BBC Top 100 Books

I decided to track whether I too can digest all the books that BBC has claimed as the "Top 100 Books" of all time.

Listed here are the books and remarks whether I have either watched or read them. Luckily for me, most of the classics were translated in movies. Since my friends have adviced that the reading the book and watching the movie are two different things entirely. I have decided that for the moment, I will forego those books that I was brought alive to the movies - those stories that I saw but concentrate on those books that I have yet to read.

Legend/Remarks
* read = 13
** watched = 28
*** read and watched = 5

BBC's TOP 100 BOOKS
1. The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien **watched
2. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen *** read and watched
3. His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman
4. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
5. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, JK Rowling **watched
6. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee *read
7. Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne **watched
8. Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell
9. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis **watched
10. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë **watched
11. Catch-22, Joseph Heller
12. Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë
13. Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks
14. Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier
15. The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger
16. The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame ***read and watched
17. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens *read
18. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott *read
19. Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres
20. War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
21. Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell **watched
22. Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone, JK Rowling **watched
23. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets, JK Rowling **watched
24. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban, JK Rowling **watched
25. The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien **watched
26. Tess Of The D'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy
27. Middlemarch, George Eliot
28. A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving
29. The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck
30. Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll ***read and watched
31. The Story Of Tracy Beaker, Jacqueline Wilson
32. One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez *read
33. The Pillars Of The Earth, Ken Follett
34. David Copperfield, Charles Dickens ***read and watched
35. Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl **watched
36. Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson **watched
37. A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute
38. Persuasion, Jane Austen
39. Dune, Frank Herbert
40. Emma, Jane Austen
41. Anne Of Green Gables, LM Montgomery **watched
42. Watership Down, Richard Adams
43. The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald
44. The Count Of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas **watched
45. Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
46. Animal Farm, George Orwell
47. A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens **watched
48. Far From The Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy *read
49. Goodnight Mister Tom, Michelle Magorian
50. The Shell Seekers, Rosamunde Pilcher
51. The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett **watched
52. Of Mice And Men, John Steinbeck
53. The Stand, Stephen King
54. Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
55. A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth
56. The BFG, Roald Dahl
57. Swallows And Amazons, Arthur Ransome
58. Black Beauty, Anna Sewell ***read and watched
59. Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer
60. Crime And Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
61. Noughts And Crosses, Malorie Blackman
62. Memoirs Of A Geisha, Arthur Golden **watched
63. A Tale Of Two Cities, Charles Dickens ***read and watched
64. The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCollough **watched
65. Mort, Terry Pratchett
66. The Magic Faraway Tree, Enid Blyton **watched
67. The Magus, John Fowles
68. Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
69. Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett
70. Lord Of The Flies, William Golding
71. Perfume, Patrick Süskind
72. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Robert Tressell
73. Night Watch, Terry Pratchett
74. Matilda, Roald Dahl
75. Bridget Jones's Diary, Helen Fielding **watched
76. The Secret History, Donna Tartt
77. The Woman In White, Wilkie Collins
78. Ulysses, James Joyce
79. Bleak House, Charles Dickens
80. Double Act, Jacqueline Wilson
81. The Twits, Roald Dahl *read
82. I Capture The Castle, Dodie Smith
83. Holes, Louis Sachar
84. Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake
85. The God Of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
86. Vicky Angel, Jacqueline Wilson
87. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
88. Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons
89. Magician, Raymond E Feist **watched
90. On The Road, Jack Kerouac
91. The Godfather, Mario Puzo **watched
92. The Clan Of The Cave Bear, Jean M Auel **watched
93. The Colour Of Magic, Terry Pratchett
94. The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho *read
95. Katherine, Anya Seton
96. Kane And Abel, Jeffrey Archer *watched
97. Love In The Time Of Cholera, Gabriel García Márquez
98. Girls In Love, Jacqueline Wilson
99. The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot **watched
100. Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie