pulled from some website of top books, not edited so not necessarily true:

I, CLAUDIUS by Robert Graves

• Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres
• War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
• Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
• Tess Of The D'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy
• Middlemarch, George Eliot
• A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving
• The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck
• The Story Of Tracy Beaker, Jacqueline Wilson
• One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez
• The Pillars Of The Earth, Ken Follett
• David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
• A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute
• Persuasion, Jane Austen
• Dune, Frank Herbert
• Emma, Jane Austen
• The Count Of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
• Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
• Animal Farm, George Orwell
• Far From The Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy
• Goodnight Mister Tom, Michelle Magorian
• The Shell Seekers, Rosamunde Pilcher

Don Quixote Cervantes Cry the Beloved Country Paton Paradise Lost Milton Persuasion Austen War and Peace Tolstoy Empire Falls Russo Aeneid Virgil

• Of Mice And Men, John Steinbeck
• The Stand, Stephen King
• Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
• Crime And Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
• Memoirs Of A Geisha, Arthur Golden
• Mort, Terry Pratchett
• Bleak House, Charles Dickens
• The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
• Katherine, Anya Seton
• Love In The Time Of Cholera, Gabriel García Márquez
• THE MEMORY KEEPER’S DAUGHTER, by Kim Edwards
• MIDDLESEX, by Jeffrey Eugenides

THE ALCHEMIST, by Paulo Coelho. (HarperSanFrancisco, $13.95 and $13.) A Spanish shepherd boy travels to Egypt in search of treasure. THE BOLEYN INHERITANCE, by Philippa Gregory. (Touchstone, $16.) Politics and treachery in the court of Henry VIII. MY SISTER’S KEEPER, by Jodi Picoult. (Washington Square, $14.) A girl sues her parents after learning they want her to donate a kidney to her sibling.