sonnets, and not Cressida and whoever.)
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier X
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien X
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger X (12th grade again. I liked that it had cursing)
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell X (12th grade. I did a lot of reading)
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald X (Man, between making out and reading, I had a full senior year!)
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy X (So lame. That is how you know I am not a natural geek.)
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck X (12th grade. Top five favorite books of all time.)
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll X
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame X (5th grade. So intelligent.)
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy X (She dies in the end.)
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens X (Not about the magician.)
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis X (The lion is Jesus.)
34 Emma - Jane Austen X
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen X
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis X
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden X (Ashamed.)
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne X (At least once a year)
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell X (Four Legs Good! Two Legs bad!)
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown X
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez X (LOVE.)
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving ( I think I actually read this one. Not sure.)
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery X (Every Year.)
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood X (Read in high school. Too young to grasp.)
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding X (9th grade. Still reference the conch.)
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel X (Fig and I disagree on the surrealism.)
52 Dune - Frank Herbert X
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen X
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens X (Top five favorites.)
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley X
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon X (SO recommend it.)
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck X (Poor Lenny.)
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov (Actually on my list to read.)
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold X (Scary.)
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas (Saw the movie. Enough.)
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac (Ew, no.)
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy (Tried about three jillion times.)
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding X (Ashamed.)
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville X (Hated it all thirty times I had to read it.)
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens X (Better as a musical.)
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett X
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce (I've tried so many times. Page five is a record for me.)
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath (Ew, no.)
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray X (LOVE)
80 Possession - AS Byatt X (Top five)
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens X
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker X (Lesbians!)
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert ( I know I read this in High school, but can't remember if I finished it)
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White X
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Alborn
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle X
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad X (12th grade.)
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery X (LOVE)
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams (Isn't this the one with the bunnies?)
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 X
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl X
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo