http://novarayne.blogspot.com/2010/12/books-for-2011.html  <-- I don't know how or where I found her blog from but she posted a BBC article about 100 books that everyone should read.  She threw a challenge to read them with her for the new year.  I like this idea, so I am going to attempt it!!!

To that note, I'm going to blog/track my list.  Here's where I start with.

The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books listed here.

   1. Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen

   2. The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien

   3. Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte

   4. Harry Potter series – JK Rowling (all)

   5. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee

   6. The Bible

   7. Wuthering Heights

   8. 1984– George Orwell

   9. His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman

  10. Great Expectations – Charles Dickens

  11. Little Women - Louisa May Alcott

  12. Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy

  13. Catch 22 – Joseph Heller

  14. Complete Works of Shakespeare

  15. Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier

  16. The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien

  17. Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks

  18. Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger

  19. The Time Travellers Wife – Audrey Niffenegger

  20. Middlemarch – George Eliot

  21. Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell

  22. The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald

  23. Bleak House – Charles Dickens

  24. War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy

  25. The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams

  26. Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh

  27. Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky

  28. Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck

  29. Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll

  30. The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame

  31. Anna Karenina –Leo Tolstoy

  32. David Copperfield – Charles Dickens

  33. Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis

  34. Emma – Jane Austen

  35. Persuasion – Jane Austen

  36. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – CS Lewis

  37. The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini

  38. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis De Berniere

  39. Memoirs of a Geisha - Willaim Golden

  40. Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne

  41. Animal Farm – George Orwell

  42. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown

  43. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabrial Garcia Marquez

  44. A Prayer for Owen Meaney – John Irving

  45. The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins

  46. Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery

  47. Far from the Madding Crowd _ Thomas Hardy

  48. The Handmaids Tale - Margaret Atwood

  49. Lord of the Flies – William Golding

  50. Atonement - Ian McEwan

  51. Life of Pi - Yann Martell

  52. Dune – Frank Herbert

  53. Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons

  54. Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen

  55. A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth

  56. The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  57. A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens

  58. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley

  59. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon

  60. Love in the time of Cholera - Gabriel garcia Marquez

  61. Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck

  62. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov

  63. The Secret History - Donna Tartt

  64. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold

  65. Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas

  66. On the Road - Jack Kerouac

  67. Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy

  68. Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helen Fielding

  69. Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie

  70. Moby Dick – Herman Melville

  71. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens

  72. Dracula – Bram Stoker

  73. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson

  74. Notes from a Small Island - Bill Bryson

  75. Ulysses - James Joyce

  76. The Bell Jar - Sylivia Plath

  77. Swallows and Amazons – Arthur Ransome

  78. Germinal – Emile Zola

  79. Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray

  80. Possession - AS Byatt

  81. A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens

  82. Cloud Atlas - Charles Mitchell

  83. The Colour Purple - Alice Walker

  84. The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro

  85. Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert

  86. A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry

  87. Charlotte's Web - EB White

  88. The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom

  89. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

  90. The Faraway Tree collection - Enid blyton

  91. Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad

  92. The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint Exupery

  93. The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks

  94. Watership Down - Richard Adams

  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

  99. Charlie & the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl

 100. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

I'm going to try to read ones that I already own the books for.  Brave New World, for example.  I'll keep updating this list as I go through it.