November 2010 I went through a BBC list of 100 novels and marked which I had read or not.
Why not do it again. Not putting in enough effort to confirm that the list is the exact same as the first one though.
*Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen - Have not read, may read someday. 0/1
*The Lord of the Rings - Have read. 1/2
*Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte - Have not read, may read someday. 1/3
*Harry Potter Series – JK Rowling - Have read. 2/4
*To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee - Have read. 3/5
*The Bible - Have partially read, may completely read someday. 3.5/6
*Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë - Have read. 4.5/6
*Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell - Have read. 5.5/7
*His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman - Read the first book in the series. 6/8
*Great Expectations – Charles Dickens - Have not read, may read someday. 6/9
*Little Women - Louisa May Alcott - Have not read. 6/10
*Tess of the D'urbervilles - Thomas Hardy - Have not read or heard of. 6/11
*Catch 22 – Joseph Heller - Have read. 7/12
*Complete Works of Shakespeare - Another 'series' sort of entry. Have read several. Changing half credits to full credits for the Bible and His Dark Materials. 9/13
*Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier - Have not read or heard of. 9/14
*The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien - Have read. 10/15
*Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks - Have not read or heard of. 10/16
*Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger - Have not read and a chance or reading. 10/17
*The Time Traveler's Wife – Audrey Niffenegger - Have not read and may read someday. 10/18
*Middlemarch – George Eliot - Have not read and have not heard of. 10/19
*Gone With the Wind – Margaret Mitchell - Have not read and chance of reading. 10/20
*The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald - Have read. 11/21
*Bleak House – Charles Dickens - Have not read, may read someday. 11/22
*War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy - Have not read, may read someday. 11/23
*The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams - Have not read, may read someday. 11/24
*Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh - Have not read or heard of. 11/25
*Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Have not read, may read someday. 11/26
*The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck - I do not think I have not read, may read someday. 11/27
*Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll - Have read. 12/28
*The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame - Have not read, may read someday. 12/29
*Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy - Have not read, may read someday. 12/30
*David Copperfield – Charles Dickens - Have not read, may read someday. 12/31
*Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis - Have read. 13/32
*Emma – Jane Austen - Have not read, may read someday. 13/33
*Persuasion – Jane Austen - Have not read. 13/34
*The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe – CS Lewis - Have read, but this was already included with the entire series. I'm still going to take a full point for this. 14/35
*The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini - Have not read. 14/36
*Captain Corelli's Mandolin – Louis De Berniere - Have not read or heard of. 14/37
*Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden - Have not read, may read someday. 14/38
*Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne - Have not read, may read someday. 14/39
*Animal Farm – George Orwell - Have read. 15/40
*The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown - Have read. 16/41
*One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia - Have not read or heard of. 16/42
*A Prayer for Owen Meany – John Irving - Have not read or heard of. 16/43
*The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins - Have not read. 16/44
*Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery - Have not read, may read someday. 16/45
*Far From the Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy - Have not read or heard of. 16/46
*The Handmaids Tale – Margaret Atwood - Have not read, may read someday. 16/47
*Lord of the Flies – William Golding - Have not read, may read someday. 16/48
*Atonement – Ian McEwan - Have not read or heard of. 16/49
*Life of Pi - Yann Martel - Have not read. 16/50
*Dune – Frank Herbert - Have read. 17/51
*Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons - Have not read or heard of. 17/52
*Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen - Have not read, may read someday. 17/53
*A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth - Have not read or heard of. 17/54
*The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon - Have not read or heard of. 17/55
*A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens - Have not read, may read someday. 17/56
*Brave New World – Aldous Huxley - Have read. 18/57
*The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time – Mark Haddon - Have not read, may read someday. 18/58
*Love in the Time of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia - Have not read or heard of. 18/59
*Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck - Have read. 19/60
*Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov - Have not read, may read someday. 19/61
*The Secret History – Donna Tartt - Have not read or heard of. 19/62
*The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold - Have not read, may read someday. 19/63
*Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas - Have not read, may read someday. 19/64
*On the Road – Jack Kerouac - Have not read, may read someday. 19/65
*Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy - Have not read or heard of. 19/66
*Bridget Jones's Diary – Helen Fielding - Have not read, may read someday. 19/67
*Midnight's Children – Salman Rushdie - Have not read or heard of. 19/68
*Moby Dick – Herman Melville - Have read. 20/69
*Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens - Have not read, may read someday. 20/70
*Dracula – Bram Stoker - Have read. 21/71
*The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson - Have not read. 21/72
*Notes From a Small Island – Bill Bryson - Have not read or heard of. 21/73
*Ulysses – James Joyce - Have not read, may read someday. 21/74
*The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath - Have not read, may read someday. 21/75
*Swallows and Amazons – Arthur Ransome - Have not read or heard of. 21/76
*Germinal – Emile Zola - Have not read or heard of. 21/77
*Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray - Have not read. 21/78
*Possession – Byatt - Have not read or heard of. 21/79
*A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens - Have not read, may read someday. 21/80
*Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell - Have read. 22/81
*The Colour Purple – Alice Walker - Have not read. 22/82
*The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro - Have not read. 22/83
*Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert - Have not read. 22/84
*A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry - Have not read or heard of. 22/85
*Charlotte's Web – EB White - Have read. 23/86
*The Five People You Meet in Heaven – Mitch Albom - Have not read. 23/87
*Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Have read. 24/88
*The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton - Have not read or heard of. 24/89
*Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad - Started to read but did not finish. 24/90
*The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint Exupery - Have not read, may read someday. 24/91
*The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks - Have not read, may read someday. 24/92
*Watership Down – Richard Adams - Have not read, may read someday. 24/93
*A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole - Have not read. 24/94
*A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute - Have not read. 24/95
*The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas - Have read. 25/96
*Hamlet – William Shakespeare - Have read. 26/97
*Charlie & the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl - Have read. 27/98
*Les Miserables – Victor Hugo - Have read. 28/99
Not exactly 100 novels. But 27/99 isn't awful. Over six years ago it was 24/98.
Changes since 2010:
*Have now read Moby Dick and Cloud Atlas. I'm not sure what the others are.
*I don't think I ever finished Hitchhiker's Guide, although now I am doubting myself.
Books listed as maybe to be read someday:
*Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
*Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
*The Bible
*Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
*Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger
*The Time Traveler's Wife – Audrey Niffenegger
*Gone With the Wind – Margaret Mitchell
*Bleak House – Charles Dickens
*War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
*The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
*Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
*The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
*The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame
*Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
*David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
*Emma – Jane Austen
*Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
*Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne
*Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery
*The Handmaids Tale – Margaret Atwood
*Lord of the Flies – William Golding
*Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
*A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
*The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time – Mark Haddon
*Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
*The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold
*Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
*On the Road – Jack Kerouac
*Bridget Jones's Diary – Helen Fielding
*Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
*Ulysses – James Joyce
*The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
*A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
*The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint Exupery
*The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks
*Watership Down – Richard Adams
That's a lot of books, and mainly listed there for my benefit later. Maybe I'll do another one of these with a different list.
