Have you read more than 6 of these books? The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books listed here.

  • Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
  • The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien
  • Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
  • Harry Potter series – JK Rowling (all)
  • 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 May Alcott
  • Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
  • Catch 22 – Joseph Heller
  • Complete Works of Shakespeare
  • Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier
  • The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien
  • Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks
  • Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger
  • The Time Travellers 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 Tolstoy
  • The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
  • Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
  • 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 – CS Lewis
  • Emma – Jane Austen
  • Persuasion – Jane Austen
  • The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – CS Lewis
  • The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
  • Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis De Berniere
  • Memoirs of a Geisha - William Golden
  • Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne
  • Animal Farm – George Orwell
  • The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
  • One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabrial Garcia Marquez
  • A Prayer for Owen Meaney – John Irving
  • The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins
  • Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery
  • Far from the Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
  • The Handmaids Tale - Margaret Atwood
  • Lord of the Flies – William Golding
  • Atonement - Ian McEwan
  • Life of Pi - Yann Martell
  • 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-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 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
  • 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 - Charles Mitchell
  • The Colour Purple - Alice Walker
  • The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
  • Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
  • A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
  • Charlotte's Web - EB 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 & the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
  • Les Miserables – Victor Hugo
dec 5 2010 ∞
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