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