The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books listed here.
01) Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
02) The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien X TIME AND TIME AGAIN
03) Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
04) Harry Potter series - JK Rowling X LOLOL
05) To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee X
06) The Bible / I LOOK THINGS UP FOR MY OWN FREAKISH AMUSEMENT
07) Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte /
08) Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell X
09) His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10) Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11) Little Women - Louisa M Alcott X MY FAVOURITE AS A KID
12) Tess of the DÂ’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13) Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14) Complete Works of Shakespeare /
15) Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16) The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien X WONDERFUL
17) Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18) Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19) The Time TravelerÂ’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20) Middlemarch - George Eliot
21) Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell / AND SAW THE FILM
22) The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23) The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
24) War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25) The HitchhikerÂ’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams X YES I HAVE, NUMEROUS TIMES
26) Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27) Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28) Grapes Of Wrath - John Steinbeck / SORTA
29) Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll X SOME FIFTEEN TIMES
30) The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31) Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32) David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33) The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
34) Emma -Jane Austen
35) Persuasion - Jane Austen
36) The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe - CS Lewis X YES
37) The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38) Captain CorelliÂ’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39) Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden / HALFWAY, THEN GOT BORED
40) Winnie the Pooh - A.A. Milne X
41) Animal Farm - George Orwell
42) The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43) One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44) A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45) The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46) Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery X
47) Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48) The HandmaidÂ’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
49) Lord of the Flies - William Golding X
50) Atonement - Ian McEwan
51) Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52) Dune - Frank Herbert
53) Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54) Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55) A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56) The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57) A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58) Brave New World - Aldous Huxley X
59) The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon / FOREVER HALFWAY
60) Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61) Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62) Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63) The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64) The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65) Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66) On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67) Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68) Bridget JonesÂ’s Diary - Helen Fielding
69) MidnightÂ’s Children - Salman Rushdie
70) Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71) Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72) Dracula - Bram Stoker / SKIPPED BITS
73) The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett X
74) Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75) Ulysses - James Joyce
76) The Inferno - Dante / YET AGAIN, LOOKING STUFF UP
77) Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78) Germinal - Emile Zola
79) Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80) Possession - AS Byatt
81) A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens / READING IT
82) Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83) The Color Purple - Alice Walker 30
84) The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85) Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86) A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87) CharlotteÂ’s Web - E.B. White
88) The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89) Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle X LOL NO SHIT, SHERLOCK
90) The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91) Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92) The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery X LOVELY AS ALL HELL
93) The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94) Watership Down - Richard Adams
95) A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96) A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97) Me Talk Pretty One Day - David Sedaris
98) Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
99) Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl X LOVERLY
100) Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
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