The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books here. How do your reading habits stack up?
- bold the ones you have read
- italic the ones you plan to read
The List
- 1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
- 2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
- 3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
- 4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
- 5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
- 6 The Bible
- 7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
- 8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
- 9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
- 10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
- 11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
- 12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
- 13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
- 14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
- 15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
- 16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
- 17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
- 18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
- 19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
- 20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
- 21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
- 22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
- 23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
- 24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
- 25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
- 26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
- 27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- 28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
- 29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
- 30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
- 31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
- 32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
- 33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
- 34 Emma - Jane Austen
- 35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
- 36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
- 37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
- 38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
- 39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
- 40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
- 41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
- 42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
- 43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- 44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
- 45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
- 46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
- 47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
- 48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
- 49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
- 50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
- 51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
- 52 Dune - Frank Herbert
- 53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
- 54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
- 55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
- 56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
- 57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
- 58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
- 59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
- 60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- 61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
- 62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
- 63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
- 64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
- 65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
- 66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
- 67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
- 68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
- 69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
- 70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
- 71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
- 72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
- 73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
- 74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
- 75 Ulysses - James Joyce
- 76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
- 77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
- 78 Germinal - Emile Zola
- 79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
- 80 Possession - AS Byatt
- 81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
- 82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
- 83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
- 84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
- 85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
- 86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
- 87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White
- 88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
- 89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- 90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
- 91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
- 92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint
- 93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
- 94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
- 95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
- 96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
- 97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
- 98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
- 99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
- 100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
nov 21 2010 ∞
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