The Literary Snob: Cross out what you’ve already read. Six is the average.
24 completely, and a handful more part-way through. The average is 6? Really? That……
Pride and Prejudice - Jane AustenThe Lord of the Rings - JRR TolkienJane Eyre - Charlotte BronteHarry Potter series - JK RowlingTo Kill a Mockingbird - Harper LeeThe Bible - Council of Nicea
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte Nineteen Eighty Four - George OrwellHis Dark Materials - Philip PullmanGreat Expectations - Charles DickensLittle Women - Louisa M Alcott
Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
Rebecca - Daphne Du MaurierThe Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
Catcher in the Rye - JD SalingerThe Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
Middlemarch - George Eliot
Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
Bleak House - Charles Dickens
War and Peace - Leo TolstoyThe Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Grapes of Wrath - John SteinbeckAlice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
David Copperfield - Charles DickensChronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
Emma - Jane Austen
Persuasion - Jane AustenThe Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
The Kite Runner - Khaled HosseiniCaptain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De BernieresMemoirs of a Geisha - Arthur GoldenWinnie the Pooh - AA MilneAnimal Farm - George OrwellThe Da Vinci Code - Dan BrownOne Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
The Woman in White - Wilkie CollinsAnne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas HardyThe Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
Atonement - Ian McEwanLife of Pi - Yann MartelDune - Frank Herbert
Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
Brave New World - Aldous HuxleyThe Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
The Secret History - Donna TarttThe Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
On The Road - Jack Kerouac
Jude the Obscure - Thomas HardyBridget Jones’s Diary - Helen FieldingMidnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
Moby Dick - Herman MelvilleOliver Twist - Charles DickensDracula - Bram StokerThe Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
Ulysses - James Joyce
The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
Germinal - Emile Zola
Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
Possession - AS Byatt
A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
The Color Purple - Alice Walker
The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
A Fine Balance - Rohinton MistryCharlotte’s Web - EB White
The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan DoyleThe Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
Heart of Darkness - Joseph ConradThe Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
The Wasp Factory - Iain BanksWatership Down - Richard Adams
A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
Hamlet - William ShakespeareCharlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
Les Miserables - Victor Hugo



