The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books here. How do your reading habits stack up? Instructions: Strike out those you have read. Tag other book nerds.
- A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
- A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
- A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mxistry
- A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
- A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
- A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
- A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
- Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
- Animal Farm - George Orwell
- Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
- Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
- Atonement - Ian McEwan
- Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
- Bleak House - Charles Dickens
- Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
- Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
- Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
- Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
- Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
- Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
- Charlotte’s Web - EB White
- Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
- Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
- Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
- Complete Works of Shakespeare
- Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
- Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
- Dracula - Bram Stoker
- Dune - Frank Herbert
- Emma - Jane Austen
- Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
- Germinal - Emile Zola
- Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
- Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
- Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
- Hamlet - William Shakespeare
- Harry Potter Series - JK Rowling
- Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
- His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
- Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë
- Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
- Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
- Life of Pi - Yann Martel
- Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
- Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
- Lord of the Flies - William Golding
- Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
- Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
- Middlemarch - George Eliot
- Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
- Moby Dick - Herman Melville
- Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
- Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
- Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
- Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
- On The Road - Jack Kerouac
- One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Persuasion - Jane Austen
- Possession - AS Byatt
- Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
- Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
- Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
- Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
- Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
- The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
- The Bible - God
- The Color Purple - Alice Walker
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
- The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
- The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
- The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
- The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
- The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
- The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
- The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
- The Inferno - Dante
- The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
- The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
- The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
- The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
- The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
- The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
- The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
- The Secret History - Donna Tartt
- The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
- The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
- The Time-Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
- The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
- The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
- The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
- To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
- Ulysses - James Joyce
- Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
- War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
- Watership Down - Richard Adams
- Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
- Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
nov 5 2011 ∞
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