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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