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The Big Read - 200 of the most popular books

This morning I was going through the blogs I read as usual and I found this over at  Reading Life  and was instantly intrigued and wanted to know how many of these books I had read.  And possibly add the rest to my TBR list (not like it's not long enough). The Big Read is a survey on books carried out by the BBC in the United Kingdom in 2003.  Over three-quarters of a million votes were received.  This list of the 200 most popular books from the survey comes from Wikipedia . 47/200 not that great, I feel like there is a few more that I think I have read but I don't quite remember so I did not cross them off.  I wish I had Goodreads long ago.  Time to start reading I guess. The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien  Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman  The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams  Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling  To Kill a Mockingbird by Har...