• a princess remembers - gayatri devi
• a room with a view – e.m. forster
• all quiet on the western front - erich maria remarque
• animal farm - george orwell
• anna karenina - leo tolstoy
• atlas shrugged - ayn rand
• atonement – ian mcewan
• brave new world - aldous huxley
• breakfast at tiffanys – truman capote
• day - elie wiesel
• emma - jane austen
• the feminine mystique - betty friedan
• fight club - chuck palahniuk
• have a little faith - mitch albom
• if not now, when? – primo levi
• it's called a breakup because it's broken - greg behrendt and amiira ruotola-behrendt
• jane eyre - charlotte brontë
• le petit prince - antoine de saint-exupery
• les misérables - victor hugo
• life of pi – yann martel
• looking for alaska - john green
• master and commander - patrick o'brian
• memoirs of a geisha - arthur golden
• middlemarch - george eliot
• middlesex – jeffrey eugenides
• my sister's keeper - jodi picoult
• one for sorrow - christopher barzak
• one hundred years of solitude - gabriel garcía márquez
• pride and prejudice - jane austen
• summer of firsts and lasts - terra elan mcvoy
• thanks for the memories - cecelia ahern
• the bell jar - sylvia plath
• the black dahlia – james ellroy
• the catcher in the rye - jd salinger
• the forest of hands and teeth
• the grapes of wrath - john steinbeck
• the great gatsby - f scott fitzgerald
• the handmaids tale - margaret atwood
• the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy - douglas adams
• the hunger games trilogy - suzanne collins
• the love we share without knowing - christopher barzak
• the lovely bones - alice sebold
• the perks of being a wallflower - stephen chbosky
• the picture of dorian gray - oscar wilde
• the secret garden - frances hodgson burnett
• the shining - stephen king
• what i eat: around the world in 80 diets - petere menzel

the bbc estimates that most people will have only read six of these:

• a christmas carol - charles dickens
• a confederacy of dunces - john kennedy toole
• a fine balance - rohinton mistry
• a prayer for owen meaney - 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
• 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 m 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 bible
• the color purple - alice walker
• the curious incident of the dog in the nighttime - 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 brontë
• day - elie wiesel
• the love we share without knowing - chirstopher barzak
• one for sorrow - christopher barzak
• have a little faith - mitch albom
• the lovely bones - alice sebold
• the time travelers wife - audrey wiffenegger
• lock and key -sarah dessen
• glass - ellen hopkins
• identical - ellen hopkins
• burned - ellen hopkins
• cut - patricia mccormick
• go ask alice - anon
• perks of being a wallflower - stephen chbosky
• invisable - paul auster
• running with scissors - augusten burroughs