The BBC believes people will have only read 6 out of these 100.
Only 6? That makes me kind of sad. I bolded the ones I’ve read, but one day this whole list will be in bold. (Some of them I’ve started but disliked enough to not finish. :/ Hopefully I can make it through those ones!) Though now I’m tempted to make my own list of the 100 Books I think everyone should read. Ideas? Suggestions?
01 Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen –
02 The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien –
03 Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte -
04 Harry Potter series – JK Rowling -
05 To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee -
06 The Bible -
07 Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte -
08 Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell –
09 His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman –
10 Great Expectations – Charles Dickens -
11 Little Women – Louisa M Alcott -
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy –
13 Catch 22 – Joseph Heller -
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare -
15 Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier -
16 The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien –
17 Birdsong – Sebastian Faulk -
18 Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger -
19 The Time Traveler’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger –
20 Middlemarch – George Eliot -
21 Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell -
22 The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald -
23 Bleak House – Charles Dickens -
24 War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy -
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams –
27 Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky –
28 Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck -
29 Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll -
30 The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame –
31 Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy -
32 David Copperfield – Charles Dickens -
33 Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis -
34 Emma – Jane Austen -
35 Persuasion – Jane Austen –
36 The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe – CS Lewis -
37 The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini -
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis De Bernieres -
39 Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden –
40 Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne –
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
47 Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy -
48 The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood –
49 Lord of the Flies – William Golding –
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 –
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime – Mark Haddon –
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 Jones’s Diary – Helen Fielding –
69 Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie –
70 Moby Dick – Herman Melville -
71 Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens –
72 Dracula – Bram Stoker -
73 The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett –
74 Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson -
75 Ulysses – James Joyce –
76 The Inferno – Dante -
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 –
82 Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell -
83 The Color Purple – Alice Walker –
84 The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro -
85 Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert –
86 A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry –
87 Charlotte’s Web – EB White –
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom –
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle -
90 The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton –
91 Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad –
92 The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery –
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 The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas -
98 Hamlet – William Shakespeare –
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl –
100 Les Miserables – Victor Hugo -
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