the bbc believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books here. how many have you read?

  • pride and prejudice - jane austen
  • the lord of the rings - j.r.r. tolkien
  • jane eyre - charlotte bronte
  • harry potter series - jk rowling
  • to kill a mockingbird - harper lee
  • the bible
  • wuthering heights - emily bronte
  • nineteen eighty four - george orwell
  • his dark materials - philip pullman
  • great expectations - charles dickens
  • little women - louisa m. alcott
  • tess of the d’urbervilles - thomas hardy
  • catch 22 - joseph heller
  • complete works of shakespeare
  • rebecca - daphne du maurie
  • the hobbit - j.r.r. tolkien
  • birdsong - sebastian faulk
  • catcher in the rye - jd salinger
  • the time traveler’s wife - audrey niffenegger
  • middlemarch - george eliot
  • gone with the wind - margaet mitchell
  • the great gatsby - f. scott fitzgerald
  • bleak house - charles dickens
  • war and peace - leo tolstoy
  • the hitch hiker’s guide to the galaxy - douglas adams
  • crime and punishment - fyodor dostoyevsky
  • grapes of wrath - john steinbeck
  • alice in wonderland - lewis carroll
  • the wind in the willows - kenneth grahame
  • anna karenina - leo tolstoy
  • david copperfield - charles dickens
  • chronicles of narnia - c.s. lewis
  • emma - jane austen
  • persuasion - jane austen
  • the lion, the witch and the wardrobe - c.s. lewis
  • the kite runner - khaled hosseini
  • captain corelli’s mandolin - louis de bernieres
  • memoirs of a geisha - arthur golden
  • winnie the pooh - aa milne
  • animal farm - george orwell
  • the da vinci code - dan brown
  • one hundred years of solitude - gabriel garcia marquez
  • a prayer for owen meaney - john irving
  • the woman in white - wilkie collins
  • anne of green gables - lucy maud montgomery
  • far from the madding crowd - thomas hardy
  • the handmaid’s tale - margaret atwood
  • lord of the flies - william golding
  • atonement - ian mcewan
  • life of pi - yann martel
  • dune - 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 huxley
  • the curious incident of the dog in the night - mark haddon
  • love in the time of cholera - gabriel garcia marquez
  • of mice and men - john steinbeck
  • lolita - vladimir nabokov
  • the secret history - donna tartt
  • the lovely bones - alice sebold
  • count of monte cristo - alexandre dumas
  • on the road - jack kerouac
  • jude the obscure - thomas hardy
  • bridget jones’s diary - helen fielding
  • midnight’s children - salman rushdie
  • moby dick - herman melville
  • oliver twist - charles dickens
  • dracula - bram stoker
  • the secret garden - frances hodgson burnett
  • notes from a small island - bill bryson
  • ulysses - james joyce
  • the inferno – dante
  • 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 mistry
  • charlotte’s web - e.b white
  • the five people you meet in heaven - mitch albom
  • adventures of sherlock holmes - sir arthur conan doyle
  • the faraway tree collection - enid blyton
  • heart of darkness - joseph conrad
  • the little prince - antoine de saint-exupery
  • the wasp factory - iain banks
  • watership down - richard adams
  • a confederacy of dunces - john kennedy toole
  • a town like alice - nevil shute
  • the three musketeers - alexandre dumas
  • hamlet - william shakespeare
  • charlie and the chocolate factory - roald dahl
  • les miserables — victor hugo

27 out of 100 so far

sep 4 2010 ∞
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