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