• 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
dec 11 2010 ∞
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