100th

The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books listed here.



Instructions: Copy this into your NOTES.

• Bold those books you've read in their entirety.

• Italicize the ones you started but didn't finish or read only an excerpt.


Tag other book nerds. Tag me as well so I can see your responses! (Or not, after all reading is not a competition! I'm betting that we're all well over 6 books, and I am curious to see the common ground).



1.Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen

2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien

3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte

4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling

5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee

 6 The Bible

7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte

 8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell

9 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



 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

36 The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe - CS Lewis (this is the first book of the chronicles of narnia)

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 - A.A. 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 Night-time - 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 - E.B. 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