Apparently the BBC believes most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books on the BBC big read top 100 book list.

Italicized are books I've partly read but never completed.

# = on my to read pile

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